Dune (October 22, 2021) | Part 2 (March 1, 2024) | Part 3: Messiah

[Ragns]

New images for part 2 including a peak at Feyd-Rautha: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...ive-first-look

[Rhyis.]

irulan too

[Snprphnx]

The sci-if channel mini-series did a decent job of showing space travel

[Cantih]

Jesus those effects havn't aged well.

[Rhyis.]

i remember thinking that scene was dope as fuck back in the day

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/dunemovie/status...878395394?s=20

[Ragns]

New trailer up

[Greedouw]

November, fuck yes

[Ragns]

New trailer:

[Greedouw]

Christopher Walken!

I’m really looking forward to this

[Tyche]

I think with the goofy roles Walken often plays, I forget just how truly menacing he can be at times. He's going to slay this role.

[Outlaw]

Trailer looks awesome.

I hope Walken gets a lot of screen time.

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[Bombur]

Due to the Writers/Actors strike, WB thinking about moving most of their big budget movies to 2024, including Dune.


https://twitter.com/MattDonnelly/sta...374619136?s=20

[Greedouw]

No, don’t do this please

[Outlaw]

DAMN








IT!!

[thetruepandagod]

ngl, i thought the pics in that tweet were all for Dune 2 and i thought they made the middle girl a mentat or something

[Bombur]

I think with the goofy roles Walken often plays, I forget just how truly menacing he can be at times. He's going to slay this role.

[Koyangi]

Goddamnit.

[Qalbert]

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-t...ll-transcript/

Richard Gelfond -- IMAX Chief Executive Officer

Right. Dune, specifically, I mean, there's another great movie coming out around in time, which is the marvel from Marvel, and we can't play it because we are committed to Dune. So, Dune moves will just go over to the marvels, and having a Marvel movie as a backup is not the worst position to be in the world. But in terms of Dune, my own opinion is that it's highly unlikely to move, and it's an educated opinion, meaning I spent a lot of time on the facts.

So, Dune is already in the midst of a marketing campaign. There are trailers out. There's lots of materials out. They had a big presentation, a lot of the conferences.

As a matter of fact, Denis Villeneuve presented at the IMAX CEO Forum. So, it's kind of out of the gate. So, if you put it back in the gate, you've got to duplicate those expenses at some time in the future of putting it out of the gate. In addition, Dune has a very long run time in IMAX, up to five or six weeks.

And it just was fortuitous that there were no other conflicting projects. But if they were to move that to next year at some time, it's highly unlikely that they would have that amount of run time. And just to remind you, IMAX was about 20% of the growth on Dune 1. And I know there's a lot of marketing planned on Dune 2.

If they move Dune 2, there's a carrying cost, call it 10% or whatever it is. So, how are they going to make up for that cost across the other incremental costs? The IMAX release is a really important element to their release pattern. And as I said just a minute ago, I don't think it's replicable for them to have that kind of run time again. So, when I look at it from their point of view, from a dollars and cents numbers perspective, it just doesn't make any sense to me that they would move it because -- and again, the only reason they would move it is they'd say, the actors strike is going on, and they want to get a premier and put it on the Tonight Show or whatever they put the actors, but with no disrespect to Timothee Chalamet.

Are you going to be able to make up for losing the six-week IMAX release? Are you going to make up the cost of capital and carrying it for a year? Are you going to move it to an uncertain year when you have no idea what's going to be put against you when they have virtually no competition right now in the marketplace? It doesn't really make any sense. When you look at the other movies, I think that's one of the most compelling not to move. But you could go through all of them and the same logic kind of applies. I think I've talked to the distributor that Warner Brothers, they don't know where that article can go in the press.

And I don't -- they've certainly told me that that article is not true. So, all I can do is give you my logical perspective on it, but I feel quite strongly that it's not going to move.

[synistar]

Delayed to March 15, 2024