It’s March, and we’ve acquired our first large film for 2024 in Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Dune: Part Two. At the same time as its launch date shifted around a number of occasions, there’s been a palpable pleasure within the air for the second half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel, and that was earlier than it was getting excessive marks from almost everybody. Financially, it’s beginning off on the proper foot and doing higher than initially projected.
Per the Hollywood Reporter, Dune has shored up $178.5 million in its beginning weekend. $97 million of this got here internationally; in areas like France and South Korea, it launched a number of days forward of its March 1 date in North America. For North America, it netted $81.5 million, double the opening take of Dune: Half One again in 2021 and in addition the highest-grossing film of 2024 to this point. The movie was initially tracked to be within the $150-$175 million vary, however its small surpassing of that means it could have an extended tail forward of it.
Past its collective star energy and heavy advertising, of us appeared to groove with Half One within the years since its launch, in the event that they weren’t already into it. It additionally helps that there’s nothing else fairly on this stage when it comes to blockbuster scale, and it seems to be like one thing price going out to see within the theaters: per Deadline, $32.2 million of its world take got here from IMAX screenings, and it’s now the second-biggest world weekend for an IMAX movie behind Batman v Superman in 2016.
Tentpole-wise, the month of March has another large movies on the horizon: Kung Fu Panda 4 drops subsequent week for the children, together with Blumhouse’s Imaginary. Then we’ve acquired Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire in direction of the top of the month on March 22, concluding with WB and Legendary’s personal Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire on the twenty ninth. In the meanwhile, Dune has word of mouth on its facet, ditto a want to see this all come to a detailed with an eventual adaptation of Dune Messiah and people popcorn buckets, so time will inform how these films fare in opposition to it.
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