It’s March, and we’ve bought our first huge film for 2024 in Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Dune: Part Two. Whilst its launch date shifted around just a few 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 practically everybody. Financially, it’s beginning off on the correct 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 just a few 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 so far. The movie was initially tracked to be within the $150-$175 million vary, however its small surpassing of that means it might have a protracted tail forward of it.
Past its collective star energy and heavy advertising and marketing, people 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 by way of blockbuster scale, and it appears to be like 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 huge movies on the horizon: Kung Fu Panda 4 drops subsequent week for the youngsters, together with Blumhouse’s Imaginary. Then we’ve bought Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire in the 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 mean time, Dune has word of mouth on its facet, ditto a want to see this all come to an in depth 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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