The release date of Dune: Part Two was pushed to March 1, 2024, in the face of strikes in Hollywood, and this proved to be the right decision. With $81.5 million grossed domestically and an additional $97 million in other territories, Dune: Part Two knocked it out of the park during its opening weekend with a worldwide total of $178.5 million.

Dune: Part Two did exceptionally well on IMAX, with $18.5 million of the domestic ticket sales coming from the IMAX screenings. Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX, said that the only reason why that number wasn’t higher is because they ran out of seats.

“The lesson is that if you take a beautiful visual experience, a good story and you put it in the hands of a brilliant filmmaker with an IMAX camera, you’re going to get very good results,” said Gelfond in a statement to CNBC.

Dune: Part Two had the largest opening weekend of 2024 so far, and it almost doubled the domestic gains of the first film. Villeneuve is currently plotting the third film in the trilogy, based on Frank Herbert’s novel Dune Messiah.

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Taylor-Joy turned heads at the Dune: Part Two premiere in a white Dior silk dress with a hooded veil, and it turned out she wasn’t there just to watch the film but to promote it, as well. She’ll be featured in this space epic in the mystery role, but fans are pretty certain she joined the franchise as Alia Atreides, the sister of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides.

Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem will also reprise their roles from the previous film, but Taylor-Joy won’t be the only newcomer to the franchise. Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux are also a part of the sequel’s ensemble cast.

Taylor-Joy discussed her casting with the reporters on the red carpet, and described it as “a dream come true”. She revealed that that she’s a huge fan of Frank Herbert’s Dune books, and added that it doesn’t get any better than working with Denis Villeneuve and the film’s incredible cast.

Dune: Part Two will be released internationally on February 28, before hitting the theaters in the US on March 1.

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The release date of Dune: Part Two was pushed to March 1, 2024, in the face of strikes in Hollywood, and this proved to be the right decision. With $81.5 million grossed domestically and an additional $97 million in other territories, Dune: Part Two knocked it out of the park during its opening weekend with a worldwide total of $178.5 million.

Dune: Part Two did exceptionally well on IMAX, with $18.5 million of the domestic ticket sales coming from the IMAX screenings. Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX, said that the only reason why that number wasn’t higher is because they ran out of seats.

“The lesson is that if you take a beautiful visual experience, a good story and you put it in the hands of a brilliant filmmaker with an IMAX camera, you’re going to get very good results,” said Gelfond in a statement to CNBC.

Dune: Part Two had the largest opening weekend of 2024 so far, and it almost doubled the domestic gains of the first film. Villeneuve is currently plotting the third film in the trilogy, based on Frank Herbert’s novel Dune Messiah.

The post “Dune: Part Two” Scores Epic $178.5 Million Worldwide Opening appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

Taylor-Joy turned heads at the Dune: Part Two premiere in a white Dior silk dress with a hooded veil, and it turned out she wasn’t there just to watch the film but to promote it, as well. She’ll be featured in this space epic in the mystery role, but fans are pretty certain she joined the franchise as Alia Atreides, the sister of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides.

Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem will also reprise their roles from the previous film, but Taylor-Joy won’t be the only newcomer to the franchise. Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux are also a part of the sequel’s ensemble cast.

Taylor-Joy discussed her casting with the reporters on the red carpet, and described it as “a dream come true”. She revealed that that she’s a huge fan of Frank Herbert’s Dune books, and added that it doesn’t get any better than working with Denis Villeneuve and the film’s incredible cast.

Dune: Part Two will be released internationally on February 28, before hitting the theaters in the US on March 1.

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