Tag: Dune
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Dune, Antlers, Last Night In Soho Had A Scary Bad Halloween At The Box Office
Halloween happened over the weekend, and given that the holiday all but didn’t happen in 2020, there was much pent-up desire to enjoy the spooky season properly this year. While that was surely rewarding in its own way for those who observe the holiday, it wasn’t great for the box office as the weekend’s new…
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‘Dune’ Holds Onto Top Spot In Sophomore Weekend As 007 Opens In China; ‘Soho’, ‘Antlers’ Fail To Scare Up Halloween Business In Debuts
Warner Bros.’ sci-fi tentpole Dune continued to spice up an otherwise bland Halloween weekend at the box office, pulling in $15.5 million in its sophomore frame and remaining the top movie in North America. Meanwhile, a pair of scary-movie debuts—Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and the Guillermo del Toro-produced Antlers—failed to click with audiences…
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‘Venom 2’ and ‘No Time to Die’ Help Make October the Biggest Box Office Month of the Year
For the first time in modern history, October is the highest-grossing month of the year at the domestic box office.Thanks to Sony’s comic book adventure “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” MGM’s James Bond sequel “No Time to Die,” Universal’s “Halloween Kills” and the Warner Bros. and Legendary tentpole “Dune,” the season that celebrates all things…
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Box Office: ‘Dune’ Tops Halloween Heap With $15.5M; ‘Last Night in Soho’ Gets Spooked
Halloween is never a great time for moviegoing thanks to parties and trick-or-treating, and this year was no exception.Some box office costumes were better than others: Denis Villeneueve’s Dune stayed at No. 1 in its second weekend as expected with $15.5 million from 4,125 theaters for a 10-day domestic total of $69.4 million for Legendary…
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Halloween Spooks the Box Office as ‘Dune’ Drops 62 Percent
Halloween on a Sunday made a slow box office all but inevitable. Studios avoided programming top new films and created the self-fulling prophecy of a $66 million total, by far the lowest in the strongest month this year.It represented 57 percent of the closest weekend in 2019, bringing the four-week comparative rolling average to 75…
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Timothée Chalamet: how the prince of indie grew into a multiplex star
A role in the sci-fi epic Dune has transformed the young actor into a bona fide leading man – but not one from the old Hollywood mouldIn September, the Met Gala in New York – Anna Wintour’s annual fusion of fundraising gala and celebrity parade – redesigned itself for generation Z. Instagram sponsored the event,…
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Oscars 2022: Best Sound Predictions
It’s a very competitive sound race, with frontrunner “Dune” being challenged from all sides by sci-fi (“The Matrix Resurrections”), horror, superheroes, spies, musicals, westerns, and film noir (“Nightmare Alley”).However, the sonic power and complexity of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” (Warner Bros.) is going to be hard to beat. Its great achievement is creating a grounded reality…
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Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: Fear Street, Last Night In Soho, The Empty Man, And More
On the October 29, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior news editor Jacob Hall to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler.Opening Banter:At The Water Cooler:What we’ve been Doing:Jacob did a haunted house trip for the first time in two years.What we’ve…
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Dune Part Two Is Already Far Along In Development, Could Shoot Next Fall
Just when you thought you were out, the “Dune” news keeps pulling you back in. It’s addictive, like spice. You may have heard by now that Legendary has greenlit “Dune Part Two” and director Denis Villeneuve is jonesing to make a “Dune” trilogy. However, with the release date for “Dune Part Two” only two years away now…
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Denis Villeneuve Thinks Christopher Nolan Is A ‘Master,’ Doesn’t Consider Himself On That Level
Christopher Nolan was arguably the quintessential filmmaker of the 2000s, but if there’s any filmmaker who could give him a run for his money in the 2010s and 2020s, it’s “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve. With thrillers and sci-fi epics like “Prisoners,” “Enemy,” “Sicario,” “Arrival,” and “Blade Runner,” Villeneuve has established himself as one of the…