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Wow that would be an epic jump for a sequel. To go from $100M Domestic to $300M+ is... well, not something you see very often

AS IT WAS WRITTEN

By the way, I feel like a lesson in Denis Villeneuve's name is in order. I've seen so many interviewers butchering his name. In fact, 99% do so. It's pronounced like this: Duh-knee Vil-nuhv Read the above out loud in English. There you go, that's how it's pronounced in French. Congrats, you are now among the select few who can pronounce his name properly. Literally nobody in the anglosphere pronounces his name correctly. Except, now, you. source: we come from the same place, and I'm something of a linguist myself (cue meme here)

Alison Schapker is the showrunner. Hard to tell if Kevin J. Anderson and/or Brian Herbert are pulling the strings though. She has some good credits to her name, but yeah... could go either way right now

Except if it's a TV show about the Bene Gesserit (based on Appendix materials from the first book I guess?), it could have real potential to flesh out the universe, and be good in its own rights. It could literally happen like 10,000 years before the movies and still both make sense and tie in with the movies. I am cautiously optimistic.

Are they forced to have a partner? Can Legendary just go "fuck it, we're making it alone"?

Is a Wednesday increase like this normal in that market? In USA it would be nearly unheard of

BOT (also me) when revised estimates go down by literally 2.67%

The WandaVision one is hella tempting

On working weekdays there's a limit to how many PLF screenings there can be that people can actually go see, especially with a 3-hours movie This could possibly be a very curious/exciting week to follow BO-wise

Dune Opening Weekend: $82,505,391 (100.0% of total gross) Oppenheimer Opening Weekend: $82,455,420 (25.1% of total gross) Weird that it's so close. I approve of this $50,029 difference

The spice must flow

Great opening for a great movie. Curious to see int'l revised estimates too

We need to have an idea of legs first, the next few weekdays will tell a big story

The day-and-date on HBO Max for the first movie had a much bigger impact in the USA than in most of the world. In most countries, HBO wasn't even available. So watching in theaters remained the only option (or the other option that shall not be named) In that context, it seems pretty obvious how not having a day-and-date release on HBO for the 2nd movie would have a much bigger impact in the US than in other countries

This feels like watching the child resulting from a marriage between Game of Thrones and Star Wars. Except this is older than both of them, so it's more like watching their… grandparent? I love both of these (or, at least, I used to love both of them) so naturally I'm loving Dune. One thing I didn't expect was Timothée Chalamet stepping up big time. I wasn't feeling it too much with him in the first movie, but in this he really went like, okay I need to deliver. And he did. Splendid. I also thought Chani would be a one-note bland character; I'm really glad to have been wrong. _________________________________________ Stunts - 80/100 | The action is sharp and exciting. Blockbusters sometimes do have it in them to awe an audience, and this is one of those. The money went to the right place. Narrative - 88/100 | The less they explain things, the better. And here they explain roughly… not much. Just what you need to follow the story. I love it. The mythology is just so goddamn interesting though, I might just go and pick up the books. It's a middle chapter so, know what to expect. Fight Choreography - 80/100 | Denis is cutting his fights less and less. 👍 Enjoyment - 94/100 | That third act though. Jesus… Guys, blockbusters this good are absolutely fucking rare. Don't miss this! In theaters if possible. I'll be at the station waiting for the hype train that is Dune: Part Three. ETA: unknown. But I'll be there. The spice must flow. A

It was the opposite for me. Just came back, this is the best blockbuster I've seen in years Hopefully it legs it out. Doing my part by spamming people I know

Yep It's pretty great! Finished 2nd place playing the Harkonnens. It's long though, game lasted 3 hours. It's a sort of merge of Dominion and Stone Age, except much more complex and longer. Concern trolls say they are fans of something, "oh I so want it to be good, but..." The "but" is key here. They're always "concerned" about the success of something but "hey, I'm a big fan, I'm just concerned!" Then if you stalk their messages you realize that the only coherent line of thought throughout is that they actually want it to fail. AKA, the opposite of what they're saying. They only act like an ally because being an upfront hater is ill-perceived, especially in close-knit communities, so concern trolling it is (it's more subtle, harder to spot)

I literally just finished a game of the board game made for the Dune 2 movie. Next up, the movie. Hype! Going tomorrow, gonna contribute to Sunday legs. There are 8 of us You can thank me later when we get a 21% drop

"everyone". It's literally just one person, let's stop feeding that one person and poof, the doom and gloom stops. Anyway with this Saturday... it could almost be considered off-topic now

Early Deadline Numbers strike again They roughly mean... absolutely nothing, as per usual.

$11M was horrible $12M - looks like EVERYTHING is back on the menu boys?! Am I doing BOT correctly

last few days were a rollercoaster for sure, but gonna take what I can get Any big increase over the 1st is good