Mr Roark

I’m saying this based on most of the TWoW movie reactions on YT. The main reason is that A2 has more emotional depth and characters you can rely with than the first.

Avatar belongs to Cameron’s Lightstorm tbf…

Avatar is a very leggy franchise so everything depends on the quality of the film. If Cameron delivers and WOM start to spread that the new film feels different and fresh from the previous two it may very well explode and I mean $700M+ DOM. A new super cool fire tribe, a new badass villain crueler than Quaritch and higher emotional stakes are pretty nice indicators that Cameron may be onto something here. Let’s not forget anyway that WoW was widely well received and the common feeling among the ones that didn’t loved the first one is that the sequel is better…

Agreed. Given all the fresh elements that Cameron is bringing to the table a lot of people will be positively surprised. The narrative of Avatar being “a remake bla bla always the same thing” will be over.

He didn’t ruled out the possibility of adapting Children in the future as well. To be fair that’s the story that wraps up everything, even tho is not Paul centric. He just needs time. I’m pretty sure the only reason Part 3 has not be already announced is that WB is pushing for the sequel now while Denis wants to make another film inbetween.

You don’t make those kind of numbers without an engaging story and cool characters. You don’t make those kind of numbers only with top notch VFX. The man just needed a couple of scenes to make the audience cheer and root for a whale. This is what we are talking about…

So culturally irrelevant that a re release after 12 years since it came out made $134M WW. So culturally irrelevant that the sequel of such an irrelevant feature still outgrossed Spider-Man: No Way Home even cutting out all of its IMAX screens gross.

Regarding Paul’s abrupt turn I think it makes perfect sense since he drank the WoL as Paul and then he woke up as the utterly powerful KH.

1. Movies especially like Dune are highly profitable also after their theatrical lifetime; 2. Net production budget will be lower; 3. It will make anyway way more than $500M. What are we even talking about lol

Maybe you already mentioned it but during the knife final fight you can hear the sound of the sea, evocative of the future. Pure class.

This place is incredible. Villeneuve just made one of the most acclaimed blockbuster in recent memory, audience response is crazy good, the film will win at least 5 AA, it will double the OW of its predecessor with at least a $180M+ global launch, there’s a Bene Gesserit series in the pipeline, the script for Dune 3 is almost finished, Zimmer is already writing music for the next one, the film will be profitable even if it will make $500M but… Messiah is not 100% guaranteed? Okay.

Because DOM will be bigger this time but lets not forget that the first one came out with restrictions all over the world with strong competition in a weakened and crowded market and there were 4K copies online thanks to Max. I mean Wonka crossed $600M this one will be absolutely bigger.

$600M is low. Let’s say $75M OW that would lead to at least $200M DOM. The same DOM/OS of the first one would then lead to $750M+ WW. Yeah no Russia but the better reception will compensate that.

Never bet against a great film sequel to another great film…

Dune 2 will open ww with $170-200M, it will win at least 5/6 AA and it got an ever better reception that 1… so Dune 3 is already locked. The only question is exactly when it will be released. Ah and Zimmer is already writing music for the next one.