Thank you for such a detailed post. The USA/Canada market also used to have exclusive runs for big theaters but Japan looks like it was on an entirely different level.
FYI there is an extremely high chance that they are just repeating what @ThatWaluigiDude posted in the Brazil tracking thread 3 hours before they tweeted.
Here is what was posted in the Brazil tracking thread:
"The first 24 hours of pre-sales of Dune 2 are just a little above those from The Flash. That is decent actually, given that The Flash opened with R$16M+ and the first Dune opened with "only" R$5M."
Thank you for your analysis. It is interesting.
Do you think the setting and overall theme will harm the movie overseas compared to if it had a less America-focused narrative?