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Ahh...THE GUN IS GOOD...(IYKYK) Check this out: 'In order to insult Duke Leto, David Carradine, Rabban the Beast gets his army, the Algerian army, to pull down their pants in front of the palace and shit. So there's going to be a scene of 2,000 extras defecating at once. So here's Charlotte Rampling, she agrees to meet with Jodo, she gets the script, she reads the script, and she says, "I can't be in a movie where there's 2,000 extras defecating on screen!" ' https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowskys-dune-uncovered/16

Even given the absence of Russia, why has its international performance been relatively softer so far?

Likeliest scenario is they're contracted for financial sharing and distribution. At least on MESSIAH. Maybe other books haven't had the rights secured yet. The Herbert Estate and studio won't say.

That just tells me you're not far in lol I do love the writing and that first chapter really puts its hooks in you, but the level of detail is if anything TOUGHER than Tolkien. It took me four tries. Now it's one of my favorite books.

I knew we were going to have a big jump on Saturday because my local theater is a pretty good average representative sample, and I saw many non PLF shows filling up after the PLF became sold out for every show. Said to myself there was no way that this was going to make the low estimates if this was happening. Hope those legs are amazing.

Checked my best local theater app again (in my extremely average market - neither especially young, rich or urbane). Now, almost all PLF shows at times which aren't insane are sold out (only shit seats in front row left or a corner here or there don't really count) and even the Non-PLF screens are starting to fill in. If this is happening here, I side with the many social media projections tonight agreeing with my initial view - I continue to believe it really will clear $80M. Great growth from Part One. Word is working for it.

I'm not going to "weather vane" my guesses, despite reading some recent data suggesting a downward trend - LFP performance is strong around me all weekend in a very unexceptional market, and I believe in the legs of the movie especially OS. I'm sticking to these but give myself about $30M leeway on each side except for OW obviously: $80M OW $225 DOM $525 INT $750 WW If it makes at least as that much WW, I won't be surprised if my DOM guess was too much and INT too little. America has some issues with edgier sci fi. But maybe the film can overcome that.

Vastly preferable to the POS the studio put on the Tube for a recap.

It probably won't move the needle much, but this review is a notable and somewhat uncommon example of a critic being very won over. https://slate.com/culture/2024/02/dune-part-2-zendaya-timothee-chalamet-movie-review.html The Spectacular New Dune Will Turn Even Skeptics Into Believers Part Two stops teasing the size of its sandworm and shows us the full monty. Ahh, that phallic stuff. Hehe And another: https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/dune-part-two-review-18678628.php 'Dune' is the only franchise that matters now

Haven't seen it yet (have read it and seen previous adaptations) but I've long been of the view that a truly edgy movie in the sci fi realm is overdue for a lot of success. DUNE may fit that bill. My feeling is with the explosive popularity of stories like GAME OF THRONES (which Dune as a book was a huge influence upon) that edge may be more welcome than believed. Villeneuve wasn't just marketing himself when he called it Star Wars for adults.

Relieved to hear this about the battle scene, although it's what I kind of expected. Villeneuve's a big proponent of "half long, twice strong" when it comes to action which probably helps keep his budgets in line too.

I will be shocked beyond almost anything else if it gets an A+. That's much less likely than it grossing a billion. Very few top earning films get that score, sometimes even ones which make obscene amounts of money like AVATAR 2 which only managed an A. And DUNE is a lot more polarizing than that, which is why I was relieved when Part One got an A-. I wouldn't be too concerned it Part Two gets the same score, WOM will still be plenty strong enough for it to get its business.

They're lowballing it. Domestically maybe they're close - foreign/WW I say will get closer to or perhaps even over $200 mil for the total.

The Asian numbers to me tell the clearest story of the potential upside and legs the movie could have. Sellouts in Korea, Phillipines...and when Japan and China get into the act, could be something. I have heard little about India though, WB definitely markets aggressively there too, also can't find much data on how Part One did there.

In some markets, I'm sure mostly the biggest, reports of near sellouts or sellouts. No surprises there. It's the regular OW performance that's to keep an eye on I'd think. A solid Friday, Saturday and then how much of a Sunday drop. Then we start to see more "normies." I just looked at the seating for a large format but non IMAX screen near me on Thursday. They even put in some late afternoon and late night shows. Given the demos of people around me, it's damn impressive. Could see some near sellouts if not total. Edit2; our local LIEMAX is completely sold out for tonight. It's small in every way (so only a win in a relative sense) and I hate it. But I wish everyone a great experience all the same.