It ’s March , and we ’ve got our first heavy moving picture for 2024 in Warner Bros. and Legendary’sDune : Part Two . Even as its liberation dateshifted arounda few clock time , there ’s been a palpable excitement in the aura for the second one-half ofDenis Villeneuve’sadaptation of Frank Herbert ’s novel , and that was before it was get high marks from about everyone . Financially , it ’s starting off on the right-hand foot and doing well than originally protrude .
Perthe Hollywood Reporter , Dune has shored up $ 178.5 million in its starting weekend . $ 97 million of this came internationally ; in region like France and South Korea , it release a few days forward of its March 1 date in North America . For North America , it netted $ 81.5 million , double the opening take of Dune : Part One back in 2021 and also the highest - grossing motion-picture show of 2024 to day of the month . The picture show was ab initio tracked to be in the $ 150-$175 million range , but its little surpassing of that suggest it may have a foresightful tail forrader of it .
Beyond its corporate star power and heavy marketing , folks seemed to groove with Part One in the years since its release , if they were n’t already into it . It also help that there ’s nothing else quite on this level in term of blockbuster scale , and it looks like something worth going out to see in the theaters : perDeadline , $ 32.2 million of its global take came from IMAX masking , and it ’s now the second - gravid global weekend for an IMAX film behind Batman v Superman in 2016 .
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Tentpole - wise , the month of March has some other bountiful plastic film on the horizon : Kung Fu Panda 4 drops next calendar week for the kids , along with Blumhouse ’s Imaginary . Then we ’ve gotGhostbusters : Frozen Empiretowards the end of the calendar month on March 22 , concluding with WB and Legendary ’s ownGodzilla x Kong : The New Empireon the 29th . At the moment , Dune hasword of mouthon its side , ditto a desire to see this all come to a close with an eventual adaptation of Dune Messiah and thosepopcorn buckets , so clip will say how those movies make out against it .
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