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Sunday AM Update: Refresh for more analysis and chart Dune has easily become Denis Villeneuve’s biggest domestic opening at the box office and the best start for Warner Bros. and an HBO Max day-and-date title with $40.1M.  Business was actually better than many had anticipated for Saturday, -21% from Friday with…

SATURDAY UPDATE: Denis Villeneuve's Dune had a nice bump in China on Saturday, adding a further estimated RMB 62M ($9.7M) for a projected two-day market cume of RMB 101.1M ($15.84M). Although ticketing platform Maoyan has the daily box office just slightly lower, the Saturday increase regardless was upwards of 55%. As…

Denis Villeneuve told the audience at Contenders London today that embarking on an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi book Dune was the "project of a lifetime" for him. Speaking to Deadline's Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, Villeneuve said he'd read the book at 13 or 14 when he was first discovering…

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical, black-and-white drama Belfast claimed the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Saturday night, affirming its status as a major player to contend with in the 2022 Oscars race. Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog, The Electrical Life o…

Friday Update: What the House of Atreides lacks in spice, it’s making up for at the foreign box office with sheer American dollars during the pandemic. Deadline has learned that the Legendary-Warner Bros. sci-fi epic Dune has risen to $8.4M through its first two days at the overseas box office from 17 markets. On…

Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures' sci-fi epic Dune is starting early rollout this weekend, looking to capitalize on momentum coming off of its star-packed world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which was followed by an event at Paris' Grand Rex cinema and screenings in Deauville and Toronto — all in just the past…

There is something amazing that’s about to go on in late October in the cinema, and you’ll have to get off your couch to see it, and believe it. And that is Denis Villeneuve’s reboot of Dune.  For some the word conjures up thoughts of Frank Herbert’s immense 1965 novel, the paperwork version running close to 900 pages…

Denis Villeneuve's Dune had its official world premiere here at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening and had the Sala Grande reverberating like a thropter as it gave the adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi classic a seven-minute standing ovation. Deadline was present and timed the applause, which ended…

It is not much of a spoiler to note that it is Zendaya who has the last word in director Denis Villeneuve’s sweeping and spectacular new film version of Dune, which just had its world premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival. “This is only the beginning,” says her dreamlike fierce fighter Chani. And for…

Denis Villeneuve joked that wrangling Timothée Chalamet’s infamous hairdo, which he claimed was “alive”, was the biggest challenge he faced delivering Frank Herbert’s Dune to the screen. The movie premieres Friday night at the Venice Film Festival, and Villeneuve and his cast assembled earlier in the day for the…

The 78th Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with one of its strongest line-ups in recent memory. And among the films taking their world premiere bows is Denis Villeneuve's long-gestating adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic Dune. The grand scale of the novel outfoxed directors like Alejandro…

The Toronto Film Festival said Thursday that Dune director Denis Villeneuve will receive the TIFF Ebert Director Award and documentary filmmaker/activist Alanis Obomsawin the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media as part of the fest’s 2021 TIFF Tribute Awards. The annual awards will be presented during the run of the…