"Dune" is the second big-screen attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's 1965 epic, following David Lynch's much derided 1984 version. Altogether, "Dune" added $47.4 million internationally for a global cumulative gross of $220.7 million. This weekend, it debuted with $21.6 million in China, where Legendary and Wanda handled distribution. (The studio didn't release streaming figures.) Coming into the weekend, "Dune," which first premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, had already grossed $130 million internationally. Goldstein estimated the film would have debuted with approximately 20% more in box office had it not also been streaming simultaneously. "Once we get out of the pandemic, if we have a movie like this, clearly you'd want to go into theaters first.
"This was a tremendous result as we're ramping out of the pandemic," said Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. Expectations had hovered closer to $30-35 million for "Dune." For now, the $165 million-budgeted "Dune" marks the best domestic opening for any of the studio's hybrid releases, surpassing the $31.7 debut of "Godzilla vs. has continued to maintain it will return to exclusive theatrical releases next year. "I strongly believe the future of cinema will be on the big screen, no matter what any Wall Street dilettante says," Villeneuve wrote in a lengthy statement to Variety last December. Villeneuve vehemently protested the decision. When the studio first charted that course for all its 2021 releases due to the pandemic, how the strategy would affect "Dune" - one of the year's most anticipated spectacles - was always one of the biggest question marks. launched the Legendary Entertainment production simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" debuted with $40.1 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North America, drawing a large number of moviegoers to see the thundering sci-fi epic on the big screen despite it also being available to stream in homes.
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