Timothée attended the WB panel at CinemaCon yesterday to promote both ‘Dune 2’ and ‘Wonka’. You can see images from the event in the gallery. Hopefully the trailers shown will be released online soon.
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‘Dune: Part Two’ pushed forward
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ‘Dune: Part’ Two has been pushed forward two weeks from its original release date. It now opens on November 3, 2023.
The Dune sequel is arriving a little early.
Hours after Disney pushed back the release of Marvel Studios pic Blade, Warner Bros. revealed it will now open Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two will on Blade‘s old date of Nov. 3, 2023, instead of Nov. 17, 2023.
From Legendary Pictures in partnership with Warners, the Dune sequel will star Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, Christopher Walken and Javier Bardem. Producers are Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Villeneuve and Tanya LaPointe.
The sequel tackles the second half of Frank Herbert’s seminal 1965 novel Dune, with Paul Atreides (Chalamet) teaming with the Fremen to free the desert planet of Arrakis from House Harkonnen.
New characters include Emperor Shaddam IV (Walken), the ruler who sent the Atreides family to Dune; the emperor’s daughter, Princess Irulan (Pugh); and Feyd-Rautha (Butler) the nephew of the baron, the villain played by Stellan Skarsgard in the first installment.
The first Dune performed well at the box office, considering it faced the COVID-19 crisis and hit theaters and HBO Max day-and-date in October 2021. The sci-pic grossed north of $400 million globally and won six Oscars.
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‘Dune: Part Two’ pushed back a month
According to Deadline, ‘Dune: Part Two’ has been pushed back from its October 2023 date to November 17, 2023.
We gotta wait a little while longer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two as Warner Bros has moved the Legendary film from Oct. 20, 2023 to Nov. 17, 2023.
The new release date for Dune: Part Two has been a traditional launch pad for Warner Bros. having opened many Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies in that pre-Thanksgiving space as well as Justice League.
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Production is starting this fall in Budapest for the next Dune. The first movie was the highest grossing title under Warner Bros. 2021 pandemic theatrical day-and-date HBO Max model grossing $400M and notching six Oscar wins.
There’s a slew of new castings for Dune: Part Two including, as Deadline first reported, Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot, as well as Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken and Austin Butler.
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Deadline ‘Dune’ feature
Deadline has a feature on ‘Dune’ with new photoshoot images of the cast. You can read a short snippet of the interviews at the link and see the images in the gallery.
‘Dune’ sequel announced
According to Deadline, the sequel to ‘Dune’ has been greenlit with an October 2023 release date.
It what comes as no surprise, the sequel for Dune finally has been greenlighted for a October 20, 2023 theatrical release with director, producer and co-screenwriter Denis Villeneuve returning.
The key word here is theatrical. We understand that a key point of negotiations between Legendary and Warner Bros was that Dune: Part Two would be given a pure theatrical window; no day-and-date HBO Max release plan is in the mix for this cinema spectacle.
The greenlight news was announced Tuesday on the Legendary and WB social accounts.
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‘Dune’ promo in London
Timothée attended several ‘Dune’ related events in London in the recent days and you can see images from all of those in the gallery. He and Zendaya were also on ‘Good Morning America’ on Monday morning and you can see the video below.
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‘Dune’ feature in Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly has a new feature on ‘Dune’ which is accompanied by some great new photoshoot images which you can see in the gallery.
Villeneuve signed on to direct Dune in January 2017, just about a week after earning a Best Director Oscar nomination for Arrival. This did not escape the attention of then up-and-coming actor Timothée Chalamet, who made the most of the fact that he and Villeneuve each had movies on the awards circuit (Call Me by Your Name and Blade Runner 2049, respectively) later that year.
“Every room I was in with him, I’d try to put myself in his eyeline or just try to make him familiar with me,” Chalamet, 25, recalls. “He hadn’t seen Call Me by Your Name yet, but once he did he asked me to come meet him at the Cannes Film Festival where he was president of the jury, which did not feel casual at all. So I went out there and just had one of the coolest meetings ever with him, where I felt he was already treating me as a potential collaborator.”
‘Dune’ promotion in Paris
Timothée attended a few photocalls for ‘Dune’ in Paris yesterday. You can see images from that in the gallery. He will also be on Quotidien tonight with Denis Villenueve, so look out for that.
‘Dune’ premiere at the Venice Film Festival
‘Dune’ premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last night and Timmy attended a few events for our viewing pleasure. You can see images from the events in the gallery and a few videos below.
‘Dune’ coverage in Total Film
Total Film magazine has a 20 page spread of ‘Dune’ in it’s latest issue which you can buy now. Some stills and covers have also made their way online and you can see those in the gallery.
