'Dune' mades $40.1M at the North American box office over the weekend.
for the film's distributor, Warner Bros. Pictures:"Dune" is the first in a planned two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal 1965 novel, as well as the start of a potential new franchise. The 155-minute movie is estimated to have cost at least $165 million to produce.
"I think this shows that passionate moviegoers are supporting the big-screen experience," said Paul Dergarabedian, a media analyst at Comscore, which tracks box office data."You could sit at home and press a button, or you could go to your local multiplex where this movie was intended to be seen. "Dune," set thousands of years in the future in a world devastated by ecological collapse, stars Timothée Chalamet as a young man consumed by messianic visions that lead him on a voyage to the desert planet of Arrakis, where giant sandworms menace the local population.on Thursday that a follow-up was quite likely:"Will we have a sequel to 'Dune'? If you watch the movie you see how it ends. I think you pretty much know the answer to that.
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