Dune filmmaker Denis Villeneuve will reteam with Legendary for an adaptation of Annie Jacobson’s cautionary tale Nuclear War: A Scenario. After Christopher Nolan’s award-winning success with Oppenheimer, Denis Villeneuve, another of Hollywood’s premiere directors, will tackle the threat of nuclear fallout with an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize -finalist Annie Jacobsen’s non-fiction novel Nuclear War: A Scenario. The … Read more
Stephen McKinley Henderson has no regrets about Thufir Hawat being cut out of Dune: Part Two and confirms we’ll never see those scenes. Stephen McKinley Henderson played Thufir Hawat in Dune, but sadly, the Mentat adviser to House Atreides was nowhere to be found in Dune: Part Two. The actor did shoot scenes for Dune: … Read more
While it was very close, in the end Dune Part Two wasn’t able to retake the box office crown from kung Fu Panda 4 this weekend. The early weekend box office numbers are in, and it looks like Dune: Part Two wasn’t quite able to take the number one spot from Kung Fu Panda 4 … Read more
Kung Fu Panda 4 and Dune: Part Two are in a very close battle for number one at the box office this weekend. In this week’s Box Office Predictions column, I went against the grain of what box office gurus were predicting. They seemed to think Kung Fu Panda 4 would have an easy win … Read more
Dune: Part Two co-writer Jon Spaihts explains why they changed the character played by Anya Taylor-Joy in the movie. Here be SPOILERS. Dune: Part Two is now playing in theaters, and while the sequel is being celebrated as a fantastic adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel, director Denis Villeneuve and co-writer Jon Spaihts did make … Read more
Check out this long-lost deleted scene from David Lynch’s Dune which has been lovingly restored by the folks at Nerdist. It’s been forty years since the release of David Lynch’s Dune, and although the film is certainly a flawed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi novel, there’s something inherently fascinating about it. That fascination has … Read more
Kung Fu Panda 4 opened way beyond expectations, while Dune: Part Two had the best second weekend hold since Barbenheimer. Hollywood has two reasons to celebrate today, with one of them being the fact that it’s Oscar Sunday. However, the more important reason is no doubt the fact that after a sluggish start to the … Read more
Kung Fu Panda 4 is having a much bigger weekend than expected, but Dune 2 is showing incredible staying power in 2nd place. It’s looking like Kung Fu Panda is about to K’O Dune: Part Two at the box office – for this weekend anyway – with the Dreamworks sequel on its way to the … Read more
After only a week in theaters, Dune: Part Two has already grossed more in domestic release than the first Dune did. The new sequel — technically the second half of the first film by director Denis Villeneuve based on the Frank Herbert sci-fi novel Dune — has already grossed $111 million in the United States in one week. The first film, … Read more
Tim Blake Nelson is “heartbroken” that his scene from blockbuster Dune: Part Two was left on the cutting room floor. The 59-year-old actor was left gutted when he found out his contribution to the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 film adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert was cut due … Read more