We will not devolve to Arrakis in 2023 . Warner Bros. has sustain thatDenis Villeneuve ’s sequelto thesmash hit Frank Herbert adaptationDune will now release March 15 , 2024 , a four - calendar month time lag from its original contrive November 2023 discharge .
To conciliate the docket upheaval , the Hollywood Reporterfurther notes that Warner Bros. and Legendary have also pushed backGodzilla x Kong : The New Empireto April 12 , 2024 , as the film had antecedently been place to release on Dune : Part II ’s new release date . That move also push another picture show , the animated Lord of the Rings spinoffWar of the Rohirrim , to December 13 , 2024 .
Warner Bros. hasnot yet chosen to delayany of its other major theatrical release for the remainder of 2023 , including its other Timothée Chalamet fomite Wonka , still set for December 15 , as well as DC Comics sequelAquaman and the Lost Kingdom , asterisk Dune alumni Jason Momoa , localize for December 20 , and The Color Purple , set for December 25 . That makes Dune 2 then the first major “ injured party ” of the unprecedented dual Hollywood strike of the WGA and SAG - AFTRA , with Warner Bros.—whose example among other studio apartment conglomerates , the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers , have repeatedly failedto make for just negotiation offers to either excise guild since their labor actions began earlier this summer — likely occupy that Dune ’s box office gains could be hampered by being ineffective to have its asterisk promote the flick .
Image: Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros.
It emergedearlier this weekthat analyst origin for Hollywood studio speculate that they could stand to lose up to 15 % of a picture ’s project box office tax income by being unable to have actors participate in promotional reporting for release — body of work explicitly prohibited by SAG - AFTRA ’s strike guidelines . You ’d think that would convert them to do more than attempt to lecture either union into just accepting a lot that wo n’t get them anywhere near the protections that they deserve . But I guess retard a highly counter picture show and then hoping you may get fans to blame the strikes rather than the studios themselves — in spite of overwhelming public support for said strikes — is an easy maneuver , although much more probably toblow up in their faces .
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