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With a solid offshore hold, Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two is closing in on $500M globally. The overseas weekend brought in $51.2M across 73 markets, a 40% drop versus last session (-37% excluding China). The international box office cume through Sunday is $289.4M, and worldwide the running total is $49…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: The whole marketplace is coming in lighter than expected at $89M, which is -3% off from the same frame a year ago when Shazam Fury of the Gods did $30M. That’s exactly what the second weekend is for Kung Fu Panda 4 which is a great hold at -48%, rising to $107.7M stateside running total…

MONDAY AM: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and that’s the secret or not-so-secret to success for DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4, which arrived in theaters eight years after its third chapter. Similar to Puss in Boots: The Last Wish ($481.7M WW in 2022), the new administration of the…

Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment's Dune: Part Two held strongly in its sophomore session at the international box office, adding $81M to handily cross the $200M overseas milestone, and reaching $367.5M globally. We'll dig further into Dune 2's second frame below, including its China start. In the…

One of the highlights of Dune: Part Two is seeing Christopher Walken’s take on the role of Shaddam IV, the film's ferocious Emperor. It’s his first acting role in four years, and came about because of his admiration for the first film in the series. But it’s not the first time Walken has tried for…

The thawing of the winter box office continues this weekend with Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 which is bound to see the franchise’s second highest domestic opening at $50M+ at 3,900 theaters after the original 2008 movie ($60.2M). But that’s not all, it’s also the second biggest start…

Denis Villeneuve is talking about the “painful choices” he has had to make for Dune: Part Two while adapting the book and cutting the film. Meanwhile, actor Tim Blake Nelson is expressing he’s “heartbroken” after he learned he was edited out of the film’s final cut that premiered to $182.5M…

MONDAY UPDATE: With Sunday actuals included, Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment's Dune: Part Two spiced up its global and international box office opening weekend. The offshore bow rose from yesterday's $97M estimate to $100.02M in 71 markets. With domestic now at $82.5M through Sunday, that brings the…

Legendary Entertainment/Warner Bros.’ Dune: Part Two came in higher with an $82.5M opening. That’s all thanks to a higher than anticipated Sunday of $21.65M versus $20.3M. Presales, I hear in Imax remain strong into next weekend as some moviegoers want to sidestep crowds and get the best seats. The…

SUNDAY AM: It pays to wait. With a near 600M social media draw boosted by Zendaya, Dave Bautista, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler, the move for Legendary/Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two from the strike-stricken desert of the first weekend of November to early March has yielded an $81…

When movies come out, we grade them with reviews, define them by box office returns or eyeballs on streaming services, and maybe trophies down the line. But every successful, ambitious film starts with a dream, followed by compromise and adversity. Deadline offers the occasional peek into the creative…

Eduardo Acuna, who's kept a low profile since taking the top job at Cineworld last summer, took a bow in NYC this week to showcase the world's largest 4DX auditorium at the renovated Regal Times Square. The exhibitor partnered with CJ 4DPLEX, a cinema tech innovator of cutting-edge formats like this…