Dune II has been delayed to 2024 thanks to the strike

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Dune 2 Has Been Delayed to 2024

Warner Bros, who through the AMPTP has failed to bring a reasonable deal to striking SAG-AFTRA and WGA members, has chosen to push the Dune sequel to next year.
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March 15th, 2024.


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May your blade chip and shatter.
 
I dont understand why they would do this, Oppenheimer and Barbie outperformed without the celebrity junket tours. If anything it's becoming a liability with how Snow White is being tared and feathered.

An absolutely idiotic decision by WB, no wonder they lost Oppenheimer to Comcast.
 
bitbydeath said:
Jason Momoa stole all the scenes, should have made the movie about him and not the two annoying kids.
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I would argue the exact opposite. He stuck out as a sore thumb in a bad way.
He was just acting as himself, not as a character in a movie, and that really took me out of the movie.
It's clear they only hired him to sell some tickets. Not because of his acting skills.
 
Dumb. Has anyone ever gone to see a movie because of… the actor's promotions / press tours? We're really talking about lowest common denominator people here, pretty sure none of them were running out to Dune Part 2 no matter what.
 
It seems WB is oblivious to the fact that there are two movies currently in theatres that had pretty much zero promotion from actors. One of them made over a billion dollars, the other made over 700 million.
 
bitbydeath said:
Jason Momoa stole all the scenes, should have made the movie about him and not the two annoying kids.
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He also stole money out of all the locals' hands on the rest of MAUI when he yelled, "Do. Not. Travel. To. Maui!"

What he should have said, was, "Do not come to North-West Maui", because the rest of the island wasn't on fire and depends on the tourism dollar. But he's a pompous ass who thinks he knows better because he once lived there, so there's that.

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Jason Momoa Has 5 Blunt Words For Tourists Considering A Vacation Amid Maui Fires

A post on the actor's Instagram page also declared that "survivors are the priority" as wildfires wreaked havoc on the Hawaiian island this week.
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This is good news, it means the CGI artists won't have to go through a death march to get it out in time.
The quality will be better for it.
 
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We will see a lot of this because there is NOTHING for them to show after spring 24 or so. Delay a blockbuster to the next fiscal year (and probably take some sort of faux tax writedown for Q4 as well), is an easy decision. And I agree with them, spread out the releases to cover the gap, let films breathe more when they are in theaters, all of this is good. The massive churn n burn of theatrical releases in recent years with massive studios competing with themselves for screen time needs to stop.
 
I can wait. Once this is out then I won't be watching any future movies should they make them. The rest of the books suck. I only really liked the first one.
 
SJRB said:
It seems WB is oblivious to the fact that there are two movies currently in theatres that had pretty much zero promotion from actors. One of them made over a billion dollars, the other made over 700 million.
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WB is definitely the king of reading the room 🤣
 
touchfuzzy said:
Dumb. Has anyone ever gone to see a movie because of… the actor's promotions / press tours? We're really talking about lowest common denominator people here, pretty sure none of them were running out to Dune Part 2 no matter what.
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Ha!

If you think that the world's most well paid actors earn their money by acting you're missing that their brand and their skill at promoting a movie (and themselves) is really what justifies the pay. The contracts they sign when taking a role include not only that they must act in the movie but that they must do hundreds (thousands?) of interviews to promote it.

So while you may not think you're influenced by advertising, press and marketing, the fact is that the movie studios have built their business success on it.
 
What's the guarantee the strike will be done by then? Is WB spoiling the fact that if the strike goes on until then the studios will cave?
 
I love Villeneuve, but I thought the movie was boring

Having Chalamet as this badass hero doesnt convince
 
sinnergy said:
I count the 80s version as the real Dune ..
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What I like the most about Dune 84 is its anachronistic 'Prussia in space' aesthetic, with its 19th century European imperial-style uniforms. It reminds me of the aesthetics of a lot of Japanese space and sci-fi anime, like Gundam or Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Code Geass. Dune 21 had a bit of that, with the uniforms of House Artreides (and the bag-pipes were a nice touch I thought), but otherwise its aesthetic was a bit too sterile and brutalist for me. It's also why I could never get into Star Trek, everything is too sleek, to clean, too sterile imo; not just the aesthetics, but the politics too, which are just 'liberalism in space'. Boring.

Anyway, I hope Dune part 2 introduces some imperial splendor with the introduction of Irulan and the emperor.
 
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