Friday Update: What the House of Atreides lacks in spice, it’s making up for at the foreign box office with sheer American dollars during the pandemic. Deadline has learned that the Legendary-Warner Bros. sci-fi epic Dune has risen to $8.4M through its first two days at the overseas box office from 17 markets. On Thursday alone, the film collected $4.9M.
The Denis Villeneuve-directed reboot of the Frank Herbert novel added 12 markets Thursday on top of Wednesday’s five. And keep in mind, Dune is purely theatrical overseas; it will not debut day-and-date on HBO Max, which is currently in Latin America and rolling out in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra on Oct. 26.
Of note for Dune: The ensemble feature gave Russia its best opening day of the year with $1.4M while Italy, hot off the pic’s premiere in Venice, where it received a seven-minute standing ovation,...
The Denis Villeneuve-directed reboot of the Frank Herbert novel added 12 markets Thursday on top of Wednesday’s five. And keep in mind, Dune is purely theatrical overseas; it will not debut day-and-date on HBO Max, which is currently in Latin America and rolling out in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra on Oct. 26.
Of note for Dune: The ensemble feature gave Russia its best opening day of the year with $1.4M while Italy, hot off the pic’s premiere in Venice, where it received a seven-minute standing ovation,...
- 9/17/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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