Since being screened to great fanfare before the press since late August, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s $165M sci-fi epic Dune finally lands in U.S.
theaters as well as 40 overseas markets, including China with an eye on a global weekend in the $70M+ range. Already, the Denis Villeneuve epic, which carries a Rotten Tomatoes of 87% Certified fresh, counts $129.3M at the foreign box office from 36 markets since opening in mid-September in major markets such as Germany and France, led by the latter’s terrific $26.2M take.The reception among the press and fans since the pic first made its world premiere in Venice, continuing onto TIFF, has been nothing less than ecstatic; with many observing how Villeneuve has done right by Frank Herbert’s 1965
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