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“There’s a lot of work around, I’ve been busy,” Emily Watson declared, brightly, over tea and crumbly biscuits at The Union, a private club in central London, as she chatted with Deadline about why she loves working in front of the camera.

Katcy Stephan Duncan Idaho is back. During an appearance on “TODAY,” Jason Momoa confirmed that his “Dune” character will return for the forthcoming third installment of Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi franchise starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya. “I’m making a comeback,” he told Craig Melvin on the broadcast Monday morning.

Dune 3 is continuing to fill out its cast, and one of the stars just confirmed that they’re returning to the franchise.

Dune film will begin filming this year, with pre-production aiming for a late summer start.Denis Villeneuve adapted the first of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novels, splitting the story into two films about the rise of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), who is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.While the first part centred on his survival of a coup on his family, the second saw him become the spiritual leader of Arrakis’ desert tribes, known as The Fremen.Released in 2021, Dune was a hit at the box office and with critics, winning six Oscars and making $407.7million worldwide. Last year, its sequel, Dune: Part Two, was equally well-received, making $714.4million and being nominated in five categories at the Academy Awards on March 2, including Best Picture.Villeneuve has expressed interest in making a third film based on Dune Messiah, the second novel in the series, saying that the film would serve as a conclusion to the trilogy.According to a report by Deadline, talent availability is a key factor in the decision to film later in the summer, with star Zendaya particularly busy filming Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, Spider-man 4, and a third season of Euphoria.

Denis Villeneuve is preparing to film the third Dune movie!

Denis Villeneuve is aiming to shoot the third installment in his hit Dune movie series this summer, we understand.

Timothée Chalamet has spoken out about the similarities between the political messages of Bob Dylan and Dune.Speaking at a press conference for his Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Chalamet was asked multiple times what he took from playing the iconic folk singer.Drawing comparisons between Dylan’s subtle political messages and those of Dune writer Frank Herbert, the actor said that both taught him to “be wary of cult-like figures,” adding that it is a sensible philosophy.“I won’t speak for him [Bob Dylan] because he’s alive and well in Malibu, but my interpretation is just be wary of any saviour-like figures,” Chalamet said (via Deadline).He added: “Frank Herbert’s Dune, which was written in the same period of American history, granted, Frank Herbert was on the West Coast, probably doing acid at a typewriter, and Bob Dylan was on the East Coast. But the messaging was still similar.”Also during the press conference, Chalamet was asked about his process for choosing roles, but the actor insisted that he doesn’t have a specific approach.“I’m just trying to find a fantastic director to work with,” he said.

Ellise Shafer Timothée Chalamet opened up about how playing Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” influenced his own experience with fame and activism, saying that he learned from the folk legend to “be wary of any savior-like figures.” During a packed press conference at Berlin Film Festival on Friday, Chalamet was asked about how Dylan — who penned several iconic protest songs — has influenced his view on political issues like war and the rise of the far-right. Though the moderator redirected the question to the film as “opposed to a personal political point of view,” Chalamet said: “I don’t think that’s necessarily a political question.” He continued, “I think it’s in the nature of his music, the warnings against cult-like figures.

James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is getting its German premiere at the Berlin Film Festival tonight and its Oscar nominated star Timothée Chalamet is in town to present the film.

Screenwriter and director David Lynch, who died this month, has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.

Denis Villeneuve has said he insisted on filming the Dune films in a real desert, despite being offered a Hollywood studio.The director oversaw the 2021 film and its 2024 sequel, both adaptations of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. The epic space operas star Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Josh Brolin among others and have collectively made over $1billion worldwide.Speaking to Konbini’s Video Club in French, he explained that he was greatly inspired by David Lean’s 1962 epic Lawrence Of Arabia when visualising the films, and categorically refused to let them be shot in a studio.Instead, he chose to immerse the actors and crew in the Wadi Rum desert landscapes of Jordan and the Liwa Oasis in Abu Dhabi to capture the vast, rolling sand dunes and rugged terrain of Arrakis.Dune: Part Two was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars last week, where it will compete against Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Emilia Perez, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance and Wicked.

dune with Hollywood. After the 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday, Josh Brolin went on a rant slamming the Academy for snubbing his “Dune” director, Denis Villeneuve, and snarked that in response, he will “quit acting.” Brolin, 56 posted an Instagram Story following the announcement of this year’s nominees. “Just want to say congratulations to the Dune best picture nomination, to Greig Fraser for cinematography, for best visual effects, special effects, for Patrice [Vermett] for production design and for sound, I believe,” the “Goonies” star addressed the camera.“Apparently, I’m going to quit acting because Denis Villeneuve didn’t get nominated.

Denis Villeneuve has taken issue with the Academy Awards‘ decision to make Hans Zimmer‘s Dune: Part Two score ineligible.

Zendaya had a dehydration-induced health scare on the set of Dune: Part Two due to the remote desert location of the sequel.

Don’t expect Denis Villeneuve to take a call while making Dune Messiah, and not because the signal is weak on Arrakis.

Dune: Prophecy is getting a second season!

HBO‘s Dune: Prophecy will be returning for a second season. The news was announced today during a virtual press conference with showrunner EP Alison Schapker, and stars Emily Watson and Olivia Williams.

Denis Villeneuve and Luca Guadagnino have been linked for years by their shared taste in actors. After Villeneuve, 57, saw Timothée Chalamet in Guadagnino’s 2017 romance “Call Me by Your Name,” he cast him as Paul Atreides, the callow princeling turned desert messiah, in his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel “Dune.” And before Zendaya shot “Dune Part Two” she appeared in the 53-year-old Guadagnino’s erotically charged tennis drama “Challengers” as one side of a spiky love triangle with Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist. That film opened last spring, followed this fall by Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S.

Next month’s Palm Springs International Film Festival will kick off with a celebration of Denis Villeneuve.

Since their early 20s, Emily Watson and Olivia Williams’ careers have run on parallel tracks. Born one year apart, they first got to know each other by pondering their futures together on a patch of grass outside The Black Swan pub in Stratford-upon-Avon. “We met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the early ’90s, where we were in different plays in different seasons,” says Williams. The two never ended up on stage together. “Partly because there aren’t that many scripts around for two leading ladies of the same age,” adds Watson.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures‘ Dune: Part Two, the anticipated follow-up to 2021’s six-time Oscar-winning Dune. Denis Villeneuve directed from a screenplay he and Jon Spaihts wrote based on Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel.

Jon Burlingame The scores from “Wicked,” “Moana 2” and “Emilia Perez” are among the 89 songs and 145 scores eligible for music Oscars this year. As predicted, “Dune: Part Two” is not among them.