Warner Bros. Moves Villeneuve’s Dune Back To October Again

Change Is The Spice Of Life

It was supposed to be out in 2020 and then they moved it back to Oct 2021 to take the place of Warner Bros’ The Batman. Now Dune’s release date has been shifted a third time back to October. Here’s a few details from The Hollywood Reporter…

Several Warner Bros. titles are on the move.

Dune will move from an Oct. 1 release to Oct. 22, available day-and-date on HBO Max and in cinemas (also in 3D and Imax formats). Insiders say that the movie was prompted by the desire to give the film more distance from Bond film No Time to Die, which opens Oct. 8.

The sci-fi adventure film will take over the date previously held by Clint Eastwood’s latest, Cry Macho, which will move to 17 Sept. Also a part of the shuffle is Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark, which will move back a week to Oct. 1.

Dune, from director Denis Villeneuve, stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac and Josh Brolin. It will have its world premiere out-of-competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 3. On its new date, Dune will be opening opposite Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho from Focus Features and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which also stars Chalamet.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dune-release-date-2021-1234974041/