Huge expectations... And great prospects.
While it was due to be released in November 2023, “Dune, Second Part” was finally postponed to February 28, 2024, arousing even more excitement among fans and mainly the 3.2 million French spectators who had seen the first part. end of 2021. It is therefore not very surprising that Denis Villeneuve's film with a dream cast (Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, etc.) recorded staggering scores at the French box office. this Wednesday: 260,811 admissions on 994 screens for its first day in theaters.
A cosmic number: it's the best start of the year in our territory for this science fiction film adapted from the saga of Frank Herbert.
In detail, the more than 260,000 entries include the scores achieved during the previews (more than 94,000 tickets, which already made it the most viewed film in France on Tuesday).
If we deduct them, the feature film has 166,271 spectators for Wednesday alone.
For comparison, on September 15, 2021, the first “Dune” recorded 115,517 admissions excluding previews on the day of its release, almost 50,000 fewer spectators than for this second part.
Which therefore offers more than interesting prospects for the film distributed by the Warner studio.
At this rate, one million entries should be reached quickly, perhaps even this weekend.
And at the end of its run, this part should do much better than the first: it will probably reach 4 or 4.5 million spectators, maybe even 5 million.
And the phenomenon promises to be international: the 400 million global revenues worldwide for the first “Dune” should be far exceeded.
In any case, this will leave little room for competition in the days to come.
Thus, “Bob Marley, One Love”, which had a fantastic start on February 14 with nearly 200,000 tickets sold, which then made it the best start of 2024, and which now has 1.2 million admissions, could take a hit against the imposing machine “Dune, Part Two”.
We advise those who would like to see Denis Villeneuve's film in the coming days to book: the theaters will be packed.