‘Dune: Part Two’ spices up the box office with an $81.5M weekend
The second ‘Dune’ film finally gives 2024 a major opening weekend. How soon until WB gives ‘Dune Messiah’ the green light?
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of March 1-3, 2024.
1. DUNE: PART TWO
Weekend gross: $81.5M
Total domestic gross: $81.5M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
Spice is power, and thanks to that power, we finally have our first major box office champion of 2024. Dune: Part Two debuted with an estimated $81.5 million, earning more money in a single weekend that all but two films have grossed altogether this year. (Wonka, Timothée Chalamet’s other big hit, has grossed $83.6 million during 2024 and Bob Marley: One Love has grossed $82.8 million.)
Dune: Part Two’s opening weekend easily blew away Dune’s 2021 debut. The first installment of Denis Villeneuve’s saga grossed $41 million its first weekend on the way to a $110 million domestic box office haul. Those numbers were skewed by theaters still coming out of Covid and Warner Bros. releasing the first Dune on HBO Max the same day it hit theaters.
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