Bringing spice to a so-far lean film yr, Warner Bros’ new sci-fi movie Dune: Half Two shot to the highest of the North American field workplace this weekend, taking in an estimated US$81.5 million (S$109.5 million), trade watcher Exhibitor Relations reported on Sunday (Mar 3).
“That is an impressive opening” for a sci-fi sequel, stated analyst David A Gross, including {that a} sprawling worldwide forged together with Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Lea Seydoux and Javier Bardem had supplied an added increase.
Denis Villeneuve’s epic sequel to the unique Dune – based mostly on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel about conflict and survival on the deeply inhospitable desert planet of Arrakis – noticed the younger yr’s largest opening, roughly doubling the unique movie’s opening. Dune: Half Two has taken in a further US$97 million overseas.
Its sturdy opening left the field workplace chief of the previous two weekends, Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love, within the mud – or sand – because the biopic took in simply US$7.4 million for second place. British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir stars as the long-lasting reggae singer.
In third had been the newest episodes of Fathom Occasions and Angel Studios’ faith-based The Chosen, on the lifetime of Jesus Christ, at US$3.9 million. Egyptian-born Jonathan Roumie performs Jesus within the crowdfunded sequence.
Fourth spot went to Lionsgate’s true-life drama Peculiar Angels, at US$3.8 million. Hilary Swank stars as a Kentucky hairdresser who rallies her city to assist a widower with a gravely in poor health daughter.
Sony’s Madame Internet, a Spider-Man spinoff starring Dakota Johnson, positioned fifth for the weekend at US$3.2 million.