“Dune 2” continues to dominate the box office charts: but the sci-fi epic still needs to gross that much to turn a profit

After “Dune” fans had to wait nearly two and a half years for the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s masterful sci-fi saga, the rush for “Dune: Part Two” in theaters around the world is now unsurprisingly strong. This is how the film continues Timothée Chalamet And Zendaya also topped the international charts in cinemas in its second week and already recorded a box office result of approximately $376 million.

This means that “Dune 2” is well on its way to becoming a complete financial success for Villeneuve and Warner Bros., after the sci-fi hit was already showered with praise from fans and the trade press. our FILMSTARTS- Criticism received the highest score of five stars and we consider it an absolute masterpiece!

German fans also seem to have caught ‘Dune’ fever, as some 490,000 people in this country bought a cinema ticket last weekend. This means that in the second week only about 20 percent fewer viewers flocked to cinemas than in the opening week to follow the adventures of young Paul Atreides on the desert planet Arrakis. An excellent value.

“Dune: Part Two” has already crossed the million mark in this country, watched the movie out loud a total of 1.367 million people in Germany.

“Dune 2” is approaching “break-even point”

“Dune: Part Two” easily recouped its impressive $190 million budget, nearly doubling it after two weeks. To actually make a profit, the science fiction epic has to go a little further. A film reaches the so-called ‘break-even point’ when it has earned more than twice its budget. The pure production budget also amounts to millions of dollars for marketing purposes, while about half of the proceeds have to go to the cinemas and therefore do not end up directly with the studio.

So that Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. get green numbers on their invoices, “Dune 2” will likely gross around $500 million. While “Dune” started 2021 with a production budget of around $165 million and ended up grossing around $400 million, at least this point was just reached for the first part of the saga. Since “Dune: Part Two” has already grossed far more at the box office than Part One after two weeks, fans can be more than optimistic that the sequel will also be profitable. That’s pretty much how it works with it, that “Dune 2” could ultimately gross around $700 million.

It is becoming increasingly likely that Denis Villeneuve will get the green light from Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. for his planned third part of the saga “Dune 3: Messiah”…

“Kung Fu Panda 4” on the rise

The Animated Adventure “Kung Fu Panda 4‘ and even pushed ‘Dune 2’ off the top of the box office charts by about $60 million. We’re curious to see if Mike Mitchell and Stephanie Stine’s film will shake up the German cinema charts in a similar way. The film will hit theaters here on March 14, 2024.

In Germany, Jonathan Glazer’s historical drama ‘The Zone Of Interest’, which recently won two Oscars, is in second place in the charts and attracted around 95,000 viewers last weekend. Relaunch “Wonderland – From childhood dream to global success”, which is featured this month in our “German cinema” section [doch] geil” can be seen, took the bronze medal this week with 65,000 tickets sold.