Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve Has Big Hopes for the Future of IMAX

Barbie — a movie so bigit had already won the U.S. box officein August — is also a movie so big that on Friday , it made the leapto IMAX for a one - week run . As common , Barbie is on the head of what ’s in fashion , something Dune manager Denis Villeneuve , who ’s very pro - IMAX , seems to agree with .

“ The future of cinema is IMAX and the with child formats , ” Villeneuvetold the AP(viaIndieWire ) in an interview published before Barbie ’s large - formatting bowknot , but withthe towering success of Christopher Nolan ’s Oppenheimerin intellect . “ The interview want to see something that they can not have at household , that they can not have on cyclosis . They want to see an issue . ”

Without insult movies that aremade specifically for streaming(or that end up bypassing the field andgoing direct to streaming ) , the conductor — whose Dune was releasedday - and - day of the month in theaters and what was then called HBO Max , thanks to pandemic concern — makes it clear where his favor lie . “ There ’s this belief that movies , in some people ’s mind , became content instead of an art form . I hate that word , ‘ contentedness . ’ That film like Oppenheimer are publish on the big screen and become an issue brings back a spotlight on the idea that it ’s a tremendous art shape that demand to be know in theaters . ”

Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot Fenring in Dune: Part Two.

Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot Fenring in Dune: Part Two.Photo: Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros.

Dune : Part Two was originally slated to come out later this twelvemonth , but saw its release date shifted ( due to strike business this time)to March 15 , 2024 .

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