2024-03-04 08:42:25
Published4. March 2024, 09:42
Cinema: “Dune” puts the global box office in orbit
The second part of “Dune” with Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya was a hit during its release weekend.
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“Dune: Part Two” by Denis Villeneuve was released almost two and a half years following the first part.
Niko Tavernise
The second part of the science fiction blockbuster “Dune” took off the global box office. Released Wednesday February 28, the film collected $178.5 million, including $81.5 million in North American theaters, reports “Variety” Sunday.
The feature film of more than 2 hours 30 minutes, still directed by Quebecer Denis Villeneuve, offers a great spectacle but also a reflection on power, faith and fanaticism.
The main character, played by the star Franco-American actor Timothée Chalamet, completes his transformation by becoming the expected messiah, a vengeful leader following seeing his lineage wiped out.
The hostile planet “Dune”, imagined by the American writer Frank Herbert, also makes it possible to convey messages regarding ecology, from water becoming a rare commodity to industrial plundering of resources.
The figure of 81.5 million dollars achieved this weekend in Canadian and American theaters is for the moment the best score of the year for a release.
Other stars are present in the casting, such as Zendaya, or even Léa Seydoux and Javier Bardem.
The Bob Marley biopic second
Far behind, relegated to second place in the ranking, “Bob Marley: One Love”, a film regarding the life of the reggae legend, collected $7.4 million.
The Jamaican singer with dazzling success and sudden death in 1981, is played by British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir, known for his role as Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami”.
On the third step of the podium, the last episodes of the series “The chosen”, on the life of Jesus Christ, collected 3.9 million dollars.
Just behind, in fourth position, “Ordinary Angels” collected just under $3.9 million over the weekend. The film tells the true story of a Kentucky hairdresser who unites her entire small town to help a widower left alone to take care of his sick daughter.
The Marvel superhero film “Madame Web,” in fifth place, rakes in $3.2 million. For this fourth Sony film in the Spider-Man universe, actress Dakota Johnson plays an ambulance driver with clairvoyant gifts.
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