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The Budget Of Dune and How Much It Needs To Earn To Be A Hit

Dune was released with a massively successful reception from both the audiences and critics. It is a beautiful cinematic feat that pays a proper homage to both the books and at the same time tries to make the narrative into a modern interpretation. The visually stunning feature has fans already excited about the upcoming sequel that will release in 2023. It saw numerous delays due to the pandemic and also got released in cinema halls and the HBO Max streaming service simultaneously. Numerous projects had been delayed to the end of the year following the fear of people showing up to cinema halls during the pandemic. Let’s see what the budget of Dune was and how much the movie needs to make in order to become a box office success story.

Dune

Based on Frank Herbert’s epic Dune, the movie covered only the first half of the book. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, this project definitely proved again that he is quite a success when it comes to massive sci-fi projects. His previous projects have also received a strong response from the critics but they took their time to establish. Projects like Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 earned a lot of acclaim all around the world but the director is actually not synonymous with commercial success.

 

This is a rather interesting point considering his previous venture Blade Runner 2019 was a box office bomb. While the same cannot be said regarding the fate of Dune considering the movie was very well hyped and continues to be very much talked about. The movie was released in cinema halls and on the HBO Max streaming service simultaneously but the marketing focused on making sure that it is watched in cinemas on IMAX. Warner Bros. paid major attention to the box office figures and the HBO Max streaming service in order to make sure that the sequel for the movie is guaranteed.

 

The Budget Of Dune

The reported production budget for the movie is $165 million which is comparable to the budget of Blade Runner 2049 which had a budget of around $150-185 million. This movie was more expensive than his first sci-fi advent Arrival, which had a budget of $47 million, clearly because of the larger scale of Dune. But at the same time, the film was cheaper than Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, with the latter having a budget of $200 million. This is largely different from the 1984 adaptation of Dune by David Lynch which cost between $40-42 million and taking inflation into consideration the number comes to around $110.8 million.

 

How Much Does The Movie Need To Make To Be A Success?

Budget Of Dune

Taking the general idea into consideration the movie needs to make around double its production budget in order to make an impact at the box office. This indicates that Dune has to earn $330 million worldwide in order to recoup its cost. Such a high number can be a major feat considering it will take some time before box office numbers reach the 2019 levels again. The theaters only got to see a resurgence because of some of the major superhero movie releases like Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Added to that this year also saw some rather interesting additions in terms of major franchise movies.

 

So far Dune has had a domestic earning of $53 million since its release. The movie was a box office hit during its opening weekend and this actually helped in securing Dune Part 2 to actually come to fruition. With a worldwide earning of $236 million, it is clear the movie has encouraging returns taking into consideration how much the movie had made.

 

The movie holds the twelfth position in the worldwide box office earnings with F9 in the third place ($721 million) and No Time To Die in the fifth ($530 million). WB had a major focus on the movie’s HBO Max performance and Dune actually beat out Zack Snyder’s Justice League for HBO Max viewership. So, these were all the reasons why Dune Part 2 was green-lit after the first proved to be a success story.

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