2020 has lost another movie release and it happens to be one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has been undated from its December 18, 2020, release date & shifted to October 2021.
Warner Bros. and Legendary have not yet officially set a particular weekend in October of next year for the film but “The Hollywood Reporter” reports it will be during the month of October of 2021. The film adapts Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel & it stars Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Charlotte Rampling, and Stellan Skarsgård.
The move comes three weeks after Warner Bros. relocated Wonder Woman 1984 from October 2020 to Christmas 2020, which put doubt on the prospect of the studio opening Dune just one week before the superhero film. On Friday, theaters desperate for new content got another dose of bad news when MGM and Universal delayed the James Bond film No Time to Die from November to next year in April. The delay saw mega-movie theater chain Cineworld, the second-largest exhibitor globally after AMC, say it would temporarily close or keep shut all of its locations in the U.K. and the U.S. because of all the high-profile movie release date shifts to 2021.
