Dune 2021 has a new release date alongside a potential indicator of a new trailer coming
very soon. It's been a long time since we've had much news on Denis Villeneuve's adaptation,
but we may finally be getting some more details and some well-needed marketing,
with the film currently scheduled to come out later this year. In this video,
I'm going to be discussing the new release date and the potential trailer, along with giving my
own thoughts towards it. Before I get into it though, if you want to see much more videos on
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description below. But without further ado, let's discuss this recent news for Dune.
So the wait for Dune just got a bit longer.
Warner Bros has shifted the sci-fi epic to three weeks later, releasing it now on October the 22nd
2021. It was previously set for a release date of October the 1st, with this new move part of
a larger release date shuffle by Warner Bros on Friday. The Many Saints of Newark, known as The
Sopranos prequel has been pushed back one week, taking the original spot
held by Dune. The move also affected Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film Cry Macho,
which was bumped up one month after Dune took its previous spot. This is the latest delay for Denis
Villeneuve's Dune, as the highly anticipated film was originally set for December the
18th, 2020, before being pushed back nearly a year to 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic.
But alongside the new October release date, there were a set of different reasons
that caused this change, with one of them being that Dune will have its premiere at
the Venice Film Festival on September the 3rd. This indicates that Dune is an
awards level film in the eyes of Warner Bros after their many test screenings and
because Dune is coming out amongst other potential awards films like the Last Night
In Soho and The French Dispatch, it's now primed to have a date that can boast its quality
for the awards next year. On top of this, its previous release date meant
that the film was coming out a week after Venom and a week before No Time To Die,
which could have dramatically hurt its box office, so with it releasing amongst other
awards films that potentially won't do as much damage, it makes the film have a better
chance of scoring box office. Now, it’s releasing 2 weeks after No Time To Die and
2 weeks before Eternals, meaning as a blockbuster spectacle, it will have more breathing room.
I think this was the right move and although it's annoying to see Dune delayed once again,
it makes sense for WB to do this, giving Dune the best chance it can have at scoring numbers
at the box office. It's still coming out around many different films, but at least it isn't as
close to the bigger box office films as it was before. I'm hoping the date does
remain and it doesn't get delayed anymore, but again, at least it's only 3 weeks and
now the film has a better chance at collecting bank. This is going to be needed if we are
going to see a Dune sequel, and hopefully, it now has a better shot at making profit.
Moving on, there was also a potential hint at a new trailer for the film arriving very soon,
with a prominent source saying that the trailer is due to come out any week now. Victor Sanand
who works for a Canadian trailer ratings board had previously put up that the Snake Eyes trailer
would come out the other week and it resultingly did. In a new post, he claims that the DUNE
trailer is coming this week and that WB will also put out 5 tv spots.
To follow this, my good friend Secrets of Dune who has done some wonderful coverage on the
upcoming project, put up a post saying that July is going to be a good month
and in the comments, he couldn't say any more regarding a new trailer. This is two big sources,
one for trailer dates and one for Dune content, teasing that something
is coming. It's pretty obvious that it is the Dune trailer but when can we expect it. Well,
since Victor Sanand said that the trailer is coming this week and since secrets of dune
mentioned something big in July, I have to assume that this trailer is
releasing in time for Black Widow. Right now, it's potentially the biggest film of the summer and
it would be a great spot to get the eyes of the general audience looking at Dune. It's July the
1st on Thursday too and Black Widow releases on the 7th of July in the UK, two days before
the release of the film in the US. So collating all of this information, I think we will likely
see that second trailer come out between Thursday the 1st of July and Wednesday the 7th. Of course,
if Victor Sanand is right then it may come out before the end of this week,
so we'll have to keep our eyes peeled for whenever that trailer drops. We'll have to see
and take this information with a grain of salt, but all the indicators point
to it releasing between the 1st and 7th of July. But whenever it does release,
I will be doing a breakdown and multiple videos on the channel, so stay tuned until whenever I post.
But they were all the latest details surrounding the new release date and
more for Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Like I said, I think this new date was the right decision
and with Warner Bros potentially having an awards contender, it makes sense that
they give it some more breathing room to be more successful, putting it alongside other
potential award level films. I'm hoping this date does stick as it seems Dune
continues to be delayed every few months and it will be interesting to see how the studio
goes about marketing the film. With the new trailer also coming very soon,
I'm guessing we'll have the new date locked down in that footage and I'm hoping it's a
trailer that will get even more of the general audiences eyes on the project. We'll have to see,
but so far, I'm very excited for the new adaptation of Frank Herbert's world,
and hopefully, we will be able to see it on the big screen later this year. Let me
know down below in the comments section what you personally think towards this
new release date and your own thoughts on what you would like to see in the upcoming trailer.
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