Dune 3 Smashes Odyssey Presale Record at London's BFI IMAX
The Hollywood Reporter • • entertainment
Key Points:
- The BFI IMAX, the U.K.’s largest screen, sold 33,000 advance tickets for Dune: Part Three within 24 hours, breaking the previous first-day presale record held by The Odyssey.
- Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three generated £880,000 ($1.2 million) in presales, surpassing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which made £750,000 ($1 million).
- The film’s presales significantly outpaced other major releases like Dune: Part Two (£366k), Oppenheimer (£254k), and Avatar: Fire and Ash (£116k).
- Dune: Part Three, set nearly two decades after the previous installment, follows Paul Atreides facing new threats and conspiracies, with a star-studded cast including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, and Florence Pugh.
- The BFI IMAX had its best-ever opening weekend with The Odyssey earlier this year, and expectations are high for Dune: Part Three’s release on December 18, which will be presented on a pristine IMAX 70mm print.
