007 has found a new commanding officer. Today, Amazon MGM Studios announced that Denis Villeneuve, the director of the Dune films, as well as Sicario, Prisoners, and Blade Runner 2049, will direct the next James Bond movie. Earlier this year, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson signed the movie ...
Read MoreA sandworm is coming for streaming this year. Today, HBO released a trailer for Dune: Prophecy, the upcoming prequel series to Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novels. Set 10,000 years before Dune, Dune: Prophecy reveals the origins of the Bene Gesserit,...
Read MoreDune: Part Two hits theaters less than three years after Dune: Part One, but it feels like we’ve been waiting for this film forever. Part of that is, undoubtedly, its postponed release date, but it’s also because Dune: Part One felt like it was the first two acts of an incomplete story. But th...
Read MoreGreat filmmakers generate conversation about film, and Denis Villeneuve is doing that even outside of his movies. The director, whose Dune: Chapter Two opens this week, spoke to the UK newspaper The Times about his new film and said that he doesn’t like dialogue and that it is a detriment to fil...
Read MoreDenis Villeneuve isn’t done playing in the sands of Arrakis yet. While talking with Empire about his upcoming sequel/second half of his literary adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Villeneuve revealed that he’d like to make a third film in the Dune universe, this one based on the second book in Frank He...
Read MoreDisney’s humiliations keep piling up. On an earnings call (a transcript of which you can read here on Fool), IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond responded to concerns about Warner Bros. delaying the release of Dune: Part Two amid the actors’ and writers’ strikes. Gelfond attempted to assuage fears by say...
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