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The Gotham Film & Media Institute will honor Denis Villeneuve  with the Gotham Director Tribute for Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' Dune: Part Two at the 34th annual Gotham Awards Ceremony. The event takes place live and in person on December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in…

During a screening event held in New York City for Dune: Part Two, Zendaya discussed the pressures of fame and not knowing if she “can handle all of that,” saying she would like to be seen as a “person” first and foremost. The conversation, moderated by journalist Erik Davis, opened up to questions…

Denis Villeneuve is ready to leave the Dune universe and says the franchise’s third installment will be the last with him at the helm. The filmmaker also clarified that Dune 3 is not like a trilogy. “It’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych. It was really a pair…

The BFI's London Film Festival has set an impressive lineup of starry names including Academy Award winners Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve, Lupita Nyong'o, and recent Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker for this year's screen talk Q&A sessions. Scroll down for the entire screen talks programme.  This…

Denis Villeneuve, the French-Canadian filmmaker behind Warner Bros/Legendary’s Dune films, is set for a career retrospective presented by the Santa Barbara Film Festival, to take place at the SBIFF Riviera Theatre from October 18-24. Films set to screen include Incendies, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival…

Let the speculation begin. The “Untitled Event Film” Warner Bros had dated for December 2026 now is being billed as a “Denis Villeneuve Event Film,” and sources said the studio and Legendary are holding the date with expectations that he wraps up the spectacular trilogy with Dune 3. Hurdles still…

Denis Villeneuve is both humbled and a little disappointed that Dune: Part Two is still rocking at the box office. While in Toronto Friday to receive the Academy Icon Award at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards, the director said he was “disappointed to still be number one. … I hope soon that there will…

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal worth $500,000 against $1.5 million, Legendary Entertainment has optioned Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s nonfiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario as a potential reteam with its Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve. The expectation is that Villeneuve would take this one as…

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is getting Steven Spielberg’s seal of approval. The Oscar-winning director is praising not only the film, but the Canadian filmmakers vision and creativity. Speaking to Villeneuve for DGA’s The Director’s Cut podcast, Spielberg started by putting him in a list of…

Denis Villeneuve is talking about the “painful choices” he has had to make for Dune: Part Two while adapting the book and cutting the film. Meanwhile, actor Tim Blake Nelson is expressing he’s “heartbroken” after he learned he was edited out of the film’s final cut that premiered to $182.5M…

MONDAY UPDATE: With Sunday actuals included, Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment's Dune: Part Two spiced up its global and international box office opening weekend. The offshore bow rose from yesterday's $97M estimate to $100.02M in 71 markets. With domestic now at $82.5M through Sunday, that brings the…

When movies come out, we grade them with reviews, define them by box office returns or eyeballs on streaming services, and maybe trophies down the line. But every successful, ambitious film starts with a dream, followed by compromise and adversity. Deadline offers the occasional peek into the creative…