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EXCLUSIVE: Just weeks after laying off dozens in its London HQ, DNEG, the company responsible for the VFX on movies such as Dune and Oppenheimer, is asking staff to take up to 25% pay cuts or join a loan scheme, as work slows to a standstill due to the strikes. Insiders believe their contracts will be…

Director Denis Villeneuve is hopeful of making Dune a trilogy and is teasing the possibility of “Part Three” coming alive. “If I succeed in making a trilogy, that would be the dream," Villeneuve told Empire. "Dune Messiah was written in reaction to the fact that people perceived Paul Atreides as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Dune and Oppenheimer VFX firm DNEG is making dozens of layoffs in its London HQ. Deadline understands the 25-year-old outfit, which has won seven Academy Awards, has kickstarted a redundancy consultation process that will lead to around 70 exiting its Fitzrovia, Central London base. DNEG…

Rebecca Ferguson is teasing Dune: Part Two and saying the sequel surpasses the first film. “I'm smiling so much right now. It’s so f***ing good. I get emotional talking about it because I love Denny [Villeneuve] and I love Greig and I love the team,” Ferguson told Collider in an interview. “But dude…

Craig Mazin, showrunner of The Last of Us, is opening up about working on the script for Dune: Part Two. Mazin made an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast where he said director Denis Villeneuve called on him to work on the script for the sequel that stars Timothé Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin…

Dune producer Legendary Entertainment has secured an $800 million five-year credit facility led by J.P. Morgan, replacing an existing agreement with "improved and market-leading terms" that reflect its “profitability and success in executing its business plan,’ the company said. Led by CEO Josh…

Jacqueline West is one of Hollywood's most respected costume designers with four Oscar nominations for Philip Kaufmann's Quills, David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant and Denis Villeneuve's Dune. She is also Terrence Malick's go-to costume designer…

Production for Dune: Part Two has wrapped, according to Timothée Chalamet. The actor, who plays Paul Atreides in the sci-fi film shared a photo on Instagram from a desert location alongside his father Marc Chalamet. “DUNE 2 WRAPPED (with desert dad !!),” he captioned the post. View…

Legendary Entertainment is said to be eyeing a move from its on-again, off-again home at Warner Bros. as its deal with that studio expired recently, Deadline has confirmed. Sony and Paramount are said to be in the mix, with the former a front-runner. Warner Bros. also has a new deal on the table for Legendary, which…

Production has begun on the Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment film Dune: Part Two. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel has added Florence Pugh, Lea Seydoux, Christopher Walken, Austin Butler and Souheila Yacoub. They join returning cast members including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave…

Deadline has confirmed local reports out of Italy that Legendary Entertainment’s Dune: Part Two is pre-shooting in Altivole, Italy in the Veneto region as early as tomorrow for two days. Full-on production with a bulk of the cast returning is scheduled for July 21 in Budapest, Hungary, which is where the…

We gotta wait a little while longer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two as Warner Bros has moved the Legendary film from Oct. 20, 2023 to Nov. 17, 2023. The new release date for Dune: Part Two has been a traditional launch pad for Warner Bros. having opened many Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies in that…