‘Dune’ Shifts Back 3 Weeks to Late October by Warner Bros

In a minor shuffle of its fall movie calendar, Warner Bros. has moved “Dune” again three weeks to now open in late October.

The studio additionally shifted the discharge dates of Clint Eastwood’s subsequent film “Cry Macho,” shifting it up by roughly a month, and the “Sopranos” prequel movie “The Many Saints of Newark” again by only one week.

“Dune” will now open Oct. 22, 2021, again from Oct. 1, and the movie will play in 3-D and IMAX in theaters. “Cry Macho,” which was dated for Oct. 22, will now debut Sept. 17. And “Many Saints” will shift again into “Dune’s” earlier slot, opening Oct. 1, shifting again from Sept. 24.

“Dune” now strikes out of the way in which of the James Bond movie “No Time To Die,” which opens on Oct. 8, and right into a extra favorable weekend the place it will likely be up in opposition to Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” from Focus Features, the animated “Ron’s Gone Wrong” from 20th Century Studios, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” from Searchlight and “Jackass 4” from Paramount. “Dune” may also get a particular premier screening as a part of the Toronto International Film Festival lineup, which takes place in September.

“Dune” is directed by Denis Villeneuve as primarily based on the epic sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert. It’s the story of a person who should journey to a harmful desert planet to make sure the way forward for his household and his individuals, all in a battle to salvage the universe’s most valuable useful resource able to unlocking humanity’s biggest potential from different malevolent forces.

The movie has a formidable forged led by Timothée Chalamet and together with Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, David Dastmalchian, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem. Villeneuve additionally wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth.

“Cry Macho” is Eastwood’s return to the massive display, as he’ll direct, produce and star within the movie that’s primarily based on the e book by N. Richard Nash. The story is of a one-time rodeo star and washed up horse breeder who, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to convey the person’s younger son residence and away from his alcoholic mother. Crossing rural Mexico on their method again to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly difficult journey, throughout which the world-weary horseman might discover his personal sense of redemption by way of educating the boy what it means to be a great man.

Eastwood will star in “Cry Macho” with Eduardo Minett and Dwight Yoakam, and Nash co-wrote the screenplay primarily based on his personal e book with Nick Schenk.

“The Many Saints of Newark” is a prequel to “The Sopranos” written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner and directed by longtime “Sopranos” veteran Alan Taylor. The movie is ready within the explosive period of the Newark riots, when rival gangsters started to stand up, difficult the omnipotent DiMeo crime household’s maintain over town. 

Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi, John Magaro Ray Liotta and Vera Farmiga all star within the movie.