Month: March 2024

Dune 2 has not been released yet and has already grossed over 10 million dollars

Dune: Part 2 has everything in its favor: a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a social media universe of 575.5 million followers.

The long-awaited and long-delayed Dune: Part 2 has had a good start in its journey through a few cinemas worldwide, with over 10 million dollars raised in previews, according to industry estimates on Thursday.

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This figure includes $2 million from the Imax fan preview that took place on February 25th. It should be noted that these figures do not come from Warner Bros, so they could be higher or lower. The previews started yesterday at 3:00 p.m.

With over 10 million dollars, it is the highest grossing in previews that we have seen since Barbenheimer, on Thursday, July 20, when Barbie, from Warner Bros, made 22.3 million and Oppenheimer, from Universal, 10.5 million.

In addition, Five Nights at Freddy’s, despite being released on the same day on Universal’s Peacock streaming service, had a great preview on Thursday night with $10.3 million on October 26th.

Dune: Part 2 already surpasses the original

From a distance, Dune: Part 2 surpasses the Thursday night of Dune in 2021, which raised $5.1 million from 6 pm. They also exceed the $8.9 million of John Wick: Chapter 4, which raised $73.8 million in three days.

Dune: Part 2 has everything going for it: a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and a social media universe of 575.5 million on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, according to RelishMix.

Fans agree that director Denis Villeneuve can be trusted to deliver the usual results, and they remember his work on Dune and Blade Runner 2049. Many compare it to the original Lord of the Rings trilogy. And the soundtrack, composed by Hans Zimmer, is enchanting everyone.

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The movie is described as more than just a blockbuster, as a “complex geopolitical thriller”, and fans want more. All signs point to Dune: Part 2 being the highest-grossing film of 2024.

We already have the first official image of Superman: Legacy, the upcoming film by James Gunn

Once the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy is closed, James Gunn is preparing to jump to DC with dozens of projects that will open a new universe for the productions of the Distinguished Competition. Among all of them, one of the most interesting and the first to be released will be Superman: Legacy, a film that will be directed by Gunn himself.

With David Corenswet as the protagonist and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, the movie has a release date set for July 11, 2025. So far, the only thing we have seen is a just-revealed image of the film, showing the new symbol of this Superman surrounded by frost.

The return of Superman to the big screen

Superman: Legacy is specifically inspired by the comic All-Star Superman (2005-2008) by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Filming begins this March and will last until July 2024, so they will have a whole year for post-production and movie marketing.

Facebook ends with the news: goodbye to the tab and the money

Meta says it will stop using Facebook News in the U.S. and Australia in April 2024, and it will not subscribe to new commercial news agreements…

You may not remember, but the Facebook News tab was launched in 2019 thanks to agreements with the world’s leading newspapers worth many millions of dollars.

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As The Verge recalls: Wall Street Journal made 10 million a year, New York Times reached 20, and CNN pocketed 3 million every 12 months. This April 2024 it will be gone forever.

Meta says it will “stop using” Facebook News in the US and Australia in April 2024, that it will not subscribe to new commercial agreements for news, and that it will “not offer new Facebook products specifically for news publishers in the future”.

Goodbye to the press, goodbye to accurate information

This is not the first time that Facebook withdraws from the news world and it was already expected. In 2022, the focus shifted from news to creator economy, and former head of news partnerships Campbell Brown left the company last October.

When Facebook introduced Facebook News in 2019, the company said: “We hope this work helps in our effort to sustain great journalism and strengthen democracy,” and that a survey “found that we were underutilizing many topics that people wanted more of in their News Feeds, especially around categories like entertainment, health, business, and sports.”

Now, Meta has a different message, reiterating the statement that “news represents less than 3% of what people around the world see in their Facebook feed, and it is a small part of the Facebook experience for the vast majority of people.”

Instead of paying publishers, Meta “will have to focus its time and resources on the things people tell us they want to see more on the platform, including short-format video.”

In addition, it encourages publishers to continue posting links on their own pages, using products like Reels and ads to drive people to their own websites, away from Facebook.

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The end of Facebook’s licensing agreements is well-known news in the US, where it abandoned them two years ago, but in Australia it eliminates the 70 million dollars annually that it paid to media outlets such as Sky News Australia, News Corp, Seven, Nine, and The Guardian.

Facebook and Instagram blocked news in Canada last year due to a similar law.