{"id":375679,"date":"2026-08-22T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375679"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:16:03","slug":"dune-part-two-is-now-streaming-on-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dune-part-two-is-now-streaming-on-hbo-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Dune: Part Two is now streaming on HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve\u2019s 2024 follow-up, is now on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hbo-max.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO Max<\/a><\/strong>, so one of the year\u2019s biggest movies has finally made its way to your screen.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/rotten-tomatoes.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, it\u2019s sitting at around <strong>95%<\/strong> with audiences and as high as 98% with critics. The film follows Paul Atreides on Arrakis as he joins the Fremen, goes to war with House Harkonnen, and gets pulled deeper into questions of fate, prophecy, and the danger of turning a political leader into a messianic figure. If you like Star Wars-sized spectacle mixed with Game of Thrones-style politics, this is very much in that lane.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics were already on board with Dune from 2021, which holds an <strong>83%<\/strong> score on Rotten Tomatoes, but Part Two has plainly pushed things higher. A lot of the praise has gone to the visuals, the large-format action, the sound design, Hans Zimmer\u2019s score, and the performances from Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, and Austin Butler. It also plays as more emotional, better paced, and more exciting, which says a lot for a story people spent years calling unfilmable.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also brought in <strong>more than $700 million<\/strong> worldwide, according to box office tallies, against a reported $190 million budget and roughly $100 million in marketing. That only adds to the momentum behind Denis Villeneuve\u2019s move toward Dune Messiah, where Paul Atreides is expected to face darker consequences and Princess Irulan should have a bigger role, even as some viewers and critics keep debating the subtitles used for the Fremen language and the films\u2019 Middle Eastern and North African influences.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can stream Dune: Part Two on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/one-of-the-most-successful-movies-of-the-year-premieres-on-hbo-max\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO Max<\/a><\/strong> now.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve\u2019s 2024 follow-up, is now on HBO Max, so one of the year\u2019s biggest movies has finally made its way to your screen. On Rotten Tomatoes, it\u2019s sitting at around 95% with audiences and as high as 98% with critics. The film follows Paul Atreides on Arrakis as he joins the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dune-part-two-is-now-streaming-on-hbo-max\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dune: Part Two is now streaming on HBO Max&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9333,"featured_media":375678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-375679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375680,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375679\/revisions\/375680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375679"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375679"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375679"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}