While Warner Bros.’ and Legendary’s Dune: Part Three and Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday have officially claimed the same release date for months, this week’s drop of the Dune movie’s poster publicly declaring the Dec. 18 date seemed to solidify the stand-off as actually happening.
Which means that at a time when theaters are starving to fill seats, two of the year’s most anticipated films — perhaps the most anticipated — are set to arrive on the exact same day.
“Someone’s gotta move,” groaned a representative for one theater chain. “That’s a level of overwhelm that doesn’t make sense. Especially after the last few years [of theaters struggling]. An Avengers movie and Dune 3 are both sure things.”
Unlike when the gleefully mismatched Barbie and Oppenheimer famously faced off in July 2023 to create the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon,…
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