"Dune" Delayed by 3 Weeks

Warner Bros. delayed once again the release of Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" from Oct. 1 release to Oct. 22.

The movie will debut simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in 3D and Imax formats.

Insiders say that the delay was prompted by the desire to give the movie more distance from James Bond's latest installment "No Time to Die", which opens Oct. 8.

Instead, the sci-fi adventure movie will now open on a date previously held by Clint Eastwood’s latest movie "Cry Macho", which is set to debut on Sept. 17.

Warner Bros. also altered the date of the "Sopranos" prequel "The Many Saints of Newark", which will move back a week to Oct. 1.

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"Dune" features a star-studded cast that includes Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chang Chen, David Dastmalchian, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem.

“Dune” also arrives from Legendary Pictures with Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, and Joe Caracciolo, Jr. producing the production and with Tanya Lapointe, Joshua Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Jon Spaihts, Thomas Tull, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, and Kim Herbert, serving as executive producers.

The movie is adapted from Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller of the same name, and centers around Paul Atreides (Chalamet), a scion of the noble House of Atreides that is tasked with overseeing the barren desert planet Arrakis, known as Dune.

“Dune” is also set to world premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival, which is scheduled to take place from 1-11 September.