{"id":951915,"date":"2026-11-04T05:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951915\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T05:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:04:12","slug":"the-dune-part-three-runtime-is-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951915\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Dune: Part Three&#8221; Runtime Is Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/the-dune-part-three-runtime-is-tight.jpg\" data-caption=\"Warner Bros. Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/the-dune-part-three-runtime-is-tight.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"the-dune-part-three-runtime-is-tight\"\/><\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Previously AMC, and now the Irish Film Classification Office, have confirmed that Denis Villeneuve\u2019s \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d is set to clock in at 151 minutes (2hrs 31mins).<\/p>\n<p>That makes it the shortest film of the \u201cDune\u201d trilogy behind the first at 155 minutes (2hrs 35mins) and the second at 166 minutes (2hrs 46mins).  The new film boasts more than an hour of footage shot for IMAX.<\/p>\n<p>The shorter length is expected as \u201cDune Messiah\u201d is easily the shortest book in Herbert\u2019s novel series and only a little over one-third the word count of the original.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected that Villeneuve is taking creative liberties with the material, much more so than the original two films, and will potentially be incorporating elements of the subsequent novel \u201cChildren of Dune\u201d into the narrative. <\/p>\n<p>The runtime comes as advance sales numbers for the film\u2019s IMAX release are staggering.  The site <a href=\"https:\/\/70mmtracker.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">70mmTracker.com<\/a> watches the seats at all 34 IMAX 70mm film theaters in the US and Canada  shows that only 448 of 29,826 of the best seats are still open at opening weekend shows.<\/p>\n<p>GLobal Box-Office reports that the film crossed the $25 million mark in pre-sales at the domestic box office, 48 days before its release \u2013 charting ahead of \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d and making a $120 million domestic debut possible.<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s BFI IMAX sold 33,000 advance tickets in 24 hours, setting a first-day record.  \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d opens December 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures Previously AMC, and now the Irish Film Classification Office, have confirmed that Denis Villeneuve\u2019s \u201cDune:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-951915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}