{"id":964439,"date":"2026-11-14T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964439\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:58:13","slug":"avengers-dune-target-440-million-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964439\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Avengers,&#8221; &#8220;Dune&#8221; Target $440 Million Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/avengers-dune-target-440-million-weekend.jpg\" data-caption=\"Marvel\"><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\/avengers-dune-target-440-million-weekend.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"avengers-dune-target-440-million-weekend\"\/><\/a>Marvel<\/p>\n<p>The Dunesday event is set to be huge according to the first long-range box-office estimates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxofficetheory.com\/dunesday-scenarios-avengers-doomsday-dune-part-three-tracking-projections-record-box-office-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box-Office Theory<\/a> reports that the weekend of December 18th looks set to potentially break the biggest aggregate box office weekend record of all time, surpassing the previous benchmark set on the July 31st weekend.<\/p>\n<p>That weekend was $437.1 million and was buoyed heavily by the domestic opening weekend record-making \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d at $360.1 million, along with the $51.1 million third weekend hold of Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Early estimates now have the December 18th-20th domestic box-office weekend looking to come in at over $440 million with \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d tracking for a $340-370 million start while \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d on its IMAX-exclusive screens is headed for a $91-100+ million debut.<\/p>\n<p>Talking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/avengers-doomsday-culminate-original-x-men-exclusive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Empire<\/a>, Marvel\u2019s Kevin Feige called \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d a \u201cfun way to culminate a quarter-century of storytelling\u201d regarding its inclusion of original \u201cX-Men\u201d characters.<\/p>\n<p>James Marsden also spoke about Cyclops\u2019 appearance in the film, saying: \u201cI like to think of Scott as a noble and good man, who, at the end of the day, will do the right thing.  It probably reveals quite a lot about your character, what you\u2019re willing to do.  And it\u2019s not black and white. It has a lot of very serious, potentially catastrophic implications.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/quick-news-avatar-system-week-bullfrog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quick News: Avatar, System, Week, Bullfrog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/pattinson-got-special-terms-for-bond\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pattinson Got Special Terms For Bond<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel The Dunesday event is set to be huge according to the first long-range box-office estimates. Box-Office Theory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-964439","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\/964439","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=964439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}