20th Century Studios animated family film «Ron’s Gone Wrong» also opens wide this weekend
“Dune,” Warner Bros.’ and Legendary’s science fiction epic from director Denis Villeneuve, brought in $5.1 million at the box office in its Thursday night preview screenings. It opens on over 4,100 screens this weekend. Critics and Villeneuve himself have urged audiences to see the film on the biggest screen possible. And of its $5.1 million total, $1.5 million of that gross came from people seeing “Dune” on IMAX screens, accounting for 29.5% of its total gross. The film opened on 402 IMAX screens in previews, and that percentage set a wide-release Thursday night record at IMAX, topping the previous record set by Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.” That film in 2017 made $1.59 million from its total $5.5 million Thursday preview haul, or 28.9% in all. “Dune” will open both in theaters and on HBO Max this weekend, and the film is tracking at an opening between $30-35 million in its opening weekend in theaters. It opens alongside 20th Century Studios’ animated family film “Ron’s Gone Wrong,” which brought in $240,000 in its preview screenings that began at 6 p.
