#dune prophecy world premiere

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Travis Fimmel, Emily Watson and Olivia Williams at Dune: Prophecy World Premiere - October 30th 2024

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WTF GUYS

A GIRL THAT MY BOYFRIEND WENT TO SCHOOL WITH IS GOING TO BE IN DUNE: PROPHECY

And he has the audacity to be like 'didn't really know her that well' like BITCH what are u talking about??? She is now your best friend and u are getting the inside scoop for me whether u like it or not, sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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YERIN HA at the 'Dune: Prophecy' World Premiere, New York City. October 30th, 2024. (x)

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Travis Fimmel attends the world premiere of the HBO original series "Dune: Prophecy" at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in New York

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Deeply conflicted about the Dune premiere right now. (If you don't want to get into it, please ignore ok?)

I love Dune. I read it first when I was 14. It was deep, immersive, spiritual. Medieval-like power plays combined with psychedelic horror/philosophical concepts? Sign me right up. Frank Herbert in a way wrote Dune as a response to Joseph Campbell's iconic Hero With A Thousand Faces, and George Lucas did the same with his Star Wars series. I believe the two worlds would not exist if not for Campbell's book and thesis on the collective Unconscious in storytelling.

But Herbert had his own take on the concept. Dune espouses that there is inherent danger to a Messiah narrative. That ruin is inevitable if a society puts all their faith in a single person, in a prophecy that may or may not have been implanted in them by the ones waiting to throw on the yoke. Information is the real power, the real resource.

Further, so much of Dune and the lore of the planet is inspired loosely by middle eastern thought and philosophical terminology. It is a scifi Lawrence of Arabia tale. So I'm watching all these beautiful people on the red carpet, admiring all my favorite fashion houses really pulling all the stops on looks, and I'm thinking about the messages of Dune (or at least the messages I took from it. You may disagree and that's ok). A film about a universe in which information control is the key to victory, a universe that fabricates stories to destroy planets, a universe that freely uses Islamic terminology to describe philosophical concepts....is being premiered and glamorized while narratives are allowing people to sleep on true violence. On genocide. In one of the regions that made Dune's grand philosophies possible.

I just feel a lil sick about it.

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Dune Review: A Sci-Fi Legend Is Born

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The spice melange is a psychotropic substance that floats across the surface of planet Arrakis like puffs of dandelions. This seems right since Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of that world in Dune is similarly all-enveloping for any who lay eyes on it. It’s an experience intended to overwhelm and intoxicate. More than a few years have come and gone since a picture this vast in scope and immersive in intent has found the ambition (and financial support) to conquer multiplexes. But make no mistake, Dune is very much a film with conquest on its mind, both as a narrative and as a cinematic trip for the eyes and ears.

Pulling from Frank Herbert’s landmark science fiction novel—or about half of it, anyway—Villeneuve reaches for an epic on the scale of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings while also not so subtly evoking imagery from the ultimate desert odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia. While it’s too early to gauge whether he’s made a true classic for the ages like those touchstones, there’s little doubt the filmmaker has engineered the most impressive spectacle you can see in a theater this year (and you really should see this in a theater).

A gargantuan narrative about mythical chosen ones and boy heroes, great clashes of intergalactic houses, and sandworms the size of mountains, Villeneuve’s Dune is a visual feast. More satisfying though is it’s also a transportive journey for the mind. Novelist Herbert famously influenced George Lucas when Dune was published as a book in 1965, but the first good adaptation of his psychedelic (and frequently opaque) musings now comes to cinemas at a moment where visual grandeur is in desperate need of something weird and thoughtful. Well, Dune is very weird. Blissfully so.

Primarily focused on two warring dynasties in a future among the stars, Dune is a tale of feudal conflict between House Atreides and House Harkonnen (think the Starks and Lannisters). The Atreides are a noble if stoic people who already rule one idyllic planet. However, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) has been offered by the galaxy’s unseen emperor a gift too good to be true: the chance to take control of the desert planet Arrakis where the most valuable substance in the known universe is mined, spice melange.

Leto senses a trap in the offer since it comes at the expense of the galaxy’s richest family, his bitter rivals the Harkonnens and their grotesque patriarch, the Baron (Stellan Skarsgård). Yet the opportunity to exploit the universe’s most barren prize is irresistibly enticing. If the Duke can bring peace to the desert people of Arrakis, then that land will become the birthright of his son Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet). Meanwhile Paul has his own trepidations. Inheriting the supernatural gifts of his genuinely witchy mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), Paul is plagued by visions of suffering and death on Arrakis… and also a seeming destiny drenched in power and holy war.

As a novel previously considered unfilmable—particularly after David Lynch and Dino De Laurentiis’ disastrous attempt to adapt it in 1984—Dune has clearly benefited from the evolution of special effects, with CG wizardry faithfully recreating Herbert’s most bizarre ideas. What makes Villeneuve’s film so majestic, however, is its determination to do as much of it as possible in-camera, and to provide Arrakis with a gritty, tactile quality.

Arrakis, as well as the Atreides homeworld of Caladan, feel lived in and entrenched in ancient histories that will occur thousands of years in our future. Bizarre hieroglyphic sandworms adorn desert castles while the Atreides’ native palace appears both starkly European and vaguely international, pulling from Asian and African influences. It’s a cinematic prophecy where governments have regressed and opulent vassal states rule all, which Villeneuve and production designer Patrice Vermette highlight by focusing as much on the dignity of wood and stone as they do space alloys and force fields.

This trenchant world-building could only be an asset for the film’s dizzyingly big ensemble. In fact, significant A-list talent even fills the margins in roles clearly earmarked for expansion down the road, including barely utilized actors like Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Zendaya, with the latter having a fairly glorified, ethereal cameo. And yet, even these smallest parts contribute in imbuing the production with a total, almost fanatical conviction.

As the center of it all, Chalamet confirms on a grand scale what arthouse audiences have long known about his charisma. Despite playing an archetype that’s been well-worn out by the genre fare influenced by Dune, Chalamet comfortably holds the nearly three-hour movie on his shoulders by emphasizing Paul’s discomfort. Here is a young Chosen One who is weighed down by the burden of the tragic and possibly damned. He’s also complemented by Ferguson’s intriguing Lady Jessica, an aloof presence who deserves more floor space should Villeneuve ever finish adapting the novel.

But if I had to guess, the biggest scene-stealer for audiences will be Jason Momoa as an Atreides knight. Essentially the closest thing this movie has to a Han Solo, Momoa has not been this winning or devilish since his days on Game of Thrones, and he may be the lone tonic in a film that will drown certain audiences beneath its brooding tone.

The film is, indeed, very heavy on atmosphere and self-importance. And with its ponderous amount of characters and plot threads, it will undoubtedly overwhelm more than a few viewers. Much like the source material, this desert is dripping in high-minded pretensions. Villeneuve attempts to offset that with a lot more expository handholding than his previous sci-fi epics, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, which bordered on tone poems. But that mostly makes the first act particularly top-heavy and perhaps clear to a fault. There’s a lot more prose here, yet I wonder if Villeneuve and his studio should’ve simply fully embraced the director’s abstract poetry.

Nevertheless, these are admittedly minor quibbles which hang in the margins for an experience that’s made one of the most foreboding science fiction sagas ever conceived fairly accessible to any audience willing to be transported. Dune is an astonishing swing of ambition and passion from filmmakers at the top of their craft, and it more often than not connects like a thunderbolt. As a project that is only meant to start a new cinematic cycle, it left me eager to follow this Paul and Villeneuve toward the next strange corner of Arrakis, and determined to return to the theater so I can see their introduction again, only next time in IMAX.

Dune premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3 and plays at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 11. It opens in theaters and on HBO Max on Oct. 22.

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Wednesday, April 01, 2020 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: THE CHALLENGE: TOTAL MADNESS (MTV Canada) 8:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT GARTH & TRISHA LIVE! (CBS Feed) DAVID BLAINE: THE MAGIC WAY (ABC Feed) EATING HISTORY (Premiering on April 12 on History Canada at 11:00pm) BERING SEA GOLD (TBD - Discovery Canada) LEGENDS OF THE WILD (TBD - Discovery Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME/CRAVE/NETFLIX CANADA/CBC GEM:

AMAZON PRIME

22 JUMP STREET 30 DAYS OF NIGHT ACROSS THE UNIVERSE A KNIGHT'S TALE ARMED AND DANGEROUS BAD BOYS II BATTLE LOS ANGELES BIRDS OF PARADISE BIRDY BLACK DYNAMITE BLACK HAWK DOWN BLIND FURY THE BLOB (1988) THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE BRIAN'S SONG (1971) BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA CASUALTIES OF WAR CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS COMEDY WAVE #3 (Season 1) DICK (1999) DRUNKEN MASTER ELYSIUM FALLEN (2017) FORTRESS (1993) GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE GO ON GODZILLA 2000 GODZILLA: FINAL WARS GOODNIGHT MOMMY GUERNICA THE HEROES OF TELEMARK HITCH THE HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS JOURNEY TO THE WEST: THE DEMONS STRIKE BACK THE KARATE KID THE KARATE KID PART II THE KARATE KID III KILL 'EM ALL KNOCK OFF KRULL LAKE PLACID (1999) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (ORIGINAL) LES MISERABLES (1998) LET'S GET HARRY THE LINDA MCCARTNEY STORY THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING CASE MASTERMINDS (1997) MEN IN BLACK THE MONUMENTS MEN THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS NO GOOD DEED (2014) NOWHERE TO RUN (1993) OPEN SEASON (2006) RAMBO: LAST BLOOD THE REMAINS OF THE DAY RUNAWAY (1984) SERVING IN SILENCE: THE COLONEL MARGARETHE CAMMERMEYER STORY THE SMURFS (2011) SNIPER (1993) SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE SPIDER-MAN 2 STALINGRAD (2014) STARMAN (1984) STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITOR OF MARS THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 (2009) TOY SOLDIERS TROOP BEVERLY HILLS WILD AMERICA XXX YOUNG GUNS YOUNG GUNS II

NETFLIX CANADA

40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE THE AGE OF INNOCENCE ANGER MANAGEMENT BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA CASPER CHARLIE ST. CLOUD COMMUNITY (Seasons 1-6) DAVID BATRA: ELEFANTEN I RUMMET DAWN OF THE DEAD DUNE EUROPA REPORT EVOLUTION FAR FROM HEAVEN GOSFORD PARK HOW TO FIX A DRUG SCANDAL THE ILIZA SHLESINGER SKETCH JONAH: A VEGGIETALES MOVIE JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER LITTLE CHILDREN MAGIC MIKE MAID IN MANHATTAN NAILED IT!: (Season 4) RESERVOIR DOGS THE SKULLS THE SQUID AND THE WHALE SUNDERLAND 'TIL I DIE: (Season 2) TROY TWINS WAITING... WE OWN THE NIGHT THE WEDDING PLANNER WHITE CHICKS

BIG BROTHER CANADA (Global) 7:00pm (FAREWELL)

DIGGSTOWN (CBC) 8:00pm/9:00pm (SEASON FINALE): Marcie defends a hair salon owner who is charged in connection with the assault of a gang member; Doug's relationship with a former client place him and Pam in the crosshairs of a misconduct complaint. In the Season Finale, Marcie defends Dani Ewing, a white female facing arson and hate crime charges after homes in a predominantly black suburb are set on fire; Reggie mediates between Velma and Austin when they end up on opposite sides of a land ownership dispute.

SPIRIT TALKER (APTN) 8:30pm: Shawn visits the Maliseet community of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick where he learns the story of Malabeam; a young woman is consoled by a connection with her beloved aunt and a brother gone too soon reaches out to his grieving sister.

HAUNTED HOSPITALS (T&E) 8:00pm:  A forensic technician is horrified to discover the dead have followed him home from the morgue. A caretaker develops an unhealthy obsession with an abandoned hospital after a terrifying brush with the paranormal.

THE OTHER GUY (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: AJ's show threatens legal action with his ex-girlfriend, Stevie explores a new use for dating apps.

TRANSPLANT (CTV) 10:00pm (SPECIAL TIME): An incident at work causes Bash to second-guess himself; Mags is inspired by a firefighter devoted to her work, even if it means risking her life on a daily basis, and June must learn to work with others.

EDWARDIAN BRITAIN IN COLOUR (Documentary) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Edwardian Britain was the richest and most powerful country in the world; exploring what that meant for the men, women and children hard at work in the mills and the mines.

PARANORMAL 911 (T&E) 10:00pm: A firefighter unknowingly summons a spirit via an Ouija board; a firefighter responds to two false alarms at the same amusement park; a paramedic and his partner are called to help a cardiac patient down a dangerous and curvy road in Key West, Fla.

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Travis Fimmel, Emily Watson and Olivia Williams at Dune: Prophecy World Premiere - October 30th 2024

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Travis Fimmel and Olivia Williams at Dune: Prophecy World Premiere - October 30th 2024

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Travis Fimmel at Dune: Prophecy World Premiere - October 30th 2024

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Travis Fimmel at Dune: Prophecy World Premiere - October 30th 2024