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Part Three was shot on IMAX 70 mm and locked a three-week IMAX window

Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three filmed in IMAX 70 mm. In the U.S. it has a three-week IMAX exclusivity over Avengers: Doomsday. That is a studio putting money into metal and film, not only a volume of pixels.

The Night Desk Files First

Why this paper is a night edition — and why the first file of the evening is allowed to be good news.

Scott’s Nostromo is still the most convincing workplace in space

Ridley Scott’s Alien opened on 25 May 1979. The crew eat, sweat, and have a shift tomorrow. The ship is a factory that learned to fly. Giger’s creature needed that workplace to be believed.

Part Three dropped new footage as IMAX tickets went up in August

On 18 August, Cosmic Book News and AMC traffic showed Dune: Part Three IMAX 70 mm and premium-large-format tickets on sale, with new footage attached. A trailer is a dispatch. This one had a date in the lower third a family can circle: 18 December 2026.