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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.

Split-Screen Saturdays Are Civilisation

Two players, one screen, a sample case for the kind of Friday that still happens in a living room.

Villeneuve’s 2049 still treats light as a building material

Blade Runner 2049 opened on 6 October 2017. Denis Villeneuve directed. Roger Deakins shot it. Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas. The sequel does not replace 1982. It adds a wing.

A Republic That Still Likes Its Flag

Patriotism without a punchline. A sample MAGA-desk essay on belonging, work, and a country allowed to prefer itself.

Part Three’s December window is a palace date, not a pile-on

The scare calendar in late 2026 still has to share December with Villeneuve’s Arrakis picture, which has locked IMAX through the holidays. Occasion is the through-line: a coat, a 70 mm print, a date you dress for.

Part Two opened 1 March 2024 and made the sand couture

Denis Villeneuve’s second Arrakis film, from Frank Herbert, opened in the U.S. on 1 March 2024. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, Stellan Skarsgård. Legendary and Warner Bros. The desert is a textile. The worm is infrastructure.

Dune: Part Three is dated 18 December 2026

Warner Bros. and Legendary have Villeneuve’s third Arrakis film in theatres and IMAX in North America on 18 December, internationally from 16 December. It adapts Dune Messiah. Principal photography wrapped in November 2025.

Models That Run Local, and Why That Feels Like Freedom

On-device weights, a quiet GPU, and a sample case for AI that does not need to phone home.

The Optimistic Case for Assistants That Actually Help

Less theatre, more draft. A sample AI essay for people who still have a job to finish.

A Quiet Golden Age of Amateur Astronomy

Cheap sensors, dark-ish suburbs, and the unfashionable joy of looking up. Sample copy from the Space desk.

Open Weights, Open Workshops, and a Kinder Computing Culture

A sample dispatch from the part of AI that still looks like a workshop: shared recipes, shared GPUs, shared hope.