Dune 2 Box Office Passes Epic Global Milestone

Dune: Part Two has passed a major milestone at the global box office. The sequel, which concludes director and co-writer Denis Villeneuve’s two-part adaptation of the iconic Frank Herbert novel, features returning stars including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya alongside newcomers such as Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, and Christopher Walken. When the movie opened, it earned the highest-grossing debut of 2024 so far with $82.5 million, quickly climbing past Wonka to become Chalamet’s best-performing movie in North America.

Per Variety, the Dune: Part Two box office has dropped to No. 4 on the domestic chart during its fifth weekend with a 3-day gross of $9.85 million. However, that hasn’t stopped it from crossing the $600 million milestone at the global box office. The movie maintains its spot as the No. 1 movie of the year, ahead of the animated hit Kung Fu Panda 4 and the smash success Monsterverse sequel Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which opened at No. 1 this weekend and is already approaching the $200 million mark.

How Dune 2 Compares To Other Huge Movie Hits From The 2020s

Dune 2 Is Entering Rarefied Air With This $600 Million Milestone

By passing this major box office milestone, the Dune: Part Two release has proven its mettle as a bona fide blockbuster smash. So far in the 2020s, only 22 movies have passed this particular benchmark, with seven in 2023, nine in 2022, six in 2021, and none in 2020 as theaters were shut down early in the year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Below, see the top ten highest-performing movies of the decade so far at the worldwide box office:

The new movie still has quite a way to climb if it wants to enter the chart of the highest-performing movies of the decade. It remains to be seen if it can close the roughly $300 million gap between its current position and the Chinese war movie hit The Battle at Lake Changjin. Given the fact that its domestic total as of Friday ($244.9 million) had fallen considerably behind where the comparable title Minions: The Rise of Gru was on its own 29th day in theaters ($312.9 million) may not be a good sign that it can accomplish this.

However, merely crossing past this benchmark is still a huge achievement for the sci-fi sequel, which has already long outgrossed the $406 million worldwide total of the original 2021 movie. There is also a chance that the strong Dune: Part Two reviews, which have earned it a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 93%, can help boost its box office as the weeks pass. There is still a clear path for the movie to keep climbing, as the next major competitive tentpole blockbusters won’t debut until late April and early May.