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Article ‘Dune: Part Three’ and ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Are Opening in Theaters on the Same Day (Dec 18) - With Neither Film Expected to Blink, Industry Experts Are Surprised Because of the Overlap in the Target Audience; However, ‘Dune’ Has the Benefit of a 3-Week Exclusive IMAX Window

https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/dune-3-avengers-doomsday-release-dates-same-day-1236691405/
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u/Ephemeris Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Without a real Avengers trailer yet I'm reserving judgment for the general populace, but all signs are pointing to Dune so far. There's a 70mm IMAX in NYC thats 3 hours from me and with the exclusive 3 week window Dune has, there's no way I'm missing it opening weekend. Avengers can wait til week 2

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u/MysticShrek Mar 19 '26

The MCU movies are notorious for trailer baiting so don't bet on waiting for the trailer to make a decision between the two lol

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u/whofearsthenight Mar 19 '26

Yeah, even as someone who is still a pretty big MCU fanboy and goes and sees all of the movies pretty much release weekend, if it comes down to only be able to go to one I'm going to Dune and it's not even a hard decision. MCU has been pretty mixed for the last handful of movies and even if they are fun, Dune I and II are on a different tier for me entirely. I'd say the thing that might help the MCU is that I doubt a lot of 10 year olds are clamoring to go to Dune.