The 2024 box office is terrible. But Imax's big-screen appeal is a bright spot
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LOS ANGELES — When Warner Bros. film executive Jeff Goldstein saw the huge sand dunes and expansive desert vistas of Denis Villeneuve's first "Dune" movie, he thought to himself, "This was made for Imax."
Same went for the sandworm sequences of the sequel, "Dune: Part Two," a box office hit for the studio earlier this year that pulled in nearly 24% of its domestic box office revenue from Imax. The dystopian wasteland of this weekend's big action tent pole, "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," brings yet more fodder for the big-screen format.
Imax's giant screens are expected to account for a greater-than-typical share of the George Miller-directed prequel's box office sales. (The film is tracking to gross more than $40 million domestically for the four-day weekend opening, according to analysts.)
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