

Kilar has been CEO of WarnerMedia for less than a year, and he’s aggressively trying to build up the company to rival the likes of Netflix. With HBO Max’s launch a failure thus far, AT&T decided to sacrifice Warner Bros.’ entire 2021 slate in a desperate attempt to grab the audience’s attention.” Therefore, even though ‘Dune’ is about cinema and audiences, AT&T is about its own survival on Wall Street. “It is all about the survival of a telecom mammoth, one that is currently bearing an astronomical debt of more than $150 billion. “There is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here,” Villeneuve wrote in an essay back in December about the shift. Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 51 Films the Director Wants You to SeeĢ023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Talk Series

“If I had the chance to do it over again, I think it’s very fair to say that we would have taken a couple more days to see if we could have had even more conversations than we were able to have.”ĭenis Villeneuve Calls 'Dune: Part Two' the 'Main Course' Compared to 'Appetizer' of First FilmĮlijah Wood Knew There'd Be More 'Lord of the Rings' Movies Due to Studio's 'Desire to Make a Lot of Money' “There’s no doubt that it was bumpy back in early December of last year,” he said, adding that if he could do it over again, he’d likely give more of an advance warning to members of Hollywood before dropping the bomb.
