Celebrate today's opening of Dune in the U.S. (and the reported greenlighting of Dune part 2) by marveling at the Danish word for "Dune"

Denis Villeneuve's Dune opens today after drawing in about $130m in Europe and at select theaters in the U.S.—an impressive haul for movie yet to go into general release in the U.S., Britain and China. But it'll need to more than double that to be considered a success, given the $170m production budget and the cost of two marketing campaigns incurred by a yearlong pandemic delay. — Read the rest