It's been a banger of a year so far for fantasy and science fiction at the movies, and the next phase of it is about to begin. Today Warner Bros. Pictures released a new teaser for Dune: Part Three, the final chapter in director Denis Villeneuve's groundbreaking film trilogy based on the equally groundbreaking novels by Frank Herbert.
This teaser gives us a few new glimpses at characters like Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), Chani (Zendaya), and Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), and it's enough to incite a whole new round of nerding out about the movie. My personal favorite is Irulan's meeting with her co-conspirators against Paul, which gives us a look at the movie's striking design for the Navigators — psychic humans who have become so mutated that they resemble fish-creatures, living in stasis pods to maintain their perpetual spice high while they dictate the flow of space travel routes for the entire empire. Check out the teaser below:
Where to buy Dune: Part Three and Dune: Part Three 70mm IMAX tickets
At only 34 seconds long, we don't learn too much about the movie from this teaser that we didn't already know; although I admit, I did get some chills when Paul took off his Fremen cowl to look at Chani across a battlefield on Arrakis.
The bigger takeaway here is that tickets are now on sale for early IMAX and other premium large format showings of Dune: Part Three. These "Dune Insider" showings are a great way to watch the movie ahead of all your friends on the biggest screen possible, including 70mm IMAX, so that you can have your mind blown out the back of your skull by the sheer awesomeness of watching sandworms the size of skyscrapers and planet-busting armies at war. You can't fake those kinds of bragging rights!
In order to access these early tickets, you have to sign up through the Dune movie website to get them, which you can do here. Presumably, general sale tickets will follow before too much longer.
Dune: Part Three and The Odyssey could cause IMAX's biggest year ever
The fact that Dune: Part Three tickets are already beginning to launch for IMAX specifically is yet another sign that this is going to be a banner year for the premium format moviegoing experience. That's all thanks to a few huge releases which were filmed specifically to take advantage of IMAX technology, most notably Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which is the first movie ever filmed entirely using IMAX cameras. The Odyssey opened in China this past weekend, and IMAX screens accounted for a staggering 53% of the film’s box weekend office in the market on just 1% of total screens, according to the official IMAX website.
As of this writing, The Odyssey is the highest grossing movie ever for the format, having brought in $364.4 million so far in IMAX ticket sales alone and holding steady viewership at a nigh-unprecedented rate.
“The Odyssey continues to be an IMAX box office phenomenon without precedent. We came just shy of our fifth consecutive weekend of $50 million-plus at the global box office; prior to 2026, we’ve never had more than one $50 million weekend in an entire year,” said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. “With its strong debut, The Odyssey has the potential to emerge as a cultural phenomenon in China as it has around the world, and we believe we have a lot of room yet to run in this market and across our global footprint.”
While there are other movies on the way that will have IMAX runs this fall, like Zach Cregger's Resident Evil in September and the new Hunger Games film Sunrise on the Reaping, Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three is slated to be the next massive, IMAX-focused release to close out the year. While it wasn't filmed entirely with IMAX cameras, the teaser does note that it was "Filmed for IMAX," so presumably some large stretches of its action sequences utilized the notoriously noisy cameras to create the most immersive experience possible.
Taken together, the dual IMAX runs for The Odyssey and Dune: Part Three stand to make this a year for IMAX that's unlikely to be topped anytime soon.
Dune: Part Three releases in theaters on December 18, 2026. Early Dune Insider IMAX screenings begin on December 14. To learn more, head over to the Dune movie website.
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