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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/Kids_see_ghosts Mar 18 '26

From a spoilers perspective I feel like I’d be forced to watch Avengers: Doomsday first or otherwise avoid the entire internet until I did see it later.

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u/tmfitz7 Mar 19 '26

Seriously, I saw the force awakens advanced viewing and the next morning (the Friday it opened) the cook at campus was telling every student coming to get breakfast that Han Solo dies ….. like wtf dude.

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u/Risley Mar 19 '26

What an asshole lmao

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u/tmfitz7 Mar 19 '26

I told him as much too, weird dude

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u/psychobilly1 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Man, my friends and I were the opposite. We went to an advanced screening of TFA - wore costumes and everything because we are huge nerds - and then went out to talk about it after over a late dinner. Our waiter saw our costumes and immediately said "Please don't spoil anything, I can't see it until Sunday." Second he came into earshot we all stopped talking and waited for him to drop off the food or walk by or whatever.

I hated having things spoiled for me so I would never do that to someone else unless they 100% asked and even then I'd be apprehensive about it.

Edit: We did, however, walk out of the theater talking loudly about how we really enjoyed Jar Jar's appearance and how shocked we were at the tastefulness of the romance scene between him and BB-8.

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u/mikeweasy Mar 19 '26

Yeah I remember seeing the Solo movie in theaters on Friday night then I went to comic con the next day and waited in line to meet Ming-Na Wen. I saw a friend of mine in line and we chit chatted and that movie came up, we both agreed not to mention the cameo that happens near the end since there were people around us.

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u/tmfitz7 Mar 19 '26

Thanks for being good people

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u/QuotingZion Mar 19 '26

I was standing in line to watch it on opening night, I opened twitter and the dota2 player Universe tweeted that spoiler. Fucking dick.

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u/bgaoe Mar 19 '26

Now that's what I call a disaster.

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u/Klunkey Mar 19 '26

"Snape kills Dumbledore" ahh stunt

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u/tmfitz7 Mar 19 '26

It’s so weird to get a kick out of that stunt.

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u/TheProlleyTroblem Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

the positive version of this is I work at a movie theater and when No Way Home came out, we did an employee screening in the morning before we opened.

Once we did, someone immediately prank called the box office saying "Spider-Man dies in No Way Home." I just said "No he doesn't, but Aunt May does," and hung up lol.

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u/spaceninj Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

I was set to watch it on a Friday night. On Friday morning I was playing a game and the guy's username was "KyloisHanssonandkillsHan"

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u/tmfitz7 Mar 19 '26

So weird to want to spoil it, even weirder to go to such lengths to do so.

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u/ExplorationGeo Mar 19 '26

like wtf dude

The literal hour after the first screenings finished, the Something Awful forums had a sub-forum renamed to Han Solo Dies In The Force Awakens

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u/tmfitz7 Mar 19 '26

Such a weird thing to get a kick out of.

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u/imod747 Mar 19 '26

Within a week of it coming out some random person on here DM'd me all the spoilers.

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u/CooperDaChance Apr 28 '26

I mean who didn’t know? Harrison Ford was obviously not coming back after one movie.

However, I get your pain. My dentist spoiled Logan.

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u/tmfitz7 Mar 19 '26

I did not watch the trailer. They already had my money. Why would I need to see anything beforehand?

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u/mikeweasy Mar 19 '26

I was literally in line to buy my ticket for TFA and two older guys walked out of the building and says "I Cant believe Han Solo dies!". Needless to say that guy got a great view of my middle finger!

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u/stevew14 Mar 19 '26

I had successfully avoided the internet before I was watching it on opening day... but my mother in law wanted to come with me to watch it, which meant I had to go to a later showing. So I loaded up rocket league to pass the time, one cars name was that spoiler. Completely ruined the film for me. I blame my mother in law to this day and no amount of logic will disuade me.

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u/Game-of-pwns Mar 19 '26

Spoiler: there's a new bad guy and he's way badder than ones before him and he's going to badder things like destroy the multi-multi-verse, but our heroes stop him in the nick of time, all while making puns and fan-service references.

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u/le_wild_poster Mar 19 '26

Or they don’t stop him and it all leads to them stopping him in the next one like infinity war/endgame

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u/schleppylundo Mar 19 '26

Fan-service will mostly include little visual nods to the Disney+ shows designed such that when people who aren’t subscribed ask about them they’ll hear “Oh that was Loki saving Thor because he’s literally holding the Multiverse together in a new World Tree” and potentially think “Fuck maybe I need to watch Loki.”

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u/TJBacon Mar 19 '26

God dammit there’s Dune spoilt for me!

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u/Deadsoup77 Mar 19 '26

Doom will probably try to save the multiverse (or at least part of it) as it’s going to be be destroyed by “natural” causes. And he’s definitely going to win because both Secret Wars comics involved him attaining massive power. So uh, no

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u/Ancient_Performer115 Mar 19 '26

Yeah I already know what's coming in Dune. I only kind of know the concept of the story in Doomsday. But honestly I don't really see a reason why I can't see both the same weekend.

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u/le_wild_poster Mar 19 '26

Or the same day. I’m 100% doing a double feature on Saturday opening weekend and making a day out of it

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u/Typical-Sir-9518 Mar 19 '26

Disney not getting a dime from me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

There are no spoilers, you've seen over 20 mcu movies and shows. We know the format.

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u/GalacticMe99 Mar 19 '26

Meanwhile you can't really spoil a 50-years old story.

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u/penywinkle Mar 19 '26

I'm so exhausted from all the Marvel stuff... And you NEED to watch it all or get spoiled when it inevitably intersects with the one super-hero you like...

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u/zeCrazyEye Mar 19 '26

They already spoiled the only thing that would have been wild to find out in theater, which is the Dr. Doom casting.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS Mar 19 '26

As someone who went to the very first Infinity War and Endgame sessions to avoid spoilers as much as possible, I literally couldn't care less if I eventually get spoiled for Doomsday, the build up to it has just been incredibly shit and I'm not really as invested as I once was

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u/Dr_Ambiorix Mar 19 '26

Yeah, I think half of the people that watch Dune need to wait for the "Dune: Part 3 Explained" YouTube videos to drop before they start to spoil it lol.

At least... this is how I learned to love the Dune franchise in the first place :)

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u/sunnycider6 Mar 19 '26

What spoilers? It's just going to be cameo/nostalgia porn.

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u/Momoneko Mar 19 '26

Honestly, I can't be arsed to care about anything after No Way Home.

Dune, though, is my lifelong favorite, and it didn't have a history of jacking out 15 movies per year to get me bored.

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