These days, movie theater owners will do nearly anything to lure fans back to the big screen—and elaborately themed popcorn buckets have become an important part of that strategy.
You don’t make a movie as sumptuous and engrossing as Dune: Part Two and not think of every little detail.
Dune: Part Two’s success can never escape the shadow of the wormussy. Yes, even as the smash hit movie heads home, we’re all still talking about that popcorn bucket, as much as AMC probably wishes at this point we’d rather not. But it’s not all sandworms in this weeks news—CinemaCon, Civil War, and even Jedi Shaggy…
Dune Part Two has been a huge hit, and perhaps only one thing could eclipse it in infamy: the viral AMC sandworm popcorn bucket that had everyone talking...
As it was written, the Lisan al Gaib has gone from ruling Arrakis, to the galaxy, to Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.
People are thirsty for the Dune: Part Twolimited edition sandworm popcorn bucket. So thirsty, in fact, that some eBay resellers are hawking the thing for hundreds of dollars.
As was foretold in Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” music video, in which Christopher Walken danced to a line from Dune (“Walk without rhythm, It won’t attract the worm”), the actor would be destined to join Frank Herbert’s sci-fi universe in Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed adaptation.
