Neal Freiman

Finally, the Dune 3 trailer dropped this week, causing Toby and all the other Lisa and Al-Gaib fans to break out in a cold sweat.

But so did movie theater owners, who began to confront a serious dilemma.

Dune 3 and Avengers Doomsday, two of the most potentially lucrative films coming out this year, are slated to be released on the exact same day, December 18th.

It's like the nightmare version of Barbenheimer.

While Barbie and Oppenheimer were released on the same day in 2023, their audiences didn't have much overlap.

These two movies do skewed heavily male.

The concern is that they'd cannibalize each other and lead to fewer ticket sales overall, a brutal outcome when theaters are fighting for every audience member they can get.

As one movie rep told The Hollywood Reporter, someone's got to move.

Well, yeah, I had not even thought about it before five seconds ago, and that was the first thing that came to mind.

But if you had to move one, which one would you move?

I thought you were just going to say Avengers has to move because I'm way looking forward to Dune 3.

That trailer is insane.

Everyone should go watch it.

Meanwhile, we're both seeing Project Hail Mary this weekend, which is going to be sick.

Ryan Gosling in space.

And finally, I cannot wait to park myself in front of 10 TVs later today with the Women's College Basketball Tournament tipping off and the men's event entering its second day.

Toby, how are your 15 brackets looking so far?

1.35 p.m., I'm probably going to be drinking an Arizona instead of a Long Island when it comes to iced tea, and that's probably how it's going to shake out with Arizona as the one seed.

All right, that is all the time we have.

Thanks so much for starting your morning with us.