Dune (titled onscreen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth. It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert, primarily covering the first half of the book. Set in the far future, it follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis. The ensemble cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. The film is the third adaptation of Dune following David Lynch's 1984 film, which was a critical and commercial failure, and John Harrison's 2000 miniseries. After an unsuccessful attempt by Paramount Pictures to produce a new adaptation,[5] Legendary Entertainment acquired the Dune film and TV rights in 2016, with Villeneuve signing on as director in February 2017. Production contracts were only secured for the first film, relying on its success before a second film would be greenlit. Filming took place from March to July 2019 at locations including Budapest, Jordan, Norway, and Abu Dhabi. Dune was originally scheduled for a late 2020 release, but it was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] The film premiered the following year at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021, ahead of its international release on September 15, 2021. It was then released in United States theaters and streaming on HBO Max on October 21, 2021. It was generally well received by critics for its visuals, scope, and ambition, and has grossed $382 million worldwide on a production budget of $165 million, making it the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2021. Less than a week after its domestic release, Dune: Part Two was confirmed with a planned release in October 2023.

The Congress is a 2013 live-action/animated science fiction drama film written and directed by Ari Folman, based on Stanisław Lem's 1971 Polish science fiction novel The Futurological Congress. The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2013. Independent film distributor Drafthouse Films announced, along with Films We Like In Toronto, their co-acquisition of the North American rights to the film and a US theatrical and VOD/digital release planned for 2014. Robin Wright plays a fictionalized version of herself as an aging actress with a reputation for being terrible, so much so that nobody is willing to offer her roles lest they be sued by traumatised audiences. Her son, Aaron, suffers from Usher syndrome that is slowly destroying his sight and hearing, and will result in him becoming a strange and bizarre creature that can taste sound and feel peoples thoughts. With the help of Dr. Barker (Paul Giamatti), Robin is barely able to stave off the worst effects of her son's decline, although his condition is sliding into its terminal stage. Robin's longtime agent Al (Harvey Keitel) takes her to met Jeff Green (Danny Huston), a CEO of the film production company, Miramount Studios, which controls all world governments through media entertainment, and they offer to buy her likeness and digitize her into a computer-animated version of herself. After initially turning down the offer, Robin reconsiders after realizing she may be unable to find future work with the emergence of this new technology, and agrees to sell the film rights to her digital image to Miramount Studios in exchange for a hefty sum of money. She is forced to promise never to act again. After her body is digitally scanned, the studio will be able to make films starring her, using only computer-generated characters. Since then, Robin's virtual persona has become the star of a popular science-fiction action film franchise, "Rebel Robot Robin", featured in excerpts or parodies of Metropolis, R.U.R., Dr. Strangelove and Children of Men, with Robin appearing inside those film excerpts. Twenty years later, in a world where Miramount's entertainment industry is now in total control, and those opposing them are ruthlessly hunted and enslaved, as her contract is about to expire, Robin travels to Abrahama City in the former United States (now the New Miramount States) where she will speak at Miramount's entertainment conference called the "Futurological Congress" in Hotel Miramount Nagasaki, and also renew her now expired contract. Abrahama City is an animated, surreal utopia that is created from figments of people's imaginations, where anyone can become an animated avatar of themselves, but are required to use hallucinogenic drugs and nanites that allow them to enter a mutable illusory state. They can become anything they want to be, including Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Frida Kahlo, as well as Egyptian god Horus are seen at the Congress. While discussing her new contract with Jeff, Robin learns that the studio has developed a new technology that will allow everyone to devour her or possibly transform themselves into her. Robin agrees to the deal but has a crisis of conscience and does not believe she or anyone else should be turned into a product. Asked to speak at the Congress, Robin publicly voices her contrary views, upsetting the hosts, judges and the councils of the Congress. Shortly afterwards, the Congress is interrupted by members of the resistance, who seek to overthrow Miramount and establish a far-right theocracy. The head of the Congress, a Steve Jobs cartoon parody figure, is assassinated by the Anti-Miramount resistance. During the attack, Robin is rescued and protected by Dylan Truliner (Jon Hamm), who in real life actually was Miramount's lead animator for her films. They escape but she is soon captured by "Miramount Police" and taken into custody to convicted of crimes against the state, Robin is executed by Jeff as a punishment for rejecting the offers from Miramount and the Congress. Still in this animated world, Robin is shown on a hospital bed, while doctors discuss her case. One of the doctors reveals that when Robin was found, she pleaded with her rescuers to execute her. The doctors decide that Robin has become so exhausted and intoxicated by the effects of hallucinogen that she must be frozen until her corrupted DNA and neurological structure can be replaced. Twenty years further on, Robin is revived and recovered in the animated world and has no memories of the Congress incident, having had all of her memories except those of her son erased. She reunites with Dylan, who told her that technology has improved so that anything is possible, that people can take on whatever form they wish and the ego no longer exists. Dylan and Robin fall in love, they take a journey through a colorful imaginary world. Robin, however, is still desperate to return to the real world and be with her son, Aaron.