COST significantly COVID precautions? Movie studios have pushed their biggest bets all the way to the end of 2021 to avoid having to move them more than once. “When I looked at the available dates, there was a date in March that we were thinking about,” Grode says of Dune. “There was a date in the end of May, or beginning of June. I figured March is probably too soon to really have a full return to this theater experience. People need to put their toe in the water and then they put their ankle, then they go up to their knee in order to kind of get back to daily life. That takes time.”