Warner Bros. Entertainment Warner Bros.' and Legendary's 'Dune' will now go to HBO Max the same time it hits theaters on Oct. 1, 2021. After an initial lockdown last spring, studios in Hungary were able to reopen quickly, and major productions — including Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic 'Dune' — returned to complete shooting. Hungary's film industry, you could say, has had a good war. Like the rest of the world, Hungary was hit by the coronavirus pandemic and, like the rest of the movie business, COVID-19 shuttered film and TV shoots at studios in and around Budapest. But Hungary was one of the last places to shut down — low infection numbers in Spring meant there was no formal lockdown during the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020 — and, because of smart planning and a cooperative, pro-film-industry government, the country's studios were among the first, in early summer, to welcome back international productions.