I also finally got around to seeing it and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It really nailed the feeling of D&D.
I especially love how they portrayed a Paladin. Completely badass but also utterly insufferable.
I’m bummed that the movie didn’t do better in the box office. This seems like sort of movie that would have definitely found it’s audience and earned enough money to justify a sequel back in the days of home video releases, but only pulling in $200 million in ticket sales in 2023 might prohibit another film. Really a shame.
$200 Million so far with a $150 Million budget - which vastly exceeded expectations. That's just Box office - there are other tie-ins that we won't have the numbers for. They already have a series planned which Paramount+ has agreed to distribute and they are discussing a sequel or other films now in the same universe.
Also, it released 2 months ago, we have not seen home purchase sales or rentals yet (they just became available a few days ago) and it's not on any streaming service. So all told I think you can probably expect another couple hundred million out of this from everything.
$200 million is not exceeding expectations. That is a significant underperformance. With ticket sales, only about half of the price goes to the studio, and that $150 budget probably doesn’t include marketing, so the movie is very much in the red.
True, it needs to hit about $400 million worldwide to be truly profitable or 2.5x it's production budget.
Again, though, there are a LOT of tie ins for this movie where the movie acts as a form of marketing. Hasbro is making a bet on this increasing interest in D&D's other properties and improving sales. Then you still have Rental and purchase sales and streaming sales.
Three things though that - in my opinion - make this film successful.
1) The show has a 90% on RT - which is really excellent. A record for D&D movies.
2) The 38 Million it made opening weekend exceeded the studios expectations on this.
3) There is already additional content planned, and sold to a distributor as I mentioned before.
