D&D Movie/TV Guess the D&D Movie Opening Weekend Box Office Performance, and Win a Prize!

[MonsterEnvy]

Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it. I've seen it twice already.
It's just not the huge hit that's going to transform the hobby we've been led to expect.
It has basically doubled the opening weekend (adjusted for inflation) of the awful movie from 2000 on a MUCH larger budget. That's not great.

It’s only day 2.

 

[Zardnaar]

All the early projections I saw were about $30-35 million, so this overperforming Hollywood expectations.

Earlier projections were 50 million iirc and even that number was marginal for its price tag.

Take away early release numbers and it's a sub 40 million opening.

 

[Zardnaar]

It’s only day 2.

Thise days are the best ones number wise usually.

The overall projections for first weekend won't change drastically even if Sunday brings in double Saturday.

Might be a few million out give or take but the trajectory is clear by now.

 

[Parmandur]

Earlier projections were 50 million iirc and even that number was marginal for its price tag.

Take away early release numbers and it's a sub 40 million opening.

You recall incorrectly, this is running ahead of the business projections by quite a bit.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Earlier projections were 50 million iirc and even that number was marginal for its price tag.

Take away early release numbers and it's a sub 40 million opening.

[citation needed]

Also taking away early release numbers that every other film uses in its opening numbers is an obvious case of moving the goal posts...

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Thise days are the best ones number wise usually.

The overall projections for first weekend won't change drastically even if Sunday brings in double Saturday.

Might be a few million out give or take but the trajectory is clear by now.

Yes but we still don’t have the full weekend. We are going on just Friday and Sat right now.

 

[Parmandur]

[citation needed]

Well, contra the revisionist histroy, this is how Variety is reporting on the weekend being ahead if expectations:

"Buoyed by positive reviews and enthusiastic word-of-mouth, Paramount and eOne’s adaptation of the popular role-playing game landed on the higher end of expectations, which had pegged the film with a debut between $30 million and $40 million."

Box Office: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Rolls $38.5 Million in Opening Weekend

“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” emerged victorious over last weekend’s champ “John Wick: Chapter 4” at the domestic box office, rolling $38.5 million from 3,855 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Buoyed by positive reviews and enthusiastic word-of-mouth, Paramount and...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Retreater]

It’s only day 2.

Day 4. Including estimates from the Thursday preview through Sunday. It's the vital opening weekend, when most blockbusters gain their momentum.

 

[Retreater]

Did I miss something? I didn't know the fan base needed 'regrowing,' or that Hasbro had made it a priority to do so. Where did this come from? (Serious question, I promise I'm not trolling.)

Hasbro and Wizards made a huge investment to bring in new players with this movie.
What I've been hearing is they didn't care about the OGL fiasco, DND Beyond subscription cancellations, dips in quality of recent products, etc, because they were planning on this film bringing in enough fans to recoup what they lost. Not caring about old fans because millions of new fans were going to be coming to D&D because of this movie.
That's what I heard. Don't know how much was serious or just grumbling from the Internet.

 

[Zardnaar]

[citation needed]

Also taking away early release numbers that every other film uses in its opening numbers is an obvious case of moving the goal posts...

That's why I said iirc.

The projections narrowed a week or two ago. I don't regard projections that far out very reliable and they narrow closer to the movie release.

My personal guess bbsed on absolutely nothing at all was I took that 50 million number and lopped a third off. I didn't think the numbers woukd cone in stupidly low eg under 20 million or stupidly high (over 60/70).

That's the number I recall being thrown around a month or two ago I never saw it nor am I claiming its gospel.