D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

teitan · Apr 3, 2023

Zardnaar said:
Except if it flops Hasbro has tob find another idiot to pony up cash. I doubt Paramount will.

And if the movie tanks flow on merchandise sales won't be that great either. Clearance bins in a few months.

The market may not be there for an expensive D&D movie they may have to go low budget make a good movie and build on that.

TV show maybe. Season of Shadow and Bone came in under 70 million and it's one of the best fantasy shows on.

You just really don’t want this movie to succeed in any way shape or form or believe it can do you? Word of mouth is 93%

Enevhar Aldarion · Apr 3, 2023

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I don't doubt that the movie industry tracks when spring break happens, but this is an interesting factoid to drop into the article. (My kids just finished spring break, incidentally.)

Why are kids off from school today? Next weekend is Easter and the Easter Monday day off from school. So expect big Mario numbers from that four-day span, though I am sure D&D will benefit some too.

Whizbang Dustyboots · Apr 3, 2023

Enevhar Aldarion said:
Why are kids off from school today? Next weekend is Easter and the Easter Monday day off from school. So expect big Mario numbers from that four-day span, though I am sure D&D will benefit some too.

In the US, most public school districts get a week (or two!) off of school in the spring, rather than get Easter holiday off.

teitan · Apr 3, 2023

bedir than said:
Have you moved the goalposts so far that the only way the D&D movie is a success is if it matches the fourth movie in a beloved series that has already made nearly billion in total and has spawned a spin off TV series plus already has two other movies in development?

He’s discounting examples of similarly received films that made it through the box office with mild profit and then built a much bigger audience through home release which has a big impact on some films or even ignoring the example of Uncharted, which is a more direct example. So he’s not moving the goal post so much as expecting a huge movie with massive box office returns. He isn’t taking into account that merchandising sales have killed similar film franchises, even high performing film franchises like Star Wars where the lackluster performance of merchandise had a lot to do with the cancellation of several film projects as poor performance for Solo. Or my earlier example of the similar performing Batman Begins that stretched at the box office on word of mouth and then home release secured it as a franchise.

Zardnaar · Apr 3, 2023

teitan said:
You just really don’t want this movie to succeed in any way shape or form or believe it can do you? Word of mouth is 93%

Not denying that nit claiming it's a bad movie.

This thread is specifically about the box office.

If it made 140 million I woukd be saying it's a great result. It didn't make 140 million.

I'm looking purely at the numbers.

My comment about the flop was if the drop off was 70%. Another poster has since posted its projected week two and if it's accurate it's not a 70% drop.

A drop off that large woukd likely be a flop. It means next week the movie would make around 20 odd million. It's projected around 40 according to that deadline article. We'll it's ceiling anyway.

teitan · Apr 3, 2023

Enevhar Aldarion said:
Why are kids off from school today? Next weekend is Easter and the Easter Monday day off from school. So expect big Mario numbers from that four-day span, though I am sure D&D will benefit some too.

They are expecting D&D to benefit from it yeah as teenagers opt for it over Mario.

Zardnaar · Apr 3, 2023

teitan said:
He’s discounting examples of similarly received films that made it through the box office with mild profit and then built a much bigger audience through home release which has a big impact on some films or even ignoring the example of Uncharted, which is a more direct example. So he’s not moving the goal post so much as expecting a huge movie with massive box office returns. He isn’t taking into account that merchandising sales have killed similar film franchises, even high performing film franchises like Star Wars where the lackluster performance of merchandise had a lot to do with the cancellation of several film projects as poor performance for Solo. Or my earlier example of the similar performing Batman Begins that stretched at the box office on word of mouth and then home release secured it as a franchise.

Its to early for that and no one has access to those figures so it's a moot point. It will be a year or so if ever we get access to merch tie ins.

Most likely we won't ever get access to reliable information. How much money did D&D kreos make or lose?

bedir than · Apr 3, 2023

Zardnaar said:
If it made 140 million I woukd be saying it's a great result. It didn't make 140 million.

In 2022 there were only three movies that made 140+. Not even Avatar 2 made that.

Your goalposts are such that no movie can be considered excellent.

teitan · Apr 3, 2023

Zardnaar said:
Not denying that nit claiming it's a bad movie.

This thread is specifically about the box office.

If it made 140 million I woukd be saying it's a great result. It didn't make 140 million.

I'm looking purely at the numbers.

My comment about the flop was if the drop off was 70%. Another poster has since posted its projected week two and if it's accurate it's not a 70% drop.

You’re trashing it to trash it. That’s just a fact. If it “only” made 70 you would still be saying the same thing.

teitan · Apr 3, 2023

Zardnaar said:
Its to early for that and no one has access to those figures so it's a moot point. It will be a year or so if ever we get access to merch tie ins.

Most likely we won't ever get access to reliable information. How much money did D&D kreos make or lose?

We have merch tie in now. We have had merch tie ins for months. We have novels, graphic novels, toys, more toys announced, shirts, posters, etc. where is this year coming from? Lol

Lego has the D&D license by the way. You must not be paying attention.

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