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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 8990022" data-attributes="member: 56488">Overall thoughts on this, yes the OP is quite clear how measuring this, so I can see why the focus is on the numbers by Zardnaar, it is the whole premise of the thread, though perhaps the title could have said something like 'D&D Move - Hit or Flop at Box Office?' or something similarly a bit more narrower in focus to go along with the opening post, otherwise it lends itself to a bit more general interpretations and is possibly more emotive / getting stronger reactions as it stands than if it was otherwise (and not helped with other posts around the likes of 'could D&D die again?' which look to be interesting thought experiments, but all added together can be taking as doom saying for D&D as a whole).For me I guess I disagree with the premise of measuring it solely on box office results, as aren't necessarily only measures of success, given other sources of revenue that others mention, plus what might be the overall goals.Shazam and Black Adam have both had a lot of media attention on poor showings at the box office, but if they were just standalone independent films there may have not been such attention or such a view of being failures, but it is more them being part of the wider DC / superhero franchises that people look at them as being poor.  Similar Doctor Strange and MoM has had a lot of mixed views on it's success, despite nearly reaching 1 billion at the box office on a budget upwards of 200 million - not a financial issue by any means, but people expected / hoped for more.  The attention on Antman and the Wasp 3 is even worse, though again more than doubled it's budget, but people expected a lot better, and already doomsaying about the MCU as a whole despite what seems to still be a profitable business, just not as profitable as it used to be.Thus when it comes to D&D, people have different expectations, and may consider that while at box office it may not recoup costs, that doesn't mean it wasn't successful for what they were going for, whether something else in Paramount + stable, more awareness / sales for D&D brand, merchandising etc.I admit I hoped for better myself in terms of Box Office results, as would like a sequel and obviously the better it goes, the more likely this will occur, but I don't think that it's performance to date necessarily means it won't get a sequel - Paramount and Hasbro could be pretty happy with where things stand now.</blockquote>

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