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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 8992142" data-attributes="member: 6914290">From a quantitative perspective, would likely involve more research than I'm willing to do. But qualitatively, it's a vanilla genre movie with a longstanding somewhat niche IP. Maybe something like Ender's Game?Edit: though even that is a bit limited since Ender's Game as a series has specific stories to tell where D&D is more 'fantasy tropes, the tabletop roleplaying game'Edit 2: In general I wasn't really talking about the success of the movie as much as the forecasting of likely future projects based solely on quantitative characteristics without consideration for qualitatively differences, which, to my mind, are equally if not more important.You say 'Detective Pikachu' made xyz$ and doesn't have a sequel yet; if D&D doesn't make at least that much, it won't get a sequel either.I say, there are a lot of reasons movies don't get made, and past financial performance is only one of them. A Detective Pikachu sequel, to me, seems a lot more difficult to put together than a D&D sequel. You couldn't confidently give Michael Bay a Detective Pikachu movie series, where I think you probably could give him D&D. (Not that I'd want this for D&D movies, but it just isn't that complicated an IP or set of concepts to work with).</blockquote>