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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 8993703" data-attributes="member: 99786">My expectation is us D&D nerds all went to see it. I'd be interested to see exactly what the ratio of 5e PHB's sold vs movie tickets sold is (assume $10 per ticket). And review that across markets. I have this weird feeling that it's going to be about 1:1 or maybe 2 PHBs per 1 ticket sold.In other words, the D&D fans went and saw it; but gen pop did not. As opposed to MCU, where not just comic fans went to see it; but gen pop was on board alsoIt helps in comics that there are several successful "branches" of comic books in our pop culture such as Spider-man, Batman, and Superman (all other MCU properties pale in cultural cachet to those 3 - perhaps due to 60's/70's shows, perhaps other reasons)Until there are other successful RPG fictional franchises, I don't think a D&D movie, even one done just right (which I think DADHAT is that movie) will make significant box office headway with gen pop. WotC can continue to try to push that way - but that's not really the way film/tv production works unless you have unlimited budget to burn. Hasbro does not have that - at least not at Hollywood scaleNow if you can get Stephanie Meyers, Cassandra Clare, Leigh Bardugo, Holly Black (wait - what?!), and/or Suzanne Collins - all huge YA fantasy authors - to write multiple  NYT best-selling series set in/around any of the existing Hasbro IP; well maybe THEN you'd get the crowds. Especially the ever elusive tween/teen/young adult girl/woman market(Holly Black working with her partner Tony Deterlizzi on a Planescape YA novel series?!? Yes please)</blockquote>

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