Paramount rolls the dice on Dungeons & Dragons expansion, seeds possibly $65M + WW opening – box office preview

With the greatest of intentions, Paramount and Hasbro eOne have come up with a highly entertaining, crowd-pleasing version of the classic RPG titled Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, already certified 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – no easy feat for a genre film of this caliber – and 94% by theater audience.

Paramount shot the film right out of SXSW on opening night and received a huge response and they screened the picture extensively, including a partnership with Amazon before the opening. However, the sequel was not good for the $150 million production, which was 50% co-financed by eOne, just to see one 30 million – 40 million dollars start state The hope is that hot word-of-mouth returns will overindex this film in 3,850 theaters and inherit all of Lionsgate’s premium theaters John Wick: Chapter 4.

The previous feature attempt with D&D didn’t fare as well under New Line with a $7.2 million domestic debut, $15.4 million in earnings and nearly $34 million WW 23 years ago. This picture featured some new actors including Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch and Marlon Wayans. This version of D&D recruiter Bridgetons Rege – Jean Page, Chris Pine, Fast & FuriousMichelle Rodriguez, ItSophia Lillis, Justice Smith and Hugh Grant.

The composition here for the film, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, is by Sony untapped, which opened domestically to $44 million and ended up earning $148.6 million in the US/Canada and $401.7 million worldwide, for a production cost of $120 million. Sony declared a feature franchise of these results for the big screen shot of this Sony Playstation game, and as Dungeons and Dragons can possibly match those results, well, mission accomplished. Official previews in the US and Canada begin Thursday at 3 p.m.

Overseas this weekend in 58 international markets, including the UK (distributed by eOne), Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Spain, Dungeons and Dragons to be observed $25M+. On the high side, it is hopeful 65 million dollars worldwide launch.

Italy go on Wednesday, Britain, Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Spain on Friday. China will also launch domestic flights on Friday. In the upcoming Majors, France bows out on April 12 while Brazil plays on April 13. Super Mario Bros will suck the oxygen out of the market that live-action is fanboys’ second choice.

In addition to Unknown free man is another comp. We do not have apples-to-apples comparisons Not mapped opened early in 15 markets to $22 million (unadjusted) before expanding the next session to 62 markets and a second-year haul of $55.4 million (also unadjusted). overseas completely for Not mapped was $253.1 million. Remember that the Tom Holland/Spider-Man: No Way Home Gloriole. free man debuted at $23 million (unadjusted) in 41 markets, excluding Spain, as it had a good run at a time of concern about the domestic Delta variant and the foreign markets experiencing ever-changing Covid restrictions and/or closures . The film ended up receiving strong support from China, where it achieved a final of $95 million.

Let us not rely too much on China from today D&D. The market has been fickle towards Hollywood products lately, to say the least. Pre-sales are lackluster and there is competition from local titles as well as the Japanese animated Suzume. Meantime, titanic will receive a new edition there from Monday for the 25th anniversary.

The BBC reported today that an estimated 50 million people on a Dungeons and Dragons adventure since its inception almost 50 years ago. Recently, the game has found a new audience.

The team was busy with protests in London, Paris and Berlin. There was also a presentation at San Diego Comic-Con last July and at ComicCon in Sao Paolo in December.

Elsewhere at the box office, Focus Features announced the winner of this year’s Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. one thousand and one, in 926 places. A reboot of AV Rockwell’s feature directorial debut, the film follows shameless and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor) as she kidnaps six-year-old Terry from the foster care system. With their mystery and holding each other, mother and son set out in search of their sense of home, identity and stability in a rapidly changing New York City. The image is 100% off 36 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Meanwhile, last weekend’s champion, John Wick: Chapter 4, expected to remain strong through weekend 2, -60% est 30 million dollars. The Chad Stahelski-directed film earned an estimated $6.8 million yesterday, bringing its running total in the US and Canada to $86.2 million.