‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Soars $40M, Nabs A- CinemaScore – Saturday Box Office

Saturday morning: Update for more updates and maps Although Friday took in $15.3 million, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves I’m still looking at a $40 million opening. It’s the pinnacle of tracking, commendable for Paramount/eOne’s $150 million production. Hasbro controls the intellectual property, brought the film to the studio and agreed to 50% financing terms.

While not the flashiest start for a film of this magnitude, let’s not forget Sony’s Pandemic comp untapped, which cost $120 million, opened to $44 million and finished on $148.6 million/Canada and $401.7 million. Sony was quick to call it a franchise launch. The grades are fantastic for that D&D with A-, 90%, 4 1/2 stars on ComScore/Screen Engine PostTrak with 77% recommendation. Children under 12 gave it a positive 85% with a final recommendation of 51%. Can it go even higher this weekend? Most sources believe that $40 million is the limit here for the Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, Rege-Jean Page and Sophia Lillis movie. Those who bought their tickets on the day, indicating that business is picking up, stood at 58%. This compares to those who bought tickets for John Wick: Chapter 4 on the first Friday accounted for 55% of all cinemagoers. Imax and PLFs account for 36% of weekend ticket sales year-to-date.

Some competing distributors realized that this was a difficult point for them D&D go in between John Wick: Chapter 4 And Universal / Lighting super mario brothers, Where else are you supposed to program a film in 2023 as all these films come out of the post-production backlog? For the month of April, this is the marquee live action PG-13 fanboy film super mario brothers, three horror photos – The Pope’s Exorcist, Renfield, Evil Dead Rise, and female perversion like exist God I am Margaret – all before Disney/Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 come and steal all the money. Not to mention that this week a third of all K-12 schools are off on Monday, with 5% of colleges dropping out on 80% of K-12s and 31% of colleges on the Good Friday break . And you did Super Mario Bros The opening on Wednesday, so Paramount was a leader in that regard D&D and you can’t blame them. Let’s wait and see the price of this film directed/written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Here we could expect a nice 4-day opening.

Paramount certainly didn’t abandon this film, instead blasting it with outrageous performances and acknowledging its fanfare. Let’s just say it D&D will go a longer way than New Line’s sour bust in 2000, which opened to $7.2 million and finished with $15.3 million and a WW of nearly $34 million. It’s clear that moviegoers prefer this feature adaptation of the RPG.

D&D did well in the West, the Mountains and the Midwest, but had good numbers across the country. AMC Burbank was yesterday’s top-grossing venue at nearly $60,000.

Sixty-one percent of the men showed up D&D Boys over 25 the biggest demo with 41% (85% grade), women over 25 with 27% (top with 94%, unbeatable, Jean-Page!), boys under 25 with 20% (92%) and women under 25 years versus 12% (also 92%). The sect of 18- to 34-year-olds came in at 63%. Diversity demos were 48% white, 26% Hispanic and Latino, 10% Asian, and 8% black.

All of the weekend’s films earned an estimated $100.6 million, up 21% from a year ago. We are still recovering. But we still have -27% off the same weekend in 2019 that made $137.8 million and then dumbo opened with a budget of $170 million to $45.9 million.

Elsewhere, Angel Studios had it on faith His only son Opening in 1,920 theaters with an estimated $2.1 million on Friday and an estimated $5.5 million Opening. No Rotten Tomatoes critics score, but audiences loved it at 95%. PostTrak also had excellent exits, typical of these films, with 93% positive, 83% recommended. 65% lean towards women, 66% over 45 – which is again standard. The greatest need to be seen was the over-55s, who made up 46% of the crowd. Diversity demos were 56% white, 29% Latino and Hispanic, 7% black, and 8% Asian/Other. Circles in the Bible Belt did business, with South and South Central standing out, but with the best theater in Lititz, PA.

Focus Features’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner AV Rockwell thousand and one, appears to be at No. 7 with a $420,000 Friday opening and $1.72 million in 926 theaters. Good reviews and audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes with 96% and 83% respectively, while PostTrak gave 76% positive and 63% definitely recommended. Women tend to be 65%, 61% between 18-34, with 25-34 year olds making up the largest quartet at 33%. Diversity demos were 51% black, 23% white, 15% Latino and Hispanic, and 10% Asian/Other. Pic’s best regions were the East and South, with seven of the top ten theaters coming from NYC.

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Friday afternoon: Currently Paramount/eOne Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves looking at $16 million today, including this $5.6 million preview for a $40 million launch. I was told it couldn’t be done.

The five best photos:

1.) Dungeons and Dragons (Par) 3,855 theaters, Fri. $16M, 3 days $30M/week 1

2.) John Wick Chapter 4 (LG) 3,855 theaters, Fri $8.2M (-72%), 3-day $30M (-59%), Total $124.6M/week 2

3.) His only son (Angel) 1,920 theaters, Fri. $2.1M, 3 Days $5.8M/Week 1

4.) Creed III (MGM) 2,827 Theaters Fri $1.5M 3 Days $5.2M (-37%) Total $148.7M/Week 5

5.) scream VI (Par) 3,106 Theaters Fri $1.4M (-42%) 3 Days $4.6M (-44%) Total $97.5M/Week 4

Check out our interview with John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, directors/writers/EPs D&D Here.

Friday morning: Paramount and eOnes Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves grossed $5.6 million with previews. That’s not all of Thursday’s showtimes, which started at 3 p.m., but includes Amazon previews along with other previews. We are told for Thursday Dungeons and Dragons $1.5 million earned. While the film version of the popular RPG was popular by word of mouth (92% on Rotten Tomatoes) and by critics (89% confirmed recently), the shell in the film caught it 30 million – 40 million dollars Domestic production opening forecast of US$150 million (50% covered by eOne).

Paramount believed in this film so much that the picture was screened extensively and brought to SXSW where the picture had its world premiere as the festival’s opening title. Everyone is hoping that the picture will be over-indexed this weekend, but it could be a slow burn for the film; it’s the only new live-action PG-13 fanboy choice coming to the Easter frame this coming weekend.

D&D receive a majority of Lionsgate’s premium locations John Wick: Chapter 4 the weekend. This film had a hot week $94.6 million in 3,855 movie theaters. As D&D submit, do John Wick 4 Claim #1? Even if Keanu Reeves’ R-rated action pic drops 60%, he’ll be a 30 million dollars Opening.

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Directed/Written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein D&D also affects 58 foreign territories including the UK (distributed by eOne), Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Spain with a view to $25M+. On the high side, it is hopeful 65 million dollars worldwide launch.

It is positive that D&DThursday’s $4.1 million is before his comp Not mappedThursday previewed last year’s $3.7 million, also before the spring hit Kong: Skull Island ($3.7 million) and that of 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road ($3.7 million) and nearly $4.3 million Thursday from Paramount’s spring 2018 surprise hit, a quiet place It flew to a $50.2 million opening and grew to $188 million in the United States, $340 million WW and established a franchise. Not mapped is a good comp for that D&D This picture was based on a popular Sony PlayStation video game and opened to $44 million, ending up with $148 million in the United States and $401.7 million WW.

Top 5 movies on Thursday:

1 John Wick: Chapter 4 (LG) 3,855 theaters Thu $3.8M (-15% from Wed) Week $94.6M/Week 1 (Read the recap)

2 scream VI (par) 3,355 theaters, Thu. $710 (-3%), week $11.4m / total $92.9m / week 3 (read review)

3 Creed III (MGM/UAR) 3207 theaters, Thu $665,000, week $11M, total $143.5M/week 4 (read the review)

4 Shazam! wrath of the gods (NL) 4071 theaters, Thu $580,000 (-14%), week $12.2M/total $48.8M/week 2 (Read the review)

5 dasara (CGX) 510 theaters, Thu $272,000 (-59%), Week $939,000/week 1
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