Box Office – March 31- April 2, 2023: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, HIS ONLY SON, & More

Box Office March 31- April 2, 2023

The theatrical movie box office results for March 31, 2023 through April 2, 2023 have been released.

The Box Office

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves premiered in Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $38.5 Million so far.

John Wick: Chapter 4 was Second at the box office over the weekend with $28.2 Million (a 62% drop from last weekend) for $122.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $244.8 Million.

His Only Son premiered in Third Place at the box office with $5.5 Million so far.

Scream VI was Fourth at the United States box office with $5.3 Million.

Creed III was Fifth at the United States box office with $5 Million for $148.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $258.5 Million.

These films: Shazam! Fury of the Gods, A Thousand and One, 65, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Jesus Revolution rounded out the top ten respectively.

Movies That Opened This Weekend

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a 2023 fantasy heist action comedy film directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Gilio from a story by Chris McKay and Gilio. Based on the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting and has no connections to the film trilogy released between 2000 and 2012. The film stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant.

Production went through various phases in development since 2013, beginning with Warner Bros. Pictures after beating Hasbro and Universal Pictures in a lawsuit over the film rights to the tabletop role-playing game, before moving to Paramount Pictures, each with various writers and directors. Goldstein and Daley were the final writers/directors, using elements from the previous attempt by director Chris McKay and screenwriter Michael Gilio. Filming began in April 2021 in Iceland and later Northern Ireland.

His Only Son is a 2023 American biblical drama film produced, edited, written and directed by David Helling. It is based on the account from Genesis 22 in the Old Testament when God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on the mountain of Moriah. The film stars Nicolas Mouawad as Abraham, Sara Seyed as Sarah, and Edaan Moskowitz as Isaac, with Ottavio Taddei, Nicolai Perez, Daniel da Silva in supporting roles.

A Thousand and One is a 2023 American drama film, written and directed by A.V. Rockwell. It stars Teyana Taylor, Will Catlett, Josiah Cross, Aven Courtney and Aaron Kingsley Adetola.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Showing Up, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: The Super Mario Bros. Movie will be Number One at the box office.

The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)

“A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.

By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.

Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.

To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.

Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor’s share of the box office gross is often referred to as the “distributor rentals”, especially for box office reporting of older films.”

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