Up until a recent Marvel movie that people will be checking out this weekend, my favorite movie of 2023 was, without question, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. I simply couldn’t remember the last time I had so much fun in a movie theater. I loved everything about it, and I wasn’t the only one. Most critics loved the new Dungeons & Dragons movie, and most audiences that went to see it did as well. But there is one big problem: the audience that has actually seen it wasn’t nearly big enough.
Considering how strong the word of mouth was at release, I was actually a bit surprised when I discovered that, despite being out in theaters for over a month, Honor Among Thieves hasn’t even broken the $200 million mark at the global box office. It’s just short of that number, and with the film still technically in theaters, it could still break it. But even then, a $200 million box office run is frustrating for a movie that was so good and had so much more to offer with a potential Honor Among Thieves sequels that we likely now won’t see.
