If you had asked us when it was announced if Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves would be a success, we’d have told you no way. But, it looks like the rollout for the film was a huge success as it was the top of the weekend box office nearing projections. In the month leading up to the film, there were numerous early screenings showing a belief in the film and the want of word to mouth would drive the film. With a critic score of 90% currently and 93% from the audience, the film has got positive buzz driving it. Domestically, the film opened with $38.5 million and also earned $33 million internationally for a worldwide debut of $71.5 million. It’s an unexpected hit and it’ll be interesting to see how long it goes with tough competition coming this week with the new Mario Bros. film.

John Wick: Chapter 4 took a bullet to the knee it seems and fell to second place adding $28.2 million domestically to lift that total to $122.9 million. It added $58 million internationally to bring that to $122 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $244.9 million after two weeks.

His Only Son debuted in third place with $5.5 million. There’s no international gross reported.

Scream VI slipped one spot to fourth place adding $5.3 million to its total to bring its domestic gross to $98.2 million. The international total remains at $49.4 million and worldwide the film has grossed $147.6 million.

In fifth place was Creed III which added a little over $5 million to its domestic total to bring that to $148.6 million. Internationally, the film added $5 million over the week to bring that to $110 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $258.6 million.

In comic film news…

Shazam! Fury of the Gods went from second to sixth with an estimated $4.6 million, a 50.8% drop. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a comic film out of the top five this quickly. Domestically, the film has grossed $53.5 million. Over the week, the film did better internationally where it grossed about $9.9 million to bring that to $66 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $119.5 million. It looks like this is going to be a rough one for DC films and one has to wonder how it might impact the release of The Flash and Blue Beetle, both releasing before the massive reboot coming.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania slipped to ninth and grossed $1.2 million to bring its domestic total to $212 million. Internationally, the movie grossed $2.8 million over the week to bring that to $259.8 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $471.8 million.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village looks like it still has earned $10.1 million domestically. Internationally, the film has grossed about $3 million to bring that to $45.5 million and $55.7 million worldwide.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond looks like it didn’t make any gains and the domestic total is steady at $1.6 million. Internationally, it looks like it remained at a little over $10 million. The worldwide total is a bit over $11.6 million.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever looks like it held steady at $453.8 million domestically. Internationally, the film looks like it gained a little and is over $405 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed over $859.1 million about a $200,000 increase.

The week’s overall box office success…

Numbers have 65 films earning $97,877,297 from 33,107 theaters. That’s a dip from last weekend’s $116,184,669 from 31,687 theaters and 65 films. A similar amount to two weekends ago. The average earning was $2,956.39 this past weekend, a decrease from the previous weekend’s $3,666.64.