By Ben Miller
Studios are finally starting to get with the program. For the sixth straight week, a new release was tops at the box office with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves comfortably winning the weekend behind very positive critical (91% on Rotten Tomatoes) and audience (A- CinemaScore) notices. D&D was the first of the six films not to be a sequel, but you can only expect so much of the 2023 film landscape. Regardless, it's nice to have more films being regularly released on the schedule.
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) March 31st-April 2nd 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| WIDE (Over 800 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 DUNGEONS & DRAGONS |
 A GOOD PERSON |
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1 ★🔺 DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES $37.2 *NEW* 3,855 screeens |
1 🔺 A GOOD PERSON $537k (cum. $1.7) 687 screens |
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2 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 $28.3 (cum. $123) 3,855 screens |
2 🔺 MALUM $221k *NEW* 242 screens |
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3 🔺 HIS ONLY SON $5.5 *NEW* 1920 screens |
3 THE LOST KING $265k (cum. $931k) 265 screens |
| 4 SCREAM VI $5.3 (cum. $98.2) 3,016 screens |
4 ★ THE QUIET GIRL $86k (cum. $1.3) 129 screens |
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5 CREED III $5.0 (cum. $148.5) 3,207 screens |
5 ENYS MEN $74k *NEW* 62 screens |
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6 SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS $4.6 (cum. $53.4) 3,451 screens |
6 MOVING ON $67k (cum. $2.0) 132 screens |
 A THOUSAND AND ONE |
 MOVING ON |
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7 ★🔺 A THOUSAND AND ONE $1.7 *NEW* 926 screens |
7 ★ RETURN TO SEOUL $62k (cum. $630k) 103 screens |
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8 ★ 65 $1.5 (cum. $30.5) 2,113 screens |
8 TU JHOOTHI MAIN MAKKAAR $46k (cum. $2.5) 29 screens
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9 ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTAMANIA $1.2 (cum. $212) 1440 screens |
9 QUE VIVA MEXICO $33k (cum. $146k) 62 screens |
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10 JESUS REVOLUTION $1.0 (cum. $50.9) 1,415 screens |
10 🔺★ SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING $29k *NEW* 62 screens |
| 11 COCAINE BEAR $860k (cum. $63.7) 1,164 screens |
11 🔺★ IN VIAGGO: TRAVELS OF POPE FRANCIS $16k *NEW* 168 screens
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12 CHAMPIONS $699k (cum. $14.9) 1121 screens |
12 🔺 THE FIVE DEVILS $13k (cum. $38k) 15 screens
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Keanu Reeves' presumed final outing as John Wick has already surpased $100 million in its second week, and should probably end up around $400 million worldwide when all is said and done. Meanwhile, faith-based film His Only Son (which I didn't know existed until minutes ago) managed a solid number on less than 2,000 screens. You can never underestimate the box office pull of the churchgoing audiences.
On the limited/platform side, the well-regarded Sundance film A Thousand and One did solid numbers on just a bit under 1,000 screens. Elsewhere, the small-budget horror film Malum and the A24 release Enys Men went after the same business.
Next Weekend - Both Ben Affleck's Michael Jordan shoe drama Air and the animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie opens on Wednesday to get a head start on Easter weekend. Expect Mario to dominate the box office dollars.
What did you watch this weekend? I've been tearing through the films of 1973, including Cinderella Liberty, Bang the Drum Slowly, and The Way We Were. I also found time to take in John Wick: Chapter 4 as well as John Sayles awesome 1996 crime drama Lone Star.