Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves tops Pluto TV after free-streaming debut

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves wasted no time turning free streaming into a fresh win for the brand. One day after landing on Pluto TV, the Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Justice Smith adventure climbed to No. 1 on the platform’s free-streaming chart, a sharp sign that the film can still pull an audience when the barrier to entry drops to zero.

The move matters because it gives D&D something the theatrical run never fully delivered: a mainstream re-entry point outside the tabletop crowd. Pluto TV added the film to its free catalog on June 1, alongside other first-time free-streaming titles such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and the quick chart surge showed Honor Among Thieves fitting naturally into a month built around recognizable franchise names. For Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, that kind of visibility is the kind of cross-media traction a screen adaptation is supposed to create.

The movie had already earned strong goodwill before its free-streaming debut. It premiered at South by Southwest on March 10, 2023, then opened in the United States on March 31, 2023, under Paramount Pictures. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the film carried a production budget of $150 million and finished with about $208.2 million worldwide. Its domestic opening weekend came in at about $38.5 million, enough for a No. 1 debut, while Rotten Tomatoes scores landed at 91 percent from critics and 92 percent from users.

That gap between reception and box office is exactly why the Pluto TV chart run stands out. Paramount Global Content has framed the movie as a high-profile adaptation of Gary Gygax’s tabletop role-playing game, and the free-streaming spike suggests that the brand still has room to grow far beyond the core fan base when the format feels accessible. A heist-style fantasy adventure with a starry cast is easier for casual viewers to sample than a lore-heavy franchise chapter, and that distinction can matter when the next screen project or licensed tie-in is looking for a larger landing zone.

For D&D, the lesson is simple: once the movie found a wider audience on Pluto TV, the brand did what good adventuring parties do best, it rolled high when the table was finally set.