Interstellar is going to outgross Hobbit and BH6. I've explained why like a thousand times this week in the Interstellar thread so I'm not going into it here.
While we all admire Guardians probably $90 million opening, which will break the biggest August OW record owned by Bourne, I think it is time to pay some respect to the movie that will still hold it adjusted for inflation-
Seriously. RH2's $67.4 million opening adjusts to $97 million today. Without 3D or IMAX.
I think GOTG would be a risk with any other studio but lets remember that Disney is the company that can churn out stuff like John Carter and The Lone Ranger every year and not be hurt by it.
Guardian's was never a sure fire hit, but that $170 million it was made for and the $100 million-ish or whatever it was marketed for is pocket change for Disney. If it were Marvel on their own, it would be a huge risk.
That's one thing I do really like about most modern comic book films. None of them seem to be straight up adaptations like the YA book adaptations. They take elements, characters, and pieces of normally different storylines and usually the end result is an original plot. Still not technically "original" but at least they aren't making it a straight carbon copy existing storylines.
Yeah, I really hope I'm wrong too.
EOT isn't actually original though. And yeah Lucy did well, but it had a pretty unfortunate release date coming one week in front of Guardians. Which, even though it isn't original, I am glad is doing well because it does look like a unique type of adaptation.