The Panda

My new predictions 150m 1.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - 156.2m 2.Captain America: Civil War - 157.4m 3.Finding Dory - 152.8m 4.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 157.4m 100m 1.Deadpool 2.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - 156.2m 3.Captain America: Civil War - 157.4m 4.Finding Dory - 152.8m 5.Suicide Squad - 132.7m 6.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - 115.2m 7.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 157.4m 75m 1.Deadpool 2.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - 156.2m 3.The Jungle Book - 85.4m 4.Captain America: Civil War - 157.4m 5.X-Men: Apocalypse - 77.1m 6.Finding Dory - 152.8m 7.Independance Day: Resurgence - 76.4m 8.Suicide Squad - 132.7m 9.Doctor Strange - 77.2m 10.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - 115.2m 11.Moana - 78.2m 12.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 157.4m 40m 1.Kung Fu Panda 3 2.Deadpool 3.Zootopia - 54.3m 4.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - 156.2m 5.The Jungle Book - 85.4m 6.Captain America: Civil War - 157.4m 7.Alice: Through the Look Glass - 47.2m 8.X-Men: Apocalypse - 77.1m 9.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - 50.4m 10.The Conjuring 2 - 51.4m 11.Warcraft - 47.3m 12.Finding Dory - 152.8m 13.Independance Day: Resurgence - 76.4m 14.The BFG - 52.3m 15.The Secret Life of Pets - 57.8m 16.Ghostbusters - 40.8m 17.Star Trek: Beyond - 52.7m 18.Jason Bourne - 47.2m 19.Suicide Squad - 132.7m 20.The Magnificent Seven - 41.2m 21.Doctor Strange - 77.2m 22.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - 115.2m 23.Moana - 78.2m 24.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 157.4m 25.Assassin's Creed - 40.4m

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So... The Choice.... What an awful choice of film (pun intended). But honestly if you watched any Sparks movie, you've already seen this movie, you don't need to know anything else. It's the exact same thing, just with slightly different attractive faces. As as somebody who likes sappy romances it just makes you want to gag, and the cliche's are played to the fullest. Every aspect is exactly out of the books in the worst way. I really don't know what to say, there is absolutely nothing to the performances, the script and directing are an epitome of lazy, and it's not even null you to sleep boring, it's just boring and you're forced to stay awake for every aching moment of this dull little "terror". This is the worst movie you've all made me see yet. It won't be the worst of the year, but I can't think of any redeemable aspects of it. F

At this point, I bet most Hollywood trade sites use ours for their predictions thinking we all obviously know what we're talking about, we're a box office site.

Deadpool also opened higher than the Matrix Reloaded adjusted, nice.

My updated 2016 predictions through the summer Finding Dory - 147.9m / 569.4m Captain America: Civil War - 162.7m / 414.9m Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - 165.7m / 390m Deadpool - 132m / 350m Suicide Squad - 138.7m / 346.8m The Jungle Book - 87.4m / 257.9m The Secret Life of Pets - 65.4m / 247.8m Zootopia - 57.2m / 214.5m The BFG - 50.1m / 205.4m X-Men: Apocalypse - 75.4m / 188.5m Independance Day: Resurgence - 70.4m / 165.4m Central Intelligence - 32.7m / 155.3m Star Trek: Beyond - 47.2m / 148.7m TMNT 2 - 54.2m / 143.6m Ghostbusters - 43.2m / 142.4m Jason Bourne - 43.5m / 141.4m Kung Fu Panda 3 - 135m Warcraft - 47.8m / 127.6m Alice Through the Looking Glass - 45.7m / 125.7m The Conjuring 2 - 51.4m / 123.8m The Boss - 30.4m / 111m Miracles From Heaven - 19.4m / 105.2m The Angry Birds Movie - 32.1m / 100m The Divergent Series: Allegiant - 37.4m / 91m Ride Along 2 - 91m Neighbors 2: Sorority Rises - 30.5m / 88.1m

I really like Despicable Me.... That's about it.... Illumination can stop please....

Except the Big Short is a near lock for adapted screenplay and a dark horse for editing (if it wins BP I think it takes editing from Mad Max) It has a decent shot at BP, as does Revenant. I think Big Short has a better narrative as a "more important" feature but Revenant has more major wins, then again Big Short has the PGA and a SAG nod while Revenant lacks a screenplay and a SAG nod. Then again Big Short is very quirky for the Academy and the Revenant is a technically impressive drama with the most Oscar nods, but Alejandro also recently won (where he hadn't at the Globes and BAFTAS, so those could easily be discounted). Theres an equally long pro and con list for both. I think it's either films game.

I've had an incredibly busy two weeks, I'll get to it eventually....

I think Star Wars can last another two, at least.

Slim to none? 3 votes or not it still won the PGA. Revenant can easily be seen as a makeup for Birdman at the BAFTAS and Globes. You can make an argument for either, but neither have a slim to none chance.

Weird, either Revenant wins BP or Theres a BD BP split again. Id say 40% - Revenant BP/BD 40% - Big Short BP/Revenant BD 19% - Spotlight BP/Revenant BD 1% - Some other combo PGA is the only one with a perfect record since the expansion, so it makes it hard to ignore Big Short. It's also hard to ignore Revenant's 3 wins. Spotlight is the dark horse

My OW predicts (and I guess one estimate) in order of release Deadpool - 135m Batman v Superman - 156m Civil War - 162m Apocalypse - 85m Suicide Squad - 141m Doctor Strange - 72m

In order of release Deadpool - 350m Batman v Superman - 415m Civil War - 420m Apocalypse - 185m Suicide Squad - 300m Doctor Strange - 200m

From the character who is pretty much the R-Rated version of Spider-Man, no less.

Perspective Deadpool just out opened every modern superhero movie that doesn't have Batman or Ironman in it. (And who knows how legs will play out from here) Also not counting Spidey 3 because spidey isn't a big pull right now.

Fox is having a great year, and they have a number of promising looking tentpoles coming

I remember after Star Wars people saying this year would be predictable and boring in comparison. LOL

I hope Civil War and BVS both do under 300m just to see both fanbases meltdown and cry. It's what Deadpool would want.

People would have said the same about Guardians had it been first instead of last up. I can easily see Deadpool over any (or all) of Civil War, BVS, and Suicide Squad. I'm not saying it will be, but with great WOM for Deadpool and no competition, it could be in for a surprisingly leggy run (for a comic book movie opening on a holiday weekend) Deadpool could go as high as 350-400m with a 130-135m OW. None of the big three comic book films are guaranteed anything. Civil War could have a small decrease from AoU, or an IM3 one. BVS is bombing its marketing campaign currently, and MoS was mixedly recieved, I'm thinking TDKR numbers are optimistic for it. Suicide Squad looks very appealing and has done a good job marketing itself so far, but if BVS is received poorly it might hurt it, plus we have no idea how much the GA will go for a movie based around villains. Im not saying how any of the three will perform, but that there is definitely reason to believe they are no locks to gross higher than a movie we haven't even gotten the OW to yet. I currently see the ranges (min to max) like BvS: 325m - 500m CW: 300m - 450m SS: 175m - 400m Deadpool can certainly hit in the 300m range, which could score it against one, two, all, or none of the above.

Holy crap, that Saturday hold could lead to a 130m+ OW.

This is an incredibly pointless question, because it's an impossible hypothetical. The movie is an R-Rated film, no ifs or buts and couldn't be the same thing if it wasn't.

I was predicting around 85m and still was shocked, so I get what you mean, but don't blame me.

Speaking of Ryan Reynolds, I think this further proves, you don't make stars based on talent and prospectives. You make stars by having a good manager who picks prospectively good/successful movies for the actor.

The other crazy thing is that this proves (along with Daredevil and Jessica Jones on the TV front) that superhero movies don't need to be done in the generic PG-13 format to be successful. Maybe, Marvel and DC might jump on more variances to their formulas.