The Panda

Cap 2 still hasn't been dethroned, Maleficent is looking to win the summer so far, Guardians is poised for a huge breakout, Frozen made over 100m in 2014 as well...

What if planes 2 opens higher and makes more than dragon 2...

The general public sucks, they'll fund Dreamworks mediocre movies/sequels (Shrek 3, 4, Croods, Madagascar 1 2 3, etc) and then when they make good sequels (KFP2 and httyd2) they don't go.

I liked X-Men and LEGO more, it's about third for me though (I'm not sure if I liked it, Fault, Godzilla, or Grand Budapest more they were all about on par for me (A- for each)

I know, I'm just criticizing the general public right now.

In what world are any of those more appealing movies, especially in a family fair barren summer.

No, no not that number for httyd2, it needed a massive increase today.

I think it's bound to disappoint people's expectations because I can't see it not having a massive drop off Empire Strikes Back style.

21 JS was good enough, I laughed more in This is the End, Wolf of Wall Street, and The World's End to name a few from last year.

I can see it happening, Fox assumes everyone will go see Avatar 2 and then it "disappoints" in the 300-400m range.Honestly there's no guarantee for Avatar 2 to be a box office behemoth, it'll be a big hit (especially compared to this summer), but Avatar did so well because of its insane legs (starting the 3D craze) I can easily see people freaking out when it "flops" with a 450m total or so.

I think it was definitely that fox didn't kick in the marketing till a couple weeks before.Same thing happened with Fault, they relied entirely on the pre-built fanbase and twitter buzz that they didn't give it a real advertising campaign, had they actually marketed it could have opened much higher than it did (it opened high, but that Saturday dropped showed the marketing really didn't hit anybody but the fans)And now with Dragon you have the same problem, Fox tried to rely on good will from the first instead of pumping it up as an animated event. It needed to be marketed.Fox needs to learn how to market their movies or they are going to get lost in this new front loaded world of box office.

Not saying 22 JS until we see 1.full weekend 2.drop off I am expecting that we'll be able to add 22 JS to the surprises (Maleficent as well), but when Maleficent breaking out to about a WWZ level is the biggest surprise of the summer it's a very disappointing summer.

No DOFP was first and tasm2 came a lot later.

How did what he say have anything to do with MCU?

Ray Subers predicted 290m for X-Men

Mal's legs wouldn't even be that impressive if movies this summer would actually hold.

It's a shame families picked that trash over dragon 2.Literally the one movie with decent legs this summer was one of the bad ones.

Cap and LEGO are possibly the only two movies this year that met expectations or over performed. (Blockbuster wise)

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1.Boyhood2.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes3.Guardians of the Galaxy4.Gone Girl5.Interstellar6.Big Hero 67.Tammy8.The Avengers: Age of Ultron9.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt 110.Fury

It made me angrier than seeing httyd2s Friday number.

This is terror

I agree, although I thought the LEGO Movie was better, 2014 has had some fantastic animations. It's a shame that 2013s animations were really bland overall (Frozen was the only exception) yet they pulled massive numbers, yet 2014 has had some fantastic animations yet they aren't reaching the heights of the 2013 movies (LEGO pulled great numbers Im not complaining)

The Croods sucked

2014 is the year of the terribly small movies??