The Panda

Will need to see how badly it is effected.

If he doesn't I'll take it.

Lucy could be good or could be horrendous, either way I don't think it's making any money sadly.

I on the other hand would be a really sad panda.

Aren't all summers lately like this though? It's weird, this summer has had glowingly reviewed movies (especially compared to last years) yet all of them are underperforming.

Nearly all of the movies this summer have been getting glowing reviews, when the worst reviewed movies of the summer are Blended and A Million Ways to Die in the West (both financial flops and Blended said to be one of Sandler's better films and Million Ways to Die said to be funny but plotless), and only two other rotten movies (barely rotten TASM2 and Maleficent) you know it's a good summer. Sadly, July is looking to be very weak with the exception of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Tammy.

The whole movie is acting quite abnormally.

I agree, I had only seen Tangled once before and really liked it, I decided to re-watch it lately and absolutely loved it (more than I liked Frozen). It's weird though, my opinion of Frozen has decreased since I saw it, I have found a lot more flaws with it (it's less focused, and despite some glorious moments, it drags a lot by feeling more like a rough draft than a final product). Tangled is a lot more focused which makes its glory moments even stronger because everything is properly built up to, which gives all of its moments the edge for me (even if Frozen might have had technically better individual moments). I have to say I really do think Tangled is a good step above Frozen, and I kind of think without Tangled or Wreck-It Ralph Frozen wouldn't have seen its take off, because I believe WDAS was able to build up enough new-credibility with those two movies that it created a condition (mixed with no competition plus a spiraling WoM) for it to soar. I do think Frozen has the distinct edge when it comes to music, Tangled doesn't utilize its music as well as Frozen did, however I still wish Disney musicals would stick with it and start a musical and end a musical. In almost all Disney musical movies the First Act is cram-packed with fun songs and then the second act is barren of any, with Frozen it was especially apparent because it was a full-out musical for a good portion in the first act and then the music stopped, it created a jarring tonal shift.

That's great news for you! Congrats! Ironically for me your freeze on SOTM questions happens to be the same two weeks I'm going on a personal vacation to Colorado (where I won't be in areas with reception).

I am 5th, sadly I am going to lose 56k points soon for SOTM and that's going to drop me like a bomb.

I guess TFIOS isn't all that popular in Canada? Hmm this is really interesting.

Now's the time where I am looking at my estimates and sighing.

Time for some announcements (This isn't getting cancelled!) Sorry for not posting any in a while, I just flew back from New York, however I had a friend who offered me a chance to go to Colorado for a 2 week camping trip, given the stresses of lately and the fact I usually try to go once a year to destress I will be going and for those two weeks I won't be posting at all (I'm heading down saturday). I'll be back for the first week of July, but the day after the 4th I have to head down to Illinois for business for a week and a half. Because of all of this franticness in my schedule I won't be posting any new rounds until I am back from Illinois. However! If people want to keep this running despite my prolonged absence they are more than able to do so, until I get back from Illinois anybody has the option to post new threads in the manner I was, just make sure they have 3-4 days between them. Just make sure you post the links in the threads so when I get back I am able to update the main thread.

Noah is the only one on there worth seeing

Not going to put them in ranked order, but I will separate them. A's Godzilla The Grand Budapest Hotel The LEGO Movie X-Men: Days of Future Past B's Bears Captain America: The Winter Soldier Neighbors Noah Oculus C's About Last Night Divergent A Million Ways to Die in the West God's Not Dead That Awkward Moment The Monument's Men Muppets: Most Wanted D's 300: Rise of An Empire The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Need For Speed Non-Stop Ride Along RoboCop F's I, Frankenstein Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Winter's Tale

I'll take it

Httyd2 should end up in the 90s and 22 Jump Street in the high 80s.If think like a man too is a decent follow up it could end up in the 50s-60sJersey Boys should be 50s-70s if decent quality.Transformers: Age of Extinction will most likely be in the low 20s to 30s.There's also some independent films with decent scores.

I'll bet 50 points HTTYD2 opens over 75m 2 people50 points 22 Jump Street opens over 54m 2 people

Agreed, 50m opening would be a massive disappointment.

It's family entertainment, there hasn't been a big family movie since Rio 2, Dragon 2 will cut off Maleficents legs

1) Will HTTYD2 OPEN to more than 63 mill? Yes 2) Will 22JS open to number 2? Yes 3) Will FIOS place 3 rd? Yes 4) Will the films in spots 3-4-5-6 combine to make more than position 2? Yes 5) Will HTTYD and 22JS combine to make more than 125 mill? Yes 6) Will Maleficent have a Friday increase of more than 68%? No 7) Will any film have more than a 60% Saturday increase? Yes 8) Will 22JS make more than 7 mill for Thurs? No 9) Will HTTYD make more than 1.8 mill on Thurs? Yes 10) Will EOT decrease by less than 45%? No 11) Will Godzilla still suck? No, it'll still be absolutely stunning. 12) Will ASM2 have a Saturday increase of more than 45%? No 13) Will Million Ways drop more than 41%? Yes 14) Will any film increase on Thurs? Yes Bonus 1) what will be the drop percentage wise for Fault in Our Stars? 38% (Going on a limb here because of that Monday drop) Bonus 2) What will be the cumulative total fpr the top ten films? 185m Bonus 3) what will x-men gross internationally this weekend? 20m Bonus 4) what will Frozen worldwide total be after this weekend? 1,250,420,130

If it keeps having minuscule drops like that from now on 120m shouldn't be a problem. I'm really curious to see how it plays out for the rest of the week now.

It could play less like Twilight and more like the Notebook.

I kind of think that it should pick up legs from here, WoM is really good, so I could see a really frontloaded opening day and then it plays out strong after that one large drop.

Disappointed in TFIOS' weekend numbers, after all the record breaking buzz.