estebanJ

Two things seem clear: 1) Star Wars fatigue has finally set in - one movie a year for three straight years? It's amazing the box office has been as awesome as it has been up until right now. Disney should postpone Solo. 2) The lousy word of mouth rating on RT wasn't just organized hating and trolling. Whether there was some of that or not, a lot of it was real. Disney needs to go back to one Star Wars film every 3 years, 2 at the most. FATIGUE.

Depp has had a 30+ year career so he's ready to retire anyway, eh? As for Pirates 5, it's a good film but the culture has passed it by so much it's a miracle it made almost $800m WW.

Maybe on a higher scale than AP2, but I wouldn't say that about Rush Hour 2. That film was extremely popular, grossing $226m domestic, which is well over $300m when adjusted for inflation. Neither TMNT or even GOTG is likely to match its domestic popularity.

I agree that the Hobbit probably ends up at #1 domestic for the year, but my God I've been wrong all year long so far so no reason to pay attention to me. E.g., if four months ago someone would have told me that Captain America's domestic tally would withstand the assaults of X-Men, Spider-man, Godzilla, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers (!!!) I would have told them to give me some of what they were smoking!

Damn! JUST short of X-Men globally ... she can do it !

First, there's nothing wrong with 'taking snippets' of what you or anyone else says and replying just to that. Nobody is obligated to reply to every point of a multi-point post or wax about the meta-issue that animated an aspect of a thread. If one point out of six interests you then you can reply just to that point and not the rest, so long as you quote that point alone so that others can see what you are doing. I did just that, which would be obvious had you included the part of your previous post that I responded to. It makes it clear that I did not misrepresent or distort anything about what you were saying. Second, since you really want commentary about the meta-issue: If anyone insisted that GOTG was going to beat TMNT last weekend and also in the days that have followed, well, obviously they were wrong. What else is there to say about that? If a TMNT fan's point is to extract a pound of cyber-flesh by gloating about it more power to them, and if they want to characterize that as being more about giving TMNT its due (and IMO it has certainly earned its due with a much higher than expected box office tally so far) than sharting on GOTG that's fine with me. But I don't care to dwell on that.

OK, but still, GOTG is going to beat it by a large margin overall, at least domestically. I mean, on Friday it was 7.7 to 7, just a 10% advantage for TMNT with GOTG more than $120 million ahead? That gap is way-insurmountable unless TMNT develops some Frozen/Titanic size legs.

1) The Lion King 2) Fantasia 3) Snow White 4) Pinocchio 5) Toy Story 6) Bambi 7) Beauty and the Beast 8) Wall-E 9) Toy Story 2 10) Princess Mononoke 11) The Iron Giant 12) Spirited Away 13) Aladdin 14) Ratatouille 15) The Incredibles 16) Howl's Moving Castle 17) Finding Nemo 18) Monsters Inc. 19) Shrek 20) How to Train Your Dragon

Pretty interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/movies/movie-studios-strive-for-ever-more-inventive-logos.html?_r=0

So as of right now, June 14, has Lego re-passed Captain America for #1 domestic, or is CA still tops?

I liked Maleficent, but with a $60m - $70m opening week, $150m is about the biggest milestone it will hit. $200m would be a big shock.

Other than Transformers, I don't think any summer movie will.

I think it's safe to say that any chance that X-men or Godzilla have to reach $1B global is gone. Spiderman still could because of its insane popularity overseas.

IMO, this is rather soft. Still early, and Saturday could be a lot better, but I was expecting more like $42m.

Captain America has been resilient in the face of the Rio 2s and the like that were supposed to beat it out the last couple of weeks. Sure, the Spidey Tidle Wave is coming, but the Captain will be over $230m domestic by then, a very tidy sum for an early April release. Wise move by Buena Vista cashing in before the real Summer Season starts.