Eric the Marxist

On May 8th, Disney will have three movies in a row get over $75M on their opening weekends...my God.

So is this a...cat-dragon hybrid? What...WHAT IS THAT?

So the Grinch will be voiced by...Benedict Cumberbatch?

I'm in!

Cloverfield: $28M The Brothers Grimsby: $11M The Young Messiah: $7M The Perfect Match: $2M

Zootopia: $78M London Has Fallen: $16M WTF (Love this acronym): $9M

Cars, Shrek, Madagascar, Ice Age? Hah! You guys clearly have forgotten about Alpha and Omega and its four direct-to-video sequels, with like three more coming soon. Yes, those exist.

Risen: $17M Race: $12M The Witch: $6M

I'm sorry, when was $135M a bad thing? Is it a fantastic number? No. Do I completely agree with Han? No, as domestic-wise, I feel a couple extra million can be added in, due to an entire month to its own with zilch family competition. But that's not a bad number at all. It's only just below the production budget, and with $545M WW, that's 3.75 times the budget, which even including marketing means that it made a pretty hefty profit. So why are you getting on him for predicting something that is both logical and still profitable for the studio?

Okay, so a Dreamworks animator has actually gone on to Twitter to flat-out say that this trailer is awful and doesn't represent what the movie will actually be.

So Shaggy Dog with kitties? Yeah, this is gonna bomb.

KFP3: $45M Finest Hours: $14M Fifty Shades of Black: $11M

What exactly is wrong with Assassin's Creed? I agree that maybe it should have come out a couple years earlier when the games were actually good, but it's still really popular. It's sold over 73 million copies, and the overall concept has potential for a movie, and I think if marketed right, it could seem interesting to the general public. Really, the issue I have is with the scheduling. Why have it premiere a few days after Rogue One?

I don't know if this has been quoted yet, but this jab at Dirty Grandpa from Deadline made me laugh:

Did you see the same movie I saw?

The Revenant: $25M The Forest: $8M THe Masked Saint: $1M

Definite (22): Kung Fu Panda 3 Deadpool Zootopia BvS Jungle Book Civil War Alice X-Men TMNT 2 Finding Dory Independence Day 2 Pets Ghostbusters Star Trek Bourne 5 Suicide Squad Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts Moana Rogue One Sing Likely (14): Ride Along 2 Angry Birds Neighbors 2 Conjuring 2 NYSM 2 Central Intelligence The BFG Ice Age Pete's Dragon Storks Gambit Trolls Passengers The Girl on the Train Maybe (15): 13 Hours Zoolander 2 Allegiant My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 The Boss Warcraft The Legend of Tarzan Sully The Magnificent Seven Deepwater Horizon Inferno The Great Wall Pitt/Cotillard/Zemeckis Movie Assassin's Creed Jumanji So if all of the definite ones and likely ones get in, that's 36. Add in a maybe here and there, and it looks like this could very well happen.

The Hateful Eight: $30M

1. Rogue One: $490M 2. Batman v Superman: $470M 3. Finding Dory: $460M 4. Civil War: $390M 5. Moana: $320M 6. Independence Day 2: $300M 7. The Jungle Book $270M 8. The Secret Life of Pets: $270M 9. X-Men: Apocalypse: $260M 10. Fantastic Beasts: $240M

Big Short: $14M Concussion: $12.5M Daddy's Home: $19M Joy: $17M Point Break: $9M

The War of Stars: $230M Alvin: $15M Sisters: $13M

Heart of the Sea: $13M Legend: $1.5M

Happy to see Mockingjay Part 1 potentially getting the #1 highest-grossing movie of 2014. Also interested to see how well-received American Sniper is. Who knows what'll happen on MLK weekend? And let me also say that I am very satisfied with Hobbit 3's #s. Regardless of your opinion, potentially earning $270M+ along with even more worldwide is a good number. What, it not being the biggest smash hit is suddenly wrong? Expecting it to be on the same level as Return of the King or even Fellowship set your hopes up way too high already. But that's just me.

I remember the 2003 Peter Pan movie in commercials when I was six, but I've never watched it. The only Pan things I've experienced were the Disney flick, Finding Neverland, and the NBC special.

Y'know what I'm surprised by? Not the legs of Hobbit or Mockingjay, but how people are "surprised" at WiB2's performance being better than they thought. Hasn't horror movies in the first week always have a decent opening weekend for the past 4 or so years? While not fantastic, they do fine on the first weekend. Marked Ones, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Devil Inside. Course they all drop down hard, but still.