James

It is funny that of all movies ranked much higher on the list, you people have a problem with Matrix 3 and The Matrix not being there Honestly, I expected reactions to other movies, some of them in Top 20.

He put The Social Network instead. How is that an improvement?

Did you make a list, Ethan?

It is because the first movie didn't have this:

Ok, I think it is ready... #1 1. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) #2-5 2. Fight Club (1999) 3. Scenic Route (2013) 4. 2012 (2009) 5. Home Alone (1990) #6-10 6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) 7. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) 8. Transformers (2007) 9. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) 10. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) #11-25 11. Fury (2014) 12. Green Street Hooligans (2005) 13. The Experiment (2010) 14. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) 15. War of the Worlds (2005) 16. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 17. Star Trek (2009) 18. Pacific Rim (2013) 19. Total Recall (2012) 20. Donnie Darko (2001) 21. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) 22. The Martian (2015) 23. Knowing (2009) 24. The Mist (2007) 25. The Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) #26-50 26. Pathology (2008) 27. Chronicle (2012) 28. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 29. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) 30. Inception (2010) 31. Sherlock Holmes (2009) 32. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) 33. Never Back Down (2008) 34. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) 35. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) 36. My Soul to Take (2010) 37. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) 38. Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) 39. Jumper (2008) 40. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules (2011) 41. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015) 42. St. Trinian’s (2007) 43. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) 44. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) 45. The Bourne Identity (2002) 46. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) 47. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) 48. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) 49. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) 50. Freier Fall (2013) #51-100 51. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) 52. Inkheart (2009) 53. Dorian Gray (2009) 54. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) 55. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 56. Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events (2004) 57. The Da Vinci Code (2006) 58. Bridge to Terabithia (2007) 59. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010) 60. Everest (2015) 61. Captain Philips (2013) 62. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 63. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) 64. Deadpool (2016) 65. Ratatouille (2007) 66. Cloverfield (2008) 67. Love and Other Drugs (2010) 68. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) 69. Angels & Demons (2009) 70. Shutter Island (2010) 71. Interstellar (2014) 72. Jupiter Ascending (2015) 73. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) 74. Imaginaerum (2012) 75. The Fast and the Furious (2001) 76. Turistas (2006) 77. Frozen (2010) NOT THE ANIMATED ONE 78. Fear (1996) 79. Avatar (2009) 80. Salt (2010) 81. Burlesque (2010) 82. Man of Steel (2013) 83. Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) 84. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) 85. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 86. Spectre (2015) 87. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011) 88. The Adventures of Tintin (2011) 89. Beastly (2011) 90. The Matrix Revolutions (2003) 91. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 92. Taken 2 (2012) 93. Project X (2012) 94. Underworld: Evolution (2006) 95. The Covenant (2006) 96. Maleficent (2014) 97. Gone Girl (2014) 98. Dracula Untold (2014) 99. The Hills Have Eyes (2006) 100. Van Helsing (2004)

Ok, I narrowed it down to about 160. This is hard.

My list coming tonight I think.

Avengers is Iron Man and friends. And people are shocked that Downey asks for 50m per movie. I actually think he's not getting enough. If Depp made 350m of the 4 Pirates movies, averaging more than 87m per movie (and will receive another reported 75 to 95m for Pirates 5, thanks to that back end deal), I'm sure Downey can do the same. And speaking of Depp, adding another 50m some sources reported he will receive for Alice 2, he might end up with close to 150m for 2 movies. That is insane.

It has higher stakes than Angels and Demons and the idea is marketable as hell. I think it will do well domestically. As for OS, I see around 300m.

I'm waiting for the Monday numbers, state side and OS, but at this point I don't think 1.3b WW is happening. Even Latin America countries look at medium-big drops from AoU. It will lose about 40m from AoU just in China. 1.25b should happen if it doesn't fall of the cliff OS next week because of X-Men.

I can't wait till Fall damn it!

$495k to be more precise. Disappointing number. Even if it is the biggest opening ever for Marvel, ahead of Ultron's 70.118 adm (and $385k) debut, it is still a far cry from BvS's 128.687 adm or Deadpool's 118.389 adm OW. And to think until this year no other company's CBM movies ever touched the heights of Disney's. The top 5 highest grossing CBMs were all Marvel movies. Now Fox has the top stop and Warner the second (though BvS has a chance of taking that first place from Deadpool). Suicide Squad might also jump in that top. As for CW, with X-Men arriving in 10 days (DOFP had quite a healthy run here), followed by Alice (the first movie made an incredible $1.5m), matching AoU's $1.24m would be great. In other news, this was an excellent weekend, with huge increases for pretty much everything. The Jungle Book is now the highest grossing Disney live-adaptation ever, crossing the $1.5m border. It is really incredible that Summer hasn't even started yet and we already have three $1.5m+ titles and six 1m+ ones! Also, Deadpool, Batman v Superman and The Jungle Book all entered the Top 20 Highest Grossing Movies Ever!

Well, OS gave us a clue about that. UK and Australia mirror the DOM market, Aus especially, and the holds there don't indicate great WOM. At this point beating IM3 WW is what it should be aiming at. It all depends on how it will hold when X-Men enters competition (unlike US, all OS territories except for China and Japan get the movie a week from now).

IM3 actually held better over the weekend than CW did. The difference between the two OW wise will be of around 4m, despite the fact that CW's opening day was with 6.5m bigger than IM3's.

Of those 220m, almost 100 was just China. It will make another 100m there. So just 124m from the other countries and that includes a bunch of new openers.That means it needs another 200m+ from the other territories. It will likely get that, but much more might prove difficult considering it already opened everywhere. That, and the fact that X-Men opens everywhere except for US, China and Japan in 9 days. So it only had this next week to recover before it gets hit by competition.

Yeah, 800-830m-ish (IM3 territory) is where this seems to be headed right know. The drop this weekend was worse than I thought it would be. UK, Brazil and SK also seem to fall from AoU. Is there any major market where it will actually finish ahead?

You should read the book. It is very good. Not as good as A&D, but then again, only few books are.

OMG! Finally! Fuckin finally! My most anticipated movie of the year aside from Fantastic Beasts!

Any chance for it to match AoU'S $76m total?

I don't think it will go that high. It would be the 4th film in the Avengers series. I'm thinking 170-175m-ish. Which is great anyway.

That sounds about right for OS (850-870m). Apparently it won't match AoU in China, France, Germany, Russia or Japan (and neither in Mexico and Italy I think). Don't know about SK, UK and Brazil yet.

France is expected to drop 65-70%, for Germany you just have to look at the thread title ("hard drop for CW") and their trends are always accurate so you can take their words for it, then there is Russia of course, but that just opened. In Italy, again, a new opener, it was weaker than Avengers, AoU and IM3, while the UK seems to be going through a rough patch for all movies (a lot to do with good weather). It will have a few places where it will increase over AoU, mostly Asia (even though in Japan is expected to fall from that), but generally it is not matching AoU. Hence, my affirmation that it will not come near it.

I doubt it comes near AoU OS. The second weekend holds in a lot of (major) markets are not as good after weaker openings.

So is this a bad time to say she is my favorite Marvel character?

That really sounds like my kind of stuff so yet another reason to be pissed.