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Are we seeing Purge 3 in 2015 maybe?

I'm kind of impressed by The Purge Anarchy. I haven't seen it yet, but I hear it's much better than the first one. Despite that, I'm surprised how it's on track to out-gross its predecessor, despite the fact that not too many people even liked the first Purge... I had thought it would top out at 40M, but now that it's looking at 70M, bravo!

To be honest, I was really looking forward to Godzilla, but it really let me down

Not spectacular, nor terrible #'s... Lucy will be over 60M by Friday, will most likely pass 100M DOM total Hercules... meh. I still see a 70M total, unless Guardians obliterates it this weekend.

Hmm... That would be interesting. Never would have thought of that name

Never played the game but still pretty excited for the movie. The premise seems really cool, and it'd be great to see video game adaptations perform well at the B.O (with this and hopefully Warcraft doing well) Seth Gordon is a fine director and it'll be interesting to see his take on this story. I can see this doing Prometheus #s... Maybe a slightly smaller OW

1. X-Men 2. Edge of Tomorrow 3. Planet of the Apes 4. Captain America 5. LEGO 6. Fault in our Stars 7. 22 Jump Street 8. Spider-Man 2 (ya ya I know, but I actually kind of liked it) 9. Dragon 2 10. Noah Really want to see Boyhood and Grand Budapest Does Lone Survivor count as 2014? It was limited in 2013, but wide 2014. If it counts as 2014, i'll put it at #9

Does Snow White even have a release date?

I wouldn't say Hercules was "bitch-slapped" by Lucy just because it came #2 OW. Both films met or exceeded expectations (depending on your expectations obviously), but considering Hercules had really nothing going for it besides The Rock (bland marketing etc.), I think it did just fine this weekend. People come out to the theater to see The Rock, and people come out to see superhero movies. Put those two brands together and 200M seems reasonable, no matter how big the audience overlap.

I think Lucy's success can be credited partly to ScarJo, but also the marketing. The first trailer was awesome, and they had a great marketing hook as well about the whole 10% of the brain thing (scientifically inaccurate, but still a cool sci-fi concept)

never saw The Island... any good?

I kept my TF4 prediction sub 1B WW due to bias...

I really do want to keep my expectations reasonable, but just every time I hear Star Wars 7 I go crazy

OS and OW maybe, but DOM I think it'll be close

Age of Ultron should be #1 OS for 2015, but DOM... I think it and SW7 could both end up in the 550-600M range

China is now the deciding factor for basically EVERYTHING 50-60M in China would be fine. I'm still so disappointed in this film's overall BO run

should stay close to 200M. 185-225 seems about right

Hercules... SO close to 30M! A few weeks ago I thought this was gonna be another RIPD, but I guess The Rock's a box office draw by himself! Same for ScarJo!

I think if Sony can keep the budget at around 180-200M, Sinister Six could make some money. 150-180DOM depending on quality, and 350+OS...

Haha I sure hope it wont, if ST does open there! Right now I have it at 230-255M, but of course there are so many factors that could change that number over the next few years

I have no doubt the Potter name will be at the center of the marketing, which will probably give it a huge OW

I just think that giants has the potential to be big. Not Frozen big obviously, but big. The Disney animation brand is strong right now, and while that may change before 2016, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. I might change my mind after Big Hero 6 however, if it under preforms critically or at the box office.

I agree. However, I think it will do most of it's major business on OW, much like the other Potter films. I can see it hitting 240-260, but I don't think it'll cause too much of a problem for any films opening the weekend after. What are your OW predictions? Personally, I can see 105/240, which would be great.

If Big Hero 6 is as big as many people are predicting, I think Giants could continue that trend. Giants and ST3 hopefully wouldn't have too much audience overlap, but I don't think Paramount would be willing to take the risk. I would be surprised if they released ST3 on Nov 23, but I wouldn't quite place it in "impossible" yet. I don't think June 24 would work, even if TF5 doesn't release then. July 4th weekend will probably be huge, cutting into ST3's legs. The rest of July is pretty big as well with "Untitled Marvel (maybe Dr. Strange), Bourne, Ice Age (which will be huge OS), King Arthur (which may move), and Apes 3. I'm still going to stick with June 3, just because it seems like the less risky date. However Nov 23, Nov 11 are still (possible) but unlikely. July 22 would be preferable to June 24, but I just can't see it happening. I'll say no to May 20th however, because of the uncertainty of the slate (BvS vs Cap 3, Alice vs X-Men, and Dragon vs Dory)

June 3 seems the most likely to me. May is too crowded, and Nov 23 is the (supposed) release of Giants. Opening against Sausage Party wouldn't hurt ST3 too bad, plus it has 2 weeks until Finding Dory/HTTYD3, and in between, it'll have to face against Uncharted, which may still be big, but I don't think it'll scare Paramount away from the date. July as it stands is much much too crowded already, even though a lot of stuff will most likely move. There's also the fact that BvS, Alice and Dragon 3 will all probably move, and any of these dates is possible. Then again, Paramount may opt for the Nov 11 date, and force Sony to move Sinister Six...