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This is all true but at the same time who knows? Did anyone see American Sniper grossing that much? Maybe this will be a Titanic for a new generation? (obviously not to the same extent). When was the last time we had a big blockbuster romance come to think of it? 200 is probably a safer optimistic target but I do think anything is possible with these stars in this genre. The widespread appeal potential is there.

Hmm strange date. This might have something to do with Magnificent 7 in September and wanting to have Pratt available for publicity.

I'll try to answer this as a massive LOTR fan who was also dissapointed by The Hobbit movies and barely bothered to watch the latter two in theatres. The series got stuck in an awkward no-man's land where production dragged on so long that all the initial hype about the project in the post-LOTR years evaporated and the fanbase lost interest but not long enough that a generation passed and people were nostalgic about the originals ala SW and JP and wanted to introduce that world to their kids. I myself followed the production keenly for years, wanting PJ to direct, then getting let down when Del Toro took the reins, then coming around to that idea, then there was the fiasco of whether the production would leave NZ... By about 2011 I was kind of over it frankly. The initial fans had sort of outgrown it. There was a general sense of negativity building towards the films by release as well, people weren't impressed by the trailers and the higher frame rate look that PJ was going for and there was a lot of backlash over them splitting it into 3 at the last minute. The weak early reviews compounded this. Lastly it should be noted that LOTR was never as big in the US as WW. ROTK was second only to Titanic WW but not even close domestically. The fandom in America was more casual and the marketing did nothing to draw back the casual audience. 300 for the first is quite a lot in retrospect, not far off FOTR numbers. Then the damage was done and the next two dropped.

It's filming in September so the assumption is a release slot in 2016 similar to Gravity/Interstellar/The Martian.

Finding Dory is going to win the year imo, that's all I'll say for now though I think people are wildly overpredicting pretty much all the comic book properties as they seem to do every year. They're not all doing 300 million + and I don't see Captain and the new Snyder exceeding their predecessors by THAT much. Biggest wildcard of the year is Passengers which could do anything from 70 million to like, 400 million.

Crazy number for JW, 12 million for the WE is back on. Titanic in sight!

Good choice. For some reason while reading the script I kept picturing Steve Buscemi haha but he's a bit old and creep probably.

I'll take him in both please. Evans is undeniably hot too but a little too groomed and perfect if ya know what I mean, lacks Pratt's character.

Agree, this duo has been one of my favourite times as a BO follower.

Terminator will probably barely win Friday, Inside Out Saturday, JW Sunday or something like that.

So judging by these numbers am I wrong in thinking JW could possibly 4-peat seeing as it's player better on weekends relatively speaking than IO?

It's Pixar's most flat out entertaining and rewatchable movie. Maybe not their actul best, they have a few flat out masterpieces in Ratatouille and Toy Story 3 (maybe Inside Out as well), but still right up there. It's definately the only one I desperately wanted a sequel for the moment it was over.

Yes, I get it, you think I'm exaggerating, thank you. Anything else to add? @Indominus: JW

Obviously not "collapsing", but still a half a million difference with numbers this low seems odd to me. I'm also surprised it's dropping THIS much on summer weekdays even if the weekends remain strong.

Wasn't JW's estimate at 6.4? What happened?