Jake Gittes

Frankenweenie won't be facing any direct competition until Wreck-It Ralph, so I think it'll still make its budget back comfortably in the US and maybe even approach $50m.

The Grey is great and Neeson is great in it, but I don't know why there should be Wrath of the Titans, Battleship and Taken 2 for every The Grey.

Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper vs. Jeremy Renner from the director of The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook in the heart of the awards season definitely sounds like it's got $100m DOM potential.

Life of Pi, The Master and Les Mis are the locks/near-locks here... I don't know what should happen in order for one of them to miss. After that there is a ton of hopefuls/possibilities with roughly the same chances - Lincoln, Skyfall, Cloud Atlas, TDKR, Django Unchained, The Hobbit, Beasts and Anna Karenina... that's it, I think. TDKR, Django and Lincoln seem like the safer picks because the Academy has loved Pfister, Richardson and Kaminski since forever, but my hope is that Skyfall and Cloud Atlas get in.

Argo? Why?

Two good Shrek movies (the first two) vs. one good IA movie (the first one). Not hard to choose.

At this point:1. Moonrise Kingdom2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower3. Marley4. The Grey5. The Avengers6. Dredd...everything else

Cuba Gooding Jr.

The cinematography in Skyfall looks like it's on a completely different level from MI4.

I'd pick Moonrise over Amour for Screenplay any day of the week. And we still need to see exactly how well Django fairs.

Well, in that case all they need to do is get at least two of those in pre-production by early 2013. Vacation should probably be the easiest one to get going; Wachowskis would need to move quick with Jupiter Ascending and WB would need to be very confident in them (I'm sure they still remember Speed Racer); same with The Dark Tower; an animated movie won't get fully made in under 2 years (however, they could push back Lego); Journey 3 could easily turn out like Chipmunks 3 and won't be a $150m or even a $120m blockbuster under any circumstances; Mad Max should be ready just in time for summer '14, but I'm not sure it's going to serve as a huge tentpole, and Beetlejuice 2 is still up in the air, plus I can't see it as a big hit either - the script needs to be great (can't expect that from Seth Grahame-Smith, frankly) and at least Burton and Keaton both need to be on board.

I'm hoping Skyfall gets in. Even though it will almost inevitably lose, which will be like, the 235th time Roger Deakins didn't win an Oscar.

The Pirates, I guess. It jumped 85%.

Hooper, Affleck, Russell, PTA and Lee.

I also think July 2 would be the best date for DoFP under these circumstances. Especially if they bring back at least some of the original cast to go along with McAvoy, Fassbender, Lawrence and the others, I think all Fox should do after that is just give the middle finger to TF4 and market the hell out of this. I'm pretty sure that with Vaughn and Jane Goldman back, they won't have to worry about quality.

WB also hadn't had any huge tentpole for summer 2014 before they put The Hobbit there. Then they added Godzilla, but that's still not enough. The only way they could push TH back to December and still have a strong summer is to either come up with a Hangover-like original comedy, or a children's movie (too bad WB doesn't have an animation devision), or something like Sherlock Holmes 3, or a franchise-starter / Inception/Pacific Rim-like original blockbuster, or some combination of those. But they need to move fast.Here, too, you can see the effect of the Green Lantern failure - if it was successful on the level of BB or even First Class, you'd bet they would have made Green Lantern 2 one of their prime 2014 tentpoles. But you reap what you sow.

It does.

No. With Hotel Transylvania and Frankenweenie coming out in the next two weeks, I just hope it makes over $41.3m so it can take a place above DH2 on the all-time dom chart.

1. Goodfellas2. Taxi Driver3. Raging Bull4. Shutter Island5. The Departed6. Cape Fear7. Casino8. Gangs of New York9. HugoHaven't seen the others yet.

Masterpieces Jaws, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Last Ark Excellent The Last Crusade, The Temple of Doom, Catch Me If You Can, Saving Private Ryan, Duel, Munich Pretty Good E.T., Jurassic Park, A.I., Minority Report, Close Encounters, The Terminal Average Crystal Skull, Adventures of Tintin, Always Bad Hook, War of the Worlds, The Lost World Haven't seen The Sugarland Express, 1941, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Amistad, War Horse

You really don't know what you're talking about.

The highest by the month's end will be RE5... with something like $38-39m. The highest grossing movie released during the month will be either Looper or Hotel Transylvania.