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It was rather obvious to be honest. No big family movies for 6 months, stellar reviews, huge trailer views and hype, nostalgia for the first, and the CBM age now.

This is a good weekend for animation fans.

2ND UPDATE, 3:48 PM: The screen average today for Jurassic World has gone up about 50% since this morning’s moviegoing. Compared to The Dark Knight Rises, that’s 12% higher than for the latter matinees at this point in the Friday cycle. At this rate, Universal Pictures could be looking at a $70M-plus Friday, which will make it the distributor’s biggest Friday openers ever, eclipsing Furious 7‘s $67.4M first day earlier this year. The three-day is on track for $155M-$162M, according to industry estimates. You know, Incredibles 2 isn’t too far away from JW1...

Holy fuck!

6/24: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: $150M 7/1: Incredibles 2: $65M 7/8: Ant Man and The Wasp: $70M 7/15: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation: $50M 7/22: Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again: $40M 7/29: Mission Impossible: Fallout: $70M 8/5: Christopher Robin: $55M 8/12: Christopher Robin: $38M 8/19: The Happytime Murders: $30M 8/26: Slender Man: $20M 9/2: Slender Man: $10M 9/9: The Nun: $50M 9/16: The Predator: $40M 9/23: A House With a Clock in The Walls: $25M 9/30: Night School: $35M 10/7: Venom: $85M 10/14: First Man: $45M 10/21: Halloween: $75M 10/28: Halloween: $40M 11/4: Bohemian Rhasopdy: $40M 11/11: The Grinch: $55M 11/18: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grinsewald: $80M 11/25: Wreck It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet: $75M (Five Day) 12/2: Wreck It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet: $30M 12/9: Wreck It Ralph 2: $20M 12/16: Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse: $35M 12/23: Aquaman: $60M 12/30: Mary Poppins Returns: $60M

Top ten animated films this decade: 1.) Coco 2.) Zootopia 3.) The Lego Movie 4.) Rango 5.) How To Train Your Dragon 6.) Your Name 7.) Inside Out 8.) Winnie The Pooh 9.) ParaNorman 10.) The Red Turtle

🅱EE Movie > A Bug’s Life

I can’t believe it’s Pixar (B- or lower) 19.) Cars 2 D 18.) The Good Dinosaur C- 17.) Monsters University C+ 16.) Brave B- B level Pixar 15.) A Bug’s Life B 14.) Finding Dory B 13.) Cars B Das is Good 12.) Wall-E B+ 11.) Toy Story B+ 10.) Cars 3 A- Cream of The Crop 9.) Toy Story 2 A 8.) Monsters Inc. A 7.) Toy Story 3 A+ 6.) Up A+ 5.) Finding Nemo A+ 4.) Inside Out A+ 3.) The Incredibles A+ 2.) Ratatouille A+ 1.) Coco A+

Hot Take: Wall-E isn’t top ten Pixar.

If your favorite Pixar movie isn’t Ratatouille or Coco, your opinion is automatically wrong.

Shr3k > CL > Cars 2/Minions

I also am starting wonder about Ralph 2. Not buying the whole $300M+ wave. There’s a lot of family films November/December. BH6 to Moana numbers seem right. However as previously stated wondering if Spiderverse becomes a dark house. Might open to $30M and legs it to $200M+.

Seriously WDAS or Pixar should look into Marvel’s library for older not used characters and consider making movies of them.

So have I now I’m thinking Lorax numbers but small OW. It’s not to late though Illumination always has an agressive marketing campaign. In AMC theaters, they have added Grinch bumpers in the middle of trailers and as @Blankments said, the audience surprisingly digged it.

OS I’m thinking around $200M. Even though it’s Illumination it’s also Seuss.

Not to mention as many have been saying, the only animated movie to do over $100M this year was Peter Rabbit which only had such great legs due to how barren it was for families. Families have been starved for animation, sure they were IW and Panther but they were limited by their PG-13 rating.

Not to mention it won’t have the benefit of Christmas legs either due to how many new openers.

At first I thought Grinch would have the chance of doing $400M, seriously wondering if it could miss $200M now. (Them again Illumination is known for their aggressive marketing)

Even with a Homecoming multiple it ends at about $140M OW. Personally, I’m thinking around $145M-$165M.

It wouldn’t as Aquaman isn’t a Universal film. Unless it’s a film from the studio, it can’t be attached. Theaters choose what’ll be played.

Starting to wonder if Spiderverse can beat both Grinch and Ralph 2 now...

I can see Tag over $20M.

Disney 2018 > Disney 2019 Box Office calling it now. Probably. It’ll be the first major 4 quad movie after 4vengers 4ever. Nah. Don’t even think $100M is locked tbh. Opening so close after Aladdin and Pets 2 will hurt it.

Shrek 5 would have the first animated movie over $200M when it happens.

Real talk: If y’all thought TI2 was a four quadrant movie, imagine how big The Lion King will be.