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I think the 2018 Grinch can do more than Grinch (2000) adjusted ($427M).

Both.

Surprised at little votes for RP1.

BKB, for you, I'll add Meg.

Throughout the years we have had numerous $300M+ breakout hits, It all started in 2008, where Iron Man and Dark Knight became unexpected breakouts, then in 2009 where James Cameron's Avatar became a $700M+ hit, 2010 bought us Alice in Wonderland, a Tim Burton remake of the Disney classic, and Toy Story 3, a beloved sequel to the beloved Pixar franchise. 2011 didn't really have any but in 2012, Avengers dominated and became the first film to open to $200M+ and legged it out to be the third highest grossing movie ever at the time, Hunger Games also became a $400M+ smash hit and Skyfall became the biggest Bond movie in the states. 2013 bought us Frozen, a new fairy tale from a new revitalized WDAS that became the biggest animated movie ever and 2014 bought us Guardians of The Galaxy, a movie that proved Marvel can sell anything with Vin Diesel as a Pokemon space tree. However 2015 kicked it up a notch and gave 4 breakouts, each over $300M+, American Sniper, a R rated drama that pulled of an impressive $300M+ total, Jurassic World, a sequel to the popular Jurassic Park series that went on to have the OW record and gross over $600M+, Inside Out, one of Pixar's biggest hits and best film since arguably Up, and Minions, a spinoff of the Minions characters in Despicable Me causing the rise of Illumination. 2016 bought us even more with Deadpool, an R rated superhero movie, Zootopia, a truly excellent WDAS movie with thought provoking messages, Jungle Book a remake of the beloved classic which gain unexpected traction, Finding Dory which broke Shrek 2's unadjusted record for biggest animated movie in the states and made $485M+ and Secret Life of Pets, an Illumination movie that many on here dislike brokeout to Inside Out levels. 2017 has bought us Wonder Woman, which crosses $400M+ today, and Beauty and The Beast, both over $400M+ domestically, which has me to wonder what'll be the next $300M+ breakouts of 2018.

I am willing to guess that when Bumblebee comes out Han will be like the guy in New Jersey caught jerking off to The Emoji Movie.

Oh nuts.

It's not even an animated reboot. It's through the eyes of the ghosts in this story. Also Sony Animation is crafting this.

Going to bump this.

I do not think Coco would've done better in August. Maybe October but not August besides it's too early to write off Coco but I'm thinking it'll do around $200M (give or take $10M) domestically it has a lot of family competition from The Star and Daddy's Home 2 which open two weeks before it, Thor and JL can also attract families, and Ferdinand and definitely Jumanji will truck its late legs. 2017, due to the bigness of 2016 for animated movies, is taking a natural lull year similar to 2010 and 2011.

So I did some digging and the last time where had such a dry animated period in the Summer, similar to 2018, was 2009 (with UP and IA3) and 2014 (Dragon 2 and Planes 2).

Warner Bros Pictures has an untitled animated movie set for June 1st 2018, opening against Deadpool 2.

Incredibles 2 is now set to dominate. HT3 will do KFP3 numbers at most ($140M). I wouldn't be surprised if TI2 does $500M+ due to nostalgia and lack of 4 quadrant animated films.

2019 has a shitton of animated sequels. 4 could go $300M+ (TLMS, TS4, F2, and Pets 2), Dragon 3 could do $200M+, and Angry Birds 2 and Spongebob 3 can drum up some nice business.

Also I noticed animation wise the Summer 2018 slate outside of TI2 looks kind of weak.

This Summer, barring CBMS and some breakouts like Girls Trip, Dunkirk, and Baby Driver sucked box office wise. Summer 2018 should be big rebound though. However with such a packed schedule I wonder which will hurt the most.

That is the weekend number.

Deadpool Civil War Suicide Squad Doctor Strange Apocalypse BVS

Hot Take: Suicide Squad was better than half of the superhero movies last year.

Very insightful.

My duty is to make sure a Lego Movie gets into the top 25 this year.

Sony Pictures Animation’s app adaptation grossed $12Mthis weekend from 4,800 screens in 21 markets. The opening is ahead of both Storks (2%) and Smurfs: The Lost Village, (12%) in Sony comps, for the same new group of plays at current exchange rates. The international cume to date is $12.7M. Latin America provided $5.4M in seven markets, let by Mexico’s $2.8M on 1,664 screens.

Learning for not is me.

Sony/Marvel’s Spidey spun another $9.6M on 6,870+ screens in 63 markets. Breakdowns are not available, but the cume is now $376M offshore with Japan on deck this coming weekend and China on September 8, ensuring at least a $400M+ snaring. Korea still leads the webslinger’s tally at an amazing $51.4M, followed by the UK ($34.8M), Brazil ($29.9M), Mexico ($26.7M) and Australia ($19M). Via DHD.

Dude. No need to attack him on his English or different opinions on Homecoming's box office.