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Some predicting $60M OW. You got that right! Not a typo

I remember 1991. T2, Robin Hood (love it despite Costner's accent), Addams Family, Naked Gun, JFK, and of course Silence of the Lambs. 1991 saw a monster Holiday season, with 3 to 4 hits opening in the same weekend. The 90s is just full of classics if you think about it: Unforgiven, JFK, Jurassic Park, T2, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Casino, Speed (remember that one?), Apollo 13. Movies like Pulp Fiction, Toy Story, Seven, Point Break, LA Story, Babe, Naked Gun2, Ghost & a revisionist Unforgiven & Robin Hood added to the creativity quotient. Last of the Mohicans & Braveheart jump-started the period action genre like Gladiator & Game of Thrones. For better or worse, Titanic, JP1, Speed, ID4 & Armageddon redefine big-budget summer popcorn movies. Hollywood was great then....If you look at the last 10 years, do you remember anything worth remembering?

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Maybe even worse. Less than $20M. Purge is the more innovative horror/thriller series now that Paranormal Activity and its counterfeit like The Gallows have run their course.

I remember I predicted $250M to $300M when I first saw Titanic. Never dreamt it would do that many tickets. What is it about this movie? I don't think the romance is the only thing. Or that Celine Dion's song. Titanic is about watching hundreds of people drowned in slow motion.

The poster makes it look like Hedlund is playing Pan. Who is the kid on the right again?

I'll be honest here and say that the whole Minions thing isn't just about Pixar fanboyism and it making "more money than IO" (although I'd be lying if I said I didn't take issue with it), it's also the fact that it will dwarf both DM and DM2, both films which are vastly superior, funnier and have a lot more heart and more than ANYTHING else: entertaining. Yes, DM2 has a mess of a plot, but it's very funny and sweet. Minions is just lifeless at many points, and is just all-around forgettable. This is basically "Shrek the Third" all over again, but with the added bonus of audiences most likely willing to be much more forigiving due to this being a spinoff/prequel. Another lazy film making a shitload of money not by its own merits, but by the goodwill from the better films that preceded it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like I said before, without Gru and his redemption through his relationship with his adopted daughters, I don't know how this spin-off could top the first 2 movies. If it does, then all those big numbers from the first 2 movies are solely coming from the antics of the Minions. What I heard, this spin-off is full of action and slapstick comedy, and the story is more comic-book like or James Bond-ish (some egotistical villain trying to rule). But it's nice to see the royal Queen gets drunk in a bar after losing her crown to Sandra "Bollock."

I fully support this! On Thor's Day, baby! Thor !!!! IN MY NAME !!!!

With the onslaught of Minions, Ant Man & MI5, I find it depressing that a great movie like IO will not soar past $400M, and a fun summer movie like JW will not roll past Titanic.

The CGI looks incredibly well rendered for a trailer. This even look better than the plasticky CGI they use in Jurassic World

I think this might surprise everyone and do something like $120M

IO appeal is universal, hits four quadrants very nicely. Minions, without Gru & the father-daughter dynamics, will be more unpredictable. Who knows, it could do similar number as IO or it could do a typical Pixar range ($210M - $220M)

Spectre is the question mark. MJ2 will do about MJ1's $337M Anyway if both Bond & Katniss underperform (below $300M), with SW7 guaranteed to do more than $300M, 2015 will break the record of $300M titles in a single year.

On any other forum, that will sound hilarious, here, it is merely OK

So until November, the top 5 of 2015 will look like this : 1. Jurassic World $650M 2. Avengers: Age of Ultron $460M 3. Inside Out $360M 4. Furious 7 $350M 5. Minions $320M 2015 will die historic on fury road

Good enough for me....

If JW tops $600M by Sunday, I will be in a peaceful mood

Teddy bear & legs are not usually used in the same sentence

Japan could have done more than $20M like Korea. MMFR is the closest thing to a live action anime as an American movie could get and not as on the nose as PacRim.

You guys should put Top 10 or Top 20 (better in my opinion) admissions of 2015 in the first page. Easier to search for reference & historical data

Want JW to win over FF7 with a good margin.

Can JW do $1.6B WW? Borderline possible is my estimate

Avengers: The Age of Ultron $1.4B WW, accomplished

I don't see a sequel doing much better then this one domestically either. But if you add a younger actor with draw potential as a villain. The thought of Arnold vs the actor could become a appealing. Many have said the Rock, but they won't get him. But someone that could sell a little. Get a better action director. Even someone like Simon West (Con Air) or Dominic Sena (Gone in 60 Sec) are good enough to spice it up.