Official Weekend Estimates: Maleficent - 70M, X-Men - 32.6M, A Million Ways - 17.1M, Godzilla - 12.2M

[AJG]

Portugal and Mexico are gonna play against each other next week to prepare for the World Cup.

Holy Shit.The commentary on that game will be EPIC!!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAL!!!!!!!!!!

[reddevil18]

Holy Shit.The commentary on that game will be EPIC!!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOAL!!!!!GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAL!!!!!!!!!!

0-0 it is, then.

[Fancyarcher]

True, except this time I would reverse the opening weekends.

 

Yup!

 

I hope HTDTYD2 doesn't fall to 22 Street. I found the original to be an excellent movie.

Edited May 31, 2014 by Fancyarcher

[Ozymandias]

Transformers 4 is gonna be the top grossing live action movie this summer.  The end times of cinema is upon us.

[Mattrek]

That's why I put the smiley Shawn, to show I was poking fun.

[Plain Old Tele]

I am watching Portugal vs Greece and I am crying on the inside. This is the shittiest game ever. If they are going to play like this in the World Cup they might as well not even show up at all.

 

CJohn, I love you and all, but fuck Portugal.

[Plain Old Tele]

As a reminder: this is a general discussion thread. Spoilers are allowed for movies that opened 4 weeks ago, not sooner.

[ChD]

Transformers 4 is gonna be the top grossing live action movie this summer.  The end times of cinema is upon us.

 

Hunger Games will take it DOM. WW, on the other hand, I don't know. A possible contender might be The Hobbit, seeing it's the last movie and things such as, or even a dark horse in Interstellar.

[CJohn]

CJohn, I love you and all, but fuck Portugal.

Heh, I guess I can accept that. Fuck USA 

[fmpro]

I hate that X-Men number..Hate hate hate

[reddevil18]

Hunger Games will take it DOM. WW, on the other hand, I don't know. A possible contender might be The Hobbit, seeing it's the last movie and things such as, or even a dark horse in Interstellar.

Summer.

[ChD]

Summer.

 

My bad.

[reddevil18]

Heh, I guess I can accept that. Fuck USA 

You are now on the no-fly list.

[reddevil18]

My bad.

[CJohn]

You are now on the no-fly list.

The day of the game should be fun here. 

 

If USA wins against Ghana and Portugal loses against Germany on their first games, that game is gonna be decisive for both. 

[BadAtGender]

Everyone's hoping the X-Men legs be like:

 

[The Panda]

Going to revisit man of steel and see if I'll hate it as much now that my expectations are in check. Should be interesting.

[Shawn Robbins]

That's why I put the smiley Shawn, to show I was poking fun.

 

I understand, it's more to prevent someone else from running with it (in a non-joking manner).

[Plain Old Tele]

People love talking about WOM and all, but I'm coming to the conclusion that there are certain franchises or genres that have a set fan base but need something really unique or exceptional to break out beyond that. The core group goes to see it, but the movie never really expands past that. It doesn't really have to do with toxic WOM or anything, but there's not enough there to specifically grab someone who wouldn't normally see it. So you get large (or larger-than-expected) openings but weak legs afterwards.

 

Obviously GODZILLA is one of these; the X-franchise is another. You could argue that the first 4 Fast/Furious movies were too, until they managed to break out with FAST FIVE.

[Shawn Robbins]

Hunger Games will take it DOM. WW, on the other hand, I don't know. A possible contender might be The Hobbit, seeing it's the last movie and things such as, or even a dark horse in Interstellar.

 

As much as I hope people keep expectations in check for Interstellar, it is definitely a dark horse contender. If Nolan lives up to himself, I won't surprised to see it in the top two of the year domestically. Maybe even over MJ1. Highly speculative, of course.