What Were Some Box Office Predictions You Made in the Past That You Now Look Back and Laugh at?

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[raegr]

I, for some reason thought Warcraft could break out and do 900M

Edited October 6, 2017 by raegr

[Cochofles]

Marvel's The Avengers  85 million OW. 

Ghostbusters (2016) 330 million-plus domestic total  

 

Wonder Woman     70-75 million OW and a tad above 200 domestic (YAY for that NOT happening!!!) 

 

[Barnack]

Way before their release, I didn't saw why someone would be interest in Deadpoll but not John Wick and expected not too dissimilar box office......

[That One Girl]

Valerian over 200M.

 

 

[langer]

When Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within opened to 5M$ on a Wednesday in 2001,  I thought it would make 100M$ for sure.  Especially since the first showing on that Wednesday was packed. 

[Dementeleus]

Nothing. I for sure can't think of any. Nope. 

[Zakiyyah6]

I thought Deadpool would do 125mil AKA Kingsman numbers at best.

[TwoMisfits]

Baywatch $200M DOM and #5 for summer (called in April)...worst one of mine from the year (only been on this board a year, so not as many bad options to pick from:)...

 

Honorable mention DM3 over $110M OW (called the weekend before)...although that undeservedly recovered pretty well and got close to my summer DOM call, so I think Baywatch wins the worst call...

 

Although, probably gonna have my The Star prediction from Jan also bite me in the behind:)...although who knows - The Star could still beat Coco DOM:)...it really could:)...

[Eric Prime]

For some reason, I thought for sure Fantastic Beasts would cross $300M...that didn't happen.

[YM!]

Lego Batman over $300M DOM

Baywatch over $125M DOM

[filmlover]

I remember thinking Scream 4 would open to $50M+ back in the day. Oops.

[MrPink]

Interstellar over 1 billion WW

[YM!]

Also over $100M for Ninjago.

[MovieMan89]

I thought LEGO Batman would do anywhere from 300-450 lol. Though I still can't understand whatsoever why it didn't at least beat The LEGO Movie given that movie's good will, Batman's huge kid/teen/adult appeal, and the great critical reception LB got. 

Edited October 6, 2017 by MovieMan89

[Barnack]

4 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Though I still can't understand whatsoever why it didn't at least beat The LEGO Movie given that movie's good will, Batman's huge kid/teen/adult appeal, and the great critical reception LB got. 

Could be a bit like why Ninjago is not getting close to either (or Ted 2 box office), lot of the first one success was based on seeing a Lego movie on screen, after the first one that gimmick is rendered a bit useless and cannot bring people in.

 

Also Batman humor did seem to target people with some knowledge of the batman universe, creating a resistance the Lego movie didn't had (everyone know Legos) and didn't share much with the Lego movie to take advantage of it.

[RichWS]

Too many to count, but an all-timer was $440M for Reloaded. 

[MCKillswitch123]

1 hour ago, Squadron Leader Tele said:

Nothing. I for sure can't think of any. Nope. 

Exactly. Most of them aren't predictions that you laugh at - you cry in painful depression about them. It's okay, we've all been there.

 

Anyway, I thought Tomorrowland was gonna make 1 billion worldwide.

[aabattery]

I can't really think of any off the top of my head.

 

I guess I'm just, like, really good.

[Jonwo]

2 hours ago, Cochofles said:

 

 

Wonder Woman     70-75 million OW and a tad above 200 domestic (YAY for that NOT happening!!!) 

 

60/130/420 from you know who was laughable!

 

I predicted $55-60m OW for IT but TBH i don’t think anyone thought it would blow up like it did