I was looking at the future schedule. Is it me or is it like locked that TF2 will win next year and will likely be like ROTS in 2005 and DMC in 2006, being the only huge event film next year???



X-men Origins will be in the same situation as Iron Man. No big movie for almost 2 months and decent competition. However I see instead a gross of 75/200 million.

Next Memorial day will be weird with a Terminator spinoff and a Christmas film. I don't know what will happen.

However to me the only very hyped film and prehaps the first event film does not appear till the end of June!!

Transformers 2 is easily set to knock down spiderman 3 record.... It will have lots of attention as it there will be only smaller films grossing max 40 million in their first weekend.

My basis is simple, what is its competition and really to me 2009 seems to be a sequel free year. We saw this in 2005-2006 and this usually lead to a lot of sub 300 million films but then one film breaking out getting close to 400 million.

True there will be a lot of 200 million grosses next year. No doubt about that, but there will not be an event film (250 million +) in May....


However imo, the only film with a chance to make over 250 million before July is Transformers 2 next year...

The hype will be massive, the market will be quite open and it will face Ice age 3.

I see around 135-150 million opening weekend with a gross about 330-380 million domestic.

I don't know about that Disaster film called 2012.

John Cusack has signed on to topline Roland Emmerich's (10,000 B.C., The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day) apocalyptic thriller 2012 for Columbia Pictures, reports Variety.

Chiwetel Ejiofor also is in talks to join the big-budget epic, which chronicles the end days of human civilization.

The story centers on an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to prevent an apocalypse predicted by the ancient Mayans.

Emmerich and Harald Kloser wrote the screenplay. Shooting will begin in July in Los Angeles for a July 10, 2009 release.

Hannah Montana and X-Men: Hannah could do 100 million and X-men could pull off 200 million do to the fact the marketplace is empty.

Terminator 4 - May 22nd: I have no clue about this, however nothing over 200-220 million looks possible.
Up - May 29th: It will do the usual 200 million pixar
Ice Age 3 - July 1st: This can be huge however its after TF, so the opening will not be effected.



The May films have 1 200 million grosser and 2 possible ones.

June is empty....

TF is easily set to dominate the market. Ice Age 3 can do well however the 2nd film was not well liked.

no it wont, natm2 has same problem nrnia 2 had-idiotic scheduling. it needs to stay in winter.

itll do mid 100s if it stays where it is.

Avatar could be huge.

Any event film that is alone usually does really well or at least opens well.


Just Asking, whenever has a major event film which faced zero competition flopped??

Lol my prediction for Troy was the worst I ever made at 70/305.


That would have meant it would need better legs then ROTK!!!

well with the flop narnia has become, domestically that is ,not worldwide where it should be in the safe green, this thread's even more important.
i still maintain that it flopped mainly because of it's release date which is shit.
i don't mean being sandwhiched by Indiana and Iron Man or whatever movie you choose but,
there wasn't a summer movie blockbuster feeling with this.
it was and will always be a winter movie and if they dare make the next one it should be in the winter, as if it wasn't obvious enough now.
also night at the museum and alvin to flop with their release dates.

rt where you been at?