BUMP!

Well, it is 100% certain that 2006 should be 2005 in terms of gross. And I'm fairly confident that it should beat it in attendance.

Though...I think in the end, we may just see around a 1.5% increase in terms of attendence. I think it may just barley break 1.4 billion tickets sold for the year, which would be higher than last year but still lower than 1998-2004. Though none of us were(or should have been) expecting 2006 to be that big of a year.

Just like in an economic cycle, it takes just a bit of time to get out of a recession. I think May 2007 will be the end of the recession mode of the BO and the start of the progressive stage.

I think 2007 should be on par with 2006 from January to April. I think 2007 will have more hits than 2006 did in this time, but 2006 had IA2 which helped it a lot.

2007 won't break away until SM3 comes out. Once SM3 comes out, 2007 should just completely dominate 2006 until the end of the year. Summer 2007 looks insanly strong, and holiday 2007 looks really storng as well.

2007 will all be about studios marketing I think. The films all have potential and I don't think its a year where you can blame the films at all. This will all come down to the studios marketing effictvley to maximize the amazing potential of all the films.