Meh. Dreamworks is yet to make a good sequel. And besides, KFP was a bit overrated I think. It was enjoyable and certainly better than the usual DWA effort but I wasn't amazed by it as some people.

This is going to be big. The WOM from the first one was very positive and markets now have matured/grown. Plus this one has 3D.

The first one made 416m OS total missing 425m. This should be able to make about 500m OS but it will be a crawl to that number. Domestically too I think it will increase to end around 250m, higher than 215m of the predecessor.

Dom 250m
OS - 500m
WW - 750m
Though I have a gut feeling that the WOM on this one will be pretty bad...

Thanks Arch for starting this one

Argue what you like but nearly every single DW sequel has outgrossed its predecessor. Madagascar 2 increased 24% from $340m to $423m. Shrek 4 shit as it was has the largest overseas gross for DW at $499m.

If it as at least as entertaining as the first, i see it taking down Shrek 4 and crossing $500m, first time for DW.

Actually, SHREK 4 is very close to $500m and still being updated by UIP every week:
$499,975,497
http://www.uip-boxoffice.com/boxweb.nsf
After the Xmas school holidays SHREK 4 will definitely be over $500m...

and with Japan

Wow I thought Shrek 4 was quite far from 500m. With Japan ahead it is now lock to cross that mark.

I still think people here really underestimate the power of 3D overseas. It adds much more money than in the US.

Besides I never commented its BO prospects. Obviously it's going to do nice money.

$620m

Yes, forgot about Japan, didn't even release it hasn't open there yet, LOL. What's the hold up? Add at least $10m to its gross so $510m is going to be Shrek 4's minimum gross, who would've thought.

Release Dates:

Clearly trying to avoid the crush that will inevitably come with Pirates 4/The Hangover 2/X-Men. It basically opens in a neat spot between those movies and Rise of the Apes/Transformers 3

Malaysia 26 May 2011
Singapore 26 May 2011
Canada 27 May 2011
USA 27 May 2011
Hungary 2 June 2011
Portugal 9 June 2011
Lithuania 10 June 2011
Sweden 10 June 2011
France 15 June 2011
Argentina 16 June 2011
Germany 16 June 2011
Norway 17 June 2011
UK 17 June 2011
Belgium 22 June 2011
Netherlands 22 June 2011

....and the following is Cars 2' release pattern. A bit staggered like past Pixar efforts..

Greece 23 June 2011
Portugal 23 June 2011
Canada 24 June 2011
USA 24 June 2011
Japan July 2011
Argentina 7 July 2011
UK 22 July 2011
France 27 July 2011
Hungary 28 July 2011
Sweden 5 August 2011
Italy 17 August 2011
Singapore 24 August 2011
Malaysia 25 August 2011

I think it will be huge in Singapore and Malaysia, the WOM for the much anticipated predecessor was good to great. I think it is going to be great here and will easily increase from the predecessor considering this will be in 3D

I'm thinking roughly $600 million overseas for this one and $850-870 million WW.

Asian markets will totally support this as they've shown with the first movie. In addition, the fact that its huge in all the emerging markets including South America will bode well for its chances of reaching $600m. This will totally crush Cars 2 overseas no question.

SuperBowl Teaser is out on Apple Trailers.

Not as witty nor funny as the Ice Age Scrat teasers but will surely find its audience. Who exactly is the villain? Can't really tell here...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/drea ... gfupanda2/

2nd Trailer Out, easily the best so far and shows a bit more about the story. Looks like a lot of fun.

maybe in boxoffice, but Cars as a franquise is a monster:



the full story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/1 ... 22972.html

I have a Cars pencil-box. And whenever I buy a car refreshener I buy Lightning McQueen. LOL.

We are talking about BO here

Agreed there is no comparison there, I dont think there is any other franchise with such huge retail sales.

That's an insane wait. But, for once, Pixar's effort is not that exciting to catch immediately so I can wait.

I might completely miss Kung Fu Panda though based on those release dates. Neither here nor there for me. Hopefully I'll be able to catch that one.

Is it just me or is the marketing for Cars much stronger than Kung Fu Panda at this stage, and Kung Fu Panda comes out first?

true, pixar is even touring a life-size remote-controlled replicas around the States

http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/c ... -tour.html

maybe DWA will be releasing something big in the upcoming weeks,,,, just guessing
there is still 1 month and a half

Let's hope so! There's been an afwul lot of animation releases this year prior to Summer, G&J, Rango, Hop with Rio still to come. Isn't it too much?