While this year has already seen some very large films, the traditional summer box office is set to start on the first weekend of May and will run until late-August when students start to return to the classrooms. Before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 kicks things off, I thought that it would be fun to get down some quick predictions of how the next 4 months will play out.
This thread will be a streamlined version of past summer prediction threads that we have run on GAF. I'm hoping that keeping things simple will foster more participation.
Instructions:
1) Predict the top 5 films this summer by total box office in order. As long as you list them in order, that's all you have to do.
Optional: List your predicted gross for each of your picks. This isn't required, but some of us in box office GAF like doing it.
2) Specify whether your list is the Top 5 domestic or Top 5 worldwide. While we often focus on the domestic box office, you can choose to take a worldwide approach. You can also choose to list both if you want.
Optional: List the big budget flop of the summer.
Sample Post
Domestic Top 5 films:
1) Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4
2) Tulip Fever
3) The Little Hours
4) The Book of Henry
5) Baby Driver
Big budget Flop: Despicable Me 3
Here's a list of the qualifying releases from major studios
May
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (BV) - 5/5
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (WB) - 5/12
Snatched (Fox) - 5/12
Alien: Covenant (Fox) - 5/19
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (Fox) - 5/19
Everything, Everything (WB) - 5/19
Baywatch (Par.) - 5/25
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (BV) - 5/26
June (Details)
3 Idiotas (LGF) - 6/2
Captain Underpants (Fox) - 6/2
Wonder Woman (WB) - 6/2
The Mummy (2017) (Uni.) - 6/9
All Eyez on Me (LG/S) - 6/16
Cars 3 (BV) - 6/16
Rough Night (Sony) - 6/16
The Big Sick (LGF) - 6/23
Transformers: The Last Knight (Par.) - 6/23
Baby Driver (Sony) - 6/28
Amityville: The Awakening (W/Dim.) - 6/30
Despicable Me 3 (Uni.) - 6/30
July (Details)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony) - 7/7
War for the Planet of the Apes (Fox) - 7/14
Dunkirk (WB) - 7/21
Girls Trip (Uni.) - 7/21
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (STX) - 7/21
Atomic Blonde (Focus) - 7/28
The Emoji Movie (Col.) - 7/28
An Inconvenient Sequel (ParV) - 7/28
August
The Dark Tower (Sony) - 8/4
Annabelle: Creation (WB (NL)) - 8/11
The Hitman's Bodyguard (LG/S) - 8/18
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (ORF) - 8/18
All Saints (Sony) - 8/25
Last Summer's Top 5
Domestic
1) Finding Dory - $486,295,5618
2) Captain America: Civil War - $408,084,349
3) The Secret Life of Pets - $368,384,330
4) Suicide Squad - $325,100,054
5) Jason Bourne - $162,434,410
Worldwide
1) Captain America: Civil War - $1,153,304,495
2) Finding Dory - $1,028,570,889
3) The Secret Life of Pets - $875,457,937
4) Suicide Squad - $745,600,054
5) X-Men Apocalypse - $543,934,787
At the end of summer, I'll go back through this thread and pass out the bragging rights and cones of shame. Ranking will be based on the number of top 5 films you accurately predicted, with correct order used for tie breakers. So will you be a movie Nostradamus or a Sony Exec? Find out!
This thread will be a streamlined version of past summer prediction threads that we have run on GAF. I'm hoping that keeping things simple will foster more participation.
Instructions:
1) Predict the top 5 films this summer by total box office in order. As long as you list them in order, that's all you have to do.
Optional: List your predicted gross for each of your picks. This isn't required, but some of us in box office GAF like doing it.
2) Specify whether your list is the Top 5 domestic or Top 5 worldwide. While we often focus on the domestic box office, you can choose to take a worldwide approach. You can also choose to list both if you want.
Optional: List the big budget flop of the summer.
Sample Post
Domestic Top 5 films:
1) Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4
2) Tulip Fever
3) The Little Hours
4) The Book of Henry
5) Baby Driver
Big budget Flop: Despicable Me 3
Here's a list of the qualifying releases from major studios
May
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (BV) - 5/5
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (WB) - 5/12
Snatched (Fox) - 5/12
Alien: Covenant (Fox) - 5/19
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (Fox) - 5/19
Everything, Everything (WB) - 5/19
Baywatch (Par.) - 5/25
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (BV) - 5/26
June (Details)
3 Idiotas (LGF) - 6/2
Captain Underpants (Fox) - 6/2
Wonder Woman (WB) - 6/2
The Mummy (2017) (Uni.) - 6/9
All Eyez on Me (LG/S) - 6/16
Cars 3 (BV) - 6/16
Rough Night (Sony) - 6/16
The Big Sick (LGF) - 6/23
Transformers: The Last Knight (Par.) - 6/23
Baby Driver (Sony) - 6/28
Amityville: The Awakening (W/Dim.) - 6/30
Despicable Me 3 (Uni.) - 6/30
July (Details)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony) - 7/7
War for the Planet of the Apes (Fox) - 7/14
Dunkirk (WB) - 7/21
Girls Trip (Uni.) - 7/21
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (STX) - 7/21
Atomic Blonde (Focus) - 7/28
The Emoji Movie (Col.) - 7/28
An Inconvenient Sequel (ParV) - 7/28
August
The Dark Tower (Sony) - 8/4
Annabelle: Creation (WB (NL)) - 8/11
The Hitman's Bodyguard (LG/S) - 8/18
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (ORF) - 8/18
All Saints (Sony) - 8/25
Last Summer's Top 5
Domestic
1) Finding Dory - $486,295,5618
2) Captain America: Civil War - $408,084,349
3) The Secret Life of Pets - $368,384,330
4) Suicide Squad - $325,100,054
5) Jason Bourne - $162,434,410
Worldwide
1) Captain America: Civil War - $1,153,304,495
2) Finding Dory - $1,028,570,889
3) The Secret Life of Pets - $875,457,937
4) Suicide Squad - $745,600,054
5) X-Men Apocalypse - $543,934,787
At the end of summer, I'll go back through this thread and pass out the bragging rights and cones of shame. Ranking will be based on the number of top 5 films you accurately predicted, with correct order used for tie breakers. So will you be a movie Nostradamus or a Sony Exec? Find out!
