Released in late November with the peaks of Star Wars Episode VIII just in view over the horizon. With Zack Snyder at the helm, the film promises to be less interesting than yellow snow, but the presence of Batman, The Flash and others should nudge it past Wonder Woman in the charts.
Just don’t expect the Chinese to contribute much of it. Still, there should be enough oomph behind the second film to propel it to significant riches. It took a paltry 56 percent in “rest of the world”. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME TWO ($820 million)Ī great deal was said about the first film being a surprise hit, but those stories conceal the ordinariness of Guardians’ performance outside the United States. If the film is half-decent it could go higher than this.Ĩ. Curiosity alone should help Wonder Woman to a top 10 spot. You won’t find much good word about Batman Vs Superman and Suicide Squad (expect Razzie mentions for the duo next month), but both films took in the area of three quarters of a billion dollars. There is a feeling out there that the DC comics universe is cruising for a fall. Can’t fail to score, but doesn’t feel like top five material in such a competitive year. This is one of those series that plays particularly well outside the US, but the last episode did see some fading away of interest.
Yes, this really is happening and it features both Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES ($750 million) There is every reason to be cynical about the quality of these films, but there are equally many reasons to assume we could be looking at year that, in monetary terms, could break quite a few records.ġ0. The bubbling-under chart at the base is packed with films that, before tackling the list, I would have assumed were sure fire inclusions. This is a year when we can’t have the Alien film and the Blade Runner film and the Pirates film and both DC films and both Pixar films and 50 Shades… You can see where I’m going with this. But we’re looking at multiple follow-ups to billion-dollar behemoths. I can’t pretend I am all that excited to see many of them. It had not, until I sat down and looked at it, occurred to me quite how many potentially enormous films there are out there. Let me prematurely make excuses for next year. I will say that it looks as if I made a good stab at the top 10, even if I got them in the wrong order. We still don’t know where, for example, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will finish up. These calculations are made on total takings from films released in a calendar year, not on the money taken within that calendar year.
Firstly, no I am not going to run down last year’s speculations and mark my own score card.
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