2012: A Monster Year? (box office predictions)

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1. The Hobbit
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2
4. The Amazing Spider-Man
5. Ice Age 4
6. The Avengers
7. Pixar's Brave
8. Star Trek 2
9. Men in Black 3
10. John Carter


I'm wait and see on Man of Steel...I love Superman, and it has a great cast, but it's also directed by Hack Snyder.
 
Iron Man 2 made 622 million. TDK made a billion.

Therefore the Avengers will make more than TDKR.

***drinks sugar***
 
The Avengers will make more than Iron Man 1 but people are overrating the Heroes team up thing. If Cap does good maybe but right now its a Iron Man and a bunch of 1 first tier b listers. The Dark Knight Rises will make more money and maybe spiderman.
 
I'm a Marvel geek, but anyone who says Avengers will make more than $750 Mil is smoking crack.

That said, I think The Hobbit is the only film with billion dollar potential next year.
 
James Bond comes out next year too. Its gonna be a rad year.
 
Honestly, it's hard for me to call exactly which film will be the biggest next year. With Avengers, a lot relies on the Cap film. If Cap is Iron Man big, then the combined draw of seeing all these characters in one film will create huge pre-release buzz. And if the Avengers has some great spectacle a great story, it could be huge. That's what happened with TDK. It had huge pre-release buzz from the fact that the Joker was in it, and then even more once Ledger died. It got a huge crowd to the theaters opening week, and after that the quality of the film kept drawing them back. Avengers might be able to do that. Add that to the fact that when it comes to Nolan all bets are off. I sure as hell didn't expect Inception to do the numbers it did. I don't think many of us (if any) did. Riding off the good reception of Inception and being the sequel to TDK, this movie has the potential to still be huge.

The Hobbit obviously will be highly anticipated after the success of LOTR. So it could do very well.

And heck, Spider-man and Supes can't be counted out. However, since they're both on iffy standing in the general public because of their two previous movies being "meh" then it's hard to say. However with Spider-man, if he has some great trailers it will probably be big. Let's face it, even the worst Spider-man film still made bank. He's a moneymaking character. Supes might have a tougher time. But it's just really hard to predict.
 
I think Any big budget Christopher Nolan film is good for at least 800M after TDK and Inception. TDRK have the legs since nothing truly big comes out after it for awhile. It won't do as good as TKR but it'll get to 900M at least I think.
 
If POTC 4 can reach 1 billion after horrible reviews and sequels that sucked for many, so can TDKR.

And I think it's very much a sure think that Rises will be amazing film and very well critically acclaimed.
 
Holy...I forgot about Twilight

Updated ranking:

1. The Dark Knight Rises - 900 mil - 1.1 bil
2. The Hobbit - 900 mil - 1.1 bil
3. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2 - 850 mil - 1 bil
4. The Avengers - 650 mil - 1 bil
5. The Amazing Spider-Man - 550 mil - 950 mil
6. Man of Steel - 400 mil - 850 mil
7. Star Trek 2 - 400 mil - 850 mil
8. Men in Black - 350 mil - 650 mil

Um no spiderman will make way more than twilight. Twilight only does good opening day.
 
I think Twilight will do good but it'll do less again like its predecessor Eclipse did.
 
Um no spiderman will make way more than twilight. Twilight only does good opening day.

Well, there is a chance that Spider-man could under-perform. It has a lot going against it. You have the people who hated SM3 and will be wary of another SM movie, and then people who loved the past trilogy and will be pissed that they rebooted so soon.

However, since Spider-man is such a popular character, a few good trailers will peak interest again quite quickly. It does have its work cut out for it though.
 
Spiderman is in a bad postion. Ice Age is gonna kill it if its not marketed right.
 
Well, there is a chance that Spider-man could under-perform. It has a lot going against it. You have the people who hated SM3 and will be wary of another SM movie, and then people who loved the past trilogy and will be pissed that they rebooted so soon.

However, since Spider-man is such a popular character, a few good trailers will peak interest again quite quickly. It does have its work cut out for it though.


You'd think the first group would be the ones who are glad they rebooted it and give it a good chance.
 
I'd love for the Hobbit to take the top spot followed by the Avengers. It will be nice if TDKR doesn't get the top spot but it probably will.
 
2011 was supposed to be a monster year for the box office, too. I have since lowered my expectations.
 
I'd love for the Hobbit to take the top spot followed by the Avengers. It will be nice if TDKR doesn't get the top spot but it probably will.
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2011 was supposed to be a monster year for the box office, too. I have since lowered my expectations.

july seems to be the month that tends to really determine that.
unless you're talking about 2007
 
supes will take it! I think time, and previous mediocrity will result in MOS being huge. That's my hope atleast.

but yes, next year the sun doesn't need to come out at all, there's enough solid properties going onto film that I could live in darkness for a year
 
You'd think the first group would be the ones who are glad they rebooted it and give it a good chance.

They're not die hard fans like us though. It's just the general public. In their view they just think "Another Spider-man flick? Well, last one blew, might as well wait to Netflix the thing and save money."

The same attitude was around Batman Begins. Luckily, it had great word of mouth, so it had great legs. But I remember having to really work to convince some of my friends to even go see the thing with me because they remembered Batman and Robin.
 
I'm a Marvel geek, but anyone who says Avengers will make more than $750 Mil is smoking crack.

That said, I think The Hobbit is the only film with billion dollar potential next year.

I don't think the LOTR franchise has ever faced the kind of competition the hobbit will next year.
December isn't the free ride it used to be.
 
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There's no way in hell Spider-Man doesn't end up #1 or #2 next year.
 
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