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True, but Cap benefitted that Harry Potter was very front loaded, it did have a 60% drop in week 2 against Cowboys and Aliens, but recovered nicely and had a great run in August. I don't think MoS can afford the same luxury, if it has a 60% ween 2 drop then the film won't recover it's budget.
I think it's important to point out that Batman Begins was one of the best film of the summer of 2005, but it labored to 200M. Now it only had a 150M budget so that helped.
We will see what happens, but I've seen this with too many films. Like I said other than sequels or animated films, June openings don't do very well.
Jurassic Park and Batman '89 had June openings and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I understand where you are coming from, June has been a dead month for way too long but I think that has more to do with the movies that have been released in the last 15 years in June than an actual problem with the month itself. Granted, Batman Begins didn't do amazing despite being one of the best movies of that year but I think that had way more to do with the movie that preceded it than when it was released. And as for Superman Returns and Green Lantern I would say the quality of those films had more to do with the amount of money it made. I'm sure I'm drawing a blank but can anyone really point out an excellent movie that was well received and was actually expected to do well in the last 10 years that was released in June and did fair to poor business excluding Batman Begins?