There's no chance any movie opening this month will top $400 million, in fact, it is quite possible no film will get to $300 million. By comparison in 2012, there were three $100 million movies, led by The Dark Knight Rises, but the rest of the new releases struggled. There is currently only one film that I think won't at least become a midlevel hit. In fact, there are six films opening in July that I think have a better than 50% chance of reaching that level. It is not the only film that could be a $100 million hit. It could become the second biggest hit of the year so far. Of these, Despicable Me 2 is clearly going to be the biggest hit at the box office. If we include both of them, there are twelve films, but I think it is better to stick with the ten truly wide, truly July openings. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain is opening in less than 1000 theaters, but it has a shot at reaching the top ten during its opening weekend. One of them, The Smurfs 2, is opening on a Wednesday, so I'm going to hold off talking about that movie till the August preview. Looking forward, there are a dozen films opening wide in July, more or less. Is it really weaker? Is it so weak that it isn't worth checking out if you liked the first one?įor the most part, June was a really strong month at the box office with nearly every film either matching expectations, or at least coming close enough to call it a victory. However, when Red 2 came out, it wasn't as successful at the box office or with critics. Needless to say, they started working on a sequel soon after. But because the film was something different, it won over critics and moviegoers. The combined age of the four actors who played the retired secrets agents was 250 years old when the movie came out. When you think of action films, you generally don't think of retirees. Red opened in the fall of 2010 and became a surprise hit. Has the decline in the genre meant Chicago hasn't aged well? Or have more recent musicals failed to match it at the box office, because they have also failed to match its quality? Unfortunately for a lot of studios, Chicago wasn't able to reinvigorate the movie musical genre. But the heyday of movie musicals ended about forty years before Chicago hit theaters. The first film with spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer, was also the first movie musical. Musicals have been around for as long as movies have had sound. It was a surprise hit, in part because movie musicals had not been able to find an audience like that in a long, long time. Or was this never going to be a big hit with moviegoers?įeatured Blu-ray review - Chicago: Diamond EditionĬhicago came out in 2002 and was a surprise hit earning more than $300 million worldwide on a $30 million production budget. Now that it has been ten years since it came out, does it feel like it underperformed at the box office. The streak ended with The Ladykillers, but many thought The Terminal would start a new streak. The Terminal came out in 2004, just after Tom Hanks' record-breaking run of seven $100 million hits in a row came to an end.
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