The summer movie season is now underway with the insane opening of Iron Man this past weekend which brought in over 100 million during opening weekend alone. I loved that movie, see Greg Oguss review here, and am looking forward to most of the upcoming summer movies. In an effort to keep our LA Snark community up to speed, here is a list of the upcoming summer Blockbusters sorted by release date with opening weekend ticket sales. I’ll update Box office grosses after each opening weekend. Which one is going to take the cake for highest opening weekend gross this summer? My prediction: The Dark Knight (PS 7/21- Batman pulls in 155M opening weekend…I told you!!!!).
Summer Blockbusters:
April 18- Forgetting Sarah Marshall $18M
May 2 Iron Man-$98M
May 9- Speed Racer-$18.5M
May 16- Chronicles of Narnia- Prince Caspian-$55M
May 22- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull-$101M
May 30- Sex and the City-$56M
June 6- Kung Fu Panda-$60M
June 13- The Incredible Hulk-$54.5M
June 13- The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)-$30M
June 20- Get Smart-$39M
June 27- Wanted (Angelina Jolie)- $51M
June 27- Wall-E- $62M
July 4- Hancock-$66M
July 11- Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D-$21M
July 11- Hell Boy II: The Golden Army-$34M
July 18- The Dark Knight (Batman)- $155M
July 25- X-files 2
July 25- Step Brothers
Aug 1- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Aug 8- Pineapple Express
Aug 15- Tropical Thunder
Aug 15- Star Wars: Clone Wars
Sleepers-
May 30- The Foot and the Fist Way: this just sounds way too fun and was shot in 17days by recent film school grads. I am picturing that Tie Kwan do scene in Napoleon Dynamite where Kip does the leg sweep when trying to take down the sensei…classic
Movies that will suck ass-
These are summer movie’s that I already hate just by watching the previews..
April 28- Harold & Kumar ($18M)- The first one was just ok, except of coarse Doogie Houser partying it up with large breasted co-eds while leaving his mark in Harold’s car.
May 9th- What Happens in Vegas ($20M)- stupid premise and the just by watching the trailer I can tell the acting will be awful
June 20- The Love Guru ($13M)- the same jokes from the Austin Powers movies- I can already tell this will suck.
On the Fence-
June 6 Get Smart ($39M)- Is this going to be as bad as The Love Guru or the last naked Gun movie, I can just feel it, although I had a hard time throwing it on the “suck ass” list since Steve Carell is so popular with his series “The Office” and the fact that “The 40 Year Old Virgin” did so well. Plus I just saw an extended trailer of this flick before the Indiana Jones movie and it wasn’t1/2 bad…so basically I am on the fence! I still added it to the list above to keep track of it.
For more information on Box Office Results go to Box Office Mojo.
