Box Office Predictions (5-7th July) Results

Sorry about the late post guys, my Dad’s in hospital and so it’s going to be a little slower around my blog. Rest assured I’ll still be reviewing Pacific Rim sometime next week. Back to the weekend’s releases and I was pretty close, in that The Lone Ranger bombed and Despicable Me 2 did great. My numbers were off by $42M over the top ten. What I didn’t expect this weekend was strong returning box office numbers, carry on reading to see what I mean. Go watch some movies and let’s look at the breakdowns.

Box Office Predictions (5-7th July)

YES!!! This is the weekend I have wanted to get into since I started doing the Box Office Predictions, get ready for an epic win and an epic fail. The two new releases, first is Despicable Me 2 an animated children’s film following a massively successful first instalment with mass family appeal and big tracking numbers, and the second release is The Lone Ranger which haha should be fun to watch (not for Disney) so how will this unbelievably bloated excuse for a blockbuster do? The returning films The Heat and White House Down won’t be bothered too much this weekend but how much lower can they go and Monsters University should take whopping drop with the release of its biggest Competition Despicable Me 2. Will I get the numbers spot on? Will your predictions beat mine? Well the only way to find out is to read this prediction post and the results on Monday and go watch some movies, now to the breakdowns.

The Lone Ranger (Trailer #2) Review

I think it looks good, nothing amazing so far but it definitely looks like a fun western with a great cast. Just a warning, I haven’t actually seen any Lone Ranger… well anything so if I sound like I don’t know what I am talking about it’s because I don’t. The two unlikely heroes line be done before but so has this material and as someone with no experience with the story I would quite like to see a retelling, hopefully it won’t be catastrophic disaster. Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp seem like a good team up from what I can see from the trailers and with the Pirates of the Caribbean director and producer helming we should get some good action adventure. Oh and Hans Zimmer on score very nice. I do however have a fear that with a budget of over $250M!!! It won’t be the success Disney are predicting, still going to be fun for us. Now let’s check out the trailer.