And it’s kinda hard to leave that one in the middle.
Done… but I think you have the edge seeing as you have Superman’s help and I have Vince Vaughns.
I’m guessing that DVC will do well. It has a lot of publicity, a lot of controversy and a cast with solid money drawing track records.
X# has been well hyped and is being advertised everywhere every 2 seconds, it’ll do well. (Though I really hate Storm’s hairdo)
Superman and POTC I’m guessing will do fairly well, but not nearly as well as expected.
My money’s on Da Vinci Code; I’ll take any odds you give me. If a quarter of the people who liked the book go see the movie, it’ll still be a blockbuster.
I also think *Snakes on a Plane * will do well.
I think Da Vinci Code and Superman Returns will, if not flop, perform signficantly under expectations. I think Snakes on a Plane will laugh all the way to the bank, and POTC will be the big winner.
Whatever it is, then.
So Joel Siegel has done a wrap up of the summer box office takings:
- POTC:DMC - 1 billion (worldwide)
- The Da Vinci Code - 750 million (worldwide)
- Cars - 240 million
- X-Men 3 - $234.2
- Superman - 194 million
I think the last three are in terms of domestic rather than worldwide, though. No idea why he didn’t give the same totals for all of them.
Interestingly, I did a decent job predicting Superman’s domestic gross 
10 years ago who would have thought that an X-Men movie and a Superman movie could be released in the same summer and X-Men would gross more?
This reinforces my opinion that Superman Returns was a horrible movie. Same genre + vastly more popular character = less money means piece of crap movie. I wish I could say I walked out on that turd but I was suckered into sitting through every painful minute, hoping something redeeming would happen.