# Which 2013 Summer Film Will Make the Most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431 "2013-04-11T18:48:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/1 "2013-04-11T18:48:44Z")
Which film do you think will pull in the most money? Which are you most looking forward to? Poll to follow. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/2 "2013-04-11T18:59:18Z")
Make the most? _Star Trek Into Darkness_ followed by _World War Z_. Looking forward to the most? _Iron Man 3_, _Hangover III_ and _Kick-Ass 2_. I won’t bother watching most of the movies on the list, especially _Star Trek_ and anything Cruise is in. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/3 "2013-04-11T19:06:34Z")
I think Despicable Me 2 will definitely be up there. The first one made over 500 mil throughout its run. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/4 "2013-04-11T19:13:14Z")
Maybe. It’ll either be the new _Shrek_ or the new _Remo Williams_. 😃 _The Wolverine_ might just sneak in there, but I doubt it. Early WOM will make the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/5 "2013-04-11T19:16:34Z")
Iron Man 3, all others are pretenders to the throne. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/6 "2013-04-11T19:17:45Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _The Wolverine_ might just sneak in there, but I doubt it. Early WOM will make the difference. I have no interest in seeing it, but I hope the movie makes a ton, as I read someone online (so you know it’s true) that the studio is waiting to see how The Wolverine does before it completely greenlights a Deadpool movie. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/7 "2013-04-11T19:19:43Z")
Are you talking U.S. only, or are you counting international grosses as well? I voted for **Iron Man 3**. The only movie coming out the week after its release is **The Great Gatsby** (which I don’t see doing much), while **Star Trek Into Darkness** has to go up against both **The Hangover Part III** and **6 Fast 6 Furious** the week after its release. That could put a damper on **Star Trek** ’s longer-term prospects. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/8 "2013-04-11T19:21:00Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Iron Man 3, all others are pretenders to the throne. In terms of box office, that was my first guess, too, especially after the _Avengers_. However, on second thought, I have a hunch that it’ll be _Star Trek_ - that the new movie will be the _Dark Knight_ to the 2009 film’s \*Batman Begins. \* ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/9 "2013-04-11T19:26:07Z")
Star Trek is my guess. . . looks like a cool year for SciFi. . . and a bad year for future Earth. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/10 "2013-04-11T19:30:15Z")
Can’t even get the title of _Star Trek Into Darkness_ right? 🙂 While ST is going to be a personal favorite of mine, _Iron Man 3_ will blow everything else out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/11 "2013-04-11T19:42:12Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Can’t even get the title of _Star Trek Into Darkness_ right? 🙂 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/12 "2013-04-11T20:20:42Z")
I participated in a movie fantasy league this year… auction style, everyone bids on all of the major movies coming out from April through August to fill out a ‘team’, highest total domestic box office wins. As part of the ‘prep’, I looked fairly closely at everything coming out this summer. There were a lot of surprises (Wolverine and a couple of the lesser animated movies are going to do a lot more business than you might guess off the top of your head), but the top was pretty straightforward. Iron Man 3 went for the highest price (at 50% of a single team’s total budget), while Star Trek was second (at 44%). There’s enough of a variance around the projected revenues that either could win, but Iron Man has to be a pretty significant favorite, and any domestic winner outside of those two would be a massive upset. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/13 "2013-04-11T20:46:16Z")
I’m speculating that the superhero genre has peaked with _Avengers_ and _Dark Knight Rises_ and is going to start sliding back down. Lot of sequels on the list with very few original works. So I’m going to take a long shot here and pick _Turbo_. eta: While this is a movie the OP didn’t name, I am in no way implying that he is stupid. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/14 "2013-04-11T20:51:40Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I think Despicable Me 2 will definitely be up there. The first one made over 500 mil throughout its run. I agree. High quality animated children’s movies are difficult to beat. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/15 "2013-04-11T20:59:18Z")
I’m guessing Star Trek into Darkness. Iron Man and Man of Steel would be up there but I think Star Trek would have a wider appeal. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/16 "2013-04-11T21:04:24Z")
I picked Oblivion on the grounds that all the people who voted for Romney because he was a Republican and therefore against gay marriage, will buy tickets to Oblivion because they have heard that Tom Cruise is gay but it pretending he is not gay, and dammit, they appreciate him for that! Besides, the trailers look kinda cool. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/17 "2013-04-11T21:10:13Z")
Still early but it looks like Iron Man 3 is expected to go pretty big: [http://news.moviefone.com/2013/04/11/iron-man-3-opening-box-office\_n\_3063130.html](http://news.moviefone.com/2013/04/11/iron-man-3-opening-box-office_n_3063130.html) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/18 "2013-04-11T21:19:41Z")
Anything rated R has zero chance of making the most money, but Hangover III is probably the only one I’ll go see in the theaters. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/19 "2013-04-11T21:40:11Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Can’t even get the title of _Star Trek Into Darkness_ right? 🙂 > > While ST is going to be a personal favorite of mine, _Iron Man 3_ will blow everything else out of the water. I don’t think the OP should feel too bad considering there was a massive edit war on Wikipedia on whether or not the “i” in “Into” should be capitalized. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431/20 "2013-04-11T21:42:54Z")
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Iron Man 3 will end up making the most. Personally, I’m really looking forward to Pacific Rim. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-2013-summer-film-will-make-the-most/655431.md?page=2)