Ropes of Silicon Makes Box Office Bets

1.Iron Man 2 (5/7) — $147m Opening; $472m Total
2.Toy Story 3 (6/18) — $95m Opening; $387m Total
3.The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (6/30) — $155m Opening; $285m Total
4.Shrek Forever After (5/21) — $82m Opening; $262m Total
5.Robin Hood (5/14) — $65m Opening; $235m Total
6.Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (5/28) — $68m Opening; $235m Total
7.Sex and the City 2 (5/27) — $77m Opening; $212m Total
8.Inception (7/16) — $39m Opening; $188m Total
9.The Karate Kid (6/11) — $48m Opening; $185m Total
10.Despicable Me (7/9) — $45m Opening; $185m Total
11.The A-Team (6/11) — $55m Opening; $175m Total
12.Salt (7/23) — $62m Opening; $133m Total
13.The Last Airbender (7/2) — $28m Opening; $125m Total
14.Jonah Hex (6/18) — $40m Opening; $118m Total
15.Grown Ups (6/25) — $27m Opening; $105m Total
16.Predators (7/9) — $42m Opening; $105m Total
17.Knight and Day (6/25) — $39m Opening; $98m Total
18.The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (7/16) — $28m Opening; $85m Total
19.The Other Guys (8/6) — $27m Opening; $84m Total
20.MacGruber (5/21) — $32m Opening; $80m Total
21.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (8/13) — $22m Opening; $80m Total
22.Get Him to the Greek (6/4) — $23m Opening; $78m Total
23.The Expendables (8/13) — $25m Opening; $57m Total
24.Step Up 3D (8/6) — $15m Opening; $48m Total
Based on his calculations, Paramount’s Iron Man 2 will be the summer’s box-office champ with an overall domestic cume of $472 million. At the same time he sees Summit’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse taking the opening weekend crown with $155 million.

Now remember, with the numbers below we are dealing purely with domestic numbers. These are not worldwide projections. I have ranked them in order of overall domestic box-office and marked in red Laremy’s projected largest opening weekend and overall earner.

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