Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
We’re going off the grid for the summer box office fantasy season and doing it old school, with spreadsheets and all that funky math jazz! We’re not exactly excited about doing it that way, of course. But since Fantasy Moguls adopted that whole salary cap mentality, we just can’t get behind that. So we did a draft on our own. Where the movies are owned by only one person. No free love in this here joint, suckaz.
1) Spider-Man 3: $148 million
Wow. I mean, dude, like, wow. Do they even realize what kind of precedent they’re setting for the next “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie? They’re basically saying that the next “POTC” movie could be Krusty the Klown running down a beach with a sword while being chased by a cast of thousands, and it will surely break the box office record. Wow. I mean, like, wow, dude.
6) Lucky You: 2.5 million
We’re only mentioning this so Kevin Carr doesn’t feel quite so bad about picking a movie that opens the same weekend as “Spider-Man 3.” Don’t worry, Kevin, the negative word-of-mouth on “S-M 3” will surely bring “Lucky You” into the top five….or not.
