January’s been a fairly rough month in the box office. The big budget action fests have ranged from a little disappointing (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, $75 million) to really awful (The Legend of Hercules, $18 million, and I Frankenstein, $25 million – both from $60 million budgets). The studios behind The Nut Job ($40 million for $40 million) and Devil’s Due ($18 million for $7 million) will be disappointed and the only huge success were buddy cop movie Ride Along, $75 million from $25 million, and the franchising Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, which cost just $5 million and took $82 million. Nothing yet has reached the blockbuster status of $100 million and so we may have to wait until the summer for the main, box office smashing events. Here’s what I think will be the biggest movie moneymakers this year.
- The Hobbit: There and Back Again – Dir: Peter Jackson – Grossing: $1.3 billion
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay – $1.1 billion
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – Francis Lawrence – $900 million
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Anthony and Joe Russo – $850 million
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Marc Webb – $800 million
- X-Men: Days of Future Past – Bryan Singer – $750 million
- Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn – $700 million
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois – $650 million
- Godzilla – Gareth Edwards – $600 million
- Interstellar – Christopher Nolan – $575 million
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Matt Reeves – $500 million
- 300: Rise of an Empire – Noam Murro – $450 million
- RoboCop – Jose Padhila – $400 million
- Maleficent – Robert Stromberg – $350 million
- A Million Ways to Die in the West – Seth MacFarlane – $300 million
The hype surrounding Jackson’s sixth and final Middle-Earth adventure is just too immense for the ever disappointing Transformers anthology. The Hunger Games’ popularity only seems to rise and rise and so Part 3 should bring huge box office spills. The first while the star studding of Days of Future Past, Interstellar, Cap 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy should lead them to success. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 however won’t significantly increase from the first film’s takings; the interest in the franchise really doesn’t seem that great. Other releases that may just miss out on the top 15 include Edge of Tomorrow, Divergent, Muppets Most Wanted, Fury and Rio 2.
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