LETS GET A COMPETITION UNDERWAY, SHALL WE?

It's as simple as...

Predicting the WORLDWIDE gross of movies for the year 2025. The cut off point will include the LAST WEEKEND OF 2025 W/C 26th December 2025, chart.

Here's how I will be scoring:

3 points if you're in range (e.g. if you say 750m for a movie and it grosses anything from 751m-759m)

2 points if you're 50m off (either side - e.g. if you say 750m and it grosses anywhere from 700m-749m OR 760m-799m)

1 point if you're 100m off (either side - e.g. if you say 750m and it grosses anywhere from 650m-749m OR 760m-849m)

HOWEVER if you get it BANG ON to the nearest million you get 5 POINTS (e.g. if you say 750m & it grosses 750,000,000-750,999,999)

Does this make sense? Any questions feel free to either question it in here or drop me a PM!

POST ALL ANSWERS IN THIS THREAD [EXCEPT THE TIE-BREAKER - PM ME THE TIE-BREAKER!]

THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE A £20 GIFT CARD TO A CINEMA CHAIN OF THEIR CHOICE (I *believe* the big chains allow e-gift cards so I should be able to make it work (anyone NOT in the UK - I shall try for your chosen venues too, however, I can transfer the £20 to PayPal if needed!))

THE MOVIES TO PREDICT THE WORLDWIDE GROSS ARE:

• Minecraft [4th April | Warner Bros]

• Drop [11th April | Universal]

• Sinners [18th April | Warner Bros]

• Thunderbolts [2nd May | Disney Marvel]

• Final Destination: Bloodlines [16th May | Warner Bros]

• Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning [21st May | Paramount]

• Lilo & Stitch [23rd May | Disney]

• Ballerina [6th June | Lionsgate]

• Elio [13th June | Disney Pixar]

• How To Train Your Dragon [13th June | Universal]

• 28 Years Later [20th June | SONY]

• M3GAN 2.0 [27th June | Universal]

• F1 [27th June | Warner Bros]

• Jurassic World Rebirth [2nd July | Universal]

• Superman [11th July | Warner Bros]

• I Know What You Did Last Summer [18th July | SONY]

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps [25th July | Disney Marvel]

• The Conjuring: Last Rites [5th September | Universal]

• Michael [3rd October | Universal]

• The Black Phone 2 [17th October | Universal]

• Wicked: For Good [21st November | Universal]

• Zootopia 2 [28th November | Disney]

• Five Nights At Freddy's 2 [5th December | Warner Bros]

• Avatar: Fire and Ash [19th December | Disney]

TIE-BREAK (PM ME)

WHERE WILL THE 5th HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE OF 2025 END UP IN MY PERSONAL EOY RANKING?

This thread will be open until SUNDAY 2nd MAY 2025 @ 23:59 (BST)

• Minecraft [4th April | Warner Bros] $1.3bn

• Drop [11th April | Universal] $140m

• Sinners [18th April | Warner Bros] $350m

• Thunderbolts [2nd May | Disney Marvel] $700m

• Final Destination: Bloodlines [16th May | Warner Bros] $160m

• Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning [21st May | Paramount] $820m

• Lilo & Stitch [23rd May | Disney] $1.6bn

• Ballerina [6th June | Lionsgate] $360m

• Elio [13th June | Disney Pixar] $450m

• How To Train Your Dragon [13th June | Universal] $800m

• 28 Years Later [20th June | SONY] $260m

• M3GAN 2.0 [27th June | Universal] $300m

• F1 [27th June | Warner Bros] $550m

• Jurassic World Rebirth [2nd July | Universal] $920m

• Superman [11th July | Warner Bros] $750m

• I Know What You Did Last Summer [18th July | SONY] $120m

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps [25th July | Disney Marvel] $850m

• The Conjuring: Last Rites [5th September | Universal] $350m

• Michael [3rd October | Universal] $700m

• The Black Phone 2 [17th October | Universal] $200m

• Wicked: For Good [21st November | Universal] $1bn

• Zootopia 2 [28th November | Disney] $850m

• Five Nights At Freddy's 2 [5th December | Warner Bros] $210m

• Avatar: Fire and Ash [19th December | Disney] $1.1bn

Note that these aren't TOTAL figures for the last few releases in the list & just what I think they would make by the time the deadline is done! Also I am pretty terrible at predictions

For what it's worth 'Minecraft' beat 'Barbie' domestic opening weekend in the US! We'll just have to wait and see as to how well this holds up...

• Minecraft [4th April | Warner Bros] $950m

• Drop [11th April | Universal] $56m

• Sinners [18th April | Warner Bros] $400m *

• Thunderbolts [2nd May | Disney Marvel] $550m

• Final Destination: Bloodlines [16th May | Warner Bros] $160m

• Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning [21st May | Paramount] $620m

• Lilo & Stitch [23rd May | Disney] $1.7bn

• Ballerina [6th June | Lionsgate] $280m

• Elio [13th June | Disney Pixar] $500m *

• How To Train Your Dragon [13th June | Universal] $750m

• 28 Years Later [20th June | SONY] $290m

• M3GAN 2.0 [27th June | Universal] $200m

• F1 [27th June | Warner Bros] $250m

• Jurassic World Rebirth [2nd July | Universal] $1b

• Superman [11th July | Warner Bros] $500m *

• I Know What You Did Last Summer [18th July | SONY] $85m

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps [25th July | Disney Marvel] $850m

• The Conjuring: Last Rites [5th September | Universal] $289m

• Michael [3rd October | Universal] $450m

• The Black Phone 2 [17th October | Universal] $200m

• Wicked: For Good [21st November | Universal] $900m

• Zootopia 2 [28th November | Disney] $1.2b

• Five Nights At Freddy's 2 [5th December | Warner Bros] $200m

• Avatar: Fire and Ash [19th December | Disney] $2b

*These are the ones I think rely MOST on having legs due to great rotten tomatoes and cinema scores.

Bump

Well… this is a flop

Extending for another week but if I don’t get at least 5 entries, I’ll just not bother with it. Lol.

• Minecraft [4th April | Warner Bros] - $1.2 billion

• Drop [11th April | Universal] - $50 million

• Sinners [18th April | Warner Bros] - $300 million

• Thunderbolts [2nd May | Disney Marvel] - $550 million

• Final Destination: Bloodlines [16th May | Warner Bros] - £200 million

• Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning [21st May | Paramount] - $800 million

• Lilo & Stitch [23rd May | Disney] - $1.2 billion

• Ballerina [6th June | Lionsgate] - $150 million

• Elio [13th June | Disney Pixar] - $400 million

• How To Train Your Dragon [13th June | Universal] - $500 million

• 28 Years Later [20th June | SONY] - $200 million

• M3GAN 2.0 [27th June | Universal] - $120 million

• F1 [27th June | Warner Bros] - $400 million

• Jurassic World Rebirth [2nd July | Universal] - $1.1 billion

• Superman [11th July | Warner Bros] - $700 million

• I Know What You Did Last Summer [18th July | SONY] - $70 million

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps [25th July | Disney Marvel] - $680 million

• The Conjuring: Last Rites [5th September | Universal] - $180 million

• Michael [3rd October | Universal] - $550 million - (I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't end up coming out again)

• The Black Phone 2 [17th October | Universal] - $85 million

• Wicked: For Good [21st November | Universal] - $580 million

• Zootopia 2 [28th November | Disney] - $960 million

• Five Nights At Freddy's 2 [5th December | Warner Bros] - $200 million

• Avatar: Fire and Ash [19th December | Disney] - $800 million

I might update these before the deadline but this is my initial thoughts