#8) Twilight 2: $182 million
Again, this movie has some long drawn-out title, but I couldn’t give two shits about it so I don’t care to look it up nor type it. Last year Twilight earned $191 million in a November release. I think it will go down. Children’s stories do very well at the box office, and sequels do even better. Except when the predecessor sucks, like Twilight, the sequel’s money dwindles a bit. The first Harry Potter remains the highest-grossing of the series. People anticipated it greatly, but its lackluster quality damaged the following films.
#7) Where The Wild Things Are: $203 million
Your favorite book as a child will become a live-action movie this November. No, that is not the tagline, but it might as well be. Need they say more? Moviegoers love kids’ books. Just look at how well Twilight, Harry Potter, Shrek, and the Grinch movie did. They all finished in the top 10. Spike Jonze will direct, as he did for Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. Those movies are weird and slightly disturbing, just like the above book. You know this movie will be weird. I mean, the director can’t even spell his name correctly.
#6) Wolverine: $208 million
This is the all-intents-and-purposes title. Hugh Jackman plays the title role in his origin, just like Christian Bale did in the aforementioned Batman Begins. You know how well that fared. Although this movie will probably be worse than the Bale vehicle, the final X-Men grossed $245 million. That momentum plus the introduction of beloved mutants like Sabertooth and Gambit should bring the two reboots on par.
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