Woo Hoo Summer's Here

UPDATE:

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

As always I need to update my summer movie prediction page with the final totals for 2009

Rank	Title	Gross	My Pred
1	Transformers:	$402	4th
2	Harry Potter 5	$302	3rd
3	Up	$293	1st
4	Twilight 2	$284	N/A
5	The Hangover	$277	N/A
6	Avatar	$269	6th
7	Star Trek	$258	2nd
8	Monsters Vs. Aliens	$198	N/A
9	Ice Age 3	$196	N/A
10	The Blind Side	$193	N/A

Well, looks like I was close on a few and totally missed the mark on the Twilight movie.

I'm glad to see Transformers go out on top but I think Avatar may beat it, judging by the pace it's setting.

Can't wait for next year


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As many of you know summer for me kicks off in May with the start of the movie season.
So, if you were paying attention you probably noticed that I hadn't wrote about the 09 summer movie season yet? Well without further ado I bring you my

Top 5 movies of 2009

UP
Ok, not that one but I would go see that too.
Real trailer, UP in case you live in a cave, in which case I wonder whose internet you are stealing

Ahh, Disney & Pixar the perfect relationship. There's absolutely no reason to think this movie won't take in buckets of money. Once again John Ratzenberger will provide his voice for the movie, being the only person to have a role every Pixar movie.

If you doubt the success, Pixar movies have grossed $4.8 Billion and won 30 Academy Awards. I think they have the formula figured out.

Star Trek
Well, originally this was #4 in my list but after seeing it last weekend, I am moving it up. Yeah, I know that's cheating but I don't care. This was one amazing movie. Best Sci Fi movie since Revenge of the Sith in my opinion and some people didn't even like that one. JJ Abrams truly has a gift for directing and I can't wait to see his next project.

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 95% rating, that hasn't happened to a sci fi movie since The Truman Show(98), or Terminator II(91) for a true action sci-fi movie.

Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince
Really? Harry Potter? Aren't people sick of this franchise yet?
Well, how about this little fact. As of Nov 2008, the Harry Potter film franchise is the second highest grossing film franchise of all time, with the five films released so far grossing $4.48 billion worldwide. Without adjusting for inflation, this is slightly behind the 22 James Bond movies and the 6 Star Wars movies.

This movie has been complete for months, originally scheduled for fall 2008 but after the huge success of Dark Knight Warner Bros. executive Alan Horn noted that the move went ahead "to guarantee the studio a major summer blockbuster in 2009"

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
In 2007 the first Transformers movie was #3 taking in $319 million, with Harry Potter close behind at $292 million. This time I think it will be the other way around with Emma Watson unfortunately edging out my girlfriend Megan Fox. Just seeing if anyone is reading this.

This one is bigger, badder with an even more obscene budget.

Night at the Museum 2
I'm going out on a bit of a limb here putting this at #4 but the first one made $250 million and there is a smaller batch of "family" movies this summer to choose from. I guess Hollywood expects everyone to take their kids to X-Men or Terminator. My kids happen to love the first one, watching it about once a week.

With almost all of the cast returning this looks to be a fairly entertaining sequel.


Honorable Mention

The Princess and the Frog and Avatar are both coming out in December but it will be too late to make a run at the top 5 but if I know Jim Cameron I predict Avatar will break $250 million before Valentine's Day

Have a great summer everyone