RESULTS: 2018 Summer Box Office Predictions

While I'm happy to have my best summer box office prediction year on record, it's depressing that there is not a single non-sequel film on the top ten! The only big shocker this year - in my opinion - is how Solo: A Star Wars Story under-performed. Its relatively low opening for the franchise is interesting to consider. Are people getting sick of Star Wars? Were people turned off by a different actor playing Han Solo? Or was it released in too crowded a season, between The Avengers and Deadpool? Besides that the usual suspects (Marvel, Pixar, Dinosaurs) all made out great, making this a particularly unsurprising year!

Here are my final results:

Mission Impossible: Fallout, Christopher Robin, Mamma Mia 2, Blindspotting Reviews

Mission Impossible: Fallout
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
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At this point, the Mission Impossible series is less about its main protagonist, Ethan Hunt, and more about its star, Tom Cruise. With each film, the line between character and actor is blurred, with Cruise doing his own stunts, constantly one-upping himself by dangling from the highest building in the world in Ghost Protocol, or holding onto a plane during takeoff in Rogue Nation. For over 20 years(!), Cruise has put his body on the line for our entertainment, and in that respect, even at the ripe age of 56, Mission: Impossible - Fallout totally delivers on the running, jumping, ass-kicking, death-defying madman that is expected with the name "Tom Cruise" on the marquee!