Summer 2006 Box Office Predictions: THE PIRATES ARE COMING!!!

Blockbusters:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Cars - The Da Vinci Code - Mission: Impossible 3

Disappointments:
Poseidon - Miami Vice

Looking Questionable Right Now:
Superman Returns - X-Men 3 - Over the Hedge - World Trade Center

Sleepers:
My Super Ex-Girlfriend - Little Miss Sunshine - The Devil Wears Prada

The Oscar Contender:
A Prairie Home Companion

Desperately in Need of a Sequel:
Snakes on a Plane

Predicted Top 25:

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $325m
2. Cars - $250m
3. Superman Returns - $240m
4. The Da Vinci Code - $225m
5. Mission Impossible 3 - $200m
6. X-Men 3: The Last Stand - $180m
7. Over the Hedge - $155m
8. Click - $130m
9. Monster House - $125m
10. The Break Up - $105m
11. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - $100m
12. Poseidon - $95m
13. You, Me and Dupree - $86m
14. Miami Vice - $80m
15. Nacho Libre - $74m
16. Lady in the Water - $72m
17. Snakes on a Plane - $70m
18. Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift - $65m
19. My Super Ex-Girlfriend - $64m
20. The Devil Wears Prada - $62m
21. Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties - $60m
22. World Trade Center - $58m
23. The Omen - $56m
24. Zoom - $54m
25. The Lake House - $52m

PREDICTIONS FOR FIRST WEEKEND OF SUMMER MOVIE SEASON:

1. Mission: Impossible 3 - $65m / $65m / $200m
2. R.V. - $10.5m / $30.5m / $54m
3. United 93 - $8.5m / $24m / $50m
4. Hoot - $8m / $8m / $24m
5. Stick It - $6m / $18.5m / $30m
6. An American Haunting - $5m / $5m / $13m
7. Akeelah and the Bee - $4.5m / $12m / $25m
8. Silent Hill - $4m / $41m / $48m
9. The Sentinel - $4m / $32m / $40m
10. Ice Age 2 - $4m / $183m / $190m