While the end of any calendar year always brings an influx of lists breaking down the best movies of the year (and worst, overrated and underrated, oftentimes), it’s also the perfect time to look ahead. So we have singled out 37 of next year’s potential blockbusters… and flops, and try to project how much they may earn at the domestic box office.

Glass (January 18)

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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (February 8)

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Alita: Battle Angel (February 14)

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Happy Death Day 2U (February 14)

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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (February 22)

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Captain Marvel (March 8)

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Us (March 15)

Dumbo (March 29)

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Shazam! (April 5)

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Pet Sematary (April 5)

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Hellboy (April 12)

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Avengers: Endgame (April 26)

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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (May 10)

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John Wick: Chapter 3 (May 17)

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Aladdin (May 24)

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (May 31)

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix (June 7)

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Men in Black: International (June 14)

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Toy Story 4 (June 21)

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Grudge (June 21)

Although I certainly strive to be as accurate as potentially possible, there are more than enough X-factors for any given movie, and there’s a good chance that at least a few of these movies might be bumped to 2020 (I’m looking at you, Jumanji sequel that is supposed to come out in December 2019 but hasn’t started filming yet…), and there’s a very good chance many more of these dates get shuffled around during the year.Still, with all that being said, I will try my best to predict each movie for the release date it has been given as of now. Here are my box office projections for what should be 37 of the biggest box office hits of 2019 (in order of release date), and then offer our projected top 10 for the year.The 2016 superhero movie Deadpool shattered expectation and became the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time at the worldwide box office, it paved the way for more R-rated hits in 2017 such as Logan, Get Out and Split. Director M. Night Shyamalan’s Split opened up the Unbreakable universe, setting the stage for Glass, featuring Bruce Willis’ David Dunn and Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price from Unbreakable to interact with James McAvoy’s Kevin Wendell Crumb (and his 22 other personalities) and Anya Taylor-Joy’s Casey Cooke from Split. The 2017 thriller marked a career comeback of sorts for Shyamalan, which earned $138.3 million domestic and $278.5 million worldwide, from just a $9 million budget. With the added star power of Willis and Jackson, and minimal competition in January, Glass should be the first significant hit of the year, coming in just ahead of its predecessor.The long-awaited sequel to 2014’s The Lego Movie ($69.1 million debut, $257.8 million domestic) is finally almost here, but the box office fate of its two spin-offs could be a cause for concern. Warner Bros. launched The Lego Batman movie in February 2017 with a $53 million debut and $175.7 million domestic tally in February 2017, but the second spin-off, The Lego Ninjago Movie, straight-up tanked. Ninjago debuted with $20.4 million and ended up with a domestic tally of $59.3 million. It’s been five long years since the original, and while the follow-up should do just fine, returning to its early February roots, it likely won’t surpass the original.Alita: Battle Angel could very well be the first big flop of 2019, a movie that has been languishing in development for more than 15 years. James Cameron had initially planned on directing this after Titanic, although it would eventually be put on the back-burner so Cameron could work on a project known as Project 880, later to be renamed Avatar. Years later, in 2016, Robert Rodriguez came aboard to direct, and by the time the movie will be released, it will be just over two years after principal photography wrapped. The release date was bumped twice, from two prime dates - July 20, 2018 and December 21, before landing on its Valentine’s Day 2019 release. With a $200 million production budget to recoup, not to mention marketing costs, I just don’t think Alita will make a dent at the box office.Last year’s low-budget thriller Happy Death Day was another modest hit for Blumhouse, raking in $55.7 million domestic and $122.6 million worldwide, from just a $4.8 million budget, so it’s no surprise that a sequel is coming in 2019. Most of the original cast is back such as Jessica Rothe as Tree, Israel Broussard as Carter and Ruby Modine as Lori, along with new cast members Suraj Sharma and Sarah Yarkin. While it doesn’t have the Halloween-friendly October release date, it should still be able to hold its own against Alita: Battle Angel, although, even if Alita does flop, Happy Death Day 2U likely still won’t surpass it.Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his dragon Toothless return for a new animated adventure in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which could very well be the second animated blockbuster of the month after The Lego Movie 2. The DreamWorks Animation franchise fell off a tad with the 2014 sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2 taking in $177 million domestic, below the $217.6 million of the 2010 original, despite the sequel posting a bigger debut ($49.5 million) than the original ($43.7 million). With a nearly five-year gap between the second and third movie, that could mean The Hidden World will drop even more, especially considering its move to February from a June release. Still, the third installment will likely continue to display the franchise’s consistency.Marvel has proven time and time again to doubt the studio’s sprawling vision at your own peril, because every time haters think they’ll catch Marvel slipping, the superhero powerhouse finds a way to prove them wrong. Still, even those who knew Black Panther would be a hit likely couldn’t see the monstrous $700 million domestic total coming, only the third movie in history to accomplish such a feat, behind Avatar and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The big takeaway, for many, was that representation does matter, a notion that bodes well for Marvel heading into Captain Marvel, the MCU’s first ever female-lead superhero movie, with Brie Larson playing Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, and the first ever from a female director, Anna Fleck, who directs alongside her husband Ryan Boden (Mississippi Grind). While it seems unlikely Captain Marvel can match or surpass Black Panther’s amazing numbers (though I’d be glad to eat those words if I’m wrong), Carol Danvers and her 1990s cohorts will still prove there is big bucks in putting the “her” in “hero.”While comedy fans have known and loved Jordan Peele’s work for many years, he proved to be a force to be reckoned with behind the camera with his incredible directorial debut Get Out. Not only did he become the first ever first-time African-American filmmaker to be nominated for Best Picture and Best Director (along with Best Original Screenplay, which he won), but his movie earned $255.4 million worldwide from just a $4.5 million budget. Peele returns to the helm for his follow-up Us this spring, which has been shrouded in secrecy until just recently, with the movie following a couple (Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke) whose beach house getaway is interrupted by some “shocking visitors.” While Us opening a week after Captain Marvel might be problematic for some movies, Us is so different that it could be to its benefit, providing audiences with counter-programming that’s the complete opposite of superhero fare.While Disney has had a lot of success with its live-action remakes of animated classics like Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book, the studio did have a few misfires last year with A Wrinkle in Time and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms coming far under expectations. While neither was a live-action reimagining of an animated classic like Dumbo is, it’s certainly worth noting that Disney isn’t completely bulletproof these days. Still, the movie brings Tim Burton back into the Disney fold, whose blockbuster re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland in 2010 is one reason the Mouse House keeps going back to its vault. While Dumbo will provide counter-programming for both Captain Marvel and Shazam!, which opens a week later, this one might not be as strong as other Disney re-imaginings.Shazam! will be a real test for the DC Extended Universe, with this superhero adventure marking the first DCEU movie featuring a character that hasn’t been introduced in Batman V Superman or Justice League. The first trailer from July made it clear that Warner Bros. has abandoned its “no jokes” superhero policy, showcasing a much more light-hearted hero than we’ve seen from the past entries in the current DC movieverse. With Avengers: Endgame moving up a week to April 26 (as many expected), that gives Shazam! a little less time to work with, but it still should fare decently, which, paired with the (supposed) success of Aquaman, could finally put the DCEU back on the right track.We’ve certainly been at “peak remake” phase for quite some time, but unlike years past where seemingly every remake was at least a modest hit, that isn’t always the case these days, and one only has to look towards Flatliners ($16.9 million domestic) or Death Wish ($34 million) to prove this point. Like Flatliners and Death Wish, Pet Sematary was a beloved cult classic, and it seems unlikely, to me anyway, that this would suffer any different fate than Flatliners or Death Wish before it, because the younger audience they’re likely aiming at have probably never heard of the original, and the older folks who do know about and like the original have little reason to see a new version when they can just rewatch the original that they know and love. On the upside, though, 2017’s It proved that a retelling of a Stephen King tale could hit big. We shall see.After nearly a decade of fans waiting for star Ron Perlman and director Guillermo del Toro to reunite for Hellboy 3, the sequel fell apart and a Hellboy reboot was born. Neither of the first two movies were cash cows, with 2004’s Hellboy earning $99.3 million worldwide from a $66 million budget and 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army earning $160.4 million worldwide from an $85 million budget. While no budget numbers were revealed for this new incarnation, starring David Harbour (Stranger Things) as the title character, it already has an uphill battle ahead of it, opening a week after Shazam! and two weeks before Avengers: Endgame.It seems likely the box office crown for 2019 will come down to which of two movies performs better: Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: Episode IX. Last year’s Avengers: Infinity War broke Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ opening weekend record with $257.7 million, but its domestic take of $678.8 million fell short of Black Panther’s $700 million. Given the shocking ending of Avengers: Infinity War, it seems almost a foregone conclusion that Avengers: Endgame will set a new opening weekend record in late April… but even if it does, the big question will be if that record will still stand after Star Wars 9 hits theaters in December. Regardless, Avengers: Endgame will make a ridiculous amount of money, record or not.Ryan Reynolds takes a break from portraying Deadpool to lend his voice to the title character in Detective Pikachu, with the first trailer garnering a decent amount of buzz last month. It doesn’t seem to have too much competition (aside from Avengers: Endgame), with just MGM’s The Hustle, a gender-swapped version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson and STX’s Uglydolls opening alongside it. While Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will likely still reign supreme at the box office, Pikachu could still put up a good fight, especially considering how the first trailer had 100 million views in the first day.The little action franchise that could comes to an end this May (on the big screen anyway, with a TV series about The Continental in development on Starz), which is truly one of the most unique franchises. Keanu Reeves reunited with his stunt double from The Matrix, Chad Stahelski, for 2014’s John Wick, which Stahelski directed with David Leitch, who went on to direct Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2. Stahelski returned to direct John Wick 2 solo, and he will do the same for John Wick: Chapter 3, the first in the trilogy to have a summer release date. The franchise has never posted massive gains, but the sequel out-gained the original two-fold in both its opening weekend and domestic gross, and there’s no reason why the third won’t be the biggest yet.The Aladdin teaser released in October didn’t exactly set the world on fire, but there is still plenty of time to turn the negative buzz around. While it remains to be seen when the first full trailer with more than a few frames of footage will be released, the Super Bowl seems like a viable option, and given how the conversation surrounding the Aladdin trailer surrounded what it didn’t show, as opposed to what it did show, it might be worth it to Disney to spend some big bucks to debut a great trailer during the big game. It might not have an easy path either, sandwiched between Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame and Warner Bros.’ Godzilla: King of Monsters, but given how beloved the original is, it will likely still be a big hit.When this sequel comes out it will have been almost exactly five long years since 2014’s Godzilla, and while 2017’s Kong: Skull Island helped get fans ready for the impending Godzilla vs. Kong, the Godzilla: King of the Monsters sequels will come first. Director Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat) takes the reigns from Godzilla director Gareth Edwards, with this sequel showcasing three iconic monsters fans of the Japanese company that started it all, Toho, will recognize: Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah, Godzilla’s massive three-headed nemesis. With little competition in the last weekend of May, Godzilla will certainly stomp on any and all competitors early on in its run.This could very well be one of the biggest dark horses of the entire year, with extensive reshoots pushing the film from November 2018 to, at first February 2019 and then its current home in June 2019. The Dark Phoenix story was already partially adapted in the much-maligned 2006 movie X-Men: The Last Stand, so it will be interesting to see how fans react to this. The X-Men franchise has always been fairly steady at the box office, but given the sizeable drop-off between X-Men: Days of Future Past ($233.9 million) and X-Men: Apocalypse ($155.4 million), there may be cause for concern if Dark Phoenix doesn’t rebound.The Men in Black franchise is a peculiar one, since each movie opened higher than the next (barely) but the domestic total of each was still lower than the next. Since this is the first in the franchise to not feature stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, with Chris Hemsworth and his Thor: Ragnarok co-star Tessa Thompson playing the black-clad agents, it will be interesting to see if they can revive the franchise, or if it will continue on its downward trajectory. Given the success of Thor: Ragnarok, I wouldn’t be one to bet against this dynamic duo.It will be nine years since Toy Story 3 when this sequel finally hits theaters, and if Toy Story 4 continues the massive upward trajectory of the franchise, it could be one of the biggest movies of the year. After all, Disney-Pixar’s Incredibles 2 quietly took in over $600 million this summer, 14 years after the first movie, so it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibilities that Toy Story 4 ranks up there with Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: Episode IX, likely, just behind both of those movies.

Untitled Conjuring Universe Movie (July 3)

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Spider-Man: Far From Home (July 5)

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The Lion King (July 19)

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (July 26)

Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio star in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

New Mutants (August 2)

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Hobbs and Shaw (August 2)

15 years after the low-budget horror remake The Grudge ($187.2 million worldwide, $10 million budget) hit theaters, Sony will reboot the franchise with Grudge. The 2004 movie itself was a remake of the 2002 Japanese thriller Ju-On, which spawned a long-running franchise in Japan, and while The Grudge did spawn a few straight-to-video sequels, it didn’t have nearly the same measure of success as the Japanese originals. This reboot brings a new, and much more diverse cast, with Andrea Riseborough, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, Demian Bichir, William Sadler and Jacki Weaver, with direction from Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes of My Mother) from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Buhler (Midnight Meat Train). While it won’t have any chance at beating Toy Story 4 at the box office, this horror reboot (of an earlier reboot) should still fare quite well.While very little is known about this project, said to be the third Annabelle spin-off, The Conjuring franchise has consistently proven it can get the most bang for minimal bucks. The five movies thus far (The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, The Nun) have earned $543.7 million domestically and $1.5 billion worldwide, from a combined production budget of just $103.5 million. While no title has been revealed yet, this installment will take place after the haunted doll is kept in the Warrens’ (Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson) museum. Even though it goes up against the superhero blockbuster Spider-Man: Far From Home, opening a few days later on July 5, that shouldn’t stop this spin-off from being another low-budget hit.Marvel Studios will follow a similar release strategy in 2019 as it did in 2018, with an early spring movie (Captain Marvel) followed by the first movie of the summer a few months later (Avengers: Endgame) and another adventure just a few months after that (Spider-Man: Far From Home). While the strategy worked wonders for the first two movies in 2018 - Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War - which are still the two biggest movies of the year, the third, Ant-Man and the Wasp, didn’t put up huge numbers ($216.6 million domestic), though it was an improvement over the first Ant-Man ($180.2 million). There likely won’t be the same sort of drop-off with Spider-Man: Far From Home, with its close proximity to Avengers: Endgame likely to be advantageous, since it will be the first Marvel Phase 4 movie that is set directly after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Given the success of Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017 ($334.2 million domestic), there is no reason to think the sequel won’t fare any worse.The long-held axiom that all press is good press could certainly be applied to The Lion King, which caught some considerable flack after the first trailer which faithfully re-created an iconic scene from the 1994 animated classic with the same photo-real technology director Jon Favreau used in 2016’s The Jungle Book. Some are even going so far as to call this a “shot-for-shot remake” based solely on the one scene Disney decided to show us in the trailer, which has yet to be confirmed… but still, in the absence of any proof to the contrary, that’s all we have for now. With a whopping 224.6 million views of the trailer in the first 24 hours, there certainly is a huge audience for the movie. As for whether they’ll love or hate it, that’s undetermined for now, but they’ll most likely turn up in droves to pay and find out.Quentin Tarantino returns with this film (supposedly his second-to-last before retiring), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which will take fans back to the summer of 1969. Tarantino spent all this past summer turning back the clock, transforming iconic buildings in present-day Hollywood to their 1969 counterparts, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt often spotted driving 1960s cars down Hollywood Boulevard. The movie blends fact with fiction, following an actor who used to star on a hit Western series (DiCaprio) and his long time stunt double (Brad Pitt) trying to make their way in an ever-changing Hollywood, with the plot thickening as their new neighbor is Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), whose murder on August 9, 1969 by members of the Manson Family rocked Tinseltown to its core. The movie opens just weeks before the 50th anniversary of Tate’s murder, and also marks the return to the summer movie season for QT, who hasn’t had a summer movie since 2009’s Inglourious Basterds.At one point, 20th Century Fox was slated to have three X-Men movies opening in 2018, with New Mutants in April, Deadpool 2 in June and Dark Phoenix in November, but both New Mutants and Dark Phoenix were pushed into 2019. New Mutants was said to undergo extensive reshoots, to supposedly lean into the horror elements of this story even more. If the studio can pull this off, and go full horror with success, it will bring a new element to the sprawling X-Men franchise, which is also interesting since the spin-offs Deadpool and Deadpool 2 are still the most successful in franchise history. New Mutants could certainly join the Merc with the Mouth, if the reshoots are successful, but it will likely be the black sheep of the franchise.

It: Chapter 2 (September 6)

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Joker (October 4)

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Zombieland 2 (October 11)

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The Addams Family (October 11)

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Charlie's Angels (November 1)

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Terminator Sequel/Reboot (November 1)

With just two more movies left in the flagship Fast & Furious franchise, Universal still hopes to continue the franchise in other ways, primarily through this spin-off that brings Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw together. There was reportedly a post-credit scene in last year’s The Fate of The Furious that would have set up the spin-off, but a reportedly furious Diesel demanded that Universal remove the scene, which they did. Still, despite this, and Tyrese Gibson’s protests/rants about the spin-off, Universal still made it happen, with Idris Elba coming aboard as the new villain. While it’s true that the two Fast & Furious movies without Vin Diesel as the main star (2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) are still the lowest-grossing in the franchise, those movies didn’t have The Rock or Jason Statham.2017’s IT made box office history, breaking The Exorcist’s 44-year record to become the highest-grossing horror movie in history with $327.5 million domestic, despite opening in typically one of the worst box office frames of the year. While many sequels struggle to reclaim the magic of the original while trying something new, an always-tricky balancing act for sure, IT: Chapter 2 likely won’t suffer the same under-performing fate as many sequels since it brings back the same Losers Club characters as adults, played by a star-studded new cast including James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, James Ransone and Jay Ryan. With the same creative team (director Andy Muschietti, writer Gary Dauberman) back for the sequel, based on the back half of Stephen King’s book, this sequel could be an even bigger hit than the original.Two years after Jared Leto’s portrayal of The Joker in Suicide Squad, Warner Bros. is giving fans a new Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix, that is not connected to the DCEU. While this new movie, from director Todd Phillips (The Hangover trilogy), separating itself from the trappings of the DCEU could certainly be advantageous, it also runs the risk of alienating fans who loved Leto’s Joker, or falling victim to that supposed “superhero fatigue” that is often bandied about in the press but seldom proven. Still, Venom proved that a superhero spin-off can have a big launch in early October, and while it will have to face Will Smith’s sci-fi film Gemini Man, the Joker still could run wild over the competition.After years of rumors and speculation, the trigger was finally pulled on a Zombieland sequel, which will arrive almost exactly 10 years after the original. Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer returns along with original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (along with new collaborator Dave Callaham). The main cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin also return, along with newcomers Zoey Deutch and Avan Jogia. The original movie was an almost-immediate cult classic, which didn’t earn a ton at the box office ($75.6 million domestic, $102.3 million worldwide), but didn’t cost a ton either ($23.6 million) and went on to find a bigger audience on home video. While it does open in a crowded weekend with The Addams Family reboot, Are You Afraid of the Dark and The Goldfinch, this horror-comedy should have no trouble finding its niche.Over the past few years, mid-October weekends have gotten more and more crowded, with upwards of five or six movies debuting some weekends in wide release. Even with three other movies opening alongside this animated update of The Addams Family, it likely won’t have any trouble topping the box office in its debut weekend. With an incredible voice cast including Chloe Grace Moretz as Wednesday, Charlize Theron as Morticia, Oscar Isaac as Gomez, Nick Kroll as Uncle Fester, Elsie Fisher as Parker Needler, Finn Wolfhard as Pugsley, Allison Janney as Margeaux Needler and Bette Middler as Grandmama, plus Sausage Party directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan at the helm, this could be one of the year’s big animated hits.Just seven years after the short-lived ABC TV series reboot that lasted just one eight-episode season, Charlie’s Angels returns to the big screen with new Angels and a new approach. Kristen Stewart, who plays one of the new Angels alongside Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska, teased their team is just one of many different teams of Angels around the world, with numerous different Bosley characters played by Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou and Elizabeth Banks, who also directs and co-wrote the script. Stewart also teased this is a ‘woke’ reboot, which could bring a whole new audience to theaters. While it does face some stiff competition from Paramount’s new Terminator sequel, the Angels should be able to hold their own.

Sonic the Hedgehog (November 8)

Kingsman 3 (November 15)

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Frozen 2 (November 22)

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Jumanji Sequel (December 13)

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Star Wars: Episode IX (December 20)

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1. Star Wars: Episode IX - $886.2 million

2. Avengers: Endgame - $824.7 million

3. Toy Story 4 - $658.2 million

4. Captain Marvel - $627.5 million

5. Frozen 2 - $548.7 million

6. The Lion King $438.9 million

7. Jumanji Sequel - $386.3 million

8. IT Chapter 2 - $356.8 million

9. Godzilla: King of Monsters - $318.4 million

10. Hobbs & Shaw: $306.2 million

The Terminator franchise has had its fair share of ups and downs… though it’s mostly been down. Ever since James Cameron left the franchise after his iconic 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day, every other attempt to revive the franchise, on both the big screen and small, has not turned out great, including the most recent attempt, 2015’s Terminator: Genisys. 35 years after he launched the franchise with 1984’s The Terminator, James Cameron makes his triumphant return to the franchise, albeit only as a producer, with Deadpool director Tim Miller taking the helm. Not only does Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger return, but Linda Hamilton is also back as Sarah Connor, with Gabriel Luna playing a new Terminator and Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes portraying new characters Grace and Dani. While we likely won’t get any indication at how well this might do until the first trailer hits, I have a feeling this might be the Terminator movie fans have been waiting years for… at least I hope it is.There have still only been two video game adaptations that have crossed $100 million domestically, 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ($131.2 million) and 2017’s The Angry Birds Movie ($107.5 million), though this year’s Rampage did come tantalizingly close with $99.3 million. Given the fan backlash to the poster alone, the iconic hedgehog isn’t off to a great start, as far as buzz is concerned, with the movie following James Marsden’s Tom Wachowski, the new sheriff of small town Green Hills, who vows to help Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) stop the nefarious Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey). It’s not getting any favors with an early November release either, getting dropped in between the highly-anticipated Terminator movie and the new Kingsman movie a week later, with the highly-anticipated Frozen 2 dropping two weeks later.There is still quite a bit that is unknown about this movie, with production slated to begin in January 2019, but Taron Egerton made headlines last month when he said that he, “isn’t in the next Kingsman movie,” but added he’s not done with the franchise entirely. Matthew Vaughn returns to direct, but it will be interesting to see what happens without Egerton in the mix, especially considering the downward trajectory of the franchise. Kingsman: The Secret Service was a surprise hit in 2015, holding its own against Fifty Shades of Grey and earning $128.3 million domestic. Despite opening a bit higher than the original with $39 million (compared to Kingsman: The Secret Service’s $36.2 million), Kingsman: The Golden Circle finished with just $100.2 million. Without Egerton’s Eggsy, the downward trajectory just may continue, especially within this competitive month.Opening exactly six years after Frozen broke box office records, I can’t imagine the sequel will be any less successful. The original blockbuster, which earned $400.7 million domestic and became the highest-grossing animated film ever worldwide with $1.276 billion, became a pop culture phenomenon, spawning theme park attractions, a Disney on Ice show and even a Broadway stage adaptation. The main quartet returns with Kristen Bell (Anna), Idina Menzel (Elsa), Jonathan Groff (Kristoff) and Josh Gad (Olaf), with a few newcomers as well including Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown. I don’t think there’s any question that this animated sequel will be anything less than an enormous success.This project is also slated to start filming in January 2019, with the same stars (Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan) returning, along with director Jake Kasdan and writers Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle proved other movies could still succeed in the wake of Star Wars, debuting with just $36.1 million but then posting a shocking increase in its second weekend of 38.4% with $50 million. With just under a full year for principal photography and post-production, the big question is whether or not this big-budget sequel will actually hit its date, but if it does, it still should do quite well, especially with having its opening weekend all to itself before Star Wars: Episode IX arrives the following frame.While Solo: A Star Wars Story proved the Star Wars franchise is not infallible, at least when it comes to box office grosses, the franchise will still rebound in a massive way with Star Wars 9. This movie closes out the trilogy that includes 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, bringing The Force Awakens filmmaker J.J. Abrams back to take the helm. This will also likely bring an end to the Skywalker saga for good, closing out the flagship franchise that has been entertaining fans for over four decades, before they start a new trilogy from writer-director Rian Johnson. For those who have been fans since the beginning, this will likely be the movie they’ve been waiting their whole lives for, which is why I think this will shatter every record imaginable.