BOX OFFICE: THE HUNGER GAMES Passes $400 Million Worldwide

I see the top 5 biggest grosses of the year being:
The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Amazing Spider-Man
Skyfall

Prometheus could be a good contender.

Well done to the Hunger Games. I haven't read the book but the film was great.

@Denn1s Lighten up.

The Dark Knight Rises will make a billion no doubt.

The Avengers is gonna make 400 mill before it even premiers in the US.

[frick] Hunger Games.

I still have to see this movie! Also, a lot of people are naive here. The top 2 movies of the year wll be, The Dark Knight Rises and POSSIBLY The Avengers. TASM will do well, a lot of people will see it, but there's no hype surrounding the film. Most people have seen all 3 spidermans in the past 10 years. The general population might hold off on seeing it, because its another Spiderman movie. And I can see The Avengers having a chance beating The Dark Knight. And the only reason it could, is because every comic book nerd, like ourselves will see it, and probably every kid in America. Where as The Dark Knight Rises is only really aimed for adults. To me, it will be quality over quantity. And I guarantee you, The Dark Knight Rises will be the best quality CBM film this year.

@the fearedphantom
Your logic of saying that no one will want to see Spider-Man cause they've already seen 3 is a bit stupid. By that logic no one will want to see The Dark Knight Rises because there have already been 7.

I can't believe The Avengers is less than a month away.

The Dark Knight Rises is Batman. EVERYONE knows Batman, not everyone knows The Avengers, or Captain America, Iron Man or Black Widow.

But everyone knows Batman. Avengers is also teenager aimed, and more childish, Batman can be enjoyed by kids and adults seriously.

The Dark Knight Rises will become the 4th highest grossing film of all time. Watch.

@Kaedus-whoa, whoa, whoa... I did not say no one will see it! Hell I'm sure a ton of people will, myself included! Yes, Batman has many films, but do not compare the 2 sets of movies.

Number 1: Everyone WANTED a new Batman movie, after the travesty of Batman and Robin. And after hearing Chris Nolan was directing, a lot of people had a lot of faith. Nolan also was rebooting the series, and telling a story about Batman, thats never been told on film, his origin. Mr. Webbs story, has to be pretty close to Raimis. Spidermans origin will be told twice now, and it really cant be all THAT different. It's been done. That might not spark all that much interest to some general folks.

Number 2: Batman Begins was a good 10 years or more after that horrible B&R film. People were excited to finally see a new Batman movie after all that time.

Number 3: Raimi's Spiderman wasn't that long ago...SM3 was 5 years ago or so. Raimi gave us 3 solid Spiderman movies. The third wasn't great, but didn't leave a terrible taste in your mouth like Batman and Robin did. A lot of people still remember the last 3 spidermans quite well, they weren't that long ago.

What I'm saying is, people aren't DESPERATE for a new Spiderman. I'm sure plenty of people will see it, myself included. I'm just saying that TASM won't end up being gigantic force at the box office. It will do well, but not THAT well. TASM, I'm sure, will be roughly around how Batman Begins did at the box office. CB people are stoked for all these films. But I think some people will wait to see the movie later on. The general audience isn't desperate for the reboot already, even though we are :) I am excited to see it though!

what the heck, this film isn't even in the hottest nor the most anticipated movie of the year yet surprisingly this goes on to earn a big sum of gold at the box office, now that's totally surprising. applied that to a film highly regarded as the CBM's most wanted this year talking about TDKR and Avengers now that's something to really look forward to. i don't know about the Hobbit but it looks pale to me, Spider-man (not even cared about this one), Prometheus (looks good), Skyfall (well it's a Bond Film, it has it's fan base), though i have big doubts TDKR would be this years King -- it had it's time with the combination of H.Ledgers unfortunate passing, good story continuity (on TDK) but this time around (TDKR vs. Bane?...)

I hope twilight part [frick]ing 2 doesn't beat the avengers and the dark knight rises

if prometheus is r-rated it won't out gross spider-man,the avengers or the hunger games.

it has the potential of being the best movie of the year but not toppling those movies i mentioned above.

Bubs, chill out, tell me how exactly you know these box office numbers? Seriously, are you guys Jean or something?
The Avengers are in May, TDKR is in July, how would you know these facts? Come on kiddos, you serious?

Predicting Avengers box office is very difficult. You guys need to remember they're pumping more money into it than any of the individual projects. Also, I fail to see why this one would make any more than Iron Man 2 (highest grossing of all the solo projects)

@ SuspenseSmith

i totally agree,it has more chance of winning awards & being a classic than most other r-rated movies.

@ thewonderer

you could say the same about the dark knight rises,missing batman's most famous & popular villain the joker it might take the same money as batman begins.

Not sure what to think about The Avengers money-wise. Iron Man 2 sold less tickets domestically than Iron Man 1 and none of the other Marvel Studios films were real smashes at the box office. The most any of them did overseas was 311 million.

But the hype is enormous, there are 3d prices and releasing it early overseas could help. I think it will be front-loaded and has a real shot at 160+ opening weekend. I'll go with the wide range of 800-900.

@marvel

Thing is, TDK left off on a cliffhanger, and the fact that so many people saw that one makes that many want to see this one. The marketing will also be high come June.

So no you can't say the same thing as the prequel made a billion dollars.