Monday Movie Roundup...7/15/2013

I think one of the biggest stories from the weekend is that Pacific Rim did well, just not as well as Grown Ups 2...

...but only in this country, where GU2 made an estimated $42.5 million in the U.S. vs. PR's estimated $38.3.

Internationally, however, things turned out quite differently:

Grown Ups 2 only made roughly $1.7 million in the foreign market.
Pacific Rim made about $53 million.

So from a worldwide perspective PR made around $91.3 million, compared to GR2's $44.2.

I'm not sure what that means, but I'll tell you two things -
* Mrs. Adorkification wants to see Pacific Rim...in the theater.
* There's going to be a lot more PR cosplayers than GU2 cosplayers in the near future.

Man of Steel is still in the top 10 (at #10...but that's beside the point).

Iron Man 3 (which came out the first weekend in May) is still in the top 25.

As for The Lone Ranger...

...it remains in the top 5 after two weekends, but has yet to break even on its $215 million budget. Even internationally, which is at just over $119.1 million as of today. I have no idea what Hollywood (or Hollywood reporters for that matter) define as a flop or bomb, but if TLR doesn't make its money back soon it  could very well be one...if it isn't already.

And finally, it looks like FOX isn't going to give up the X-Franchise anytime soon, as they're in talks of making as X-Force spin-off of X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Now, I don't know if they're going with this...

...or this...

...or this...

...or this...

...or even this...

...but all I want is continuity. Which is basically all I ever wanted in my comics...and comic movies...