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2015 Summer Box Office Predictions

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3. Inside Out – $300M – June 19

We didn’t get a new Pixar film in 2014 so the anticipation for this is pretty huge. It might feel like a gamble to say Inside Out is going to hit $300M (only two other Pixar films ever have, Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo) but there are fewer groups that have had such a good summer track record as Pixar has. With a great voice cast that includes Amy Poehler, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling and an emotional core that is the bread and butter of Pixar, I think this is going to be huge…
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2. Minions – $325M – July 10

…but, not as huge as this. I’ll be pretty surprised if Minions doesn’t end up being the biggest animated hit of the year. When Despicable Me 2 destroyed its predecessors box office by over $100M in 2013, the minions went from side-players to major players. Their popularity is bigger than ever and people have been waiting for them to get their own film. Minions will be giants.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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