Entertainment Weekly - May 11, 2018

Summer Box Of fice Roller Coaster

Which movie is coming out in the next few months where you’re like, “Take my money”? Chances are

some other filmgoers think the same way. Here’s how ticket buying has gone for the past few years.BY KATIE HASTY

YOU DON’T NEED A CRYSTAL BALL OR AN INFINITY STONE TO KNOW

how summer movies might pan out at the box office (even if the

films get panned).

In middle months, when school’s out, families visit—and revisit—

dark, cool movie theaters for kid-friendly titles. In the past 10 years,

Marvel has been nearly synonymous with May. August is the time for

non-franchise titles to lead week after week in sales, even when the

numbers aren’t all thatJurassic. Spikes and troughs in domestic box

office grosses have been fairly consistent in recent years, so we etched

out what that’s looked like for the past three. How do you think

Deadpool (May),Ocean’s 8(June),The First Purge (July), orCrazy

Rich Asians (August) will fare this year?

2016

2017

2015

OVERALL GROSS

(in millions)

$400

$350

$300

$250

$200

$150

$100

$50

MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER

JUNE 511, 2015

Tomorrowland,

thenSan

Andreas, then

Spy carried

the box ofice

into June...

JUNE 1622, 2017

Cars 3 brought

more families

into theaters

two weeks after

Wonder Woman

went wide

JUNE 1723, 2016

Finding Dory

owned

the top spot for

three weeks,

before

being taken

over by other

animals in

The Secret

Life of Pets

MAY 511, 2017

Guardians

of the Galaxy

Vol. 2

Star-Lorded

over half of May

( From left )Straight Outta Compton,

Ocean’s 8, The Secret Life of Pets,

Wonder Woman, Guardians of the

Galaxy Vol. 2, Crazy Rich Asians, San

Andreas, and Jurassic World

JUNE 1218, 2015

...And then

Jurassic World

hatched

AUG. 1420, 2015

Straight

Outta

Compton

had a modest

start

but stayed

on top for

three weeks

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

: JAIMIE TRUEBLOOD/UNIVERSAL;

OCEAN’S 8

: BARRY WETCHER/WARNER BROS.;

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

: ILLUMINATION

ENTERTAINMENT AND UNIVERSAL PICTURES (2);

WONDER WOMAN

: CLAY ENOS/WARNER BROS.;

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2

:© MARVEL STUDIOS 2017

(2);

CRAZY RICH ASIANS

: SANJA BUCKO/WARNER BROS.;

SAN ANDREAS

: WARNER BROS.;

JURASSIC WORLD

: UNIVERSAL