Big week/weekend coming up!
Lone Ranger is projecting to get $70m for the weekend. that is weak!!! I believe Lone Ranger is planned too be a trilogy. Maybe it'll reach $200m at most. Reviews are not good.
Is it over for Monsters U? DM2 is projected to be a huge success. It might halt the success of Monsters U. MU had a chance to get to $300, but now it probably will not.
Or, maybe DM2 is crazy to open so close to a very successful MU. Maybe DM2 will lose audience because of MU.

I am gonna do my best to support Star Trek this weekend. Taking my wife to see it. Hopefully it'll have more legs to catch up to the final tally of the first Star Trek

I'm quite pleased with MU's performance. Keeping first for two weeks is also a nice touch. I wonder how well MU will do in comparison to MI. MI grossing 560+ Million isn't bad, but I don't see this getting anything over 600 Million. (If that's even possible.)

I'm hoping MU beats out DM2 in the end, though...

I predict that after this weekend, the box-office will start to suffer and suffer a lot till November.
Maybe Elysium and chance of meatballs 2 will be somewhat successful.

November and December look excellent though

I'm pretty sure that DM2 will do better then Lone Ranger on its opening weekend not only because it opens in 200 more theater but because its a much better movie. Their is no way that Lone Ranger will become a trilogy it pretty much is going to bomb with a $250 million dollar budget and probably another $100 million dollars in advertising it has to make over $700 million dollars to be considered somewhat successful and to match Django Unchained it would have to make over a billion dollars at the box office.

If it wasn't for MU, DM2 would have been a $400M dom. movie.

There is so much competition when it comes to CGI animated movies its going to be a while before there will be another one that will make $400 million dollars domestically.

Finding Dory will make it

Looked at boxofficemojo's summer movies article, and they predicted that Lone Ranger would only make only $135m domestically. They are correct. Lone Ranger is dead already - predicted now to make $43m for the weekend.
DM2 is breaking records and just destroyed MU2. Disney got hammered!

1. Despicable Me 2 (Universal) NEW [Runs 3,957]
Wednesday $34.3M
2. The Lone Ranger (Disney) NEW [Runs 3,904]
Wednesday $9.6M
3. Monsters University (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [Runs 4,004]
Wednesday $5.4M
4. The Heat (Fox) Week 1 [Runs 3,181]
Wednesday $5.2M
5. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (Summit/Lionsgate) NEW [Runs 876]
Wednesday $4.7M

1. Despicable Me 2 (Universal) NEW [Runs 3,957]
Wednesday $34.3M, Thursday $23.5m (-33%)
2. The Lone Ranger (Disney) NEW [Runs 3,904]
Wednesday $9.6M, Thursday $9.7M (+1%)
3. The Heat (Fox) Week 1 [Runs 3,181]
Wednesday $5.2M, Thursday $7.0M (+22%)
4. Monsters University (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [Runs 4,004]
Wednesday $5.4M, Thursday $4.9M (-7%)
5. World War Z (Paramount) Week 2 [Runs 3,607]
Wednesday $3.9M, Thursday $4.2M (+8%)
6. White House Down (Columbia/Sony) Week 1 [Runs 3,222)
Wednesday $2.6M, Thursday $3.4M (+34%)
7. Man Of Steel (Legendary/Warner Bros) Week [Runs 2,965]
Wednesday $2.3M, Thursday $3.0M (+30%)
8. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (Summit/Lionsgate) NEW [Runs 876]
Wednesday $4.7M, Thursday $2.7M (-43%)

$385M dom. is in play for DM2, so is $1b. WW.