Cloudy with a chance 2 bombed? That's disappointing.

Desolation of Smaug will decrease from the first, no doubt. The question is,will it be enough for Catching Fire to beat it?

I'm a bit surprised that not even one user has faith in Frozen in the thread's poll,since it's a very good contender at being the best performer during the end of November,all of December,and the beginning of January. It's getting very good reviews and will have 0 competition regarding its demographic.

It will end up just below TDKR and won't even come close to its overall gross.

It pretty much has been released everywhere the only remaining release is Japan on February 1. 

What do you think of Frozen?

The critics love it looks like it will be the best animated movie of the year doubt it will earn more then DM2 though.  My guess is that next year the highest grossing and best animated movie will be How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Nope.  Didn't quite make what the first did, but only off by like 30 million.  Can't even say it was a dud, since it made MORE relative to its budget than the first one.  

First one - 100 million dollar budget, 243 million total, worldwide
Second one - 78 million dollar budget, 207 million total, worldwide (and counting)

Keep in mind, the second one is still in theaters, so once its worldwide run has concluded, it'll be almost perfectly in line with the first one, at a 22 million dollar difference in budget.  So no, not a bomb. 

As for Catching Fire, yeah, looks like estimates will have it down around 157 or 158; BoxOffice Mojo almost always goes a few percent above the actuals. 

Just Japan, and I agree that it won't make 700M now. 

Those estimates are official studio estimates, Box Office Mojo just copies them to its site.

Doesn't matter, he was right.  Ended up jsut below The Dark Knight at 158.1 million opening weekend.  

Still an amazing opening!