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ig picture > spring & summer blockbusters<br />
3 Monsters University<br />
n It’s been 12 years since Pixar scored one of its biggest<br />
hits with Monsters, Inc., the story of two beasts, Sulley<br />
and Mike (John Goodman and Billy Crystal), who earn a<br />
living scaring children. That might not sound like it takes a<br />
college degree, but guess what: it does. In this prequel, a<br />
barely legal Sulley and Mike cross paths when they join the<br />
same fraternity. Can you say “keg party”? Hopefully, the<br />
kids who will make this a massive hit can’t—but if Monsters<br />
University is as massive of a success as we predict,<br />
imagine the entire Pixar campus ecstatically doing tequila<br />
shots.<br />
Opening Weekend<br />
DIRECTOR Dan Scanlon cast<br />
John Goodman, Billy Crystal,<br />
Steve Buscemi, Frank Oz,<br />
Helen Mirren RELEASE DATE<br />
June 21<br />
$82M<br />
Total Gross<br />
$310M<br />
4 Star Trek Into Darkness<br />
5 The Hangover Part III<br />
n In this sequel to 2009’s $257 million hit, the Star Fleet crew<br />
members returns to Earth to find that the fight to protect<br />
space is now being waged on their home planet. All of the<br />
cast returns as does their director J.J. Abrams—though with<br />
the news that Abrams will captain the next Star Wars, this<br />
may be his last trip on the Enterprise. Benedict Cumberbatch,<br />
the leading man in the BBC’s Sherlock, is tight-lipped about<br />
the villain he’ll play, but the Internet is holding its breath that<br />
he could be the infamous Khan. What’s more certain is that<br />
Into Darkness should match, or even slightly beat, the original<br />
film’s substantial haul.<br />
Opening Weekend<br />
DIRECTOR J.J. Abrams cast<br />
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto,<br />
Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg,<br />
John Cho, Karl Urban RELEASE<br />
DATE May 17<br />
$85M<br />
Total Gross<br />
$275M<br />
n How serious are the dudes that this is the end of the<br />
Hangover series? Director Todd Phillips has sworn that in this<br />
trilogy capper, someone dies. Sounds like a laugh riot. Phillips<br />
and the Wolf Pack have been hush-hush about what hell<br />
breaks loose in Hangover III, but rumor is the crew makes a pit<br />
stop in Tijuana—oh dear. John Goodman is new to the cast,<br />
but Heather Graham and comedian Mike Epps are scheduled<br />
to return for this final send-off. Despite starring the now Oscar-nominated<br />
Bradley Cooper, we predict that numbers will<br />
stay roughly on target with the rest of the franchise, topping<br />
off in the mid-$200 millions.<br />
Opening Weekend<br />
DIRECTOR Todd Phillips cast<br />
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms,<br />
Zach Galifianakis, Justin<br />
Bartha, Ken Jeong RELEASE<br />
DATE May 24<br />
$82M<br />
Total Gross<br />
$240M<br />
34 Boxoffice pro april <strong>2013</strong>
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