January: unless Bob Marley has suddenly become less beloved among stoners, One Love. February: Dirty Dancing is to Gen X women what Top Gun is to Gen X men. May: if Garfield connects, this one has endless potential. November: Gladiator 2.

If it’s able to hit its release date, maybe a small chance for Wicked. It’s been going for 20 years now and still plays to packed houses, with its various productions hitting around $8-$10 million a week with limited capacity. (Edit: this is all the productions combined) Though, it’s biggest drawback is going to be being a two-parter (a creative decision I personally support, but I understand why other people might not).

Saw some early footage of it at Cinemacon, seems heartwarming and fun. In that realm of live action family film mixed with CGI. Think Paddington, Clifford, and Lyle Lyle Crocodile. But I'm unsure on the title. I know IF stands for Imaginary Friend, but even when Krasinski came out to talk about it and they showed the font...it has this horror vibe in the realm of Get Out, Us, Nope with the title IF. But obviously showing the footage, it's not that at all. Don't know if it will be a hit, bomb, or just do alright.

I'm going with the longest of long shots but John Krasinski's IF. All-star cast & crew, Krasinski's been able to make an original franchise before with A Quiet Place, its not another superhero movie or nostalgia-driven reboot.

Unless it's a disaster, I could maybe see Inside Out 2 doing Finding Dory numbers.

@Steven Holmes You don't need a particularly in-depth investigation - Barbie is the most popular girls toy in history and the quality of the film, from what I've heard, is good. That's it. It also has been boosted by the 'Barbenheimer' thing.

I admit it, I didn't have faith in Barbie. For years we have seen movie after movie pushing feminism come out and movie after movie has bombed, so I figured Barbie would be the same. Studios should investigate what the difference was between those movies and Barbie because somewhere in there must be an important lesson. I think a difference is that audiences expect a Barbie movie to be that way, but they don't expect a long running franchise to suddenly jump on the trend. Also the Barbie trailers put the story first, a lot of movie trailers put the feminist messaging ahead of the story and that's not much of a selling point. We go there primarily for good stories, it is expensive for most people to go they want a good time.

Maybe in another sub because looking back at the older posts of this place, people had very little faith in Barbie.

Honestly, as much as I use that term, I think the better way to describe an unexpected massive hit is a film that will have a multi-generation appeal to pretty much everyone.

@Andrea Hyslop From the leaked trailer it doesnt look like it :(