Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24467536-20140705121253/@comment-2041242-20140830222209

With the third installment (and the forth afterwards) of the Hunger games movie the franchises will easily be in the top 15, if not top 10 best earning franchises, it is top 30 already. (1.4M with nr 25: Narnia, having earned 1.58). Add 2 more films and that francise would earn around 2.8 Million, that is an higher avarage MCU currently has, and The Hobbit Trilogy (As part of the LOTR Fransiche it is top 4) but those 2 movies together already earned... 1.9M, which is also a higher avarge then the MCU movies have.

So saying those movies (and already higher avarage franchises) would affect the numbers is just you know, a certainty. But the risk of GOTG still payed out big time, it was a succes.

(btw, Age of Extinction is box office king/queen of 2014 so far, earning over 1M, that number wont be beat by GOTG, and I think it wont be by The hobbit nor Mockingjay. Which means, only the stupid would crown GOTG king).