Predicting The Next 10 Movies That Will Make Over $1 Billion

3. Transformers 5

If the progression of the Transformers series can be used to predict where the next installment will go, expect Transformers 5 to be a four-hour-long sequence of up-skirt shots, American flags and product placement, incessantly intercut with explosions, all at sunset in one continuous rotating shot. In China. And even that would make over a billion dollars. It's one of those sad facts about the modern movie industry that, even with the likes of Avengers and Star Wars promising genuinely exciting experiences, one of the most creatively-vapid franchises to ever trash the silver screen is just as dependable at the box office. At least now we're at the point where people aware it's mindless tat for the lowest common denominator - no one older than a pre-pubescent teen goes into Michael Bay's explosion-porn exercises expecting anything remotely good. The big boost to Transformer's box office is the ever-growing Chinese market - Age Of Extinction made more money there than it did in America (clearly the inexplicable jump to Hong Kong for the third act paid off). In fact, the Chinese box office is becoming increasingly important, so expect more movies to pander to its tastes in the future.