Predicting Summer 2016's Highest Grossing Movies

1. Captain America: Civil War

Box Office Prediction: $1.6 billion Why It'll Be A Hit: Uh, it's Marvel for one, and considering that this is widely being touted as The Avengers 2.5, it's likely going to pull in an equivalent box office: if Iron Man 3 can make $1.21 billion, then a movie about superhero in-fighting is going to effortlessly leapfrog that figure, and probably beat last year's Age of Ultron, too ($1.4 billion). Its biggest obstacle is, of course, the original Avengers ($1.51 billion), but the idea of Iron Man and Cap wailing away on each other is just too delicious to ignore, and the smart #TeamCap/#TeamIronMan marketing has given the kiddies (who account for much of Marvel's audience) plenty to get tribal about. Why It Could Disappoint: There's a bigger chance of Gods of Egypt ending up as the year's highest-grossing movie than Civil War flopping, though superhero fatigue is very real, as we got a very mild taste of when everyone expected Age of Ultron to out-gross the original Avengers, and it made over $100 million less. It could certainly under-perform and pull in "only" $1.2-1.3 billion, especially as the movie's release is followed by the likes of Angry Birds, Alice and X-Men: Apocalpse (whereas The Avengers had no serious competition for weeks and weeks), but it's hard to imagine. What are your own box office predictions for summer 2016's movies? Shout them out in the comments!