Box Office Analyst: Watch summer movies soar… and burn! VIDEO - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Eastern Federal Cinemas employees still living in their mothers’ attics and hoping Mr. Symon will promote them to assistant manager one day… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

A word of warning: The following conversation is not likely to impact prospects for world peace, the fall presidential election or even global warming.

We’re talking summer movies and the potential box office, folks. It’s all in fun so please, no wagering.

If you follow movies, talking about which blockbusters will rise and fall during the summer is great sport. You want to hitch your wagon to successes, such as The Avengers, not flame out with financial black holes, like John Carter—which I loved no matter what anyone else says.
DOUG STONE audio excerpt: "Batman wins. Spider-Man's good; Spider-Man's great. I'm projecting $280 million $300 million. But The Dark Knight Rises is going to be huge. The screenings went extraordinarily well; the advance ticket sales are enormous. The polling for it is almost on par with The Avengers. We expect a huge opening. Can it beat The Avengers opening? I don't think so. But it's probably going to be the second biggest opening of all time." 
You can LISTEN to this interview with film financial analyst DOUG STONE, president of BOX OFFICE ANALYST, by clicking the audio player above!

Movie studios are approaching the summer of 2012 as they do every year, with a mixture of great anticipation and fear of grave failure. Jobs, careers and bragging rights are all on the line.

To wit:

Will the final film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, do boffo box office for Warner Bros. and DC Comics? Or will it fall short of expectations in the shadow of the humongously popular Marvel superhero adventure, The Avengers, which seemingly rewrote all the rules for its genre? And how will the Spidey reboot, The Amazing