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2026 is stacked. Here are my quick-hit worldwide box office predictions for the biggest tentpoles.

The Billion Dollar Club

• Avengers: Doomsday: $1.6B - $1.8B. RDJ as Doom is the biggest cultural event since Endgame.
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day: $1.2B - $1.4B. Spidey prints money, prime summer release guarantees a massive haul.
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: $1.2B - $1.4B. Illumination + Nintendo nostalgia is an unstoppable combo.

The Heavy Hitters

• Toy Story 5: $900M - $1.0B. Pixar's safest, most bankable franchise. Gonna make a little less than the last but will still be huge
• Dune: Part Three: $750M - $900M. Has to fight Avengers but has exclusive IMAX screens in December, and the momentum is huge.
• Michael: $800M - $950M. The global appeal for this biopic is astronomical due to good audience reviews.
• Moana (Live-Action): $700M - $800M. Standard Disney live-action money, but could be hurt slightly by remake fatigue.

The Wildcards

• The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: $600M - $750M. Riding the strong momentum of the last prequel.
• Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: $450M-$550M The return of Star Wars to theaters, but Disney+ saturation might cap its ceiling and also franchise fatigue is real.
• Supergirl: $550M - $650M. The first real major test of the new DCU's drawing power.
• Project Hail Mary: $650M - $680M. Other projections says its gonna cross 700 milion. I just don't see it happening. Its already run out of fuel.
• Clayface: $250M - $400M. R-rated DC body horror. Has serious breakout potential if word-of-mouth is strong.
• Street Fighter: $250M - $400M. Legendary needs to absolutely nail the tone to cash in on the video game boom.
• Mortal Kombat II: $150M - $250M. R-rated gore limits the general audience, but the core fans will show up and its obviously gonna gross more that its predecessor.

​Hear me out. Adapting BF into movies means ditching the pure sandbox chaos (imagine trying to film 64 players just running in circles and spamming C4) and actually building a cinematic universe. Instead of one generic war flick, each era could lean into a diff subgenre.

​Here’s my breakdown of how the mainline games could translate to theaters and what they’d realistically pull globally tbh.

​BF 1942

Basically a massive ensemble epic jumping across WWII fronts—Wake Island, El Alamein, etc. Vibe is The Longest Day meets Midway. Probably pulls around $550 mil. WWII epics always do well internationally, but w/o one massive lead actor, it kinda caps out.

​BF Vietnam

Has to be a super gritty, psychological R-rated jungle movie. Hueys, napalm, and obv a lot of CCR. Vibe: Apocalypse Now with modern action pacing. Probably hits $320 mil. Darker war films usually see a modest but solid ROI.

​BF 2

A tense geopolitical thriller focused on the Strike at Karkand map. MEC vs US/China over oil. Heavy on tank battalions and jet dogfights. Peak dad-movie energy. Think Black Hawk Down. $480 mil easy.

​BF 2142

Sci-fi blockbuster set during the Ice Age. The 3rd act is literally just them boarding and blowing up a Titan. Vibe: Snowpiercer x Edge of Tomorrow. Could def be a huge four-quadrant hit. $750 mil.

​Bad Company

Action-comedy following Marlowe, Sweetwater, Haggard, and Redford going AWOL for merc gold. Three Kings meets The A-Team. Fully destructible sets. Def a crowd-pleaser, prob pulls $420 mil.

​BF 3

The Fault Line campaign. Hyper-realistic, globe-trotting race to stop nukes in Paris & NY. Zero Dark Thirty x Mission Impossible. High-stakes terrorism plots always dominate. Massive $850 mil blockbuster.

​BF 4

Just pure "Levolution" on the big screen. Naval warfare, a typhoon, and the Siege of Shanghai skyscraper collapsing. Basically a massive Michael Bay wet dream. Prob the highest grossing popcorn flick of the bunch at $900 mil.

​Hardline

Total departure. Gritty Miami cops vs cartel. Very Heat or Sicario. Makes sense as a cheaper spin-off rather than a mainline tentpole. $280 mil.

​BF 1

Anthology film showing the sheer terror of WWI. Trenches, the Harlem Hellfighters, dreadnoughts, and zeppelins. 1917 x Dunkirk. Would command massive critical hype and def grab Oscars. $700 mil.

​BF V

Focuses on the untold covert ops/sabotage side of WWII (Norway heavy water plant, etc). Inglourious Basterds vibes. Tighter and more focused than 1942. Prob $400 mil.

​BF 2042

Post-apocalyptic No-Pats fighting over scraps. The plot is w/e, but the massive set pieces with tornadoes tearing thru the map would be visually insane in IMAX. Mad Max: Fury Road vibes. $650 mil.

​TL;DR: The modern/sci-fi ones (BF3, BF4, 2142) would absolutely print money as CGI blockbusters, but the historical ones (BF1, Vietnam) would be the actual critical darlings. BC would be the fun sleeper hit