Crunching The Numbers On Summer Movies 2011

CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS SUMMER MOVIES 2011 Esquire COLUMN FIVE BLOCKBUSTERS BY (RUMORED) BUDGET Thor $150 million (May 6): Pirates of the Caribbean: $200 million On Stranger Tides (May 20) X-Men: First Class $120 million June 3) Super 8 $50 million June 10) Green Lantern $150 million (June 17) Transformers: Dark of the Moon (July 1) $400 million Harry Potter and the Deathly $250 million Hallows: Part 2" (July 15) Captain America: $140 million The First Avenger (July 22) Cowboys &t Aliens: $100 million July 29) Rise of the Planet of the Apes $90 million (August 5) Conan the Barbarian A $110 million (August 19) *for both parts NUMBER OF SUMMER RELEASES BY STUDIO FEMS Lionsgate 2 Paramount 5 Sony 20th Century Fox Universal UNIVERSAL 4 Walt Disney PICTURES Warner Bros