Estimating the 60 Highest Grossing 2015, 2016, 2017,2018 and 2019 Films

Highest Grossing 2015 Estimate:
(The Theory of Everything, Birdman, John Wick and Big Hero 6, included in 2014 but released in 2015 in UK)

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens > $1b
2. The Avengers: Age Of Ultron > $1b
3. The Hunger Games: Mokingjay part 2 ~$900m
4. Spectre ~$900m
5. Fast and Furious 7 ~$800m
6. Ant-man ~$750m
7. Jurassic World ~ $750m
8. Mission Impossible 5 ~$700m
9. Terminator: Genisys ~ $700m
10. Pan ~ $700m


11. Inside Out
12. Minions
13. The Fantastic 4
14. Cinderella
15. Insergent
16. Taken 3
17. Kingsman: The Secret Service
18. Pitch Perfect 2
19. Tomorrowland
20. Jupiter Asending


21. Ted 2
22. Kung Fu Panda 3
23. The Good Dinosaur
24. Spongebob Square Pants
25. The Jungle Book
26. 50 Shades of Grey
27. Point Break
28. Spy
29. Magic Mike XXL
30. The Transporter Legacy


31. San Andreas
32. Chappie
33. Grimsby
34. Mad Max: Fury Road
35. London Has Fallen
36. Goosebumps
37. Hotel Transylvania 2
38. Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
39. Peregrine's Home for Perculars
40. Monster Trucks


41. The Man from U.N.C.L.E
42. Paper Towns
43. B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations
44. Strange Magic
45. The Peanuts Movie
46. Hitman Agent 47
47. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
48. Ex Machina
49. Entourage
50. Train Wreck


51. Victor Frankenstein
52. The Martian
53. Crimson Peak
54. The Wedding Ringer
55. Pixels
56. Get Hard
57. Mordecai
58. Black Hat
59. Into the Heart of the Sea
60. Seventh Son

and these:

The Woman in Black 2

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Everest

Selfless

Insidious: Chapter 3

Poltergeist

The Boy Next Door

The Guman

Amityville: The Awakening

The Kitchen Sink

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Focus

Passengers
The Walk
The Little Prince

Highest Grossing 2016 Estimate:

1. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Star Wars Spin Off
4. Transformers 5
5. X-Men: Apocolypse
6. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
7. Planet of the Apes 3
8. Avatar 2
9. Finding Dory
10. Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass


11. Star Trek 3
12. Suicide Squad
13. Dr Strange
14. The Bourne Betrayal
15. Skull Island
16. The Sinister Six
17. Deadpool
18. Warcraft
19. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
20. Now You See Me: The Second Act


21. Allegiant Part 1
22. Assasins Creed
23. Prometheus 2
24. Mechanic: Resurrection
25. Jungle Book: Origins
26. Ice Age 5
27. The Huntsman
28. The Adventures of TinTin: Red Rackham's Treasure
29. Lego Nijago
30. The BFG


31. Tarzan
32. Independence Day 2
33. Uncharted
34. The Mummy
35. The Fifth Wave
36. Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur
37. Hail, Cesar!
38. The Nut Job 2
39. Ride Along 2
40. Angry Birds


41. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
42. The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
43. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
44. N/A

Highest Grossing 2017 Estimate:

1. Star Wars Episode VIII
2. Justice League Part One
3. Guardians of the Galaxy 2
4. Thor: Ragnarok
5. Black Panther
6. Wolverine 3
7. Toy Story 4
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tails
9. Wonder Woman
10. Avatar 3


11. Allegiant Part 2
12. Terminator
13. Fantastic Four 2
14. Pacific Rim 2
15. Despicable Me 3
16. Lego Batman
17. How to Train Your Dragon 3
18. The Croods 2
19. Medusa
20. Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas


21. Captain Underpants
22. N/A

Highest Grossing 2018 Estimate:

1. Avengers: Infinity War Part I
2. Star Wars Spin Off
3. X-Men
4. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2
5. Avatar 4
6. Captain Marvel
7. The Flash
8. Aquaman
9. Inhumans
10. Managascar 4


11. The Lego Movie 2
12. Godzilla 2
13. Terminator
14. Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves
15. N/A

Highest Grossing 2019 Estimate:

1. Avengers: Infinity War Part II
2. Star Wars Episode IX
3. Justice League Part Two
4. Shazam
5. N/A

MUSIC NEWS - Oui Oui Si SI Ja Ja Da Da...The Greatest Album Name Ever

Ok, after the music overload of last week, I have found a whacking great number of news stories. 1, to be precise...

Madness Preview Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da
Very soon, Madness will be releasing their awesomely named new album Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da. To drum up a bit of excitement for the album, you can now listen to 5 tracks from the upcoming album if you have spotify. Click here to have a look.

Will see you next week, hopefully with a bit more to talk about...
Tom

MUSIC NEWS - Mahoosive Round-Up

Long time, no music! I'm sorry we haven't been keeping Crash Hub up to date over the past few weeks, we've been busy...being busy! But hey, we're back, and we're hoping to broaden Crash Hub out a bit and bring you a bit more exciting info, reviews and general opinions.
Anyways, music. Now for a blitz of everything I've missed over the donkey year we haven't been blogging...

Adele Does Bond
While writing this I'm listening to Adele's knew single Skyfall, which is to be the theme tune for the upcoming  Bond film of the same title. I'd say the best word to describe it is probably "fine". It's a pretty average Bond anthem, and does nothing new to try and be a bit more creative as Jack White and Alicia Key's Another Way To Die did for Quantum of Solace. However, it's very traditional, and is a welcome addition to the 007 playlist.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Labrinth and Emili Sandé Duet
Labrinth's new single featuring Emili Sandé, Beneath Your Beautiful, has landed. And again, it is something radically different from what Lab has done before. I personally really like it, and the addition of Emili Sandé is an absolute treat. My only criticism would be that the video is pretty dull, but this doesn't hinder the music at all.

Brian May and Kerry Ellis Go Unplugged

Legendary Queen axe-man Brian May and West End star Kerry Ellis are embarking on another tour together this November. The duo will be performing 11 intimate, acoustic gigs across the country to raise money for the Born Free Foundation.

May and Ellis will also be releasing a cover of the classic song Born Free, the theme tune written by John Barry from the 1966 film of the same name.

For more on this story, click here.

Masses and Masses and Masses of Albums OUT NOW

While I was away, alot of new stuff has hit the shelves. The biggest one has probably been Muse's rather unpredictable The 2nd Law; but lots of other cool stuff has appeared including Ellie Goulding's Halcyon, Diana Krall's Glad Rag Doll, Van Morrison's Born To Sing: No Plan B, The Overtones' Higher,  Richie Sambora's Aftermath of the Lowdown, The Killers' Battle Born and Green Day's ¡Uno!.

Madness New Album Release Date

Madness' new album Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da has now got a release date. The album, which features the single Death of a Rude Boy, will be released on the 29th October.

Ok, I think I've covered everything, even if it is all a bit a brief. If you feel I've missed something, let us know in the comments...

Tom :)

THE CRUNCH - A Little Deduction...

The game is afoot!
We are still a year away from the third series of BBC's Sherlock, but we already have some clues as to what the show's next season will entail; Rat, Wedding and Bow.
So I've been doing a little detective work of my own, trawling through the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and this is my final report on the case.

Rat
This is probably the hardest of the three words to figure, as none of the original Sherlock Holmes stories include a Rat. Doyle uses dogs, snakes and even seaweed as murder weapons, but on no story does a rat bare any relevance.
Of course, there are a few obscure references. In The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, Holmes refers to another case involving "the giant rat of Sumatra". Could this tangent be the source of the first episode?
Or, it could be possible that this will be a completely new story. In series 1 we had The Blind Banker, which wasn't linked to any particular short story or novel. Maybe we're going to see a return to this form. But this seems unlikely considering we know that the story will be based at least partly on The Adventure of the Empty House.
To be honest, I'm bluffing. This clue has got me completely stumped.

Wedding
Ah ha! This ones a bit easier. There are three main stories that stand out for weddings:
In A Case of Identity, a wedding is aborted at the last minute when the groom mysteriously disappears. In The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor it is the bride who disappears, this time after the ceremony. And in The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, a woman is nearly forced to make her vows.
While any of these could be the source for the second episode, I think there is a much more likely candidate.
Each series has had one episode based on one of Doyle's epic novels. Series 1 opened with A Study In Pink (An interpretation of A Study In Scarlet) and in Series 2 we were treated to The Hounds of Baskerville (inspired by The Hound of the Baskervilles). So, I'm hedging my bets on an adaptation of The Sign Of Four, the story in which Watson meets his future wife and becomes engaged.
Steven Moffat has said ever since the first series of Sherlock that he has wanted to explore Watson's marriage and his emigration from 221B. This theme has already been explored satirically and successfully by Guy Richie's film adaptation Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game Of Shadows, and could this have prompted the Moff to bring this story arc to his modern-day interpretation?

Bow
The obvious piece of Sherlock Holmes history that this points to is Doyle's penultimate short story collection, His Last Bow, at the end of which Holmes retires from detective-work all together. Moffat has already confirmed that this series will end in another cliff-hanger that will top the fall of Series 2. Maybe Holmes' retirement is linked to this cliff-hanger in some way.
His Last Bow is also the title of one of the short stories from this anthology. Unlike most of the other Sherlock Holmes stories, it is written in the 3rd person, and not from the point of view of John Watson. Bow is also unlike other Sherlock Holmes stories in that it is a spy story, and not a murder mystery. Could the season finale revolve around an espionage story more suited James Bond or Jason Bourne?

Those are my predictions for the next series of Sherlock. What do you guys make of the clues? Let us know in the comments.
Tom :)

GAME NEWS - Dead Island 2 and Skyrim DLC

GTA V
More screen shots


There has now been 10 screen shots and they seem to point to there being more then one main character!

Dead Island 2?
The developers are working on a new title set in the medieval times, Zombies maybe!

Skyrim DLC

A new DLC called Heartfire on the xbox 360 on the 4th of September for 400 Microsoft points. You buy your own land then your build your house with things such as a green house, library, alchemy lab etc. You can also have gardens, fish hatcherys and bee hives. You can even adopt children and hire a steward witch can get materials and build stuff for you for money.

Pokemon in proper graphics!


Kieron :O

TV GALLERY - Doctor Who Christmas Special 2012

Here's some new stills from this year's Christmas Special of Doctor Who, featuring pictures of new companion Jenna-Louise Coleman.

Who takes a festive return to the Victorian era.

Jenna-Louise Coleman. We know that her character doesn't originate from the Victorian era, so how did she get there? And where did she get the appropriate clothes?

The background looks a bit TARDIS-like, could it be she travelled with the Doctor there?

Matt Smith sporting a new suit.

And finally, the ever-sinister hooded man! Spooky!

Tom :)

TV NEWS - Lots of 'Who', and a Little Bit of 'Sherlock'

Lots of Who News!

Something Doctor Who is very good at is releasing lots and lots of trailers that all show the same thing. And we have another one for you, showing all the same scenes you've already seen from the first episode, Asylum of the Daleks. However, what this new trailer does have, and about time too, is a return to Murray Gold's theme I Am The Doctor, which was established in the soundtrack of series 5, and was used nowhere near enough in series 6.

Now forget about the Daleks briefly, because we also have photos from this year's Christmas special. You can see them in our gallery here.

And finally, we have a release date for the new series! Asylum of the Daleks will air on the 1st September. To view our full episode guide to the new series, click here.

And The BBC are releasing a mini online series of teasers leading up to the start every day see episode 1 here!

Sherlock Hints

Last year, Sherlock show-runners released the words "Adler, Hound and Reichenbach" as hints to what each episode could include. And they've done the same this year; "Rat, Wedding, Bow". It seems they're a bit more cryptic this time round, so I'll speculate in this weeks Crunch. Look out for it on Friday!

What do you think of the Sherlock clues? Let us know in the comments.

Tom :)