'Wonder Woman' is your most anticipated film of summer
Wonder Woman is the most anticipated movie of summer 2017 -- so much so, that it's outpacing where Captain America: The First Avenger was at this point in the sales cycle, according to an annual survey by Fandango.
The online ticket-seller says it counted more than 10,000 online votes from April 27 to May 19, the largest response in its 17 years. Fans are asked to pick the one movie they were most looking forward to seeing, and it was Wonder Woman in a rout.
Fandango doesn't release the raw numbers, but here's how this year's crop ranked:
1. Wonder Woman 2. Spider-Man: Homecoming 3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 4. The Dark Tower 5. Dunkirk 6. Despicable Me 3 7. War For The Planet of the Apes 8. Transformers: The Last Knight 9. The Mummy 10. Baywatch
Between the hot social media reactions and now this, it's starting to look like those earliest box-office predictions -- which put Wonder Woman on par with Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor at around $65 million domestic -- might have been a little soft. (I picked Wonder Woman to hit $110 million, and stand by that number.)
We'll find out when Wonder Woman hits theaters on June 2.
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
