This is second part of my blog about Celebrity Prediction of 2012. Please give your feedback if you think those predictions will be true.
7. Britney Spears has a baby girl (video)
Now that she is engaged to former manager Jason Trawick, who will be husband No. 3, we wouldn’t be surprised if the “Baby One More Time” singer announces she’s expecting baby No. 3. Let’s just hope that pregnancy hormones don’t derail the amazing progress she has made since that breakdown a few years back.
8. Tom Cruise performs on Broadway (video)
In Rock of Ages, next summer's big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway jukebox musical that celebrates the '80s heyday of power ballads and glam metal, Cruise transforms into Stacee Jaxx, a superstar devotee of hair-band excess."His character has elements of Axl Rose, Keith Richards and Bret Michaels," says director Adam Shankman, calling from the film's Miami set. "We did a huge amount of research on what people were going through in this period." He also relied on personal experience. "I knew a lot of these people because my dad was a music business manager."Today, that knowledge will be put to the test as Cruise shoots his first scene, which involves wailing Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar on Me. It was the actor, a fan of Shankman's version of Hairspray with John Travolta, who first approached him with the idea of doing a movie musical together. One problem: "But I couldn't think of what musical would work with him," the director says.
But after seeing Cruise dance with wife Katie Holmes as she sang Whatever Lola Wants at a charity event last year and pull off his comedy shtick as obnoxious producer Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder and on MTV, Shankman was convinced he might be right for the Rock of Ages front man.
9. The Hunger Games is a huge hit (video)
The obvious comparison for The Hunger Games and its box office future is The Twilight Saga, but it’s worth remembering that the mega-franchise had a small start before growing into the powerhouse it is now. The first film in the series, titled simply Twilight, made $192 million domestic – a huge amount of money for something made on such a small budget, but nothing compared to what came after. Most impressively, it made $69 million of that on opening weekend, meaning that for the first film in the franchise, it was the die-hard fans already out there who made them most of their cash.
The Hunger Games may be able to do even better – it’s more about action scenes than a love triangle, and could draw in male audiences in a way that the Twilight movies never have. So while The Hunger Games will inevitably open huge no matter what – expect it to beat Twilight‘s $69 million and likely do even better – it’ll be in the following weeks, when we see if it builds on its audience, that we truly know if The Hunger Games is going to be gigantic. The ideal would be a box office something like 300‘s, which was another March opening building off a big fan base from the books. That Zack Snyder film opened to $96 million and went on to make nearly half a billion worldwide. I have no doubt that’s the dream Lionsgate executives are hoping for, and if they keep up the excellent marketing campaign, they might just be able to reach it.
10. Prince William and Kate Middleton announce their royal pregnancy
Now bookies William Hill has even slashed the odds that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will announced they are expecting their first child before the end of 2011 from 4/1 to 6/4. They are also offering 4/7 that the baby arrives in 2012 and Evens that it is a girl.
Many in England are now speculating that Kate was pregnant at the time of the wedding, but Royal gynecologist, Dr. Fritz Barnwell, said “Kate was not pregnant last Friday, the Queen had us test her to ensure that she was without child. But today, at Prince William’s request, we performed advanced pregnancy tests on Kate and we can confirm, decidedly, that she is five days pregnant
