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That's more than X-Men and almost as much as a fucking Spider-Man movie. That's insane

I know what they say about assuming but I'd assume that the audience for EOT overlaps pretty strongly with the NBA finals, and considering that both the previews and the game started at 9, that's alot more than I honestly expected.

Last night Rth said that Fault was outdoing Edge by a ratio of 8 to 1. If so, good God.

Yep, Four MVPS, two titles, four straight finals, what a shitty reputation. I'll take it anyday.

It doesn't matter, Tele. He could have literally been fucking decapitated on the court and people would call him a pussy.

I'm NOT saying the Heat are as good as those Bulls, but the second half of that Bulls dynasty played in a diluted league damaged by overexpansion and a lack of talent in several drafts. Jordan is undoubtedly the greatest, and Pippen is somehow still the most underrated player in history, but a couple of teams could have taken them. The 86 Celtics and 87 Lakers, or the 92/93 Bulls, with a younger and more athletic Jordan, and even the 2001 Lakers, all might have been better teams.

Rth is playing incredibly hard to get at the moment with a clear answer.

Cramps literally incapacitate your muscles, fever is a completely different thing in every way. Cramps makes it so your muscles cannot function properly. It's temporary, but in the moment a bad cramp is worse than a torn fucking muscle.

1) Will Fault in our Stars have a bigger Thursday than Edge of Tomorrow? Yes 2) Will Fault in our Stars open to number one? Yes 3) Will Fault in our Stars open to more than 35 million? Yes 4) Will Fault in our Stars open to less than 45 million? No 5) Will Edge of Tomorrow open to more than 25 million? Yes 6) Will Edge of Tomorrow gross more than 80 million WW? Yes 7) Will Maleficent drop less than 50.5%? No 8) Will DOFP have a Friday increase of more than 70% Yes 9) Will DOFP drop by less than 45%? No 10) Will Godzilla increase by more than 45% on Saturday? Yes 11) Will Blended fall less than 40%? No 12) Will any film in the top 12 have a Saturday increase of more than 75%? Yes 13) Will Million Ways make more than Blended and Neighbors combined? No 14) Will Fault in our Stars have at least an A- cinemascore? Yes 15) Will Fault in our Stars open to more than 60 mill? (for all the loonies) No 12/15 3000 13/15 5000 14/15 7000 15/15 10,000 Bonus 1: What will be the combined gross of Fault and Edge? 5000 78.2 Bonus 2: What will Godzilla's drop be this weekend? 5000 50.24 Bonus 3: What will be the best Friday increase % wise? (not the film, but the actual number...so if you think Million Ways to die will have the best Friday increase, and you think it will increase 97.55%, your answer will simply be 97.55%, I don't need the movie) 5000 104.2 What finishes in spots: 1 Fault 2 Maleficent 3 Edge 8 Blended 12 Belle 15 HFR

I am the only one on the Batman team with a Batman tattoo. Does this make me the team captain, or the team mascot?

Good god, that killed him! As God as my witness, he is broken in half!

NOOOOOOO! Baseless speculation and extrapolation from imaginary numbers is leaving us!

2. X-Men 7. Godzilla

So, A Million Ways to Flop In The West is just too damn easy, isn't it? Gotta get ready for this weekend.

I think DeHaaning might be BOF's best chance to penetrate mass culture. Shawn and Tele need to start tweeting it to their legions of devoted followers and turn it into a global sensation ASAP.

1) Will Maleficent open to more than 60 mill? Yes 2) Will Million Ways open to more than 33 mill? No 3) Will Grand Seduction have a theater average of more than $4500? No 4) Will Grand Seduction finish in the top 25? Yes 5) Will X-men fall less than 62.5%? Yes 6) Will Million Dollar Arm make more than ASM2 and The Other Woman, combined? Yes 7) Will Maleficent have a WW weekend of more than 135 mill? Yes 8) Will any film (not including any films that might have expanded in theater count by more than 100 theaters) have a Friday increase of more than 100%? Yes 9) Will Million Ways make more than X-men? No 10) Will Million Ways and Maleficent combine to make more than 4 million from Thursday shows? Yes 11) Will Blended drop less than 50%? No 12) Will any Memorial Day film that finished in the top 5 fall less than 50%? No 13) Will Godzilla fall less than 6% on Thursday? No 14) Will ASM2 fall less than 5% on Thursday? No 12/14: 3000 13/14: 5000 14/14: 7000 Bonus 1: What will Godzilla's Saturday's gross be? 4000 5.68 Bonus 2: What will the combined gross of Million Ways and Maleficent be? 5000 82.4 Bonus 3: If you add up the % drops of TOW, Blended and Neighbors, what is your total? 5000 (so if TOW drops 50%, Blended drops 50% and Neighbors drops 50%, your answer is 150%) 156.4 Bonus 4: What finishes in spots: 10 Chef 12 Belle 15 Divergent 16 Cap 17 GBH

I volunteer for tribute and immediately survive half the game because I follow Jandrew on Twitter.

Everything I could say has already been said, but after making sure to watch it twice and let it sit in my mind a few days, I can likely say that I liked this more than Godzilla- or any other summer blockbuster since TDKR. In fact, there's a chance that this is my favorite non-Nolan Batman superhero movie ever. This film is a masterclass in pacing, and it is an exemplary display of a balance between wit, character, and high stakes without the sacrifice of anyone of them. Avengers is fun as hell, so I'm not hating, but in that, all of NYC is destroyed by aliens, and there's not one moment of awe, wonder, levity, or emotional devastation. It's all explosions and RDJ quipping "har har, I'm Iron Man, screw these aliens, let's eat Shawarma." This movie plunges into darkness and devastation without ever losing the sense of humor or fun. Every scene has stakes, and every major character makes you care. And the socio-poitical themes, while basic, continue to be the most fascinating and realistic commentary on how the idea of "superheroes" would really be treated in a non-comic world America. Singer nailed it.

This weekend was supernaturally gorgeous. Why would anyone spend it inside a theater? Not making excuses for a depressed weekend, I'm just saying.

Smallest Opening Weekend: Earth to Echo Best Midnights: Jump Street Best OD: Jump Street

Hey, don't generalize John Marston like that. He thinks EVERY movie is overpredicted.

Next weekend should be pretty strong for the last weekend of May, because I fully expect Maleficent to overperform hugely (50+) and DOFP to hold well. Maleficent has alot of buzz around me and the Disney fiends are going to rush out in storm- it looks like the worst movie of the summer to me, but hey, always good to have hits. Anyone have tracking for it?

That drop for Godzilla is fucking AWFUL, and I say that as one of the movie's biggest defenders. WOM from people I know is mixed, but not in the TASM2 mixed sense where everyone just says "meh," Godzilla is mixed in half of the people thought it was fucking awesome, and the other half hated it with a passion. Two years for now, an off-topic weekend numbers thread in September is sure to be derailed further by a 20 page debate about this movie.

Great to hear but it's 6:30 on the East Coast. I know RTH is a god and all, but even for a god it's hard to tell how a weekday night is going when even the East Coast just got home a half hour ago and all.

It is. I'm not denying that. But FF6 still did 97 million despite having a lower 10PM than DOFP. I don't see X-Men being any more frontloaded than Fast, a franchise that has proven to be incredibly frontloaded in more recent times and has a much younger skewing audience.