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The philosophy has always been that if a film does not report/leaves theatres then that is counted as $0. and is marked with that in mind

PART A: Below are 8 films due for release between this weekend and Christmas Day, along with their predicted total grosses according to a random number generator (seriously, I'm picking random numbers from within a range) 1. Halloween $100M Too Low 2. Dune $88M Too Low 3. Ron's Gone Wrong $63M Too High 4. Clifford $95M Too High 5. Ghostbusters $76M Too High 6. King Richard $46M Too Low 7. Resident Evil $26M Too Low 8. Cyrano $38M Too High PART B: Here are 10 questions: 1. Which film will be the lowest grossing? Cyrano 2. Which film will be the highest grossing without making more than $75M? Ghostbusters 3. Will exactly three films make the Domestic top 10? No 4. Will any film double its predicted gross? No 5. Will any film fail to reach half of its predicted gross? Yes 6. Will the actual combined total gross for the films be higher or lower than the predicted total gross? Lower 7. Percentage wise, what will be the best prediction? Ghostbusters 8. Percentage wise, what will be the worst prediction? Cyrano 9. Will 3 or more films open in the number 1 position? Yes 10. Will 3 or more of these films open in 4th or lower? No

Part A: 1. Will Halloween Kills to more than $40M? 1000 YES 2. Will Halloween Kills to more than $47.5M? 2000 NO 3. Will Halloween Kills to more than $32.5M 3000 YES 4. Will every day of Halloween's 3 day weekend gross more than Last Duel's total weekend gross? 4000 YES 5. Will The Last Duel gross more than 7M? 1000 NO 6. Will No Time To Time drop more than 64%? 2000 NO 7. Will Many Saints of Newark stay above Evan Hanson? 3000 NO 8. Will Lamb have a PTA above $1000? 4000 NO 9 Will Shang Chi drop more than 33%? 1000 NO 10. Will Candyman stay in the top 10? 2000 NO 11. Will Bergman Island open above The Grand Duke of Corsica? 3000 YES 12. Will The Addams Family stay in the top 4? 4000 YES 13. Will No Time To Die's Weekend total be closer to the weekend total of Venom or Halloween? 6000 HALLOWEEN Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: 1. What will Halloween Kills make for its 3 day OW? - $44,444,444 2. What will Free Guy's's percentage drop be? -44.4% 3. What will Paw Patrol's PTA be for the 3 day weekend? $444 Part C There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Halloween Kills 3. Venom: Let There Be Carnage 5. The Last Duel 7. Free Guy 9. Newark 12. Paw Patrol

Oh, Yes I have got the time zones very late this week. From next week, the thread will lock at 4pm Korean time, so 5 hours earlier than this week. That will likely be the permanent lock time going forward.

SOTM Time. This is where the big boys (or girls, or anybody) play

PART A: Below are 8 films due for release between this weekend and Christmas Day, along with their predicted total grosses according to a random number generator (seriously, I'm picking random numbers from within a range) 1. Halloween $100M 2. Dune $88M 3. Ron's Gone Wrong $63M 4. Clifford $95M 5. Ghostbusters $76M 6. King Richard $46M 7. Resident Evil $26M 8. Cyrano $38M All you have to do is predict whether the predictions above are too high, or too low. You can choose to predict for as many or as few films as you wish. If you wish to go further, you could also choose to wager that a film will make less than half or more than double the above predictions. These predictions have bigger risks and bigger rewards. Please use these words Too High - the prediction is too high Too Low - the prediction is too low Double - The film will make more than double the prediction Half - The film will make less than half the prediction Predictions will be scored as follows: Correct High/Low Prediction - 8000 points Correct Double/Half Prediction - 20000 points Incorrect High/Low Prediction - Minus 6000 points Incorrect Double/Half Prediction - Minus 15000 points PART B: Here are 10 questions: 1. Which film will be the lowest grossing? 2. Which film will be the highest grossing without making more than $75M? 3. Will exactly three films make the Domestic top 10? 4. Will any film double its predicted gross? 5. Will any film fail to reach half of its predicted gross? 6. Will the actual combined total gross for the films be higher or lower than the predicted total gross? 7. Percentage wise, what will be the best prediction? 8. Percentage wise, what will be the worst prediction? 9. Will 3 or more films open in the number 1 position? 10. Will 3 or more of these films open in 4th or lower? Predictions will be scored as follows: Number of correct answers in Part A x Number of correct answers in Part B x 1000 So if you got 6 correct in part A and 4 correct in part B, you will score: 6 x 4 x 1000 = 24,000 points for part B. There is no risk of losing points in part B. There is also the option to abstain from this question. If you state that you Abstain in this Thread, you will receive 3000 points Any player who does not predict or state abstain in this thread will lose 10000 points The Deadline is Thursday October 14th at 11:59pm (Weekend start time) Enjoy

Weekly Questions will have 13 questions, except for the weeks that don't: Part A: 1. Will Halloween Kills to more than $40M? 1000 2. Will Halloween Kills to more than $47.5M? 2000 3. Will Halloween Kills to more than $32.5M 3000 4. Will every day of Halloween's 3 day weekend gross more than Last Duel's total weekend gross? 4000 5. Will The Last Duel gross more than 7M? 1000 6. Will No Time To Time drop more than 64%? 2000 7. Will Many Saints of Newark stay above Evan Hanson? 3000 8. Will Lamb have a PTA above $1000? 4000 9 Will Shang Chi drop more than 33%? 1000 10. Will Candyman stay in the top 10? 2000 11. Will Bergman Island open above The Grand Duke of Corsica? 3000 12. Will The Addams Family stay in the top 4? 4000 13. Will No Time To Die's Weekend total be closer to the weekend total of Venom or Halloween? 6000 Bonus: 6/13 2000 7/13 4000 8/13 6000 9/13 9000 10/13 12000 11/13 16000 12/13 20,000 13/13 24,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will Halloween Kills make for its 3 day OW? 2. What will Free Guy's's percentage drop be? 3. What will Paw Patrol's PTA be for the 3 day weekend? Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. 3. 5. 7. 9. 12. Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000 2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000 4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000 6/6 - 50,000

I apologize this is late. In a tie, both are correct. Yes it is highest combined. (Let me know, if that affects your guesses.) (Not doing this for 2 years and trying to force it into life has left things a bit rustier and mistake riddled than usual. But if it works out, I can improve that for Summer next year when hopefully it can be the normal game). Sorry for delayed response, it is a mixture of Time zones, work, and getting back into the habit of doing this.

You will only miss out on gross bonuses for Bond. Will I still give/take points based on it appearing in the top 10/5. And there will be make ups in the final week

Dajk Predictions: my preseasons (with the caveat that any predictions I do for Bond won't be able to earn me any points). DOMESTIC TOP 10 1. Spider-Man: No Way Home - $465M 2. Eternals - $230M 3. No Time To Die - $164M 4. Dune - $145M 5. Matrix 4 - $140M 6. Sing 2 - $120M 7. Ghostbusters Afterlife - $115M 8. Encanto - $108M 9. West Side Story - $105M 10. House of Gucci - $85M TOP 5 WEEKENDS 1. Spider-Man: No Way Home - $188M 2. Eternals - $81M 3. No Time To Die - $62M 4. Dune - $51M 5. The Matrix 4 - $49M RFQ1: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game: A: 50M - Belfast B: 100M - West Side Story C. 150M - Dune D. 200M - Eternals RFQ2: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones for their best 3 Day Weekend by the end of the game (Only a films highest Weekend gross is eligible: A: 30M - Halloween Kills B: 45M - Matrix 4 C. 60M - No Time To Die D. 75M - Eternals RFQ3: Predict the highest grossing film of each month by the end of the game: A: October - Does Venom count? If not, NTTD B: November - Eternals C. December - Spider-Man D. January (This is the film that grosses the most from Jan 1st-17th) - Spider-Man This winter we have twelve generous risk-heavy questions to start you off: 1. How many films in the OW Top 5 will release Day and Date on a streaming service? a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 2. If Venom had been eligible for the game, where would its final total gross finish? a) Top 3 b) Top 6 c) 7th or lower 3. Which of the following Studios will have the highest grossing film? a) Sony b) MGM c) Warner Bros 4. How many films will gross more than $100M? a) 6 or fewer b) 7-8 c) 9 or more 5. Which studio will have the most films in the top 5? a) Disney b) Sony c) Warner Bros 6. Which studio will have the most films in places 6-10? a) Disney b) Universal c) Warner Bros d) Can I say Disney AND Universal with 2 each? 7. Which studio will have the most films in places 10-15? a) Universal b) Sony c) Warner Bros ABSTAIN 8. How many different films will finish 1st Domestic, 1st Top Weekend, and 1st WW? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 9. Which of the following will have the highest combined Domestic gross? a) Eternals + Encanto b) Bond + Dune c) Spider-Man + Ghostbusters 10. Which of the following will have the closest combined best weekends? a) Spider-Man + Halloween b) Matrix + Sing c) Bond + West Side Story 11. How much will the Domestic Top 10’s combined gross be? a) Less than $1.25B b) $1.25B-1.6B c) Over $1.6B 12. How much will the top 5 best Weekends’ combined gross be? a) Less than $300M b) $300M-$400M c) Over $400M

sure post here or PM, but remember they are OW milestones not Worldwide, that is a typo that got noticed earlier

So, the Week 1 and Preseason threads are locked now. However as this is only week 1 and I do want to let as many people in as possible, I will take Preseason entries from late entrants for the next couple of days if you either PM them to me or post in here. For fairness though, I think the best thing for all is that I just say you will not be eligible to make gross predictions for Bond OW or DOM. So you can still have them in your lists, but I will ignore the gross for that film only. @dajk same will apply

Part A: 1. Will No Time To Die to more than $75M? 1000 Yes 2. Will No Time To Die to more than $100M? 2000 No 3. Will No Time To Die to more than $87.5M? 3000 Yes 4. Will No Time To Die's best day be enough to take number 1 for the weekend on its own? 4000 No 5. Will Venom drop more than 54%? 1000 Yes 6. Will Addam's Family stay above $10M? 2000 No 7. Will South of Heaven open above Lamb? 3000 No 8. Will Chal Mera Putt 3 stay above Titane? 4000 No 9 Will Free Guy drop more than 50%? 1000 No 10. Will Candyman increase more than 65% on Saturday? 2000 No 11. Will Evan Hanson have a PTA above $375? 3000 Yes 12. Will Shang Chi have a smaller percentage drop than Jungle Cruise? 4000 Yes 13. Will No Time To Die's Domestic Total after Sunday be closer to the domestic total of Venom or Evan Hanson? 6000 Venom Bonus: 6/13 2000 7/13 4000 8/13 6000 9/13 9000 10/13 12000 11/13 16000 12/13 20,000 13/13 24,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will No Day To Die make for its 3 day OW? $92.2M 2. What will Venom's percentage drop be? 66.5% 3. What will Lamb's PTA be for the 3 day weekend? $1,100 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. No Time to Die 2. Venom 4. Shang-Chi 6. Free Guy 8. Lamb 10. Jungle Cruise

It does specifically say in Post two of this thread that films released in a previous month can be chosen, but only their calendar gross for the month will be counted. In that vein, you are free to choose Venom for October, but just realise that you are only picking Venom's total from this weekend onwards

No, I think there is one question that mentions Venom, but otherwise no.

As we are low on numbers, sure, but please could you lock in anything Bond related before deadline due to it releasing today. Like just Put in like Top 10 8th Bond - 95M OW Bond fourteen Dollars Or whatever and then PM me the rest of the stuff tomorrow and I will add it in. Otherwise, PM sound preseasons tomorrow but omit Bond and that can be the punishment for late entry

Yeah RFQ2 was for Best weekends. @Kalo is the only one to fall for the mistake I think, so I will give them a chance to change that prediction post deadline if they do not see it before.

This is the 6 hour warning. This is the only week where I will be super lax with deadlines because I want people to actually play. Hawaiin Midnight is in about 4 hours, so we shall make the preseason deadline be 6 hours from this post. So midday GMT I believe. Hopefully a few more enter and we can run the game. But I also understand if time/priorities/motivations have changed. Here's a good ol' member spam all the same @Jason @DAR @IronJimbo @Brainbug @matrixdmath5 @Daxtreme @4815162342 @Jake Gittes @Pandamia! @filmlover @Morieris @JamesCameronScholar @Slambros @Rorschach @Blankments @aabattery @MrPink @grim22 @Ethan Hunt @Porthos @Spagheditary @DeeCee @Wrath @Jandrew @Cmasterclay @Kalo @AndyLL @Jayhawk @Jay Hollywood @franfar @Water Bottle @Chewy @#ED @Empire @Fancyarcher @TalismanRing @captainwondyful @kayumanggi @Sam @The Futurist @Noctis @redfirebird2008 @RichWS @ddddeeee @K1stpierre @Ozymandias @a2k @The Stingray @Lordmandeep @MovieMan89 @Claire of Themyscira @tribefan695 @DAJK @Gopher @ElastiRoc @chasmmi @JJ-8 @Spidey Freak @YourMother the Edgelord @Arlborn @Nova @RobrtmanAStarWarsReference @cookie @grey ghost @lilmac @Jack Nevada @James @RandomCat @ChipMunky @elcaballero @MCKillswitch123 @angeldelmito @CaptainJackSparrow @Captain Craig @baumer @cannastop @75Live @Goffe @Tower @Napoleon @rukaio101 @Michael Gary Scott @POTUS @Walt Disney @darkelf @ChD @ShouldIBeHere @SchumacherFTW @Eevin @Alpha @Fullbuster @Mattrek @AJG @Webslinger @Kalderic @boomboom234 @vc2002 @Valonqar @Mulder @Blaze Heatnix @Shawn @sfran43 @Biggestgeekever @Thanos Legion @MrGlass2 @cax16 @Darth Lehnsherr @TLK @ACSlater @trifle @Exxdee @misafeco @Barnack @Ithil @StevenG @Finnick @Rebeccas @FantasticBeasts @CoolEric258 @Sheikh @Boxofficerules @KeepItU25071906 @LonePirate @titanic2187 @Olive @ZeeSoh @Jim Shorts @Mekanos @raulbalarezo @The Fast and the Furiosa @m3racer123 @That One Guy@SchumacherFTW @Inceptionzq @Telemachos@reddevil19 @chasmmi @grim22 @Nero @lorddemaxus

It's all good, literally doing this as a test to see if people are ready for it to be back, or if it needs to be canned and relaunched in summer. We shall see in the next few hours...

First Week Questions are up. Feels weird doing all this again. Hopefully we get more than like 4 players

Weekly Questions will have 13 questions, except for the weeks that don't: Part A: 1. Will No Time To Die to more than $75M? 1000 2. Will No Time To Die to more than $100M? 2000 3. Will No Time To Die to more than $87.5M? 3000 4. Will No Time To Die's best day be enough to take number 1 for the weekend on its own? 4000 5. Will Venom drop more than 54%? 1000 6. Will Addam's Family stay above $10M? 2000 7. Will South of Heaven open above Lamb? 3000 8. Will Chal Mera Putt 3 stay above Titane? 4000 9 Will Free Guy drop more than 50%? 1000 10. Will Candyman increase more than 65% on Saturday? 2000 11. Will Evan Hanson have a PTA above $375? 3000 12. Will Shang Chi have a smaller percentage drop than Jungle Cruise? 4000 13. Will No Time To Die's Domestic Total after Sunday be closer to the domestic total of Venom or Evan Hanson? 6000 Bonus: 6/13 2000 7/13 4000 8/13 6000 9/13 9000 10/13 12000 11/13 16000 12/13 20,000 13/13 24,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will No Day To Die make for its 3 day OW? 2. What will Venom's percentage drop be? 3. What will Lamb's PTA be for the 3 day weekend? Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. 2. 4. 6. 8. 10. Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000 2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000 4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000 6/6 - 50,000 Deadline is Thursday 11:59pm forum time.

We are entering the final week for Preseasons as deadline approaches this coming Friday. Week 1 Questions will also appear in the next day or two, @Jason @DAR @IronJimbo @Brainbug @matrixdmath5 @Daxtreme @4815162342 @Jake Gittes @Pandamia! @filmlover @Morieris @JamesCameronScholar @Slambros @Rorschach @Blankments @aabattery @MrPink @grim22 @Ethan Hunt @Porthos @Spagheditary @DeeCee @Wrath @Jandrew @Cmasterclay @Kalo @AndyLL @Jayhawk @Jay Hollywood @franfar @Water Bottle @Chewy @#ED @Empire @Fancyarcher @TalismanRing @captainwondyful @kayumanggi @Sam @The Futurist @Noctis @redfirebird2008 @RichWS @ddddeeee @K1stpierre @Ozymandias @a2k @The Stingray @Lordmandeep @MovieMan89 @Claire of Themyscira @tribefan695 @DAJK @Gopher @ElastiRoc @chasmmi @JJ-8 @Spidey Freak @YourMother the Edgelord @Arlborn @Nova @RobrtmanAStarWarsReference @cookie @grey ghost @lilmac @Jack Nevada @James @RandomCat @ChipMunky @elcaballero @MCKillswitch123 @angeldelmito @CaptainJackSparrow @Captain Craig @baumer @cannastop @75Live @Goffe @Tower @Napoleon @rukaio101 @Michael Gary Scott @POTUS @Walt Disney @darkelf @ChD @ShouldIBeHere @SchumacherFTW @Eevin @Alpha @Fullbuster @Mattrek @AJG @Webslinger @Kalderic @boomboom234 @vc2002 @Valonqar @Mulder @Blaze Heatnix @Shawn @sfran43 @Biggestgeekever @Thanos Legion @MrGlass2 @cax16 @Darth Lehnsherr @TLK @ACSlater @trifle @Exxdee @misafeco @Barnack @Ithil @StevenG @Finnick @Rebeccas @FantasticBeasts @CoolEric258 @Sheikh @Boxofficerules @KeepItU25071906 @LonePirate @titanic2187 @Olive @ZeeSoh @Jim Shorts @Mekanos @raulbalarezo @The Fast and the Furiosa @m3racer123 @That One Guy@SchumacherFTW @Telemachos@reddevil19 @chasmmi @grim22 @Nero @lorddemaxus

This is No Time To Drone On now Schu

We never had the total shutdown for cinemas here. Just that capacity was limited to like 35% (It just didn't really matter when there were no films releasing last year). As the rest of the world has opened up, we are still at the same 35% ish limit for capacity so things are not yet set to do pre Covid numbers for at least a few more months.