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Okay, I am going to write out a little bit on each film in 1997, going weekend by weekend from the BOM weekend section of 1997. I find revisiting a year in film is tough to do as there are many hidden films so I hope this will be helpful. A lot of the limited release films say 1996 on the Wikipedia page, so I made a mention of that. I have already omitted about 4 movies that has BOM saying it was nominated for documentary or foreign film for the 1996 year. I do not think those ones count. Let me know if any others do not count, but I will include them for now. Here we go month by month. JANUARY 1997 Week 1: Jan 3rd - Jan 5th Michael (1996) repeats at number one from the weekend before, dropping 30.3% and eventually making 95.32 million. Boxofficemojo shows one film being released called Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern which is a documentary, but it says it was nominated for a 1995 Academy Award so this is one of the ones that will not count. The rest will not be mentioned. Week 2: Jan 10th - Jan 12th The Relic Paramount Horror Movie opens at #1 in January First creature feature of 1997, next is Anaconda 9.06 million OW, 33.96 million total 60 million budget, 33% on Rotten Tomatoes Based on best selling novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relic_(film) Jackie Chan’s First Strike #6 on weekend 1996 release in Hong Kong Distributed and re-edited by New Line 5.78 million OW, 15.32 million total 52% Rotten Tomatoes Known as Police Story 4: First Strike 4th highest domestic film in Hong Kong as of today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Story_4:_First_Strike Turbulence #8 on weekend MGM Conair is the next plane hostage film of 1997 4.46 million OW, 11.54 million total 55 million budget, 17% Rotten Tomatoes Razzie nomination – Worst Actress, Most Reckless film Became a trilogy with 2 direct to video sequels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_(1997_film) Week 3: Jan 17th - Jan 20th Beverly Hills Ninja and Metro open in the #1 and #2 spots as poorly reviewed comedies that ended up grossing almost the same amount. Beverly Hills Ninja #1 movie – Sony (Tristar) 12.22 million OW, 31.48 million total 31.50 million budget, 14% Rotten Tomaotes Direct to video sequel - Dancing Ninja (2010) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Ninja Metro Buena Vista (#2 on weekend) 11.41 million OW, 32.00 million total 55 million budget, 15% Rotten Tomatoes Two Thumbs Up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(1997_film) Albino Alligator Mirimax films (not ranked) 0.34 million total Hostage Thriller, 47% Rotten Tomaotes Kevin Spacey directorial debut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino_Alligator WEEK 4: JAN 24TH - JAN 26TH Jerry Maguire regained first place by falling 16.1% to 5.52 million and ended up with 153.92 million. Fierce Creatures Universal (#8 spot) 3.76 million OW, 9.38 million total 25 million budget, 53% Rotten Tomatoes Farcical comedy Spiritual successor to A Fish Called Wanda Shooting began in 1995, reshoots = delay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierce_Creatures Zeus and Roxanne MGM (#10 spot) 2.76 million OW, 7.23 million total 50% Rotten Tomatoes Dog & Dolphin relationship Arnold Vosloo on cast list (The Mummy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_and_Roxanne Prefontaine Buena Vista (small release) 0.59 million total 8 million budget, 59% Rotten Tomatoes 70’s period film, autobiographical Olympic Runner Jared Leto as Steve Prefontaine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefontaine_(film) Koyla Indian action thriller Foreign limited release Highest opening weekend record at that time in India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyla Reggie’s Prayer 2.6 million budget Limited release Football drama http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117457/ WEEK 5: JAN 31ST - FEB 2ND Star Wars (Special Edition) takes the January opening weekend record with a 35.91 million opening weekend and totals out at 138.26 million. Gridlock’d Gramercy (#10 spot) 2.68 million OW, 5.57 million total 5 million budget, 88% Rotten Tomatoes Tupac was murdered 4 months prior to release About Detroit heroin addicts (taboo) Taboo ‘smack’ follow up to 1996’s Trainspottin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock'd Meet Wally Sparks Trimark (#13 spot) 2.13 million OW, 4.07 million total 14% Rotten Tomatoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_Wally_Sparks Shadow Conspiracy Buena Vista (#16 spot) 1.37 million OW, 2.31 million total 45 million budget, 0% Rotten Tomatoes DVD release 2003 Filmed in 19 days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Conspiracy johns (1996?) First Look (limited) 50k total 1996 release? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_(film) Waiting for Guffman Sony Classics (limited) Mockumentary 2.92 million 4 million budget, 91% Rotten Tomatoes Nominated for- AFI - 100 years…..100 laughs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Guffman

@That One Guy

no Star Wars trilogy extended, right? that would ruin the top 3.

Turbulence and Con Air in the same year. Same as Volcano and Dante's Peak. Next year....Deep Impact/Armageddon.

the box office guru archives start in July of 1997. I always wanted to read what came before. Anyone have any sources they know of where they read analysis that date before the beginnings of box office guru?

what about The Relic?

I agree with Tele. thanks though. I am in the process of writing a mini weekend summary of all the weeks right now. Hopefully will be finished tomorrow.

Lol, can we expand the due date? Life is becoming more busy for me this fall! I would love to watch about 50 films from this year. This is around the time when box office tracking became bigger via internet. When some of us woke up. I bet a bunch of us will watch an extra 20 or so movies before deadline

@Rth Diego @EmpireCity is everything up on Sunday from yesterday?

SOTM 12 : Very brief, will double check with actuals Matrix/Tulip = +95,000 Empire = +95,000 24Lost = +60,000 Chasmmi = +60,000 Jake Gittes = +40,000 Pumpkin.... = +40,000 franfar = 0 Dark Alfred = 0 bcf26 = -20,000 JJ-8 = -100,000

@chasmmi for this SOTM, what if for this week I put a 0% hold for Dunkirk and it increases 4.5%. Does that mean I have 4.5% 'wrongness' for this week, or does the weekend increase go towards a positive advantage and I can gain back some ground lost. I will add up the number of percent you are wrong by each weekend, to give you a total percentage of wrongness per film predicted. E.G: You choose Emoji Movie and predict: 20% - 10% - 50% - 25% - 20% The real changes were: 10% - 10% - 30% - 30% - 15% So your total percentage of wrongness (TPOW) for Emoji Movie is: 10 + 0 + 20 + 5 + 5 = 40% (This will be the number that determines your score for that film.

Saturday increases were bigger than years before in comparison. Sunday drops for everything most likely.

with such a huge Saturday jump, Dunkirk looking to decrease on Sunday...

Tulip mania!!!! Anyone here have their tulip time yet and care 2 share?

i knew you and Baumer were going to do well on that and win the overall game. I should have cashed out in the QOTW. Now I might have just Hillary'd this game

What a ridiculous hold for Annabelle. I do not think it is going to hold as well as my model or any others models indicate. It will probably be closer to 6.5 million rather than 7 million. I do not think it will make it to 100M though. I was looking at 95M by the Thursday It opens up as being the magic number for Annabelle to get to 100M. I do not think it will do more than 5 million once It opens. It seems it will be at 92 tops by the time It opens

after writing out 60 examples, here are MY PROJECTIONS: Hitman's Bodyguard - 9,461,547 - 12,148850 - 56,843,064 Annabelle: Creation - 6,927,987 - 8,621,940 - 90,297,538 Wind River - 5,764,951 - 7,493,760 - 19,916,197 Leap! - 4,630,646 - 6,427,080 - 12,921,883 Logan Lucky - 4,248,300 - 5,416,583 - 22,447,070 Dunkirk - 3,984,228 - 5,189,908 - 179,819,453 Spider-Man - 3,520,651 - 4,647,260 - 325,048,806 Emoji Movie - 2,208,141 - 3,035,160 - 80,911,874 Despicable Me 3 - 2,188,133 - 2,975,860 - 258,511,090 Girls Trip - 2,187,529 - 2,789,099 - 112,048,614 Nut Job 2 - 2,027,352 - 2,838,293 - 26,678,797 Wonder Woman - 1,828,792 - 2,377,430 - 409,396,451 Birth of the Dragon - 1,653,882 - 2,117,407 - 5,775,127 Cars 3 - 1,589,250 - 2,224,950 - 151,362,819 Close Encounters - 1,557,999 - 2,045,660 - 2,045,660 Inhumans - 1,550,000 - 2,000,000 - 2,000,000 Dark Tower - 1,441,440 - 1,837,836 - 47,669,730 Kidnap - 1,398,492 - 1,790,070 - 29,532,937 Baby Driver - 1,390,362 - 1,784,109 - 105,839,275 Glass Castle - 1,347,216 - 1,779,672 - 15,129,431 All Saints - 1,340,064 - 1,876,090 - 4,073,013 Big Sick - 1,291,336 - 1,639,997 - 41,195,456 Tulip Fever - 1,286,118 - 1,698,962 - 1,698,962 Hombre - 1,207,515 - 1,520,363 - 1,520,363 Apes - 1,022,002 - 1,303,052 - 144,557,815 Atomic Blonde was not reported, but it lost 25.1% of its theaters. If it duplicates last weekends number, that would be a 34.43% increase in PTA. Going by how most movies have increased their weekend 3-day grosses, I think this hold is most appropriate. Atomic Blonde - 859,195 - 1,095,474 - 50,576,854

8:15 showing - 25 seats sold (out of 84). $22.50 a pop. $562.50. Just like 5:30 pm. This is bad.... If it cannot get a weekend PTA similar to Miss Sloane, it might miss 1M

I was only able to catch 2 (out of 6) reserved seating showing for Tulip Fever right up until the final moment. Very disappointed in myself. 4:35 pm - $8.00 a ticket, 15 seats sold. = $120 5:30 pm - $22.50 a ticket, 25 seats sold. = $562.50 ^^there is an 8:15 showing for the $22.50 showing I will try to catch. This is the expensive theater where The Shack outsells Logan, Miss Sloane nearly sell out, and so does Light Between Oceans. The 8:15 showing could potentially see up to 1 grand in ticket sales.

TULIP MANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hopefully Asgard gives us an update on the 4 new openers

hmm....Spider-Man: Homecoming could be considered an increase over the Amazing Spider-Man series

Annabelle was sort of ruined at my 7pm preview showing because of the teenage girls. Ouija 2 was ruined opening night because some female kept guessing outloud what was going to happen next and somehow thought everyone was enjoying hearing her talk as much as she was. It was like she was making everything more fun..... I am glad I remembered the Annabelle incident because I was planning on seeing It Thursday night at 7 same place. I think I will just do the Friday early bird instead.

Spider-Man, back in MT top 5