The Panda

Id think Inside Out is the most likely Populist BP nod

A: Domestic top 15: 1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 760m 2) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 - 380m 3) The Good Dinosaur - 340m 4) Spectre - 300m 5) The Revenant - 190m 6) Kung Fu Panda 3 - 175m 7) The Hateful Eight - 165m 8) Joy - 150m 9) Deadpool - 145m 10) The Night Before - 140m 11) Steve Jobs - 135m 12) The Peanuts Movie - 120m 13) In the Heart of the Sea - 115m 14) Creed - 105m 15) Goosebumps - 95m B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 210m 2) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 - 145m 3) Spectre - 110m 4) The Good Dinosaur - 85m 5) Deadpool - 70m 6) Kung Fu Panda 3 - 55m 7) The Revenant - 50m C: Worldwide top 10: 1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 1.65b 2) The Good Dinosaur - 1.4b 3) Spectre - 1.1b 4) Kung Fu Panda 3 - 950m 5) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 - 850m 6) The Hateful Eight - 470m 7) The Revenant - 450m 8) Deadpool - 400m 9) Joy - 280m 10) The Peanuts Movie - 250m D: Total Grosses: Top 15 Dom) 3.6b Top 7 W/E) 707.5m Top 10 WW) 7.75b E: Top 5 Overseas Star Wars Territories: 1) China 2) Japan 3) United Kingdom 4) France 5) Germany 6) Australia F: Pre-season Questions: A generous risk-free question to start you off: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game: A: 100M Alvin and the Chipmunks 4 B: 200M Kung Fu Panda 3 C: 300M Spectre D: 400M The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Each correctly predicted film scores you 10,000 points, get all four correct and receive 10,000 bonus points for 50k total. (This is the only preseason question where there is no penalty for being wrong so enjoy it). 1) Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the winter domestically: 1) Goosebumps - 107m 2) Krampus - 90.5m 3) Creed - 115m 4) Concussion - 65m Answer correctly: 10,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 10,000 point bonus. 2) Tell me which of these will be the lowest grossing film of the winter domestically: 1) Point Break 2) The Nut Job 2 3) Victor Frankenstein 4) The Last Witch Hunter ABSTAIN Answer correctly: 10,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 10,000 point bonus. 3) Will at least 3 films make more than 300M domestically by the end of the game? Yes Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 4) Will animated films combine to make more than 500M domestically by the end of the game? (Chipmunks is not considered animated here) Yes Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 5) Will at least 2 films make more than 140M OW domestic? Yes Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 6) Will any film in the top 15 domestic have its domestic total outgrossed by its Chinese total? Yes Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 7) Will at least two months’ OW records be broken by the end of the game? (This is 3 day only) Abstain (Unless the Martian's OW counts, then Yes) Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 8) Will at least 2 of the 5 top grossing sequels/prequels/reboots become the top grossing film of their franchise by the end of the game? Abstain (Unless Peanuts counts then YES) Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 9) Will at least 5 different films in the top 15 be nominated for Oscars in either Acting, Best Song, Best Director, Best Screenplay or Best Animation or Best Film? Yes Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 10) Will the combined gross of the top 2 films domestic exceed 1 Billion Dollars? Yes Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 11) Will 300M dollars be closer to Kung Fu Panda 3’s Domestic total or its Chinese total? Chinese Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 12) Will any foreign film gross more money (in dollars) in its local market than the 15th highest grosser domestically does in the USA? Abstain Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 13) Will any film be pulled from the schedules at any point during the game due to fear of war with North Korea? No Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 14) Will any film opening in less than 500 theatres in its opening week, go on to gross more than 200M dollars domestically? No Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 15) Which combination of films will gross the most amount of money domestically during the game? 1) Mockingjay Pt 2, Bridge of Spies, The Night Before, In Heart of the Sea 2) Spectre, The Good Dinosaur, The Hateful Eight, Krampus 3) Crimson Peak, Peanuts, Kung Fu Panda 3, Goosebumps, 4) Star Wars, The Revenant, The Danish Girl, Zoolander 2 Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 16) Which combination of films will gross the smallest amount of money during the game? Abstain 1) Burnt, Macbeth, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2) Rock the Kasbah, Victor Frankenstein, Point Break, Ride Along 2 3) Jem and the Holograms, Sisters, The Nut Job 2, 13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benzhagi 4) Trumbo, Rings, Deadpool, Daddy’s Home Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points And Finally… The Return of the Jedi-centric questions: 1) Will Star Wars Gross over 400M domestically? Yes 2) Will Star Wars Gross over 500M domestically? Yes 3) Will Star Wars Gross over 600M domestically? Yes 4) Will Star Wars Gross over 1B Worldwide? Yes 5) Will Star Wars Gross over 1.5B Worldwide? Yes 6) Will Star Wars finish top of all 3 main prediction charts? Yes 7) Will 350M dollars end up being closer to Star Wars’ Opening Weekend total than its final domestic total? Yes 8) If both are released before February 5th, will Star Wars’ China total be within 150M of Kung Fu Pandas’ (over or under) Yes 9) Will Star Wars end up being one of the three highest rated Star Wars films on RottenTomatoes at the end of the game? Yes 10) Will Star Wars have a domestic weekend increase at any point during the game? No 11) Will Star Wars get nominated for at least 3 Oscars? Yes 12) Will Star Wars manage at least 3 domestic weekends that are higher than Avatar’s comparative weekend totals in 2009/2010? Yes 13) Will Star Wars manage at least 7 domestic weekends that are higher than Titanic’s comparative weekend totals in 1997/1998? Yes 14) Will Star Wars gross more domestically in December than it does in January? Yes 15) Will Star Wars be number 1 at the domestic Box Office for at least 5 weeks (consecutive or non-consecutive) Yes 16) Will Star Wars’ combined total dollar gross from the UK and Australia exceed its domestic Opening Weekend total? Yes 17) Will Star Wars achieve more than 10 Million admissions in South Korea? No 18) Will China account for at least 20% of Star Wars’ worldwide total if released before February 1st? No 19) Will Star Wars’ opening day (including previews) be enough for it to make the top 15 domestic regardless of its subsequent box office? Yes 20) Will Star Wars still be in the domestic top 10 at the end of the game? Yes

Game of Thrones Season 5 is still better than every season of Mad Men.

They should just give each movie a base age similar to common sense. Have a Green for safe for anyone this age and up. A yellow for caution anyone this age and below. And a red for nobody under this age can see it without parental guidance. Ie. Something like Django would be 17 Green, 16 Yellow, 15 Red Something like Peanuts would be All ages green Something like Shrek would be 8 Green, 7 Yellow

Rank the Pixar AND Marvel films! 1.Finding Nemo 2.Inside Out 3.Wall-E 4.Up 5.Guardians of the Galaxy 6.Ratatouille 7.The Incredibles 8.Toy Story 3 9.Monsters Inc 10.Toy Story 11.The Avengers 12.Iron Man 13.A Bug's Life 14.Toy Story 2 15.Cars 16.Iron Man 3 17.Brave 18.Monsters University 19.Thor 20.Captain America: The First Avenger 21.Ant-Man 22.Captain America: The Winter Soldier 23.The Incredible Hulk 24.Cars 2 25.Thor: The Dark World 26.The Avengers: Age of Ultron 27.Iron Man 2

Yeah, two of the best films of the year got trashed by him. Both did well enough with critics where they could have gotten serious awards attention had they been pushed. Heck, with a good rollout, The Immigrant could have won Cotillard best actress and possibly even gone for picture (it was a wide open year awards wise).

I'll take it

I'll take it

Game of Thrones is also a much better show than Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Star Trek.

Glad Game of Thrones won, even a weaker season of it is still stronger than the rest of the shows on air right now.

The deal was that all success must come with a cinematic sacrifice.

Everest is really the big story of the weekend. Universal strikes again.

I'll bet 50 points to two people Hotel Transylvania 2 opens over the first domestically I bet 50 points to two people at least three movies are over 17m next weekend I'll bet 50 points to two people that the Martian opens over 42.5m I bet 50 points to two people Pan opens over 35m I bet 50 points to two people at least 4 movies in October gross over 100m DOM I bet 50 points to two people there will be a 30m opener from this weekend through the October 16th weekend

I bet 50 points 2 people Everest is okay 5m this weekend I bet 50 points 2 people Black Mass is at least 5m over Maze Runner 2 this weekend I bet 50 points 2 people Black Mass is over Argo Domestic I bet 50 points to 2 people Black Mass OW over 40m

I'll take the first

I'll take thsi

I bet 50 points to 2 people The Martian is over 150m DOM I Bet 50 points to 2 people Black Mass OW and DOM total is over Prisoners I bet 50 points to 2 people The Intern opens over 12.5m I bet 50 points to 2 people The Martian OW over 50m

Birdman won the awards it didn't deserve and lost awards it did deserve (Keaton in particular) Its a great film, and I really enjoyed it but it's very pretentious the more I look back. I wasn't that entertained with Birdman, I just marveled at how it did everything well.

I'll take these

I apologize for my delay, it's been a rough few weeks for me.

A Ex Machina Inside Out Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road B Ant-Man Avengers: Age of Ultron Cinderella The DUFF Furious 7 Kingsman: The Secret Service The Last 5 Years Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Pitch Perfect 2 C Chappie Insurgent Jupiter Ascending Minions Terminator: Genisys Tomorrowland Vacation War Room D Blackhat Descendants Get Hard Max Mortdecai Pixels T3ken The Man From U.N.C.L.E F Fantastic Four Fifty Shades of Grey Hot Pursuit Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Seventh Son

I finally got along to watching this film after hearing all of the praise and holy freaking crap was that really good. I'm not going to write an in-depth review or anything (I really don't have the time nor the energy to right now, it's been a rough month), but this was transformative and never goes on to long. I was left in utter suspense from the mood of the very opening sequence and that suspense didn't lift once in the entire movie, the entire freaking movie went on and the tension remained present, even when the climax slams there is no relief because the tension remains. There is a craft of tension in the genius performances, interactions, intelligence, eeriness in the mood, a soundtrack that knows exactly when to kick in, and never giving you a complete closure. Ex Machina is a masterwork of suspense, wit, and sheer artistry on all accords. This may just be the best film I have seen this year (If it's not the best it's easily the second best) A+

Sep/Oct Black Mass - 70m Everest - 65m The Martian - 170m The Walk - 50m Steve Jobs - 75m Bridge of Spies - 150m I actually think Bridge of Spies will be a hit

You must have missed the point then. The story is about the build up and recovery of grief and a search for real purpose. If the story ended with actual purpose being discovered it'd be too cliched and cheesy. The whole point is he searches for purpose and a reason why but never finds it so he must simply accept the hope that there could be something else to life than what he was living.

Depends on which John Green book. Paper Towns isn't that popular or good for that matter (and the marketing was pretty bad). Looking For Alaska is very popular (second most probably to TFIOS) and if marketed could do nearly as well as TFiOS did. It could also be a potential awards contender if taken seriously given that the book is highly acclaimed critically.