The Panda

I'll take that bet

Yeah that's the rule

1) Will any film make more than 25 mill? Yes 2) Will Hercules make more than RIPD (OW)? Yes 3) Will Fluffy movie break into the top 15? No 4) What will have the best per theater average out of these four films: Happy Christmas, Magic in The Moonlight, A Most Wanted Man, Very Good Girls. 5) Will And So It goes make more opening weekend than Lucy does OD? No 6) Will Hercules drop on Saturday? Yes 7) Will Transformers fall more than 40%? Yes 8) Will Apes make more than 20 mill? Yes 9) Will Sex Tape drop more than 53%? Yes 10) Will Planes have a Saturday increase of more than 57%? Yes 11) Will Purge fall more than 63%? Yes 12) Will Maleficent make more than HTTYD2? No 10/12 3000 11/12 5000 12/12 7000 What finishes in spots 4 The Purge: Anarchy 9 22 Jump Street 12 Boyhood 14 Chef 16 Jersey Boys 2000 each bonus of 4000 if all correct Bonus 1: What will Transformers be at WW? 935m Bonus 2: What will Apes be at WW? 365m Bonus 3: What will the combined weekend gross be for 22JS, HTTYD2 and Tammy? 10.7m

We need some lists

It's not like anyone will go and see Hercules in Imax

I think it's fairly likely, Apes will gain back some of the older teen - 20 audience it lost to the purge this week which will make up for losing some adult audience to Lucy.

Boyhood did 1.2m in 33 theaters, that's a great 209% increase, they should really widen their release and expansion schedule this is doing good numbers for a low budget.It could even help them finance a strong awards campaign.

I think it will be under 50, not in the 30s but maybe 43-46% range

But not everything needs a sequel...What is it with this day and age wanting to franchise anything that's a hit? Why not just make more original content and go off goodwill of your old content?Pixar did that for a while and it worked handsomely, then they sequalized and their movies were still successful just not close to the heights of their string of original content.

Sad? More like inspiring given the cars/planes franchise are some of the worst things to come from Disney/Pixar and that their market scheme to make a movie for the pure sake of selling more toys failed.

Tammy is the highest grossing movie about Melissa McCarthy being Melissa McCarthy as the only selling point to the thing.

Everything had great drops this weekend, speaks strongly for how weak these openers were.

Sunday drop should be slightly less than last week for Dawn because no World Cup. I wouldn't be surprised with a 20% drop (3% is fair enough for the WC I guess)

Scorsese is a flat out well known director, I mean the man did Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Mean Streets, The King of Comedy, The Departed, and that just barely scratches the surface.

I agree with this, there really doesn't need to be genre best pictures. Honestly if there were I'd have it be Best Comedy, but even then no, this isn't The Globes or People's Choice Awards.

Would they for instance know about The Following? Or Insomnia?

How many of them can name a director that isn't Nolan or Spielberg? And if they can name Nolan can they actually name any of his movies that aren't The Dark Knight franchise/Inception. And if it's Spielberg can they even name 5 of his movies? I am sure there are some cinema loving teens that can, just most at that age flat out don't give a crap about directors.

I bet if you took a survey of teens to name their top 5 favorite directors 80% of them would name 1 or less.

This Decade so far A+ The Artist The Descendants Django Unchained Fruitvale Station Gravity Inside Llewyn Davis The LEGO Movie Life of Pi Silver Linings Playbook The Social Network Snowpiercer Tangled True Grit A 50/50 The Avengers Blackfish Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Grand Budapest Hotel Her Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II How to Train Your Dragon The Intouchables The King's Speech Mud The Muppets Saving Mr. Banks The Secret World of Arrietty The Spectacular Now Wreck-It Ralph The Wolf of Wall Street X-Men: Days of Future Past Zero Dark Thirty A- 127 Hours Argo Arthur Christmas Beasts of the Southern Wild Bridesmaids Cabin in the Woods Despicable Me The Fault in Our Stars Frozen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo How to Train Your Dragon 2 Kung Fu Panda 2 Midnight in Paris Moneyball Rango Rise of the Planet of the Apes This is the End Toy Story 3 The Way Way Back B+ 21 Jump Street The Adventures of Tintin Black Swan Captain America: The Winter Soldier Chronicle The Conjuring The Dark Knight Rises End of Watch The Fighter Frankenweenie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire The Grey Godzilla Kon-Tiki Lincoln Looper Magic Mike Megamind Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Moonrise Kingdom Perks of Being a Wallflower Philomena Rush Shutter Island Star Trek: Into Darkness Source Code Super 8 The Town Winter's Bone The World's End X-Men: First Class B 42 American Hustle All is Lost Bad Words Bears Blue Jasmine Captain America: The First Avenger Coriolanus Dallas Buyers Club Edge of Tomorrow Inception Iron Man 3 Les Miserables The Master Monster's University Much Ado About Nothing Neighbors Noah Pacific Rim ParaNorman The Pirates! Band of Misfits A Place Beyond the Pines Puss in Boots Seven Psychopaths Skyfall Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Thor War Horse Warrior B- About Time The Amazing Spider-Man The A-Team August: Osage County Brave Captain Phillips Contagion Cowboys and Aliens Despicable Me 2 Don Jon Fast Five The Help Horrible Bosses The Kids Are All Right The Kings of Summer Lawless Mama Men in Black 3 Oblivion Oculus Prometheus Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Sinister The Raid: Redemption Rio 2 Ted Thor: The Dark World Pitch Perfect Prisoners C+ 2 Guns About Last Night Anna Karenina Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Attack the Block The Book Thief The Croods Dredd Emperor Fast and Furious 6 Footloose Hugo The Hunger Games Iron Man 2 Life Itself Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Kick-Ass 2 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Muppets: Most Wanted Paranormal Activity 3 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Real Steel Safe House Shrek Forever After Snow White and the Huntsman Stoker We Bought a Zoo World War Z C That Awkward Moment The Bling Ring The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of Dawn Treader Cloud Atlas Divergent Ender's Game The Expendables 2 Gangster Squad Gnomeo and Juliet God's Not Dead Insidious: Chapter 2 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Last Vegas Lone Survivor Olympus Has Fallen Paul Safety Not Guaranteed Savages The Wolverine C- The Bourne Legacy Carrie Dear John Delivery Man Drive The Great Gatsby The Hangover Part III Labor Day Limitless The Lorax Maleficent The Monument's Men Now You See Me The Odd Life of Timothy Green Out of the Furnace Parental Guidance Soul Surfer RED 2 Riddick TRON: Legacy Turbo D+ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Bullet to the Head Chernobyl Diaries Diary of a Wimpy Kid G.I. Joe: Retaliation Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Happy Feet 2 Hotel Transylvania J. Edgar Jack the Giant Slayer Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit The Last Stand Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole The Man with the Iron Fists A Million Ways to Die in the West Oz the Great and Powerful Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time RoboCop Rock of Ages Wrath of the Titans We're the Millers D 300: Rise of An Empire Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Act of Valor Alex Cross Cars 2 Dark Shadows Elysium Escape Plan Free Birds Grudge Match The Guilt Trip Hereafter Hyde Park on Hudson The Intership The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Need For Speed Non-Stop Paranormal Activity 4 Planes The Purge Red Dawn Ride Along R.I.P.D Salt Step Up 3D Step Up Revolution Total Recall The Watch White House Down D- After Earth Alice in Wonderland Alvin and the Chpmunks: Chipwrecked Battleship Battle Los Angeles The Counselor Deliver Us From Evil The Devil Inside Endless Love Green Lantern I Am Number 4 Identity Thief John Carter Just Go With It Lee Daniels' The Butler Machine Gun Preacher Man of Steel Mirror Mirror Only God Forgives Pain and Gain The Smurfs This is 40 The Three Stooges Transformers: Dark of the Moon The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Valentine's Day Walking With Dinosaurs The Wolfman F 47 Ronin Clash of the Titans Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close A Good Day to Die Hard Grown Ups 2 The Hangover Part II A Haunted House The Host I, Frankenstein Ice Age: Continental Drift The Last Exorcism Part II The Lone Ranger Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Silent Hill: Revelation 3D Taken 2 That's My Boy Trans4mers: Age of Extinction The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Winter's Tale Z (A special rating for movies that can't even be considered movies) Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike Jack and Jill Jonah Hex Movie 43 Scary Movie 5 The Starving Games Texas Chainsaw 3D

I will admit Scorsese isn't as well known with the younger crowd, but the younger crowd doesn't really pay attention to directors anyways.I'd argue the only director working today with a bigger following than Scorsese is Spielberg (I guess Nolan as well but he's a newbie)

Scorsese isn't well known?? What?First batman isn't a draw, then Leo isn't a draw, and now Scorsese isn't well known?Scorsese is one of the most esteemed directors still working in the business.Also Leo is a huge draw, there is no way Wolf of Wall Street would have been a huge success without him, same with Gatsby.

Oops didn't know that for some reason I'll exchange it.

Here is my list people can use as an example,1.Gladiator2.Finding Nemo3.Gravity4.Life of Pi 5.Django Unchained6.Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl 7.The Wolf of Wall Street 8.The LEGO Movie 9.The Hangover 10.Wall-E 11.Cast Away 12.Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 13.Tangled 14.The Incredibles15.Minority Report

If the movie is inspired by a source material (such as a game, toy, or fairy tale) but isn't an adaption of it then I will count it.That'll give more options.

Try looking through boxoffice mojo and you will find some.If we have to I will open this up to novel adaptions but there are more than you think there are.