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Yes, it was always going to be huge. In DECEMBER. After MJ2 had done the bulk of its business. The fact that Star Wars completely ate all the entertainment news cycles for six weeks prior to its release was a surprise. Once that started happening, what the hell could Lionsgate do? It's not just them, either. Disney themselves must have been caught by surprise by it as well, since they seemed perfectly content to let The Good Dinosaur stay in its slot where it crashed and burned.

Sergio Leone was credited as director on seven films.

They knew perfectly well how popular Star Wars was. Even so, TFA beat expectations by a huge margin, which they could not have foreseen.

By the time it was clear what was happening with Star Wars, it was, what, a month until MJ2's release? Far too late to make any changes.

I completely forgot about the Super Bowl when doing my stuff for the Winter Game and the Derby. Oops.

1. What will be the highest new opener this weekend? HAIL, CAESAR 2. Will Pride and Prejudice make more than $12M OW? 2000 NO 3. Will Panda 3 drop less than 45% this weekend? YES 4. Will the three new entries open in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places? 3000 NO 5. Will The Revenant cross $150M by the end of the weekend? YES 6. Will any film drop less than 30% on Sunday? YES 7. Will Dirty Grandpa stay ahead of the The Boy? 3000 YES 8. Will Norm's percentage drop be higher than The Forest's? YES 9. Will two or more films increase 100% on Saturday? 2000 YES 10. Will Daddy's Home stay ahead of Brooklyn? YES 11. Will Hail Caesar have a PTA above $6,666? YES 12. Will Room finish ahead of Spotlight? 2000 YES 13. Will TFA have a better percentage drop than The Revenant? NO 14. Will the top 5 films combine to more than $60M? 3000 YES 15. Can I just get this over with and start making Deadpool questions already? PLEASE 11/15 - 2000 12/15 - 4000 13/15 - 6000 14/15 - 8000 15/15 - 10000 Part 2: 1. What will The Choice Make on Friday? 5000 4.38m 2. What will Jane's got a gun percentage drop be? 5000 69.3% 3. What will Kung Fu Panda's total be by Saturday? 5000 65.27m 4. What will be the combined percentage drop of Norm and Forest* this weekend? 5000 -143.7% *If one film is removed from theaters, this question will be removed. Part 3: 2. HAIL, CAESAR 4. THE REVENANT 7. THE FINEST HOURS 10. THE 5TH WAVE 13. THE BIG SHORT 15. BROOKLYN

Got to take the context of the era into play. She predated Dickens and I believe didn't have access to the serialized publishing medium that allowed him to be that prolific. And at the time she was writing and publishing, the novel was still somewhat new and not at all regarded as entombed into literature. Even so, many authors well before (such as Dafoe), contemporary (Shelley), or after (Hawthorne) did not have significantly more works than she did, even though they all lived longer. (This is ignoring, of course, anything about what social expectations on women would do to their creative output.)

What do you mean "only" six novels. That's a pretty strong output, especially in that era. Especially for a writer who died at 41.

I may try to see one more tomorrow before sending in my list.

Similar, yes, but it's a lot better than most of the Disney live-action fairy tales.

For now: The Big Short vs Bridge of spies Big Short 5/2 Bridge of Spies 1/4 10,000 Kung Fu Panda 3 vs Peanuts Kung Fu Panda 3 Evens Peanuts 7/2 10,000 Fifty Shades of Black vs Norm of the North Fifty Shades 2/5 Norm 5/1 10,000 13 Hours: Benzhagi vs Joy 13 Hours Evens Joy 3/2 10,000 Dirty Grandpa vs The Boy Dirty Grandpa 4/5 1,0000 The Boy Evens

Hail, Caesar! - 21m The Choice - 13m Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - 9m

We're probably speaking of "good" in two different contexts. You seem to be of a mind that if it's enjoyable, it's good. And that's perfectly fine. Many of Bay's films are very enjoyable. (The Rock is a long time favorite of mine.) I'm applying it in terms of critique and trying to look at filmmaking choices with regards to the story presented. Bay usually doesn't do well here, since a lot of his style is fairly one note. He does some things very well, but lacks balance. So, while, yes, it's all opinion, depending on the context, not all opinions are equally valid.

Holding steady and under 50k from the leader. Hmm. Hmm...

Star Wars X is going to drop in the schedule soon for December 2021 so it doesn't fall behind as the longest Saga.

I love "Best [x] this year, so far" ads.

The cast is a lot better than this movie deserves.

Wow. I don't remember that question at all. I'll take it, though.

Right. Sorry. Taking that into account, you're probably at least 400k points behind the leader. (I might be as well. I'm just hoping I have a big enough buffer to stay ahead of you.)

Probably not? He's currently in 12th place, over 200k points behind the leader. He's also over 100k points behind me, which is the only important thing to track.

I just keep telling myself that all I have to worry about is beating Tele. That's my only goal after the Summer game performance. Not going to cry... at all... about not being able to catch up with the leaders.

Could we get a scoring update before we start betting our points?

Trying to see if I can get one or two more in before the deadline next week.

Nice writeup of not only the historical accuracy of Hugh Glass' tale, but also how it has been changed over time to reflect current views: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2015/12/hugh_glass_how_accurate_is_the_revenant_a_history_of_a_folk_tale.single.html