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1. Will Gone Girl make more than 30M OW? No 2. Will Annabelle make more than 12M OD? Yes 3. Will Left behind Open in the top 5? No 4. Will the Equalizer make more than 20M this weekend? No 5. Will The Maze Runner drop more than 46%? Yes 6. Will let's be cops stay in the top 12? Yes 7. Will any film have a 200% increase on Friday? No 8. Will any new opener drop less than 33.5% on Sunday? Yes 9. Will The Blue Room have a PTA above $8,000? No 10. Will Guardians of the Galaxy drop less than 25% No 11. Will The Maze Runner finish above Box Trolls? No 12. Will The Good Lie make more than 750k? Yes 13. Will No Good Deed pass 50m by the end of the Weekend? No 14. Will Dolphin Tale 2 finish above Guardians? Yes 15. Will Dawn of the Planet of The Apes finish above How to Train Your Dragon 2? Yes 16. Will Turtles increase more than 95% on Saturday? Yes 17. Will A Walk among the Tombstones have a $1M Saturday? No 18. Which film will have the Highest Sunday drop? Annabelle 19. Will Annabelle's Friday, Saturday AND Sunday all be higher than The Equaliser's? No 20. Will anybody at all watch the Director's cut of Nymphomaniac? I don't think so... Bonus Questions (The closest prediction for each bonus wins the bonus stated): 1. What will the combined gross of Annabelle and Left Behind? $37.2M 2. How much will Gone Girl Gross on Friday? $9.85M 3. What will be The Skeleton Twin's total Gross by the end of the weekend? $3.15M Placements - Predict which film finishes in the following positions: 2. Gone Girl 4. The Boxtrolls 5. The Maze Runner 6. This Is Where I Leave You 9. Guardians of the Galaxy

I'm honestly just pulling this list out of nowhere, but here we go... 1. Annabelle - $30.65M 2. Gone Girl - $29.3M 3. The Equalizer - $15.6M 4. The Boxtrolls - $9.8M 5. The Maze Runner - $9.6M

1) Will Annabelle's Opening Day gross more than Child's Play 3's Total Domestic Gross ($14.960M)? ABSTAIN 2) Will Annabelle's Opening Weekend gross more than Child's Play's Total Domestic Gross ($33.244M)? ABSTAIN 3) Will Annabelle's total Dom gross more than Child's Play's Adjusted Domestic Gross ($65.923M)? YES 4) Will Annabelle's OS total gross more than Bride and Seed of Chucky's combined Worldwide Gross ($75.501M)? YES 5) Will Annabelle's WW total gross more than the whole Chucky franchise ($126.172M)? YES

A: Domestic top 15: 1) MockingJay Part 1 - $402M 2) Interstellar - $312M 3) The Hobbit:The Battle of the Five Armies - $293M 4) Big Hero 6 - $231M 5) Penguins of Madagascar - $181M 6) Exodus: Gods and Kings - $147M 7) Unbroken - $140M 8) Into the Woods - $128M 9) Night At The Museum 3 - $119M 10) Gone Girl - $117M 11) Fury - $113M 12) Dumb and Dumber To - $105M 13) Annie - $103M 14) The Interview - $95M 15) Horrible Bosses 2 - $92M 16) Tak3n - $88M 17) Annabelle - $82M B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) MockingJay Part 1 - $156M 2) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - $73M ($97M 5-day) 3) Interstellar - $83M 4) Big Hero 6 - $65M 5) Penguins of Madagascar - $44M ($62M 5-day) 6) Exodus: Gods and Kings - $40M 7) Tak3n - $38M 8) Horrible Bosses 2 - $37M (5-Day) C: Worldwide top 10: 1) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - $989M 2) MockingJay Part 1 - $887M 3) Interstellar - $852M 4) Big Hero 6 - $603M 5) Penguins of Madagascar - $594M 6) Exodus: Gods and Kings - $527M 7) Into the Woods - $462M 8) Unbroken - $374M 9) Night At The Museum 3 - $306M 10) Fury - $300M 11) Gone Girl - $277M 12) Dumb and Dumber To - $228M D: Top 5 Hunger Games Territories: 1) United Kingdom 2) Germany 3) China 4) Australia 5) France 6) Mexico E: Top 5 Lowest Grossing Films: 1) Laggies - $2.8M 2) Before I Go To Sleep - $5.2M 3) Addicted - $7M 4) Beyond The Lights - $7.1M 5) St. Vincent - $10.2M 6) The Pyramid - $13M F: Pre-season Questions: 1. 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 - Annie B: 200M - Penguins of Madagascar C: 300M - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies D: 400M - MockingJay Part 1 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). 2. Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the winter: 1) Big Hero 6 2) Interstellar - $312M 3) The Hobbit 4) Penguins of Madagascar 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. Tell me which of these will be the lowest grossing film of the winter: 1) The Interview 2) Dracula Untold 3) Ouija 4) Addicted - $7M 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. 4. Will at least 3 films make more than 275M 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 5. Will at least 2 animated films make more than 150M 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 6. Will any film released in October make more than 120M by the end of the game? Abstain Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 7. Will at least 2 films make more than 95M OW? (Remember OW means gross up until first Sunday) Yes Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 8. Will at least 2 films make more than 800M WW 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 9. Will any month’s OW record be broken by the end of the game? (This is 3 day only) No Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 10. Will at least 2 of the 5 top grossing sequels become the top grossing film of their franchise by the end of the game? (For the purposes of this question Hobbit and LOTR are 2 Separate Franchises) No Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 11. Will any film listed as a horror gross more than 75M by the end of the game? Yes Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 12. Will the combined gross of the top 2 films add up to more than the films that finish in 4th-10th by the end of the game? No Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 13. Will there be a worldwide weekend of over 220M this winter? Yes Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 14. Which combination of films will gross the most amount of money during the game? The Hobbit, Hot tub Time Machine, Annabelle, John Wick Hunger Games, Horrible Bosses, Dracula Untold, Annie Interstellar, Dumb and Dumber, Alexander’s Very Bad Day, Paddington Big Hero 6, Penguins, The Judge, Exodus, 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 smallest amount of money during the game? The Interview, Annabelle, Unbroken, Ouija Night at the Museum, The Best of Me, Blackhat, Laggies Into the Woods, Addicted, Kitchen Sink, Left Behind The Pyramid, Night Crawler, Beyond the Lights, St Vincent Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points

EDIT: Does that rule apply to worldwide grosses as well? Example lets say Hobbit doesn't open in a few overseas markets until close to or after the deadline... Also, are we allowed to make edits to our predictions up until the deadline, or are they already final once posted?

Thank you

So the game ends Jan 25... does that mean that that's where you stop counting the grosses? If Tak3n grosses 115DOM total, but only 95M before Jan 25, which number do we use?

Thank you! Sorry I sent this in class before the bell rang and I should have specified.

Wait what thread do we post on?

January: Jan 4 - Walter Mitty second time (9/10) Jan 9 - Anchorman 2 (7/10) Jan 11 - Lone Survivor (8.5/10) Jan 18 - Jack Ryan (5/10) February: Feb 8 - LEGO 3D (9/10) Feb 9 - Monuments Men (6.5/10) Feb 15 - Robocop (6.8/10) Feb 22 - Pompeii 3D (7/10) March: Mar 2 - Non-Stop (7/10) Mar 8 - Mr. Peabody and Sherman 3D (6/10) Mar 24 - Muppets Most Wanted (5/10) Mar 25 - Divergent IMAX (6.7/10) i added the .7 cause IMAX is always so cool Mar 29 - Noah (8.4/10) April: Apr 4 - Captain America 3D (9/10) Apr 8 - Captain America 3D second time (9/10) Apr 22 - Transcendence (4/10) Apr 22 - Captain America 3D (9/10) had to get the taste of Transcendence out of my mouth May: May 3 - Spider-Man 2 3D (8.4/10) yeah yeah I liked it May 18 - Godzilla 3D (4/10) May 25 - X-Men 3D (9.5/10) June: Jun 1 - Million Ways to Die In the West (5.9/10) Jun 6 - Edge of Tomorrow 3D (9.3/10) Jun 9 - Fault in Our Stars (8.7/10) Jun 17 - Dragon 2 3D (8.1/10) Jun 17 - 22 Jump Street (8.2/10) Jun 24 - Maleficent 3D (6/10) July: Jul 8 - Trans4mers 3D (2/10) sorry Bay Jul 12 - Spider-Man 2 IMAX 3D (8.4/10) Jul 18 - Apes 3D (9.1/10) Jul 27 - Hercules 3D (5.7/10) won't see Lucy until August August: Aug 1 - Guardians of the Galaxy 3D (9.3/10) Aug 12 - Lucy (5.9/10) Aug 12 - Into The Storm (7.3/10) Aug 19 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D (6.0/10) Aug 30 - Guardians of the Galaxy 3D (9.3/10) September: Sept 18 - The Maze Runner (9.7/10) (okay if I were really critiquing it it would be more like an 8.5/10 but I love the book, and love the movie, and forgive it for anything) Sept 19 - The Maze Runner (9.7/10) Sept 20 - The Maze Runner (9.7/10) Sept 27 - The Equalizer (6.2/10) Total: 39 (so far) Coming soon: Gone Girl...Annabelle... not entirely sure...

That's an awesome drop for Maze Runner! And a terrific debut for Boxtrolls!

Just saw Equalizer. Decent, it's pretty much what you'd expect from a Denzel action movie. It isn't perfect, but it's entertaining. The action is well done, and the "end fight/climax battle" was a lot of fun. And Denzel is obviously great. The people in my theatre seemed to really enjoy it, and the marketing highlited this as a fun, R-Rated actoom movie, so it's not too hard to see why this is making money. 2.5/4

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 3. The Hobbit 4. Interstellar 5. Mockingjay Part 1 6. Tomorrowland 7. Jurassic World 8. Inside Out 9. Exodus: Gods and Kings 10. Jupiter Ascending

Maybe it's too early to tell, but I think Maze Runner has a legitimate shot at 90M (or at least I want it to). Very pleased with Equalizer (seeing it tonight most likely), but I don't think it's numbers are too surprising, and people were already speculating high thirties. Now if it tops 40, THAT would be something to talk about. The Boxtrolls is doing a lot better than I thought (14M, but I was worried I was a bit too high on it). Haven't seen it, and not sure if I should in theatres or wait for On Demand (any suggestions?).

YES MAZE RUNNER YOU KEEP DOING YOUR THING!!!

Is it that Denzel is AGAINST doing sequels, or that he just never really felt the need to do one? I think it might be the latter, but has he ever publicaly stated otherwise?

1. Equalizer - 33.8million 2. The Maze Runner - 16.3million 3. Boxtrolls - 14.2million 4. Tombstones - 6.5million 5. Where I Leave You - 6.4million

When you say "big budget" how big are you talking? I see it somewhere in between Rush and a giant success... 95-110M.

Pretty happy with the Maze Runner and GOTG increases. Don't have any thoughts on anything else though... I mean it IS a weekday in the middle of September.

I still don't see how this couldn't maybe pull a 55-57% drop this weekend. An o/u 15M maybe? This does worry me a bit because Ender had almost no legs.

Maze Runners drop was a bit bigger than Enders Game. But is it possible that that can be attributed to the fact that because Enders Game is an older book, that some of its audience is older than that if the Maze Runner (and therefore not in school)?

Starship Troopers

2003 was a pretty good year. My favourite movie of all time (Big Fish) was released. Not to mention runners up like Return of the King, Finding Nemo, and Elf. There were also some really awesome movies that don't quite make my top 10 list, but are fantastic nevertheless, such as The Last Samurai, Master and Commander, Freaky Friday (in my opinion), Curse of the Black Pearl, X2, and Bruce Almighty. There are also a few guilty pleasures such as Cat in the Hat (even though its bad) and Cheaper By The Dozen.

I completely agree! I expected the small budget would make the movie look like a 90's B-Movie, but it really didn't!!

I agree in the sense that some movie get lost in the shuffle... some movies should just open a week earlier or later, or another month altogether. For example from last year Secret Life of Walter Mitty got lost in the shuffle and only made 52M domestic, whereas I think it deserved a lot more, as it is an underrated masterpiece in my opinion. But to be honest, nov/dec 2013 was crowded as a whole, so I don't know where it could have moved specifically. As for this year, I think either Annie, Into the Woods, or Night at the Museum 3 (which I think all have potential) will be the "loser" of this Christmas, just because they are all targeted at the same general audience (families).