Wrath

Wk168475858557 - Yes

1. Jumanji (5.2) vs Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (1.4) 10,000 2. Greatest Showman (2.4) vs War For The Planet of the Apes (1.7) 10,000 3. Black Panther (1.3) vs Justice League (4.1) 10,000 4. Maze Runner (1.4) vs Insidious Last Key (3.1) 10,000 5. 12 Strong (2.2) vs Den of Thieves (1.8) 10,000 6. Peter Rabbit (1.9) vs Paddington 2 (4.8) No bet

The Wrath-munchkins are surprisingly excited for this.

1. Shape of Water 2. Coco 3. Star Wars 4. Three Billboards

1. Will Maze Runner Open to more than $20M? 1000 YES 2. Will Maze Runner Open to more than $25M? 2000 NO 3. Will Hostiles make more than $4M? 3000 YES 4. Will Hostiles make more than $6.5M? 4000 NO 5. Will Maze Runner at least double the weekend gross of 2nd place? 5000 NO 6. Will Jumanji make more than $12M? 1000 YES 7. Will 12 Strong Stay ahead of Den of Thieves? 2000 YES 8. Will Greatest Showman drop a dizzying 22.5% or more this weekend? 3000 NO 9. Will Paddington have one of the two best percentage drops in the top 12 (excluding increases)? 4000 YES 10. Will The Commuter have a PTA above $1,800? 5000 NO 11. Will Forever My Girl stay above Phantom Thread? 1000 YES 12. Will Star Wars increase 100% on any day of the weekend? 2000 NO 13. Will The Post increase more than 65% on Saturday? 3000 NO 14. Will The Post stay in the top 6? 4000 YES 15. Will the Cure for Death turn out to be Hugh Jackman because Greatest Showman is Life? 5000 Life sure can put on a song and dance routine. Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will Maze Runner make for its 3 day? 21.6M 2. What will Greatest Showman's Percentage change be? -16% 3. What will Insidious' PTA be for the Weekend? 1,877 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Jumanji 4. Post 6. Den of Thieves 7. Paddington 9. Star Wars 12. Forever my girl

Wk15 - Yes

Wow. Where did that Den of Thieves total come from?

The one time I actually won, I missed at least two weeklies and a couple sotm’s as well. Might be a karmic thing, screwing up weeklies uses up less pre-game mojo.

Porn-stache is the man. This isn't something you'll hear me say very often, but Schreiber killed it on L&O: SVU. He played some crazy serial killer/rapist who had a multi-episode arc a couple years ago. He was spooky as hell, and he was so good that, just for a minute, I believed they might actually let him kill off the main character.

Not last! Barely. New strategy is working out already.

1. Will 12 Strong Open to more than $12M? 1000 NO 2. Will 12 Strong Open to more than $15M? 2000 NO 3. Will Den of Thieves Open to more than $5M? 3000 YES 4. Will Den of Thieves Open to more than $7M? 4000 NO 5. Will Phantom Thread Expand to more than $3.25M? 5000 YES 6. Will Jumanji stay at number 1? 1000 YES 7. Will The Post stay at number 2? 2000 YES 8. Will The Commuter stay above Greatest Showman? 3000 NO 9. Will Insidioua drop more than 57%? 4000 NO 10. Will Star Wars have a PTA above $2,750? 5000 NO 11. Will Jumanji's Total overtake Thor Ragnarok's by the end of Saturday? 1000 NO 12. Will Molly's Game stay above Coco? 2000 NO 13. Will Greatest Showman have a weekend higher than its OW total? 3000 YES 14. Will Paddington increase from its 3 Day weekend position this weekend (Finish top 6)? 4000 YES 15. Will Daniel Day Lewis relent and play Daniel Day Lewis one last time in Deadpool 2? 5000 No. But he might agree to play Daniel Day Lewis PLAYING Daniel Day Lewis. That would make it more artistically challenging. Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will Forever My Girl make for its 3 day? 1.1M 2. What will Paddington's Percentage change be? -28% 3. What will Phantom Thread PTA be for the Weekend? 6,625 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Jumanji 2. Post 4. Showman 7. Jedi 9. Insidious 11. Phantom Thread

Wk14 - No

Wait, which day exactly is the final day of the game? Is it the Sunday or the Monday?

1. Highest Opening Weekends Fifty - Maze - Paddington 2. Highest Total Domestic Fifty - Paddington - Maze 3. Highest Total Worldwide Fifty - Paddington - Maze 4. Lowest 2nd weekend drop Paddington - Maze - Fifty 5. Highest OW - Dom Total Multiplier Paddington - Maze - Fifty 6. Highest OD - OW multiplier Paddington - Maze - Fifty 7. Best Valentines Day percentage change Fifty - Maze - Paddington 8. Highest Gross on the final day of the Winter Game Fifty - Paddington - Maze

1. Will Paddington Open to more than $15M? 1000 YES 2. Will Paddington Open to more than $22M? 2000 NO 3. Will The Post Expand to more than $17M? 3000 YES 4. Will The Post Expand to more than $24M? 4000 YES 5. Will Paddington Open above The Post? 5000 NO 6. Will Proud Mary Open to more than $14M? 1000 YES 7. Will The Commuter Open to More than $12.5M? 2000 NO 8. Will Exactly 3 new entries or expansions finish above Insidious? 3000 NO 9. Will any two of the 4 top New entries or expansions finish within 500k of each other for the weekend? 4000 NO 10. Will Jumanji repeat at number 1? 5000 YES 11. Will Insidious stay above Star Wars? 1000 NO 12. Will Molly's Game stay above Darkest Hour? 2000 YES 13. Will Greatest Showman have the smallest percentage drop in the top 12 that is not an increase? 3000 NO 14. Will Coco drop less than 20%? 4000 NO 15. Will America learn that Paddington is adorable and there should be sequels forever? 5000 My wife already thinks this. Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will Paddington make for its 3 day? 17.5M 2. What will The Post's Percentage change be? +2,000% 3. What will Condorito: La Pelucila's PTA be for the Weekend? $2,600 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Jumanji 2. Paddington 4. Proud Mary 6. Insidious 8. Greatest Showman 10. Darkest Hour

wk13 - No

I'm sorry, but aabattery was NOT last in Part A. I claimed that honor, thank you very much. After cheating in spectacularly unimpressive fashion last week, this week I decided to do my own analysis, crunch my own numbers, and not even look at what anyone else put in. Result? Dead last in Part A and near last overall. I like to think I'm versatile in the weeklies. I can fail in a wide variety of ways.

Scott said they definitely "snuck some things in" during the reshoots. Nothing major, but among other things, they tweaked the chemistry slightly between Gail and Fletcher, leaning slightly harder towards a suggested potential romantic interest. There was a little less of that originally.

I was reading an interview with Scott who said the Plummer re-shoots took a total of 9 days. He said it was a lot faster than he'd have preferred and wouldn't have been possible without the crew putting in a herculean effort. That's pretty amazing, given that Plummer is in probably 1/4 of the scenes. They asked a follow-up question of, if its possible to shoot that fast, why do movies in general take so long to make? He said he it was a mystery to him, too.

1. Will Insidious Open to more than $13M? 1000 YES 2. Will Insidious Open to more than $16M? 2000 NO 3. Will Last Jedi make more than $30M? 3000 NO 4. Will Greatest Showman make more than $10M? 4000 YES 5. Will Jumanji make more than $35M? 5000 NO 6. Will Jedi Stay above Jumanji? 1000 NO 7. Will Pitch Perfect stay above Greatest Showman? 2000 NO 8. Will Father Figures stay above Shape of Water? 3000 NO 9. Will Molly's Game have a PTA above $5,000? 4000 NO 10. Will Lady Bird make more than $1M? 5000 NO 11. Will any film in the top 12 increase more than 60%? 1000 YES 12. Will Ferdinand decrease more than 34% on Sunday? 2000 NO 13. Will at least two films in the top 12 increase between 100 and 120% on Friday? 3000 YES 14. Will The Star drop more than 82.5%? 4000 YES 15. Do we need to go to cinema ever again? 5000 Of course. Han Solo, dude! Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will Jumanji make for its 3 day? 33M 2. What will Downsizing' Percentage change be? -63% 3. What will Shape of Water's PTA be for the Weekend? 3,150 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Jumanji 3. Insidious 5. Pitch Perfect 3 8. Molly 9. Coco 11. Shape of Water

Cloverfield 3 opening pushed back to April 20th. http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/03/cloverfield-3-delayed-again-may-have-new-title Does that count as official?

Wow. Both weeks I was in a hurry and made no attempt to figure out the answers. I just looked at what other people said and tried to put down what most people seemed to be guessing. I can’t even cheat right. I guess the universe is telling me to go back to my own math.

Oh, I meant 3, not 8. And I was simply wrong. It does mention Abstaining, I just missed it despite reading through it, looking for abstaining references, 3 times. Its worth 3k points.

This movie is absolutely killing it. Took the kids (with friends) last weekend and we were surprised at how good it was. This weekend, I was away for a bit and the kids badgered mom into taking them AGAIN, and my older daughter even brought the same friend to see it again because they both thought it was so good. Older daughter thinks the movie has one of the best depictions of the ups and downs of teenage girl friendships she's ever seen in a movie. The movie is really good all around, but its Jack Black's performance channeling Bethany that puts it over the top.

Hmm. SOTM 3 doesn't actually list abstaining as an option, but the -10k only applies if you don't answer at all. I think just assigning a 0 for abstaining seems fair.