Wrath

Part A: 1. Will Close Encounters make more than $1.5M? 1000 *YES* 2. Will Tulip Fever make more than $1.5M? 2000 *NO* 3. Will Close Encounters and Tulip Fever combine to more than #3M? 3000 *NO* 4. Will Hitman's Bodyguard make more $7.5M? 4000 *YES* 5. Will Annabelle drop less than 27.5%? 5000 *YES* 6. Will Despicable Me increase? 1000 *YES* 7. Will Leap stay in the top 3? 2000 *NO* 8. Will Logan Lucky stay above Dunkirk? 3000 *NO* 9. Will Wonder Woman increase more on Sunday? 4000 *More than it did on the worst Sunday of the game? Yes* 10. Will at least 5 of the top 10 either increase or drop less than 20%? 5000 *YES* 11. Will Hazlo Como Hombre have a PTA stay above $4,000? 1000 *YES* 12. Will Viceroy's House have a PTA above $12,000? 2000 *NO* 13. Will Terminator 2 3D be at least 1% of the way to $100M ($1M) by the end of Friday? 3000 *NO* 14. Will Spider-Man make more than $2M? 4000 *YES* 15. Will Apes stay above Atomic Blonde? 5000 *YES* 16. Will Girl's Trip have a PTA above $1000? 1000 *YES* 17. Will any film in the top 12 decrease more than 10% on Sunday? 2000 *YES* 18. Will Cars increase more than 400% on Friday? 3000 *NO* 19. Will any film in the top 12 increase more than 70% on Saturday? 4000 *YES* 20. Will Hazlo Como Hombre increase on Sunday? 5000 *NO* 21. Will there be any 'New Entries' (anything highlighted yellow) in the top 10 this weekend? 1000 *NO* 22. Will Detroit drop more than 50%? 2000 *NO* 23. Will Guardians stay above 47 metres down? 3000 *NO* 24. Will some cinema chain decide to show badger wrestling or something equally stupid at 25.6 locations and thus BOM decide that should qualify as a film for its box office tallies? 4000 *NO* 25. Will you come back for winter game? Or have I crushed your spirit into the dust? 5000 *You have crushed my spirit into dust, AND THEREFORE I will be back for the winter game.* Bonus: 15/25 2000 16/25 3000 17/25 5000 18/25 7000 19/25 10000 20/25 15000 21/25 20,000 22/25 25,000 23/25 33,000 24/25 40,000 25/25 50,000 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 Close Encounters make for its 3 day OW? 1.49M 2. What will The Dunkirk's Saturday gross be? 1.64M 3. What will Cars 3's percentage change be? 380% Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Annabelle 4. Leap 7. Spider Man 9. Emoji 11. Nut Job 14. Close Encounters

Wow. I didn't miss a single week? I think that's the first time I've ever managed it. Considering I went to Ireland for 2 weeks and spend almost a week rafting with no cell service during the game, I wonder what the hell was wrong with prior versions of myself.

Lucky > Smart. I deserve some kind of award for being involved in 2 of the 3 ties. That kind of precision is tough to practice.

I think I've scored more points on Part B of the weekly questions this game than I have in all previous games I've ever played, combined.

1. Will Leap Open to more than $4M? 1000 *YES* 2. Will All Saints open to more than $4M? 2000 *NO* 3. Will Birth of the Dragon open to more than $2.5M? 3000 *NO* 4. Will the top 3 New Entries combine to more than $11M? 4000 *YES* 5. Will any new entry open in the top 3? 5000 *YES* 6. Will Dunkirk drop less than 35%? 1000 *NO* 7. Will Detroit drop more than 62.5%? 2000 *YES* 8. Will Nut Job above Spiderman? 3000 *YES* 9. Will 4 animated films be in the top 15? 4000 *YES* 10. Will Good Time make more than $1M this weekend? 5000 *YES* 11. Will A Taxi Driver drop less than 20% this weekend? 1000 *YES* 12. Will A Gentleman have a PTA above $2,200? 2000 *NO* 13. Will Cars 3 have a PTA above $800? 3000 *NO* 14. Will Hitman's Bodyguard make more than $4.75M on Saturday? 4000 *NO* 15. Will Terminator 2 3D make more than Blackhat in China this weekend? 5000 *I understood they were actually the same movie* 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 Leap make for its 3 day OW? 4.75M 2. What will be the combined gross of the three highest new entries (no expansions allowed_? 11.2M 3. What will Nut Job's PTA be? $1,050 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Hit-man 3. Leap 5. Dunkirk 8. Nut Job 10. Emoji 15. Glass Castle

Cars 3 Which is kind of like abstaining.

You should be saying that with pride, sir.

Clearly you've got a lot to learn before matching my, um, depths it would seem... edit - Oh, apparently I entered $0 for Girls Trip. That probably didnt help. edit2 - I hope that derby title isn't about me... Or, rather, I WISH I was in my late 30s.

For me, the criticism is that it would have been better if it had been MORE like Midnight Run, which was a fantastic movie.

I agree with everything you said. It IS fun, Salma Hayek DOES kill it, and SLJ and RR DO have great chemistry. They needed to spend more time on the characters and less on blowing everything up.

That is one crappy movie. It is seriously all over the place. It has moments where you can see what they were trying to do, kind of a Midnght Run with machine guns after a Red Bull and you weep for what might have been. Instead, they had 10 different ideas and decided to go with all of them cranked up to 11.

1. Will Hitman's Bodyguard Open to more than $20M? 1000 *NO* 2. Will Logan Lucky Open to more than $10M? 2000 *YES* 3. Will the two films combine to more than $30M? 3000 *NO* 4. Will Annabelle stay at number 1? 4000 *NO* 5. Will Will Nut Job stay above Dark Tower? 5000 *YES* 6. Will Wonder Woman drop less than 35%? 1000 *YES* 7. Will Valerian drop more than 62%? 2000 *NO* 8. Will Emoji Stay above Spiderman? 3000 *NO* 9. Will Kidnap stay above Glass Castle? 4000 *NO* 10. Will Girl's Trip drop more than 31% on Sunday? 5000 *YES* 11. Will A Taxi Driver drop less than 10% this weekend? 1000 *YES* 12. Will Patti Cakes have a PTA above $9,000? 2000 *NO* 13. Will Baby Driver have a PTA above $1,000? 3000 *YES* 14. Will Maudie stay above Captain Underpants? 4000 *YES* 15. Will Ryan Reynolds turn into deadpool and comment of Jackson's lack of eyepatch? 5000 *In true, insane Deadpool fashion, Reynolds will actually turn into the eyepatch, though it won't prevent him from complaining and joking about it* 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 Logan Lucky make for its 3 day OW? 10.1M 2. What will Nut Job's percentage drop for the weekend be? 41.8% 3. What will GOTG2's PTA be? $807 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Annabelle 5. Nut Job 2 7. Girls Trip 9. Dark Tower 12. Atomic Blonde 14. DM3

Abstain

Which rival stonefish venom in their toxicity.

Wow. There were some ferocious battles this week.

Part A: 1. Will Annabelle Open to more than $25M? 1000 *YES* 2. Will Glass Castle Open to more than $3M? 2000 *YES* 3. Will Nut Job make more than $9.5M? 3000 *YES* 4. Will Nut Job and Glass Castle combine to more than half Annabelle's Opening weekend? 4000 *YES* 5. Will Dunkirk stay in the top 2? 5000 *YES* 6. Will Wonder Woman drop less than 30% 1000 *YES* 7. Will Dark Tower drop more than 52% 2000 *YES* 8. Will Atomic Blonde Stay above Detroit? 3000 *YES* 9. Will War for the Apes stay above Despicable Me? 4000 *YES* 10. Will Valerian drop more than 61%? 5000 *YES* 11. Will A Taxi Driver have a PTA above $7,000? 1000 *NO* 12. Will The trip to Spain have a PTA above $5,000? 2000 *NO* 13. Will Kidnap have a PTA above $2,150? 3000 *YES* 14. Will SPiderman have a PTA above $1950? 4000 *YES* 15. Will the Nut Job finally be the 2017 animated tour de Force we have all been waiting for? 5000 *Um, no* 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 Annabelle make for its 3 day OW? 27.5M 2. What will Wonder Woman's percentage drop for the weekend be? 28.9% 3. What will Cars 3's PTA be? $987 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Dunkirk 5. Girls Trip 8. Kidnap 10. Detroit 13. Big Sick 18. Inconvenient Sequel

1. Will Nut Job open to more than $10M? *YES* 2. Will Nut Job drop less than 50% in its 2nd weekend? *YES* 3. Will Nut Job increase on Saturday? *YES* 4. Will Nut job increase more than 37.5% on its 1st Tuesday? *YES* 5. Will Nut Job have more than 9 days above $1M? *NO* 6. Will Nut Job more than $2M ahead of Emoji Movie in the August 18th Weekend standings? *NO* 7. Will Nut Job make more than $4M in the UK? *YES*

This SotM made me suddenly realize that the summer box office season is basically done. Logan Lucky looks like it'd be fun, and I might see Hitman's Bodyguard, but all the BIG SUMMER MOVIES are done and I'm now sad.

My predicts weren't exactly bad, but I might have posted a below average score on every single one.

Excellent start! One minor quibble, in Group A, shouldn't YourMother have gotten 1 more goal for winning Question 1 (albeit with a sub-80 score)? Still a big loss, just by slightly less.

Well, I did well on OWs, but I think this was the nail in the coffin at my chance of doing well overall.

Eh, anyone who tried to actually READ GoT knows this pain and then some.

Ok, maybe I'm crazy, but I didn't really think Valerian was that bad. The story and general theme felt kinda silly and "sci-fi 20+ years ago", and that big dramatic speech near the end was like.... really? But the visuals were spectacular, I loved Rihanna's character, and the whole thing was a lot of fun. Honestly, I think half the problem was DeHaan. He wasn't bad, but he didn't have nearly enough oomph. If this was a $30M movie, he'd have been ok, but it wasn't and they needed someone a lot better in that role. I thought Delevingne was fine, though.

Part A: 1. Will Dark Tower Open to more than $22.5M? 1000 *NO* 2. Will Detroit have a 3 day weekend of more than $12.5M? 2000 *NO* 3. Will Kidnap make more than $5M? 3000 *YES* 4. Will Dunkirk stay in the top 2? 4000 *YES* 5. How many films will make more than $12M this weekend? 5000 *3* 6. Will Wonder Woman drop less than 25% 1000 *NO* 7. Will Emoji drop more than 47.5% 2000 *YES* 8. Will Girl's Trip Stay above Atomic Blonde? 3000 *YES* 9. Will Baby Driver stay above Wonder Woman? 4000 *YES* 10. Will Wish Upon drop more than 65%? 5000 *YES* 11. Will Wind River have a PTA above $12,000? 1000 *YES* 12. Will Jab Harry met Sejal have a PTA above $5,000? 2000 *NO* 13. Will Despicable Me 3 have a PTA above $1,850? 3000 *YES* 14. Will Will Valerian somehow drop below Wonder Woman? 4000 *NO* 15. Will Nolanites implode if Dunkirk drops below Emoji this weekend? 5000 *Like a crashing dive-bomber, they would. But it won't happen.* 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 Dark Tower make for its 3 day OW? 22M 2. What will Valerian's percentage drop for the weekend be? 61% 3. What will Detroit's percentage change be? 2425% Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Dunkirk 4. Emoji 7. SMH 10. DM3 12. Baby Driver 15. Cars 3 Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000 2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000 4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000 6/6 - 50,000

Wonder Woman 32% - 32% - 32% - 32% - 15% Dunkirk 34% - 34% - 34% - 34% - 15% Baby Driver 32% - 32% - 32% - 32% - 15%