Wrath

Wk18 - Yes

Dammit! I fell asleep early and didn’t put in predicts! I am the fail.

Yeah, The Kitchen is the one that, I think, hit me the worst as well. Was not expecting much, given how awful the reviews and WoM are.

Going to try not to forget this again, but this is likely to be heavily edited. 1. Will Angry Birds make more than $14M? 1000 YES 2. Will Angry Birds make more than $20M? 2000 NO 3. Will Angry Birds make more than $17M? 3000 NO 4. Will Angry birds have the highest PTA of the 5 biggest new releases? 4000 YES 5. Will Angry Birds' Sunday total be more than double the next highest new entries'? 5000 YES 6. Will 47 Metres make more than $12M? 1000 NO 7. Will Good Boys make more than $12M? 2000 NO 8. Will 47 Metres make more than Good Boys? 3000 YES 9. Will Bernadette make more than blinded by the light? 4000 YES 10. Will Hobbs and Shaw stay in the top 3? 5000 YES  11. Will Lion King cross $500M domestic? 1000 NO 12. Will toy Story drop more than 40%? 2000 NO 13. Will Once Upon a Time stay in the top 8? 3000 NO 14. Will Bring the Soul drop more than 70% 4000 YES 15. Will the Angry Birds movie crossover into Star Wars? 5000 Obviously not. Its Star Trek canon, iirc. 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 Angry Bird's OW be? 15.5M 2. What will Dora's percentage drop be? 37% 3. What will be the difference in dollars between 47 metres and Good Boy's OW totals? 2.5M Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Hobbs&Shaw 3. 47M 5. Dora 7. Bernadette 9. Once Upon 12. Spider-Man

Wk17 - ye.... hmm.

Damn. Forgot to do the weekly questions.

Abstain Edit - Oh, wait, I misunderstood the question. I might end up answering after all.

1. Will Dora make more than $25M? 1000 2. Will Dora make more than $35M? 2000 3. Will Dora make more than $30M? 3000 4. Will Will Dora make more than the 3n next highest new releases combined? 4000 5. Will Will Hobbs and Shaw finsh closer in dollars to Lion King or Dora? 5000 6. Will Kitchen make more than $10M? 1000 7. Will Scary stories make more than $10M? 2000 8. Will Racing in the rain make more than $10M? 3000 9. Will Brian Banks make more than $4.5M? 4000 10. Which New release not named Dora will have the highest PTA whilst also making more than $2M? 5000 11. Will Ode to Joy have a PTA above $15,000? 1000 12. Spider-man stay above Toy Story? 2000 13. Will Annabelle have a larger percentage drop than Crawl? 3000 14. Which film in the upcoming top 12 will have the highest percentage drop? 4000 15. Will Dora tell a scary story to tell in the dark? 5000 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 Dora's OW be? 2. What will Endgame's percentage drop be? 3. What will YEsterday's PTA be? Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. 4. 6. 8. 10. 12.

Ok, I’m just gonna say it: Stuber was funny and deserved better.

Wk16 - No Saw the RT% scores for The Kitchen. Yikes.

99 was a better year for movies than 89, but 89 was still well above average. Will be a fun list to put together.

Oh, I’m in. The Poughkeepsie State Flying Cougars shall live again.

Just call me Wrath FairPlay.

That Instagram letter from Lindelof is breathtaking.

Finished watching it last night. Great show with great characters. I love how almost everyone is shades of (fairly dark) grey, and it would take only a tiny change in perspective for Butcher to clearly be the villain (and a pretty scary one). I also like how Homelander’s constant stream of platitudes seemed at least somewhat more genuine when we saw him during the flashbacks from events from several years before, and increasingly rote and even forced when we see him now. By the end he was my favorite character. Edit - It’s also fun to compare Homelander with The Tick’s Superian as somewhat alarming takes on Superman. Superian is a genuinely good person, but he’s an alien who came to Earth as an adult. He *loves* humanity but like a really good person loves their pet hamsters. If something happened to humanity (or he accidentally killed us all), he’d be SUPER sad about it, like if your dog died, and then move onto another planet to look after. Homelander isn’t a good person and he looks down on humanity, but he’s still human. Both are hugely overconfident (for good reason) and have serious psychological issues, but Superian is kind of an idiot (even for that show) while Homelander isn’t.

Sure, but Cruise's movies are weirdly consistent about underperforming on OW and then having really solid multiples.

Lion King The Art of Self-Defense

Good to know. Thanks, Cap! I'll answer the 2nd way going forward. 1. NO Will Hobbs and Shaw Open to more than $75M? 2. NO Will Hobbs and Shaw Open to more than $95M? 3. NO Will Hobbs and Shaw Open to more than $85M? 4. NO Will Hobbs and Shaw's Saturday and Sunday combined total beat Lion King's Weekend total? 5. NO Will Hobbs and Shaw Open make more than 42% of its weekend gross on Friday? 6. NO Will Once Upon a Time drop more than 56%? 7. YES Will Crawl have a bigger PTA than Yesterday? 8. NO Will Spider-man stay above Toy Story 4? 9. YES Will The Nightingale have a PTA above $20,000? 10. NO Will Aladdin increase more than 55% on Friday? 11. NO Will Stuber stay above Annabelle? NO 12. NO Will Midsommar drop more than 33% on Sunday? NO 13. NO Will the Endgame have a PTA above $1,200k? NO 14. YES Will anything in the top 20 increase this weekend? YES 15. YES Will Aladdin have a bigger saturday increase than Lion King? YES 16. YES Will Stuber stay in the top 10? YES 17. NO Will Films listed by BOM as BV (Buena Vista) studio releases combine to more than $50M? 18. Annabelle Will Once Upon a Time's total gross by the end of Sunday be closer to Rocketman or Annabelle's total? 19. Stuber Which film in the upcoming top 12 will have largest percentage decrease? 20. Sure. Its magic. Will Thanos ultimately be defeated by the power of friendship? 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 Hobbs and Shaw make for its 3 day OW? $56.5M 2. What will Crawl's Sunday gross be? $0.78M 3. What will SLOP's PTA be for the 3 day weekend? $750 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 3. Once Upon a Time 5. Toy Story 4 6. Crawl 8. Yesterday 10. Annabelle 12. SLOP 2

Endgame - 860 Crawl - 50M Hollywood - 140 Hobbs and Shaw - 225

Wk15 - Nope! Looked possible for a minute, but I was wrong.

All true. Plus, its worth mentioning, the Wonder Woman movie was overall really good, almost certainly the best DCU movie (and by a pretty good margin). Her score is spectacular, and the "No Man's Land" sequence was fantastic. Edit - Its also not going to help that we know Widow's ultimate fate.

I think this hits the nail on the head.

Not a bit. That’s why Pitt has to fix the TV antenna, so he could go into the tool shed and we could see Checkov’s flamethrower in the corner. edit - To be clear, I know you’re being rhetorical/sarcastic in the question. Just pointing out how foreshadowed that flamethrower was.

The whole bare feet thing was peculiar, though at least one guy was notably barefoot as well. edit - Apropos of nothing, I liked it a lot, but I really see how not being familiar with the era would be a problem.

1. Will Once Upon A Time make more than $35M? 1000 Yes 2. Will Once Upon A Time make more than $50M? 2000 No 3. Will Once Upon A Time make more than $42.5M? 3000 Yes 4. Will Once Upon A Time make more than half of Lion King's Weekend total? 4000 Yes 5. Will Spiderman overtake Aladdin Domestically by the end of the weekend? 5000 No 6. Will Spiderman stay above Toy Story 4? 1000 Yes 7. Will Crawl stay above Yesterday? 2000 No 8. Will Endgame's PTA stay above $1000? 3000 Yes 9. Will Annabelle have a higher percentage drop than Midsommar? 4000 No 10. Will Stuber drop more than 52%? 5000 Yes 11. Will Toy Story increase more than 37% on Saturday? 1000 Yes 12. Will Secret Life of Pets stay in the top 12? 2000 Yes 13. Will Lion King Overtake Toy Story's Domestic Total by the end of the weekend? 3000 No 14. Which film in the upcoming top 12 will have the highest percentage drop? 4000 Midsommar 15. Will we see a CGI hippo balancing on the beak of a CGI toucan? 5000 Wouldn't it be easier the other... Oh, I see. 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 Once Upon a Time's OW be? 42M 2. What will Yesterday's percentage drop be? -33% 3. What will Aladdin's PTA be? $1,430 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Once Upon a Time In Hollywood 4. Toy Story 4 6. Crawl 7. Aladdin 9. Stuber 11. SLOP 2