Wrath

1) Will Compton win the 4 day? *YES* 2) Will Transporter win the three day? *NO* 3) Will A Walk in the Woods make at least 5 million for the three day weekend? *NO* 4) Will any film drop less than 13% on Monday? *NO* 5) Will more than 7 films increase on Sunday? *NO* 6) Will any film increase more than 165% on Friday? *YES* 7) Will We are your Friends drop more than 40%? *NO* 8) Will Jurassic World drop less than 15%? *NO* 9) Will any film drop less than 10%? *NO* 10) Will Rogue Nation make more than War Room? *NO* 11) Will Minions drop less than Ant-Man? *YES* 12) Will any film drop more than 27% on Thursday? *YES* 10/12 3000 11/12 5000 12/12 7000 What finishes in spots: 1 Compton 2 Transporter 5 No Escape 6 Walk in the Woods 10 Hitman 2000 each spot right 4000 bonus if all 5 right Bonus 1: What will Jurassic World be at WW according to Rentrak, by the time Sunday numbers are released? 10,000 1.646B Bonus 2: What will The Gift make for the 4 day? 10,000 2.01M Bonus 3: What will the combined weekend 4 day gross be of Hitman, Compton and Uncle? 10,000 18.4M

Mother of God, Jajang. You're a scoring machine. Extraordinary work. Sigh. I can't believe I somehow missed answering those final 25 questions. I knew I was in trouble when I got 2 of the 3 big bonus questions wrong, but then going 0 for 25 on top of that... Argh.

catheter + 2 liter bottle of Red Bull = problem solved

By 2 weeks I assume you mean 2 weekends, because there's only 8 days left. I picked MI5 like most folks, and I think it'll be close, but its got a big gap to make up.

Yeah. Looks like San Andreas is going to pull a minor upset and take it, thanks to MI5 getting a slightly late China open, but I suppose a miracle could still happen. Its funny, really. If MI:5 had opened a single day earlier in China it probably would have won it. I have to say, other than Ted 2, the other 4 possible entries ended up a good bit closer together than I expected.

War Room ends up winning the weekend? That would be exciting-ish.

Yeah, and while the exact amount obviously aren't quite locked in yet, and I didn't check whether any of them are close enough that the order could change (though its not going to be an issue since no one called JW at #1 anyway), but those being the top 10 WW for the summer is now set in stone. Spy is currently sitting at #11 and its at $235M, so PP2's spot at #10 is safe. Interestingly, the top 10 WW is the current top 9 domestic (though in a slightly different order), and then #10 (Compton, which has made 196K OS, so its not a threat to catch PP2 either) gets dropped for the #14 DOM film, TG.

Mrs Wrath is inexplicably fired up for Scortch Trials despite, afaik, having neither read the books nor even watched the first one. All I can figure is that she thinks one of the actors is cute but she denys it.

The end is near! 1) Will SOC drop more than 45%? *YES* 2) Will War Room open to more than 6.3 million? *NO* 3) Will No Escape open to more than 12 million for the 5 day? *NO* 4) Will No Escape decrease more than 30% on Thursday? *YES* 5) Will SOC ever not have a day as the number one movie (Thurs-Sun)? *YES* 6) Will We Are Your Friends make more than No Escape for the three day? *YES* 7) Will Mission Impossible make more than any of the two openers? *YES* 8) Will American Ultra fall more than 45%? *YES* 9) Will Sinister fall less than 55%? *NO* 10) Will Man from Uncle make more than Hitman? *NO* 11) Will Fantastic Four fall more than 54%? *YES* 12) Will any film increase more than 105% on Friday? *NO* 13) Will any film increase less than 50% on Friday? *YES* 14) Will any film increase more than 55% on Saturday? *YES* 12/14 5000 13/14 7000 14/14 10,000 What films finish in spots: 3 MI:5 5 War Room 8 UNCLE 9 Ant-Man 2000 each bonus of 5000 if all 4 correct Bonus 1: What does SOC make on Sunday? 5000 4.222M Bonus 2: What does Man From Uncle decrease by? (3% points please) 5000 43.000% Bonus 3: What does the cume for Minions, Ant-Man and The Gift add up to? 5000 7.875

With the benefit of hindsight, making the deadline Thursday night would have made this a lot trickier.

Which seems horribly unfair. I mean, Superman is basically a god with almost limitless power, whereas Luthor is just a guy. A really smart, rich, bald guy, but still just a guy. The fact that Luthor's even in the ballpark seems like it should be scored as a huge moral victory.

Compton's a little less frontloaded than 8 Mile or Notorious so far.

Saw the trailer for this with Wrathette #2. She actually yawned. Bad sign.

Good piece

Ok, looks like the 5-6-7 ordering bonus points are indeed safe. It would take a major miracle for PP2 to not land somewhere between 5-7 and only 2 people ranked it in one of those spots, and both ranked it 7th (which is really unlikely). Sadly, one of those folks picked it finishing behind #5 - MI5 (which is possible) and #6 - Ant-Man (which really isn't), and the other picked it finishing behind #5 - MI5 (again, possible), and #6 - Minions (which isn't going to happen). So, no 5-6-7 specific ordering bonus. Additionally, I totaled up how many films each person successfully called out of the top 15 Domestic (I didn't look at WW). Everyone in the competition scored somewhere between 11-14 out of 15. 14 - 1 - Baumer. Yep, just Baumer. Nice job. 13 - 20 - Jake Gittes, Damien Roc, Chasmmi, Empire Out, Darkelf, Dipper, Kayumaggi, K1stpierre, ThePanda, Treeroy, Films, Wrath, Cmasterclay, Cjohn, Simionski, Jajang, Numbers, Geraldino, Telemachos, Chewy, Matrix4You 12 - 20 - #Ed, Narniadis, Neo, Filmovie, Grey Ghost, Iceroll, Avi, Snoopy, DAJK, Druv10, Movieman89, Dar, Michael Gary Scott, 24Lost, Exxdee, Grimm22, Alfredstellar, Geraldino, Laguy, Mattrek Loves Del Toro 11 - 9 - Cedar, Goffe, Blankements, Ethan Hunt, Alpha, Glassfairy, Jandrew, BCF26, Kalo (reported late)

Ok, going to assume the top 15 go: JW AOU IO Minions PP2 MI:5 Ant-Man San Andreas MMFR Compton Spy Trainwreck Tomorrowland Terminator:Genesis Ted 2 Not exactly in that order (I'm ballparking where I think MI:5 and Compton end up, which could be wrong). That'll be a bit of an issue, because while JW scrambled most of the Specific Ordering bonus points, its still possible for someone to get the "5-6-7" bonus right. I think they'll *probably* end up PP2 - MI5 - Ant-Man, but we won't know for sure for a few weeks and we'll have to score it then. But those being the top 15 are just about set in stone. The only 3 movies that even have a faint chance of displacing Ted 2 are Pixels (needs to make ~16M by the end of the game), Vacation (~34M), and F4 (~38M) all of which are extraordinarily unlikely. So, with that in mind, I'm going to do a count of how many everyone got right, and then at least ballpark who has a chance of getting 5-6-7. Will be posting in a bit.

Its pretty much a lock unless SoC ends up with a 1.3 or so mult.

*Ahem* SOC ALMOST everything flopped.

I think a number of people are going to go 13/15, but I think Baumer will be the only one to go 14/15 for Domestic. He was the *only* person not to have F4 in his top 15, but taking Pixels instead of Tomorrowland will block him from getting the full 15/15. Who knew that *NOT* picking Tomorrowland would end up as a mistake?

1) Will any opener break 15 million? *NO* 2) Will SOC fall less than 62%? *YES* 3) Will Sinister be the largest grossing film of the openers? *YES* 4) Will Man From UNCLE fall more than 45%? *YES* 5) Will Hitman make more than American Ultra? *YES* 6) Will Ant-Man and Minions both fall less than 40%? *NO* 7) Will FF stay in the top 10? *NO* 8) Will FF drop more than 60%? *YES* 9) Will Rogue Nation gross more than at least two of the openers? *YES* 10) Will any film increase more than 100% on Friday? *NO* 11) Will any film increase more than 50% on Saturday? *YES* 12) Will Vacation decrease more than 7% on Thursday? *YES* 10/12 3000 11/12 5000 12/12 7000 What finishes in spots 2 Sinister 2 3 MI5 4 Hitman 5 Ultra 7 Gift 2000 each 5000 bonus if all 5 correct Bonus 1: What will Compton make on Saturday? 5000 9.55M Bonus 2: What will Minions drop % wise this weekend...3 decimal spots... 5000 43.156%

No one cares about it anymore, but I saw Shaun the Sheep over the weekend with Wrathette #2. While the theater was surprisingly full for a movie doing so badly, I have to say it was actually pretty disappointing. Technically proficient, but really slow paced and not especially engaging. Wrathette #2 admitted to being bored and for the first time in a very long time I actually checked my watch to see how long it had left. Hard to believe its the same folks who made Chicken Run.

But dont you understand? * Their* arbitrarily defined evaluation criteria are better than *your* arbitrarily defined evaluation criteria!

6) Jump Street 147M

Barely. Mrs Wrath wanted to see it last week, and it had a single daily showing at 12:15 pm. That was it. So technically it had a screen but practically speaking it was gone.

1) Will Straight Outta Compton make more than 3 million for previews? *YES* 2) Will Man from U.N.C.L.E. gross more than 25 million? *NO* 3) Will Fantastic Four drop more than 65%? *NO* 4) Will Mission Impossible have more than a 75% Friday increase? *YES* 5) Will The Gift make more than FF? *NO* 6) Will any film in the top 10 fall less than 30%? *NO* 7) Will any film in the top 10, excluding FF, fall more than 45%? *YES* 8) Will Minions make more than Ant-Man? *YES* 9) Will Ricki and The Flash increase more than 25% on Saturday? *YES* 10) Will FF have a Saturday increase of more than 40%? 11) Will Jurassic World make more than 10 million WW according to Rentrak? *NO* 12) Will Pixels drop less than 38.5%? *NO* 10/12 3000 11/12 5000 12/12 7000 What finishes in spots 5 The Gift 6 Vacation 7 Ant-Man 9 Trainwreck 2000 each and 3000 bonus for all four right Bonus 1: What will Compton make? 3 decimal places please. 5000 38.351M Bonus 2: What will UNCLE make? 3 decimal places please. 5000 17.815M Bonus 3: What will FF drop % wise....3 decimal places please. 5000 61.375% Bonus 4: What will Rogue Nation make on Friday? 3 decimal places please. 5000 4.655M