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Never heard of either of those quotes. But no, to answer your question, Ice Cube is not a star here. People know him but he doesn't really draw much of an audience. Just thinking back to his recent movies, Ride Along didn't make much of a dent, it did the equivalent of $45M. Ride Along 2 did a little better equivalent to ~$55M. Straight Outta Compton was a hit (although nowhere near the level in the US) but not sure if that counts. Looking online, I don't think the Friday films got a release, in fact most of his movies either had a very limited release or didn't release at all.

It's sad that Midnight Special has done badly. But I feel truly privileged that I was able to watch it - and I'm seeing it again tomorrow. It's spectacular and beautiful, it really is like watching Close Encounters, it has that feeling of awe and wonder.

the what series?

I hadn't even heard of Barbershop 1 and 2 before this weekend. Doubt it gets released here in the UK.

BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT opened with $20.24M this weekend. #Barbershop #TheNextCut

BATMAN V SUPERMAN took in $9.03M this weekend and has grossed $311.33M to date domestically. #BatmanVSuperman

That's exactly it. I can understand someone having the opinion that it will open to 100M, but as far as I'm concerned, "locked" means that you cannot feasibly imagine a situation in which the target is missed.

I dont think anyone was ever doubting that the hardcore Harry Potter fans will show up. The question is who else will. 100M is very far from guaranteed. You're really saying it's impossible for the movie to open to like 95M? I personally have it at ~70M.

How is Fantastic Beasts a lock? It's a spin off with none of the characters - and the entire Harry Potter series appeal revolved around the core characters. You really cannot imagine any situation where Fantastic Beasts makes "only" 99M?

Civil War is the only 100M lock this year.

think I would rather shoot my mother on mother's day than watch the film.

jesus christ baumer, every time you see a movie you get worse. you really do like every single film you see

fuck me, I feel like an idiot. I was wondering what the point of that moment was.

oh if you mean box office wise. Illusionist / Prestige Never Say Never Again / Octopussy

and everyone knows armageddon is garbage. Better example would be Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line.

Yeah, it seems bad to call something a bomb 2 years before release, but I can't see how it gets out of the shadow of this movie. regardless, I can't wait to see how Andy Serkis makes a movie.

Well, yes and no. Google it.

Have you seen Showgirls 2? (if not then please, never see Showgirls 2)

I know it's been talked about for years but I don't think his Animal Farm is ever gonna get made. It would be expensive and it's hard to justify that when the film would have a limited audience. Most adult dramas aren't laiden with expensive effects.

Wow. I'm actually jealous.

Erm, do you actually know what "bomb" means? Ice Age is not going to bomb. The last one made 900M on a 90M budget. One before that made 900M on a 90M budget. I think there's a trend here... Why would Now You See Me bomb? The first one had a 4x multi, that's super rare for an action/heist movie. It was really well liked, there's little reason other than competition why this one would not have an increase of sorts. Why is X Men going to "disappoint"? Unless your idea of disappointment is anything under 300M.

TOP 15 ETC PREDICTION TEMPLATE Below is a helpful template to use for making predictions. All Players who use this template for their predictions will receive 10,000 bonus points for making my life easier when I have to score everything at the end of the game. A: Domestic top 15: 1) Captain America: Civil War – 512M 2) Finding Dory – 345M 3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 260M 4) Suicide Squad – 248M 5) Ghostbusters – 241M 6) Warcraft – 203M 7) Alice Through the Looking Glass – 201M 8) The Secret Life of Pets – 195M 9) Jason Bourne – 188M 10) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows – 176M 11) Sausage Party – 151M 12) Now You See Me 2 – 146M 13) Independence Day: Resurgence – 138M 14) Angry Birds – 136M 15) Central Intelligence – 132M B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) Captain America: Civil War – 202M 2) X-Men: Apocalypse – 105M 3) Finding Dory – 97M 4) Suicide Squad – 91M 5) Warcraft – 75M 6) Ghostbusters – 68M 7) Alice Through The Looking Glass – 66M C: Worldwide top 10: 1) Captain America: Civil War – 1587M 2) Warcraft – 1030M 3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 884M 4) Finding Dory – 861M 5) Ice Age: Collision Course – 812M 6) Alice Through The Looking Glass – 632M 7) Suicide Squad – 596M 8) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows – 511M 9) Ghostbusters – 502M 10) Star Trek Beond – 494M D: Worldwide Weekends: 1) Captain America: Civil War – 450M 2) Warcraft – 250M 3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 190M 4) Finding Dory – 175M 5) Suicide Squad – 160M E: China Box Office: 1) Warcraft – 450M 2) Captain America: Civil War – 280M 3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 170M 4) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows – 130M 5) Indepdence Day: Resurgence – 95M 6) Ice Age: Collision Course – 80M 7) Star Trek Beyond: 75M F: Total Grosses: Top 15 Dom) 3272M Top 7 W/E) 704M Top 10 WW) 7909M Top 5 China) 1125M G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices: South Korea #1) Warcraft South Africa #1) Warcraft Brazil #1) Captain America: Civil War Mexico #1) Captain America: Civil War Australia #1 ) Captain America: Civil War Italy #1 ) Captain America: Civil War Pre-season Questions: 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 Neighbors 2 B: 200M Star Trek Beyond C: 300M X-Men: Apocalypse D: 400M Finding Dory E: 500M Captain America: Civil War Each correctly predicted film scores you 15,000 points, get all four correct and receive 25,000 bonus points for 100k total. (This is the only preseason question where there is no penalty for being wrong so enjoy it). 1) Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the summer domestically: 1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 2) Independence Day Resurgence 3) Angry Birds Movie 4) Ghostbusters Answer correctly: 12,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 2,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 20M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 10M and receive 23,000 points bonus. 2) Tell me which of these will be the lowest grossing film of the summer domestically: 1) Free State of Jones 2) Purge: Election Year 3) Popstar: Never Stop Not Stopping 4) Nine Lives Answer correctly: 12,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 2,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 5M and receive 23,000 points bonus 3) Will at least 3 films make more than 300M domestically by the end of the game? NO Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 4) Will animated films combine to make more than 800M domestically 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 3 films make more than 100M OW domestic? NO Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 6) Will any film have either a second domestic 3 day weekend or a second worldwide weekend that would have qualified for its respective top X table if multiple entries had been allowed? YES Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 7) Will at least 3 of the top 5 domestic films of the summer NOT be comic book films? NO Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 8) Will the top 3 films of the summer’s combined gross be higher than the combined gross of Batman vs Superman, Jungle Book and Zootopia? YES Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 9) Will any film have a domestic Opening Weekend above $50M but not open to number one at the box office? YES Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 10) Will at least 2 sequel/prequel/reboots drop more than 33.33% Domestically from the previous installment in its franchise (Civil War is vs Winter Soldier, Apocalypse is against DOFP and Bourne is vs Ultimatum for this question)? YES Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 11) Will at least 2 DOMESTIC titles make over $150M in China? YES Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 12) Will at least 3 animated films open to number one at the domestic box office? YES Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 13) Will any film with a budget above $120M (according to BOM or another credible source) gross less than $60M domestically? YES Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 14) Will any domestic film get more than 8 million admissions in South Korea? YES Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 15) Will any film make more than $45M in Germany? YES Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 16) Will at least 3 comedy films (as listed by BOM) make over $100M domestic? 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YES (WILL MISS DOM TOP 15) Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 19) Which combination of films will gross the most amount of money domestically during the game? 1) Finding Dory, Civil War, Popstar: Never stop Never Stopping, Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates 2) Apocalypse, Star Trek 3, Sausage Party, Alice Through the Looking Glass 3) Warcraft, Neighbours 2, Tarzan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 4) Jason Bourne, Central Intelligence, Secret Life of Pets, Conjuring 2 Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 20) Which combination of films will gross the smallest amount of money during the game? 1) Pete’s Dragon, Keanu, The Shallow, Nine Lives, 2) Legend of Tarzan, Ratchett and Clank, Me Before You, Arms and the Dudes 3) Ice Age, Money Monster, Lights Out, The Space Between Us, 4) Ben Hur, Now You See Me 2, The Shallows, Mechanic: Resurrection, Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points Jajang’s (JJ-8) little set of Questions. Answer if you Dare! Part A: A Fish called Dory 1) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend of 2016 ? (Current Record – 2016 = Zootopia 75.1m) YES 2) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend ever ? (Current Record = Shrek the Third : 121.6m) NO 3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ? YES 4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ? NO 5) Will Finding Dory top the Summer Game domestically ? (ie. #1 film for the game) NO 6) Will Finding Dory make more than 1B worldwide ? NO 7) Will Finding Dory become the #1 Animated Film Worldwide (Current #1 = Frozen 1.277B) NO 8) How many weekends will an Animated Film be on top of the weekend chart ? (You have a Cushion of 1 Weekend – so if you are off by 1 you still get this correct) 5 9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends ? NO 10) How many Animated Films will be in the top 15 for the summer game ? (you have a Cushion of 1 Film) 4 Part B: It’s a Comic Book World 1) A comic book film is expected to make the highest opening weekend during the summer game (Many of you will have it as your number 1 Weekend). Name that Film OR if you don’t think a Comic Film will be the number 1 weekend this summer, then put NONE. Captain America: Civil War 2) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 2 (128.1m) on Opening Weekend? YES 3) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 3 (174.1m) (and inherently more than BVS) on Opening Weekend? YES 4) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Captain America: The Winter Soldier (259.8m)? YES 5) Will Captain America: Civil War become the biggest MCU film which doesn’t have “The Avengers” in its title (ie. More than Iron Man 3 (409m)) YES 6) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: Days of Future Past (90.8m) on Opening weekend? YES 7) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than Deadpool (132.4m) on Opening weekend (this would make it the largest of the X-Men series)? NO 8) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: The Last Stand (234.4m)? YES 9) Will X-Men: Apocalypse become the biggest of the X-Men series/franchise (Deadpool – Final number isn’t done yet)? NO 10) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (65.6m) on Opening weekend? NO 11) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (191.2m)? NO 12) Will Suicide Squad make more than Captain America: The First Avenger (65.1m)? YES 13) Will Suicide Squad (Total) make more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Opening Weekend (170m – estimate)? YES 14) Will All Comic Book films (Total) make more than 1 Billion domestically (Total of all 4 films together)? YES 15) Will any Comic Book film drop more than 62% in it’s second weekend? (this will always reference 3 day totals only) NO 16) In how many of the following markets will a Comic Book film be the number 1 film (Total Gross) during the Game? (You have a cushion of 1 country) (Australia; Brazil; China; France; Germany; Mexico; Russia; South Korea; United Kingdom) 6 17) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than 1 Billion Worldwide? YES 18) Will Captain America: Civil War (Worldwide Total) OR X-Men: Apocalypse (Worldwide Total) make than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Worldwide Total) AND Suicide Squad (Worldwide Total) Worldwide? YES 19) Will at least 2 Comic Book films receive a Cinema Score of at least “A”? NO 20) How Many Comic Book films will be in the ALL 3 of the main game charts? (there is no Cushion for this one!) 3 REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE (WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING) AND RECEIVE 20,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

I'm gonna give you a Midnight Special.

sorry was just reading off the chart posted above in the thread.

9M weekend, -60% drop. 307M total