Infernus

Marvel sold X-Men and Spiderman film-rights to these studios years before there deal with Disney. So, as far as films go these have (or, in Sony's case, had) complete rights to these characters and I don't think they have to pay anything to Marvel.

Also TGD was also an extremely massive disappointment. I'd say that was a really big surprise too although not as big as deadpool.

Yes they were already expected to perform bigger, but they did outperform the expectations just as well too. A 250m OW, beating previous record by biggest margin ever, in Dec and a final total 330m above the reasonable expectation was every bit as surprising as Deadpool. As for JW, it was only pegged for 100m OW and 300m Dom at most. It easily made more than twice of what it was expected to even by the most optimistic predictors even just a day before, and with much bigger numbers in the play (which, I believe should also be factored in). There's no competition when it comes to JW. Maybe one can put up an argument for SW vs Deadpool but you have to factor the sheer size of numbers that were in play then. Otherwise you may end up saying that a film which made 30m OW instead of the 10m it was supposed to was a bigger surprise than a film that made 250m and beat the previous record with a record margin, that was supposed to make 160m OW. Its true predictions for SW started rising by the time its release came close but so did Deadpool's and I don't think that's supposed to be factored in anyway. If a movie which all had pegged for 100m Dom when it was announced started showing signs of 100m OW two weeks before its release, would its performance not considered surprising? And yet even if you do not take this, that would still only be an argument for DP vs SW for JW was still being predicted for just as much as ever before even a minute before its midnight numbers rolled in. Moreover there are other films like American Sniper, IO and FF7 (especially its overseas performance) from last year that can also be used to argue against this. So, yeah, Deadpool still isn't the biggest surprise even in a year just on the basis of JW alone.

I think SW and JW from last year alone were much bigger surprises, don't you?

There just ain't no stopping this, is there?

The final week. The rules continue to not change... 1. Will Deadpool make at least $55M this weekend? Yes 2. Will Deadpool make at least $65M this weekend? 3000 Yes (who'd have imagined?) 3. Will Deadpool make at least $75M this weekend? No 4. Will Deadpool increase more than 43% on Saturday? Yes 5. Will Zoolander drop more than 60% this weekend? No 6. Will How to be Single be in the top 5 this weekend? 2000 Yes 7. What will be the highest grossing new entry this weekend? Risen 8. Will Race make more than $10M this weekend? Yes 9. Will race make more than $12.5M this weekend? 3000 No 10. Will The Witch make more than $8M OW? No 11. Will The Witch make more than $12M OW? No 12. Will the witch make more than 37.5% of its total gross on Friday? 2000 No 13. How many new openers will finish ahead of Kung Fu Panda? ONE 14. Name any film that drops less than 32% this weekend. (Choose ONE film only, or choose NONE) 2000 KFP3 15. Will Star Wars make more than $1M every day of the weekend? Yes 16. Will hail Caesar finish above the Choice this weekend? 3000 No 17. Will Pride and Prejudice finish above Dirty Grandpa? No 18. Will Fifty Shades of Black drop below Alvin and The Chipmunks this weekend? Yes 19. Will Busko Novio Para Mi Merjer make more than $350k this weekend? Yes 20. Will Neerja have a PTA above $3,200? Yes 21. Will The Revenant cross $164M by the end of the weekend? 3000 Yes 22. Will 13 Hours' PTA stay above $1,000 this weekend? Yes 23. Will any film increase more than 135% this Friday? 2000 Yes 24. Will How to be Single make its budget ($38M) back by the end of the weekend? No (for domestic) 25. Will the Choice remain in the top 10? No 26. Will the top 5's combined gross exceed $100M? 2000 Yes 27. Will Deadpool cross $475M WW by Sunday's end? Yes 28. Will Zoolander cross $47.5M Worldwide by Sunday's end? No 29. Were you expecting the silly automatic points scoring question to be number 30? 3000 Yes 30. Can I expect you back to play again in the summertime ? I sure hope so 21/30 - 2000 22/30 - 4000 23/30 - 6000 24/30 - 8000 25/30 - 10000 26/30 - 12000 27/30 - 15000 28/30 - 17000 29/30 - 20000 30/30 - 25000 Part 2: 1. What will Deadpool's total be by the end of the weekend? 5000 248.9m 2. What will be the difference between Titanic and Star Wars' WW gross by the end of the weekend? 5000 149m 3. What will Zoolander's percentage drop be this weekend? 5000 58% 4. How many films will make more than 500k this weekend? 5000 22 5. What will the 3 main openers' combined Saturday gross be? 5000 12.5m 6. What will Ride Along gross on Sunday? 5000 613k 7. What will Embrace of the Serpent's total gross be by the end of the weekend? 5000 20k Part 3 2. Risen 4. Race 6. Witch 9. SW 12. RA2 15. finest hours 18. buesco novio 20. 13 hours 3/8 - 2000 4/8 - 5000 5/8 - 8000 6/8 - 12000 7/8 - 15000 8/8 - 20000 Good Luck

Well, you got me. Whew!

The fact that 27/27 people predicted TGD and that even the lowest prediction would have had it at no.5 is enough to show the legendary disappointment that it turned out to be...

Someone just HAD to post this, right?

So we've got our final top 7 now. I'd like @WrathOfHan to do the unveiling

This is just incredible and unfathomable Still behind SW 250m weekend and JW or Avenger's 200m's but still one of the most surprising OWs of the past decade. Also WTF for revenant!! 0.6%drop??!! And that's for the 3-day. Didn't know it was a valentiney movie...

Woo Hoo!! Every single of these answers that this might change would turn a wrong answer of mine to a right one. And I think that will be some good turnover for me.

fuck HG! fkin' fk The Boy (and me, for I changed my choice from DG to 5th Wave and coz its valentine)

this shows how unbeilevably surprising deadpool's performace is

Ok, this is insane. This is crazy. This is unbelievable...

Nah, dont worry I dont think they'll start keeping its boxoffice numbers secret from now on, so I believe we will know by the end of the month.

Hmm, forgot about the Previews. Keeping those aside the calculations would become - Previews - 12 Fri - 35 Sat - 38 Sun - 40 OW - 125m Monday - 14m 4 day - 140m Total gross 285-310

Whoooooa. This is incredible. And there was actually a question in the winter game asking whether this will be able to cross 35m on its OW What Kind of OW does this mean? Going by this -http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2010-02-14&p=.htm - Friday was the lowest day of the weekend for every single movie. Going by that this means we are getting a 145-155m OW!!!! With this being a 4 day weekend and this recieving glowing reactions from virtually everywhere, an OW of atleast 2.5 shouldn't be that tough ...which would mean a 375m final gross!!!

Just going through the list and Wow, My short review for IO was among the two used! Yayy! But just at number 3 !?! I wanted it at first. Didn't watch enough movies to submit a list or it'd have been number 1 and Mad Max would definitely have been number two. I just hope I find out Mad Max to be the top ranker now in a few seconds. P.S I seriously shouted out loud when I saw AOU at #7. Thank God that was a prank

It'll be over 160 my next weekend itself

Yeah, but I may not be able to participate in the Summer Game. I'll be in 12th/Senior Year/Final High School Year by april and I'll have to be concentrating on my studies.

So I guess its over now.... I'll miss this...

All the usual terms and conditions apply. (Going to hammer home here that everything relates to a 3day W/E) 1. Will Deadpool make over 40M OW? Yes 2. Will Deadpool make over 55M OW? 3000 Yes 3. Will Deadpool make over 75M OW? No 4. Will Deadpool make over 10M from Previews/Midnights? No 5. Will Zoolander 2 make mare than 17.5M OW? Yes 6. Will Zoolander 2 make more than 25M OW? 2000 No 7. Will how to be single make more than 15M OW? Yes 8. Will the top 3 new openers combine to more than 110M OW? 3000 No 9. Will pride, prejudice and zombies finish in the top 10? Yes 10. Will the Revenant finish ahead of Star Wars? No 11. Will 13 hours cross $50M by the end of the weekend? Yes 12. Will any film have a sub 100% increase on Friday? 2000 Yes 13. Will The Boy have a better PTA than Dirty Grandpa? Yes 14. Will Kung Fu Panda's total gross overtake Sisters' by the end of Saturday? 2000 No 15. Will Fifty Shades drop more than 59%? Yes 16. Will Deadpool increase by at least 47.7% on Saturday? 3000 No 17. Will any film increase by over 300% on Friday? No 18. Will Star Wars Drop less than 42%? Yes 19. Will Deadpool gross more than 2nd-5th combined? Yes 20. Will the Finest Hours stay ahead of Ride Along 2? No 21. How many films will make more than $15M this weekend? 2000 3 22. Will Zoolander 2 have the best Sunday drop of the 3 main new openers? No 23. Will Valentines Day's total gross for every film in cinemas exceed $75M? 3000 No 24. Will Deadpool break the February OW record? No 25. Who is gonna give it to ya? X 15/25 2000 16/25 3000 17/25 4000 18/25 6000 19/25 8000 20/25 10000 21/25 12000 22/25 14000 23/25 16000 24/25 18000 25/25 20000 Part 2. 1. What will Deadpool Gross OW? 5000 76.514M 2. What will Zoolander's Friday gross be? 5000 5.39M 3. What will How to be single's Valentines Day gross be? 5000 6.5M 4. What will Kung Fu panda's gross be by the end of the weekend? 5000 89.9M 5. What will be the difference between Dirty Grandpa and The Boy's weekend gross? 5000 0.189M 6. What will Star Wars' Sunday gross be? 5000 2.1m Part 3. 2. Zoolander 2 5. Hail Caesar! 7. The Revenant 10. Ride Along 2 12. Dirty Grandpa 15. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2000 each 3/6 2000 4/6 5000 5/6 8000 6/6 12000

1. What will Deadpool gross on Valentines Day? 23.3m 2. What will The Witch's OW be? 6.35 3. What will Zoolander's total be by the end of the game? 41m 4. What will Kung Fu Panda's Worldwide total be by the end of the game? 289m 5. What will Risen make Opening Day? 4.6m

ahhhhhh!! I almost forgot about this!!! Will have to do some quick thinking now!!!