Porthos

Looks good! Thanks for fixing it.

Good thing I checked on this. This is still wrong, @grey ghost. It should read: 79) BFG O/U 50% drop this weekend (July 8th-10th) (bet 75 points) (Porthos over) (ThatOneGuy under) 80) BFG O/U 50% drop this weekend (July 8th-10th) (bet 75 points) (WrathOfHan over) (ThatOneGuy under) That also means I have 75 points less at stake in the current master list (though I just made another 75 point bet so it washes out in the end ) edited The posts in question to make your bookkeeping easier.

I bet that Secret Lives of Pets OW DOM will be under Zootopia's OW DOM. Two people, 75 points.

Who-hoo! Top ten.

You fix this travesty of judgement right now!! NOW I SAY!!!! ==== Seriously though, Young Frankenstein is still to this day on of the funniest movies I have ever seen, regardless of the genre. That it actually manages to be a rather sweet and tender film underneath its laughs is a major accomplishment. That it is probably only second to Blazing Saddles when it comes to endless quotability for a Mel Brooks film? Well, that just seals the deal. I literally can not recommend this film enough. It does have a certain style, yes, that isn't to everyone's taste. But it might also be the most "serious" of the classic Mel Brooks comedies (outside of The Twelve Chairs, which is a really atypical Mel Brooks film no matter how one looks at it). YF is far more like The Producers than it is like the rest of Brooks output. But even The Producers doesn't quite fit as a comp. Plus it's got Gene Hackman in it (and no, I ain't telling you where )!

I'll take this as well, please.

I'll take it.

BFG says "Hi". No, I think something's going on here. Too early to say great WOM. But right of the gate it is holding its own which is better than was predicted.

Purge 3 just needs to not collapse on Sunday to pass Purge 2's OW. Using Rth's number it is already at 24.2 and just needs 5.6 on Sunday to pass Purge 2. That Tarzan number is looking pretty good as well once the budget is stripped out of the picture. It went UP from its 11.49 True Friday!

Dat Death Star shot!

If those numbers hold, I will be pretty darn happy over at the Casino.

@Baumer right now: Someone who was actually good at Photoshop could 'shop in a certain picture of a blue fish being shoved off the table to make it perfect.

We arranged via the internet for a "special screening" of Finding Dory for these pervs. Let's see their reaction with our hidden cameras when the trailer for "Pete's Saugage" rolls.

Uh-oh.

I'm not at all surprised at BFG's number, even given the relative lack of buzz. It's just a weird looking film with a strange title, and those can be really random when it comes to initial box office. For every Nightmare Before Christmas, there are a dozen films like James and the Giant Peach out there. Now Tele is absolultely right that the "long tail" might come into play here with home video/streaming/TV showings. And that's presuming that it doesn't do well in walkups this weekend, which we still don't know. And, who knows? Maybe this film just isn't right for its time. Wouldn't be the first time a quality film (if it is a quality film) underperformed in one era only to be re-evaluated in another.

After a long hard thought about this, I've decided that.... .... you haven't had enough reason to say "Fuck that fucking blue fish" in this thread. So, yes, I think I'll take this one as well. Might as well spread out my risk a bit.

Yes, I think I'll take this one as well.

Thanks for the clarification. Just wanted to be sure.

BTW, @CJohn, just to clairfy, was your Purge 3 opening under Purge 2 opening bet 3 day or 4 day? Makes no difference to me, but I wanted to make sure which it was.

I've been mean enough to ID:R lately, so I'll refrain from posting the Strangelove gif again. Though it would be fitting. With it bombing in US and underperforming in China AND what appears to be near-toxic WOM in the domestic market, it looks like Independence Day: Resurgence is the next entry onto this list. Who would have thought that sequels to two 300+ million grossers before adjustment for inflation was taken into account would be the first two entries in this list? Even though I was highly skeptical of ID:R, I didn't dream it'd do THIS badly.

Yes, please. (mostly because it will be frontloaded as all hell )

From the Summer Game (all names stripped because I'm not interested in that): (spoilered for length) For the record: 400+: 3 300+: 7 200+: 20 (250+: 9) 100+: 8 (150+: 7) Sub 100: 1 And I'm fairly sure some of those predicts were adjusted downward as the deadline approached as the overall "meh" reactions were building. Now when the lack of presales and the lack of press screenings hit this last couple of weeks, the predictions in various threads nosedived. THAT'S when the sub 150 predicts came out in force. And maybe even one or two sub 100s. But as of a couple of months ago, most people were still saying 200+ for this movie. Which still would have been pretty bad, IMO.

More people predicted ID:R doing over 400m than under 100m. So, yeah, no. This is a colossal disappointment and anything else is just spin.

*wakes up* *sees ID:R's RT and Audience Score cratering harder than the markets right now* Geez, that Audience Score surprises me. I thought this might be a critically hated movie that still appealed to the General Audience. That this is bombing right out of the gate with the general public (if that auidence score is to be believed) before lots of people get to see it is frankly stunning. I figured at least a 60% audience score. This bodes pretty damn badly for its legs, said Captain Obvious.