Jake Gittes

Nice avatar/quote synergy in that post Its competition on that date makes me think that it'd be far more enticing if it were John Wick's Dog's Journey

Well that was fun for two minutes.

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Gonna have way better drops on June 8 and 15. First of those weekends nothing big is out except O8 and second is Father's Day.

Fuck re-releases. Always kinda hated how they skewed the all-time charts tbh

749m = failure 750m = success Accept no substitutes.

Shut it all down. End the MCU. 10 years and what do we get, just 620-680m dom for one movie? We blew it I tell ya.

The milk for that baby is not coming from Charlize Theron

As if there's anything exciting happening

If Fox opened Logan in 4000+ theaters hard to see them not doing the same for DP2.

I posted my answers with just minutes to go and when I refreshed the page immediately after the new hour hit, it was locked. So yeah looks like it was successful.

if you're gonna put one Kevin Bacon movie on your list make it Tremors.

PART A: Below are 10 films due for release between now and June 15th, along with their predicted total grosses according to https://pro.boxoffice.com/long-range-tracking-jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom/ 1. Overboard - $39M HIGHER 2. Life of the Party - $54M HIGHER 3. Book Club - $25M LOWER 4. Action Point - $42.5M HIGHER 5. Adrift - $34M HIGHER 6. Tag - $43M DOUBLE 7. Show Dogs - $25M LOWER 8. Breaking In - $34.8M HIGHER PART B: Here are 10 questions: 1. Which film will be the lowest grossing? SHOW DOGS 2. Which film will be the highest grossing? TAG 3. Will any of the films listed make the top 20 domestic? YES 4. Will at least one film double its predicted gross? YES 5. Will at least one film fail to reach half of its predicted gross? NO 6. Will the actual combined total gross for the 8 films be higher or lower than the predicted total gross? HIGHER 7. Percentage wise, what will be boxoffice.com's best prediction? LIFE OF THE PARTY 8. Percentage wise, what will be boxoffice.com's worst prediction? TAG 9. Will at least 3 of these films make $50M? YES 10. Will any of these films have an OW below $5M? NO

Part A: 1. Will Overboard Open to more than $15M? 1000 Yes 2. Will Overboard Open to more than $18M? 2000 No 3. Will Bad Samaritan open to more than $10M? 3000 No 4. Will Bad Samaritan open to more than $12.5M? 4000 No 5. Which of the three new entries will have the highest PTA? 5000 Overboard 6. Will Infinity War Make more than $100? 1000 Yes 7. Will Infinity War Make more than $120? 2000 Yes 8. Will A quiet place drop more than 44%? 3000 No 9. Will Super Troopers stay above Ready Player One? 4000 Yes 10. Will I feel pretty stay in the top 5? 5000 Yes 11. Will traffik stay above Isle of Dogs? 1000 No 12. Will Rampage have a PTA above $1,500? 2000 Yes 13. Will Black Panther increase more than 160% on Friday? 3000 Yes 14. Will Avengers increase more than 68.5% on Saturday? 4000 No 15. Will Baymax be in Infinity War 2? 5000 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 Overboard make for its 3 day? 17.784 2. What will Truth or Dare's percentage change be? -47.005% 3. What will Blockers' PTA be for the Weekend? $960 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Overboard 4. I Feel Pretty 5. Rampage 7. Black Panther 10. Blockers 12. Ready Player One

week 2 yes

Ocean's 8 could be fun. Saw the trailer for the first time in the cinema a few weeks ago and was surprised by how appealing it looked. Solo and Incredibles 2 I hope they surprise me but I'm keeping my expectations low. Of all movies Hereditary and First Reformed are my most anticipated. Black Klansman too depending on the Cannes reactions.

This is the only summer tentpole this year I'm actively looking forward to. (That includes Avengers, which I still haven't seen.)

It turns out that watching a crowd of actual flesh-and-blood people pretend to be amazed by Ernest Cline's stand-in's knowledge of dumb ancient video game trivia is even more embarrassing than reading about it from his POV. Whoda thunk. The only good thing I have to say about this is that Rylance, Mendelsohn, Pegg and Cooke all gave it much more than it deserved and it's a hell of an irony that simple old-school human acting is the only appealing thing about a movie that tries so ridiculously hard to impress you with its effects.

Well he himself didn't even care about her enough to call her his aunt. She was his MOM's SISTER!

I've been putting mine together, will send in time.

Props to the thread title for having its priorities in order

Yes, it works, deal with it. It doesn't matter that it's only 12 minutes because I never even thought to check my watch during it. See, I can do this too.

So you just come up with arbitrary definitions of what constitutes "experience" and "success" and then make judgments about other people's decisions and motives based purely on them. Has it occurred to you that maybe Lucasfilm decided that the man who'd spent a decade writing and directing well-received film and TV was in fact experienced enough for them to trust with this job? And if they wanted a "front", again, why bother to hire Johnson and not some random anonymous guy who just made one Sundance movie that they could freely push around?

Johnson had three well-received films in different genres and with different budgets, plus several of the best-regarded, award-winning episodes of Breaking Bad under his belt before TLJ. He was arguably more experienced before making it than Nolan was before Batman Begins. And it's ridiculous to argue either that he had a complete carte blanche or that he was a "front". (What?) He had his ideas of what he wanted to do, and Lucasfilm liked them enough to sign off on them.

I miss the times when AIW was looking at a ~230m OW.