Jake Gittes

Catching Fire.

Part A: 1. Will Close Encounters make more than $1.5M? 1000 No 2. Will Tulip Fever make more than $1.5M? 2000 No 3. Will Close Encounters and Tulip Fever combine to more than #3M? 3000 No 4. Will Hitman's Bodyguard make more $7.5M? 4000 Yes 5. Will Annabelle drop less than 27.5%? 5000 No 6. Will Despicable Me increase? 1000 Yes 7. Will Leap stay in the top 3? 2000 No 8. Will Logan Lucky stay above Dunkirk? 3000 No 9. Will Wonder Woman increase more on Sunday? 4000 Yes 10. Will at least 5 of the top 10 either increase or drop less than 20%? 5000 Yes 11. Will Hazlo Como Hombre have a PTA stay above $4,000? 1000 Yes 12. Will Viceroy's House have a PTA above $12,000? 2000 No 13. Will Terminator 2 3D be at least 1% of the way to $100M ($1M) by the end of Friday? 3000 No 14. Will Spider-Man make more than $2M? 4000 Yes 15. Will Apes stay above Atomic Blonde? 5000 Yes 16. Will Girl's Trip have a PTA above $1000? 1000 Yes 17. Will any film in the top 12 decrease more than 10% on Sunday? 2000 No 18. Will Cars increase more than 400% on Friday? 3000 Yes 19. Will any film in the top 12 increase more than 70% on Saturday? 4000 Yes 20. Will Hazlo Como Hombre increase on Sunday? 5000 Yes 21. Will there be any 'New Entries' (anything highlighted yellow) in the top 10 this weekend? 1000 Yes 22. Will Detroit drop more than 50%? 2000 No 23. Will Guardians stay above 47 metres down? 3000 No 24. Will some cinema chain decide to show badger wrestling or something equally stupid at 25.6 locations and thus BOM decide that should qualify as a film for its box office tallies? 4000 No 25. Will you come back for winter game? Or have I crushed your spirit into the dust? 5000 Try harder Bonus: 15/25 2000 16/25 3000 17/25 5000 18/25 7000 19/25 10000 20/25 15000 21/25 20,000 22/25 25,000 23/25 33,000 24/25 40,000 25/25 50,000 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 Close Encounters make for its 3 day OW? 0.805 2. What will The Dunkirk's Saturday gross be? 1.525 3. What will Cars 3's percentage change be? +543% Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Annabelle: Creation 4. Leap! 7. Spider-Man: Homecoming 9. The Emoji Movie 11. Despicable Me 3 14. Wonder Woman

If Spidey was over 250 by the end of its third weekend I'm sure it would have gotten to low 300s even with a packed August.

Dig the unshowy unbroken shot from 0:14 to 1:00. Things like that are a breath of fresh air amidst LOOK-AT-ME long takes on one side and manic editing on the other.

pretty sure Spidey's done. Sony figured there's no money in it anymore.

> NEW RELEASES 17 - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (2017 Re-Release) Sony / Columbia 900 - - - - - - 1 18 - Tulip Fever Weinstein Company 765 - - - - - - 1 23 - Inhumans IMAX 386 - - - - - - 1 25 - Hazlo Como Hombre (Do It Like An Hombre) Pantelion 382 - - - - - - 1 43 - A Boy Called Po Freestyle Releasing 10 - - - - - - 1 47 - Viceroy's House IFC 4 - - - - - - 1 > EXPANDING 5 6 Leap! Weinstein Company 2,705 +130 +5.0% - - - - 2 7 12 Wind River Weinstein Company 2,602 +507 +24.2% - - - - 5 8 33 Cars 3 Buena Vista 2,445 +2,231 +1,042.5% - - - - 12 9 11 Despicable Me 3 Universal 2,128 +12 +0.6% - - - - 10 12 16 Birth of the Dragon BH Tilt 1,633 +15 +0.9% - - - - 2 14 17 The Glass Castle Lionsgate 1,360 +62 +4.8% - - - - 4 15 22 The Big Sick Lionsgate 1,270 +564 +79.9% - - - - 11 22 28 47 Meters Down Entertainment Studios 415 +103 +33.0% - - - - 12 24 46 Megan Leavey Bleecker Street 383 +331 +636.5% - - - - 13 27 29 Patti Cake$ Fox Searchlight 295 +236 +400.0% - - - - 3 30 34 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Buena Vista 186 +21 +12.7% - - - - 15 31 45 The Trip to Spain IFC 140 +86 +159.3% - - - - 4 34 38 Menashe A24 126 +23 +22.3% - - - - 6 35 40 Maudie Sony Classics 106 +10 +10.4% - - - - 21 37 65 Crown Heights IFC 55 +45 +450.0% - - - - 3 41 60 Beatriz At Dinner Roadside Attractions 24 +5 +26.3% - - - - 13 44 75 It Comes At Night A24 10 +3 +42.9% - - - - 13 45 82 Beach Rats Neon 8 +5 +166.7% - - - - 2 46 74 Served Like a Girl Entertainment Studios 6 +2 +50.0% - - - - 2 > NO CHANGE 50 - Le Trou (2017 re-release) Rialto 1 - - - - - - 5 51 - Leon Morin, Priest (2017 re-release) Rialto 1 - - - - - - 13 > DECLINING 1 2 The Hitman's Bodyguard Lionsgate/Summit 3,370 -7 -0.2% - - - - 3 2 1 Annabelle: Creation Warner Bros. (New Line) 3,358 -207 -5.8% - - - - 4 3 4 Logan Lucky Bleecker Street 2,975 -56 -1.8% - - - - 3 4 5 Dunkirk Warner Bros. 2,752 -22 -0.8% - - - - 7 6 3 The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature Open Road Films 2,651 -439 -14.2% - - - - 4 10 9 Wonder Woman Warner Bros. 1,808 -402 -18.2% - - - - 14 11 15 Kidnap (2017) Aviron 1,689 -4 -0.2% - - - - 5 13 13 Girls Trip Universal 1,605 -172 -9.7% - - - - 7 16 18 War for the Planet of the Apes Fox 1,041 -73 -6.6% - - - - 8 19 19 Atomic Blonde Focus Features 737 -252 -25.5% - - - - 6 20 21 Good Time A24 635 -86 -11.9% - - - - 4 21 23 Ingrid Goes West Neon 625 -22 -3.4% - - - - 4 26 25 Detroit Annapurna Pictures 331 -194 -37.0% - - - - 6 28 27 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets STX Entertainment 280 -38 -11.9% - - - - 7 29 30 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Buena Vista 196 -103 -34.4% - - - - 18 32 31 The Only Living Boy in New York Roadside Attractions 135 -154 -53.3% - - - - 4 33 35 A Gentleman FIP 130 -5 -3.7% - - - - 2 36 36 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Paramount 80 -47 -37.0% - - - - 6 38 37 Step (2017) Fox Searchlight 42 -76 -64.4% - - - - 5 39 41 Brigsby Bear Sony Classics 36 -59 -62.1% - - - - 6 40 47 Lady Macbeth Roadside Attractions 28 -13 -31.7% - - - - 8 42 59 A Ghost Story A24 15 -6 -28.6% - - - - 9 48 62 The Exception A24 3 -10 -76.9% - - - - 14 49 89 Il Boom (2017 re-release) Rialto 1 -1 -50.0% - - - - 12

Hahahahahah. I'm sure he's only putting it out in 600 theaters because it's such a smart film for adults and he only wants a special audience to recognize the talent and wit, too.

Frozen, if it counts. That's it.

It's weird that this is so far away since production's about to wrap up. Make it a counterprogramming summer release or something.

between Chandler, Whigham and Bernthal this is bringing together all the major current "that guy" actors

I'm just glad that Bonnie Aarons is basically getting a starring vehicle with this.

Few things signal that a horror franchise has given up as clearly as the first weekend of January release date.

I'd part ways with you there, the worldbuilding in John Wick 2 is a big reason why I prefer it over the first. The story is still as straightforward as it gets though, unlike Blonde which needlessly trips all over itself.

John Wick recognized that its story needed to be as simple and direct as possible. AB is way too drunk on its own style and dopey sense of cool to actually make anyone care about what's going on, its lukewarm WOM doesn't surprise me one bit.

1 1 The Hitman's Bodyguard LG/S $10,262,619 -52.0% 3,377 - $3,039 $39,826,623 $30 2 2 2 Annabelle: Creation WB (NL) $7,681,158 -50.8% 3,565 +23 $2,155 $78,211,542 $15 3 3 N Leap! Wein. $4,730,038 - 2,575 - $1,837 $4,730,038 - 1 4 10 Wind River Wein. $4,600,976 +54.6% 2,095 +1,401 $2,196 $10,031,189 $11 4 5 3 Logan Lucky BST $4,241,548 -44.2% 3,031 - $1,399 $14,908,962 $29 2 6 4 Dunkirk WB $3,948,142 -40.3% 2,774 -497 $1,423 $172,477,172 $100 6 7 7 Spider-Man: Homecoming Sony $2,820,476 -33.7% 2,122 -219 $1,329 $318,938,558 $175 8 8 N Birth of the Dragon BH Tilt $2,702,430 - 1,618 - $1,670 $2,702,430 - 1 9 N Mayweather vs. McGregor Fathom $2,598,213 - 532 - $4,884 $2,598,213 - 1 10 6 The Emoji Movie Sony $2,508,570 -43.5% 2,374 -417 $1,057 $76,590,041 $50 5 11 8 Girls Trip Uni. $2,361,435 -39.6% 1,777 -233 $1,329 $108,166,960 $19 6 12 5 The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature ORF $2,315,095 -54.5% 3,090 -913 $749 $22,549,821 $40 3 13 14 Despicable Me 3 Uni. $1,750,380 -15.6% 2,116 +565 $827 $254,603,760 $80 9 14 9 The Dark Tower Sony $1,687,471 -55.5% 2,338 -805 $722 $45,007,046 $60 4 15 16 Wonder Woman WB $1,675,201 +53.4% 2,210 +1,407 $758 $406,193,262 $149 13 16 N All Saints Sony $1,514,278 - 846 - $1,790 $1,514,278 $2 1 17 11 Kidnap (2017) Aviron $1,502,453 -49.3% 1,693 -652 $887 $27,171,791 $21 4 18 12 The Glass Castle LGF $1,388,562 -45.5% 1,298 -163 $1,070 $12,500,415 - 3 19 19 Baby Driver TriS $1,207,442 +41.0% 1,757 +1,074 $687 $103,346,388 $34 9 20 15 War for the Planet of the Apes Fox $913,199 -54.6% 1,114 -494 $820 $142,787,094 $150 7 21 13 Atomic Blonde Focus $859,195 -60.6% 989 -639 $869 $49,029,630 $30 5 22 22 Ingrid Goes West Neon $782,988 +192.8% 647 +621 $1,210 $1,322,738 - 3 23 17 The Big Sick LGF $730,631 -27.0% 706 +88 $1,035 $39,212,024 - 10 24 33 Good Time A24 $581,404 +251.4% 721 +701 $806 $999,867 - 3 25 N Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D Distrib. $552,773 - 371 - $1,490 $552,773 - 1 26 18 Detroit Annapurna $252,975 -70.5% 525 -903 $482 $16,174,661 $34 5 27 20 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets STX $248,339 -37.4% 318 -147 $781 $39,687,711 $177.2 6 28 N A Gentleman FIP $191,530 - 135 - $1,419 $191,530 - 1 29 38 The Only Living Boy in New York RAtt. $180,679 +110.0% 289 +223 $625 $390,908 - 3 30 24 Cars 3 BV $168,443 -32.4% 214 -33 $787 $149,065,597 - 11 31 25 Menashe A24 $162,736 -24.7% 103 +17 $1,580 $963,819 - 5 32 23 A Taxi Driver WGUSA $136,929 -46.7% 36 -5 $3,804 $1,140,496 - 3 33 29 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales BV $129,932 -29.8% 165 -19 $787 $172,026,581 $230 14 34 41 The Trip to Spain IFC $122,085 +89.5% 54 +35 $2,261 $272,338 - 3 35 28 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 BV $118,152 -37.0% 299 +104 $395 $389,386,420 $200 17 36 32 47 Meters Down ENTMP $117,979 -29.1% 312 +166 $378 $43,754,546 $5.5 11 37 40 Patti Cake$ FoxS $102,258 +51.3% 59 +45 $1,733 $194,652 - 2 38 36 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Fox $94,771 +1.8% 217 +60 $437 $73,479,393 $38 13 39 27 Wolf Warrior 2 HC $93,339 -51.8% 39 -11 $2,393 $2,539,306 $30.1 5 40 35 Maudie SPC $85,617 -22.4% 96 -28 $892 $5,775,577 - 20 And most importantly 103 113 Hidden Figures Fox $350 +40.0% 1 - $350 $169,379,046 $25 36

Tron Legacy and Fury Road were both 30-years-later follow-ups to cult sci-fi classics and both opened in mid-40s, so they're ideal targets for Blade Runner as far as OW.

Oh yeah. I saw this awhile back. Wanted to like it. Lovely opening scene but the structure is a mess, and all the romantic/flirty dialogue... kill it with fire. Shame too because that kind of dynamic is all too rare in blockbusters these days (as are equal couples as protagonists) and it would be very entertaining in the right hands, but at least half the time Dehaan and Delevingne opened their mouths I wanted to shrink into my seat and die.

Wind River at best will stay flat next weekend. It's not as if it's some kind of WOM monster, its PTA has been seriously dropping each week. Hitman's Bodyguard will remain #1 with about $7m (three-day).

Probably just Aronofsky showing off. But then I'm not a fan

You got Chinatown and The Innocents, Ethan got Before Sunrise and American Honey... broken clock, etc. Also Ethan's pretty young there's still a chance he can be saved

He's gotta get in line behind Goffe

This is some sub-adult nonsense.

Bought the book today. Hope I can plow through it in ~10 days.