Jake Gittes

The original is really good. although the entire heist part takes about five minutes.

obviously the Michael Pitt one is the best.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a great underseen heist movie.

Huh? What? Who? Where? Heist movies when done right are guaranteed smart fun, what exactly is the mystery here? And what do Megan Leavey and Dunkirk (a month-old release with a completely different genre and tone) have to do with this?

I still can't quite believe Sofia Coppola essentially went and made an entire damn movie for the sole reason that she misunderstood the movie it's a remake of.

I thought LL looked like enough of a fun time to hit 10m at least, especially from over 3k theaters. Oh well.

And Hidden Figures... still hasn't.

1. Kidnap 2. Spider-Man: Homecoming 3. Girls Trip

Part A: 1. Will Hitman's Bodyguard Open to more than $20M? 1000 No 2. Will Logan Lucky Open to more than $10M? 2000 Yes 3. Will the two films combine to more than $30M? 3000 No 4. Will Annabelle stay at number 1? 4000 No 5. Will Will Nut Job stay above Dark Tower? 5000 Yes 6. Will Wonder Woman drop less than 35%? 1000 Yes 7. Will Valerian drop more than 62%? 2000 No 8. Will Emoji Stay above Spiderman? 3000 Yes 9. Will Kidnap stay above Glass Castle? 4000 Yes 10. Will Girl's Trip drop more than 31% on Sunday? 5000 Yes 11. Will A Taxi Driver drop less than 10% this weekend? 1000 No 12. Will Patti Cakes have a PTA above $9,000? 2000 Yes 13. Will Baby Driver have a PTA above $1,000? 3000 Yes 14. Will Maudie stay above Captain Underpants? 4000 No 15. Will Ryan Reynolds turn into deadpool and comment of Jackson's lack of eyepatch? 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 Logan Lucky make for its 3 day OW? 11.476 2. What will Nut Job's percentage drop for the weekend be? 38.5% 3. What will GOTG2's PTA be? $949 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Annabelle: Creation 5. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature 7. Girls Trip 9. Spider-Man: Homecoming 12. Atomic Blonde 14. War for the Planet of the Apes

Rank LW Title Distributor TheaterCount Change % Change Est.Screens Change Est.Shows Change Week # > NEW RELEASES 3 - The Hitman's Bodyguard Lionsgate/Summit 3,377 - - - - - - 1 6 - Logan Lucky Bleecker Street 3,031 - - - - - - 1 40 - Patti Cake$ Fox Searchlight 14 - - - - - - 1 > EXPANDING 2 3 Annabelle: Creation Warner Bros. (New Line) 3,542 +40 +1.1% - - - - 2 17 42 Wind River Weinstein Company 694 +649 +1,442.2% - - - - 3 21 47 Brigsby Bear Sony Classics 408 +371 +1,002.7% - - - - 4 22 23 Step (2017) Fox Searchlight 306 +121 +65.4% - - - - 3 26 30 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Buena Vista 184 +59 +47.2% - - - - 13 31 40 Menashe A24 86 +39 +83.0% - - - - 4 32 56 The Only Living Boy in New York Roadside Attractions 66 +51 +340.0% - - - - 2 37 75 Good Time A24 20 +16 +400.0% - - - - 2 38 84 The Trip to Spain IFC 19 +16 +533.3% - - - - 2 41 58 City of Ghosts IFC 13 +2 +18.2% - - - - 7 > NO CHANGE 1 1 The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature Open Road Films 4,003 - - - - - - 2 14 13 The Glass Castle Lionsgate 1,461 - - - - - - 2 43 - From the Land of the Moon IFC 11 - - - - - - 3 44 - Crown Heights IFC 3 - - - - - - 0 47 - Il Boom (2017 re-release) Rialto 1 - - - - - - 9 > DECLINING 4 2 Dunkirk Warner Bros. 3,271 -491 -13.1% - - - - 5 5 4 The Dark Tower Sony / Columbia 3,143 -308 -8.9% - - - - 3 7 5 The Emoji Movie Sony / Columbia 2,791 -428 -13.3% - - - - 4 8 8 Kidnap (2017) Aviron 2,345 -73 -3.0% - - - - 3 9 7 Spider-Man: Homecoming Sony / Columbia 2,341 -266 -10.2% - - - - 7 10 9 Girls Trip Universal 2,007 -296 -12.9% - - - - 5 11 11 Atomic Blonde Focus Features 1,621 -472 -22.6% - - - - 4 12 10 War for the Planet of the Apes Fox 1,608 -490 -23.4% - - - - 6 13 12 Despicable Me 3 Universal 1,546 -467 -23.2% - - - - 8 15 6 Detroit Annapurna Pictures 1,428 -1,579 -52.5% - - - - 4 16 14 Wonder Woman Warner Bros. 803 -158 -16.4% - - - - 12 18 15 Baby Driver TriStar 683 -182 -21.0% - - - - 8 19 17 The Big Sick Lionsgate 618 -91 -12.8% - - - - 9 20 18 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Paramount 514 -42 -7.6% - - - - 4 23 19 Cars 3 Buena Vista 247 -61 -19.8% - - - - 10 24 20 Transformers: The Last Knight Paramount 224 -31 -12.2% - - - - 9 25 21 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Buena Vista 195 -15 -7.1% - - - - 16 27 26 47 Meters Down Entertainment Studios 146 -27 -15.6% - - - - 10 28 28 The House Warner Bros. (New Line) 138 -10 -6.8% - - - - 8 29 27 Maudie Sony Classics 124 -39 -23.9% - - - - 19 30 31 Lady Macbeth Roadside Attractions 86 -33 -27.7% - - - - 6 33 35 Megan Leavey Bleecker Street 59 -16 -21.3% - - - - 11 34 32 Wish Upon Broad Green Pictures 40 -75 -65.2% - - - - 6 35 37 A Ghost Story A24 39 -18 -31.6% - - - - 7 36 45 Beatriz At Dinner Roadside Attractions 24 -17 -41.5% - - - - 11 39 51 13 Minutes Sony Classics 17 -1 -5.6% - - - - 8 42 53 Paris Can Wait Sony Classics 13 -3 -18.8% - - - - 15 45 67 It Comes At Night A24 3 -2 -40.0% - - - - 11 46 72 The Exception A24 2 -2 -50.0% - - - - 12 Gonna be a lot of strong holds this weekend. Sony Classics is asking for ridicule with that Brigsby Bear expansion though.

Given McGregor's enthusiasm I'd imagine they already talked to him about this and got him onboard, just haven't signed him up on paper given that the script is in very early stages. Setting this before the events of TPM would, well, remind everyone more of TPM, which, who wants that; and require casting a 20-something dude, which could well become a pain in the ass and additionally be kind of a dick move towards McGregor who is already excited and proven and is one of the few things about the prequels that most people like.

Jackie Chan's career sighs and rolls its eyes.

They could go for the Bond spot in November. Or Thanksgiving. Or maybe October 26 to get a jump-start on the holiday season the way, say, Fast Five did on the summer season in 2011.

Is Wolf Warrior 2 not gonna be in the WW top 10 for the purposes of the game?

Cate Blanchett in an Eli Roth movie based on a kids' book makes my head spin.

Few things about horror really scream IMAX. Even classically done horror that's not torture porn or found footage is often naturally about closed spaces and environments rather than spectacle, and if anything a smaller screen is more effective. I don't see what The Conjuring would have gained from IMAX, and I doubt this movie is getting it for any real reason other than bigger box office. Even among the classics the only movies I can think of that would benefit from the format are The Shining cause aerial shots and sound work, and maybe Alien cause space. I'd say Eraserhead but it'd probably give people PTSD.

August 18, the Friday reserved for movies in which the main attraction is Samuel L. Jackson swearing.

Looks like a fun time.

I had 14/15 before Emoji and Annabelle turned up. Hitman's Bodyguard better not break out now on top of this.

1. Will Nut Job open to more than $10M? Yes 2. Will Nut Job drop less than 50% in its 2nd weekend? Yes 3. Will Nut Job increase on Saturday? Yes 4. Will Nut job increase more than 37.5% on its 1st Tuesday? Yes 5. Will Nut Job have more than 9 days above $1M? Yes 6. Will Nut Job more than $2M ahead of Emoji Movie in the August 18th Weekend standings? Yes 7. Will Nut Job make more than $4M in the UK? Yes

Part A: 1. Will Annabelle Open to more than $25M? 1000 Yes 2. Will Glass Castle Open to more than $3M? 2000 Yes 3. Will Nut Job make more than $9.5M? 3000 Yes 4. Will Nut Job and Glass Castle combine to more than half Annabelle's Opening weekend? 4000 Yes 5. Will Dunkirk stay in the top 2? 5000 No 6. Will Wonder Woman drop less than 30% 1000 No 7. Will Dark Tower drop more than 52% 2000 Yes 8. Will Atomic Blonde Stay above Detroit? 3000 No 9. Will War for the Apes stay above Despicable Me? 4000 Yes 10. Will Valerian drop more than 61%? 5000 Yes 11. Will A Taxi Driver have a PTA above $7,000? 1000 No 12. Will The trip to Spain have a PTA above $5,000? 2000 Yes 13. Will Kidnap have a PTA above $2,150? 3000 No 14. Will SPiderman have a PTA above $1950? 4000 Yes 15. Will the Nut Job finally be the 2017 animated tour de Force we have all been waiting for? 5000 Yes 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 Annabelle make for its 3 day OW? 34.993 2. What will Wonder Woman's percentage drop for the weekend be? 30.938% 3. What will Cars 3's PTA be? $990 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature 5. The Dark Tower 8. Kidnap 10. Detroit 13. Despicable Me 3 18. Toilet

Dunkirk -33% -34.5% - 36% -32% -4% Girls Trip -32% -30.5% -32.5% -26% -12% Spider-Man Homecoming -40% -35% -37% -35% -12% War for the Planet of the Apes -48% -43.5% -45% -45% -26% Despicable Me 3 -35.5% -37.5% -35.5% -35.5% -12% Baby Driver -42% -41% -45% -43% 0%

Part A: 1. Will Dark Tower Open to more than $22.5M? 1000 No 2. Will Detroit have a 3 day weekend of more than $12.5M? 2000 No 3. Will Kidnap make more than $5M? 3000 Yes 4. Will Dunkirk stay in the top 2? 4000 Yes 5. How many films will make more than $12M this weekend? 5000 Four 6. Will Wonder Woman drop less than 25% 1000 No 7. Will Emoji drop more than 47.5% 2000 Yes 8. Will Girl's Trip Stay above Atomic Blonde? 3000 Yes 9. Will Baby Driver stay above Wonder Woman? 4000 Yes 10. Will Wish Upon drop more than 65%? 5000 Yes 11. Will Wind River have a PTA above $12,000? 1000 Yes 12. Will Jab Harry met Sejal have a PTA above $5,000? 2000 Yes 13. Will Despicable Me 3 have a PTA above $1,850? 3000 Yes 14. Will Will Valerian somehow drop below Wonder Woman? 4000 No 15. Will Nolanites implode if Dunkirk drops below Emoji this weekend? 5000 It would be extremely painful 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 Dark Tower make for its 3 day OW? 21.530 2. What will Valerian's percentage drop for the weekend be? 63.373% 3. What will Detroit's percentage change be? +2,907% Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Dunkirk 4. The Emoji Movie 7. Kidnap 10. Despicable Me 3 12. Baby Driver 15. Jab Harry met Sejal