Jake Gittes

Not even touching The Last Emperor for this. Anything under 2 hours has the automatic advantage. Except for Maurice, which I've seen pretty high up on a few people's lists and which I've been interested in for a while, especially with James Ivory having just co-written Call Me by Your Name which is one of the major movies set to come this year.

BOM says We Are the Best! is a comic book adaptation so that's automatically #1 for the 2010s. Scott Pilgrim and Dredd the next two.

Ha, that kinda sounds like his character in Naked (he gives one of the best performances you'll ever see in that) with charisma turned off.

I'm not watching Fargo but are they doing right by Thewlis? For someone who can be so fucking great his career he's had a pretty depressing career especially recently.

The '90s were a more innocent time. As for the first thing, I'm sure they could work around that if they wanted to

I propose a sequel to The Hidden in which an older Kyle MacLachlan returns to again fight a human-inhabiting alien slug whose primary motivation is that it takes whatever it wants and who at a crucial point declares "I want to be president". Don't tell me that wouldn't be huge today.

The musical number alone pushes it above.

First Avenger > Wonder Woman btw.

Get Towne, Tarantino and Sorkin to do a rewrite on it. At the same time.

What Bay should really do is reunite with Nic Cage on one of these movies and have him try and defeat decepticons or whoever through sheer scenery-chewing. I'd be there opening day.

Wait John Goodman was in Transformers 4 too? That increases my chances of seeing it... at some point... in my life.

You disappoint me.

They do that often with their May releases but rarely this obviously. There's been the hilarious Prince of Persia thing and Iron Man 3's PTA jumping 35% on the weekend of Monsters University (which wasn't even father's day) but most of the time the holds look more normal. They clearly thought "ah fuck it" and decided to go all-in this year.

No way that's just the holiday. That's some sweet Disney fudge™ right there.

Good Dinosaur.

Pirates and Guardians with 20% drops despite losing a thousand theaters each is pretty close to Prince of Persia's 14% drop on Toy Story 3 OW level of shameless

If WW drops like Snow White on Sunday (26%) it gets a 38m weekend. If it drops like Jurassic World (2%) it gets a 42m weekend. Almost certainly a sub-35% weekend drop no matter what.

That release date doesn't give me much hope.

If Branaghstache can't unite the world, what can?

Yeah I struggled to stay awake during the middle section. The final 20 minutes brought me back to life but they would have needed to reshape the entire story to really make the final turn of events sing. As it stands it's too little too late with a whole lot of filler before it.

Not exactly a lot of competition there. Unless you just want to take down Kubo a little. In which case I'll allow it. I can't wait to see Thor and Hulk try to survive the cold English countryside.

A - 8 B - 3 C - 1

Part A: 1. Will Rough Night Open to more than $25M? 1000 No 2. Will All Eyez On Me Open to more than $20M? 2000 No 3. Will Cars 3 open to more than $60M? 3000 No 4. Will the three main openers combine to more than $100M? 4000 No 5. Will The Book of Henry open to more than $1M? 5000 Yes 6. Will Wonder Woman drop less than 45% 1000 Yes 7. Will Mummy drop more than 62% 2000 No 8. Will Baywatch Stay above Megan Leavey? 3000 No 9. Will Guardians have a lower percentage drop than Captain Underpants? 4000 Yes 10. Will Pirates have a PTA above $2000? 5000 Yes 11. Will Snatched have a weekend above $200k? 1000 No 12. Will Warriors of the dawn have a PTA above $5,000? 2000 No 13. Will Alien have a PTA above $600? 3000 Yes 14. WillFate of the Furious increase more than 100% on Friday? 4000 No 15. Will Vin Diesel win the Piston Cup? 5000 Huh? 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 Cars make for its 3 day OW? 45.513 2. What will be What will Mummy's percentage drop be this weekend? 60% 3. What will Wonder Woman's Domestic gross be by the end of Saturday? 258.100 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Wonder Woman 4. All Eyez on Me 7. Captain Underpants 9. Guardians of the Galaxy 12. Megan Leavey 15. Paris Can Wait

She's being great on Twin Peaks right now but yeah in terms of movies she's having the worst luck. It's even worse because she's always committed too, you can tell she wants to sell this shit even though no one on Earth could.

The spoilery description of the story in the THR review sounds incredible. They need to combine Sea of Trees, Shut In and this into a triple feature of "Can we please rescue Naomi Watts from insanely idiotic scripts?" mid-2010s movies.