Jake Gittes

1. Pete's Dragon total gross at the end of the game 2. Light's Out final weekend gross 3. Central Intelligence's gross on Saturday September 3rd 4. Don't Breathe second weekend drop 5. Finding Dory's total gross at the end of the game 6. Mechanic's OW gross 7. Jungle Book final weekend gross 8. Ghostbuster's final week PTA 9. Hell or High Water total gross 10. Suicide Squads PTA for Sunday September 4th

1. Will Mechanic Open to more than $8M? Yes 2. Will Mechanic Open to more than $11M? 2000 No 3. Will Don't Breathe Open to more than $7M? Yes 4. Will Don't Breathe open to more than $10M? Yes 5. Will Hands of Stone open to more than $4M? No 6. Will Hands of Stone open to more than $6.5M? No 7. Will Suicide Squad remain in first place? 3000 No 8. Will the three main new releases combine to more than $22M? 2000 Yes 9. How many films will make more than $9M this weekend? 3000 Three 10. Will Greater have a PTA above $2,000? No 11. Will Level Up have a PTA above $3,500? No 12. Will Sausage Party stay in the top 3? No 13. Will War Dogs stay above Kubo? Yes 14. WillSausage Party pass $80M domestic by Sunday? Yes 15. Will Pete's Dragon stay above Ben Hur? Yes 16. Will Jason Bounre fall more than 34,5% on Sunday? Yes 17. Will Bad Moms remain in the top 10? 3000 Yes 18. Will Star Trek drop more than 44%? Yes 19. Will SLOP have the lowest percentage drop in the top 15 excluding any film that increases? 2000 Yes 20. Does the Mechanic need some added shark punching action in order to truly break out? What doesn't? 14/20 - 2000 15/20 - 3000 16/20 - 5000 17/20 - 7000 18/20 - 9000 19/20 - 12000 20/20 - 15000 Part 2 1. What will MEchanic's OW be? 5000 9.252m 2. What Ben Hur's PTA be? 5000 $1,816 3. What will the fifth placed film gross this weekend? 5000 8.077m Part 3 1. Don't Breathe 3. Mechanic 5. War Dogs 8. Bad Moms 11. Secret Life of Pets 15. Southside with You

La La Land looks fantastic to me. I just think Manchester is gonna be a showier writing showcase.

La La Land Loving 20th Century Women Birth of a Nation (but maybe not) The Lobster (definitely won't win) Zootopia Nothing there looks as strong as an acclaimed playwright and filmmaker like Lonergan with what's supposed to be a great piece of work according to many who've seen it.

I actually think this has as good a shot as anything to win Original Screenplay.

Didn't see an actual thread for this. Not a big fan of the trailer specifically, between the generic triumphant music and the dumb aggressive "Could be in the running for an Oscar!" pull-quotes, but still very much anticipating the movie itself. Hoping for a strong writing and acting showcase if nothing else.

I'm sure he'll do an inspired score but damn I was hoping they'd get Vangelis to deliver some new magic with this. Not like he's retired or anything.

That plane scene does look bonkers in a good way. The rest is dire. And yeah I love that Samara is still gonna call you on a touchtone landline

How have I not consciously realized until this moment that this is not just a Denzel-Fuqua reunion but a Denzel-Fuqua-Hawke Training Day one too. Now I really wish Hawke was playing Pratt's role.

I'm thinking this is between Scorsese and Chazelle unless we get someone out of left field. Parker is out, Ang Lee already has two statues, Villeneuve's is an unambiguous sci-fi movie, Lonergan's is more of a writer's movie, Washington would have to seriously up his game to be considered for a win. Who else is there? I'd love it to be James Gray but it'll be a long shot even if the movie blows everyone away.

I can't get enough of those colors and art direction. They're not exactly extinct but it's so good to see a movie that, no matter the scale of the story, really looks like big, gorgeous cinema. I haven't had such a strong sense of "I should see this on the biggest screen I can find" since The Hateful Eight.

Gotta wait two months for this. Urgh.

Yeah I liked Love & Friendship but it's pretty inessential other than Tom Bennett's performance.

The Witch is still my favorite of the year, with Hell or High Water now #2.

This would make a great double feature with Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Both tonally fluid, lived-in crime/heist flicks populated with great character actors and filled with gorgeous landscape shots, and the 25-year-old Bridges plays a bank robber in T&L so you can better reflect on the passage of time along the way

Bridges can play Cogburn as long as he wants really, won't get any complaints from me

Was hoping for a $1m Friday for Hell or High Water. Disappointed. Looks like it'll crawl to a $15m total at best.

This is the first movie since True Grit that actually gives him good enough material to go along with that persona. I remember going to see 3:10 to Yuma 9 years ago and being amazed at this dude I never seen before stealing all attention away from Bale and Crowe. It's the world's loss he never became a proper movie star, but at least he occasionally gets great roles like this one. "Lord of the plains..."

1. Will Ben Hur Open to more than $16M? Yes 2. Will Ben Hur Open to more than $20M? 2000 No 3. Will Ben Hur Open to more than $24M? No 4. Will War Dogs open to more than $16M? Yes 5. Will War Dogs open to more than $20M? 3000 No 6. Will War Dogs open to more than $24M? No 7. Will War Dogs open to more than Ben Hur? No 8. Will Kubo Open to more than $12M? 2000 Yes 9. Will Kubo Open to more than $16M? Yes 10. Will Suicide Squad stay at number 1 this week? Yes 11. Will Sausage Party stay in the top 3 this week? No 12. Will Jason Bourne stay above Bad Moms? No 13. Will Star Trek stay above Florence Foster? 3000 No 14. Will Pete's Dragon increase more than 47% on Saturday? Yes 15. Will Ice Age's PTA stay above $850? Yes 16. Will Nerve drop more than 65%? No 17. Will Jungle Book stay above Civil War? 3000 Yes 18. Will Ghostbusters decrease more than 25% on Sunday? Yes 19. Will SLOP cross $350M by the end of the weekend? 2000 No 20. Are these questions the simple ramblings of a crazy jetlagged maniac? I know, right 14/20 - 2000 15/20 - 3000 16/20 - 5000 17/20 - 7000 18/20 - 9000 19/20 - 12000 20/20 - 15000 Part 2 1. What will Ben Hur OW be? 5000 17.270m 2. What will Suicide Squad percentage drop this weekend be? 5000 55.012% 3. How much will Sausage gross on Friday? 5000 5.114m Part 3 2. Kubo and the Two Strings 4. War Dogs 7. Bad Moms 10. Florence Foster Jenkins 12. Hell or High Water 15. Ghostbusters

Y'all this movie is SO GOOD.

Seeing this tomorrow. Stoked.