1. Will Ghostbusters open below $60M? Yes
2. Will Ghostbusters open below $50M? 2000 No
3. Will Ghostbusters open below $40M? 3000 No
4. Will Ghostbusters open below $30M? No
5. Will the Infiltrator reach $6M by the end of the weekend? Yes
6. Will the Infiltrator reach $9M by the end of the weekend? No
7. Will the Infiltrator reach $12M by the end of the weekend? No
8. Will Secret Life of pets make more than $50M this weekend? Yes
9. Will SLOP's weekend gross make more than both openers combined Sunday cumulative totals? 3000 Yes
10. Will Purge stay above Central Intelligence? 2000 Yes
11. Will Tarzan pass $100M by Saturday? Yes
12. Will BFG finish above Independence Day? No
13. Will The Shallows cross $50M domestic total? Yes
14. Will Tarzan overtake Conjuring 2's Domestic total by the end of the weekend? Yes
15. Will the Hilary Clinton documentary thing have a PTA above $4,500? Yes
16. Will Our Kind of Traitor finish in the top 12? No
17. Will Sultan drop more than 55% this weekend? Yes
18. Will NYSM2 have a PTA above $1,000? Yes
19. Will Mike and Dave have a larger percentage drop than Free State of Jones No
20. How many shits is Bill Murray going to give I his Ghostbusters cameo? This man gives no shits.
14/20 - 2000
15/20 - 4000
16/20 - 6000
17/20 - 8000
18/20 - 10000
19/20 - 15000
20-20 - 20000
Part 2
1. What will Ghostbusters OW be? 5000 $52.735m
2. What will SLOP percentage drop be? -49.865%
3. What will be the PTA of BFG? $1,727
Part 3
3. Finding Dory
6. The Purge 3
8. The Infiltrator
10. The BFG
13. The Conjuring 2
16. The Jungle Book
Poor BFG. One of the saddest BO runs in recent memory.
A24 should really just expand The Lobster back a hundred theaters or so. Its PTA has been rising every weekend for the past month even with miniscule theater drops.
I could see it. It was already clear that tons of people in the Academy loved Whiplash, this looks different enough but with a potential to be as good or better. IIRC it tested incredibly well, is getting released in the heart of the Oscar season, and who doesn't like a well-made musical. Obviously tons of things can happen in the months ahead but it's got a lot going for it.
Ha, I actually suspected for a moment that you pulled just that. Shoulda posted it.
Great work! Now go all watch those classic movies from the list that you've never seen but been dissing along the way.
Perhaps naively hoping that this will be Branagh's return to his early '90s form. Let's get a good old-fashioned grand romantic score from Patrick Doyle to go along with it, too.
Bourne Ultimatum, Ratatouille, Ocean's 13, The Simpsons Movie were a good bunch. The first two are far better than anything from this summer. And hell, I have great memories of watching TF1 back then.
May 2007 though might be the most massively disappointing month for summer blockbusters ever, both quality-wise and grosses-wise.
Summer 2014 actually felt like an anomaly to me. Edge of Tomorrow, Apes, HTTYD2, GOTG, DOFP and 22 Jump Street were all solid entertainment. Most summers, including this one, I can only name two, maybe three movies that I really liked.
The last two times December 16 fell on Friday, King Kong and Sherlock Holmes 2 were released and they dropped 57% and 49% on their respective second weekends. Given that Rogue One is gonna open like three times higher than both, a drop close to 60% wouldn't shock me before the holidays start having an effect on it.