Jake Gittes

The Lobster had the highest until now. I'd say PA1 and PA3 > Conjuring 1 and 2 as well.

Vittorio Storaro = my Café Society ticket is bought.

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

Man, @K1stpierre looks different.

All your life you been looking for the magic?

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.

Kinda looks like the end-of-the-year Hail Caesar. Hopefully with more energy and more Ehrenreich.

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.

Looks great. Especially love those colors.

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.

Don't draw out that pause too long, Chas.

I think Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life is the only one left that I care about. Is it too much to hope that it's #1?

Damn, I should have voted for Singin' In The Rain... in A Clockwork Orange.

Have to admit I never even bothered with Cinderella. Might give the score a spin though.

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.

Just no. 5 for me.

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.

I imagine it's gonna have a small but devoted cult audience.

Well, Llorando made it even if it's about 30 spots too low. I'd be hard-pressed to find another movie scene that makes me that emotional.

I think 2010 was the biggest one until now, with four movies hitting 200m. 2013 had two over 350m. But yeah this year should come out on top.

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.

A $8m weekend for The BFG would mean increasing 10% or less on Friday. I find that hard to believe.