Jake Gittes

1. Will Secret Life of Pets make more than $50M OW? Yes 2. Will Secret Life of Pets make more than $60M OW? 2000 Yes 3. Will Secret Life of Pets make more than $70M OW? Yes 4. Will Mike and Dave make more than $10M OW? Yes 5. Will Mike and Dave make more than $15M OW? Yes 6. Will Mike and Dave open in the top 4? 3000 Yes 7. Will the top 3 films make over $100M? Yes 8. Will Independence day stay above Central Intelligence? 2000 No 9. Will any of the 3 new entries from last weekend drop more than 62.5%? Yes 10. Will Finding Dory be the number one domestic film of the Summer by the end of the weekend? Yes 11. Which of the three big new entries from last weekend will have the smallest weekend percentage drop? BFG 12. Will The Neon Demon make less than 45k (Being dropped altogether counts as yes)? Yes 13. Will Zootopia drop more than 55%? 3000 No 14. Will Swiss Army Man be in the top 10 this weekend? No 15. Will Warcraft have a bigger percentage drop than Alice 2? Yes 16. Will The Purge have a single day that is bigger than the Shallows' entire weekend? No 17. Will tarzan finish within $8M of Dory? 3000 Yes 18. Will Captain Fantastic have a higher PTA than Captain America? Yes 19. Will TMNT finish about Jungle Book? 2000 No 20. Are the pets going to bring us the pure joy that Pixar and Disney could only dream of? "Us"? Keep me out of your delusions 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 SLOP OW be? 5000 78.620m 2. What will Zootopia percentage drop this weekend be? 5000 -26.244% 3. How much will BFG gross on Friday? 5000 3.228m Part 3 3. Tarzan 5. The Purge 3 8. Independence Day 12. Free State of Jones 14. Swiss Army Man 17. Me Before You

Life Is a Cabaret so high is a pleasant surprise. Watched it again and goddamn, what a performance. Into the West played in ROTK during the credits, which were those portraits of the actors.

I can dig it.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

It did though. -78% vs -57%

I could get 12 right but Central Intelligence looks like the only already released movie I won't lose points on.

Fuck, I still remember Shay's insanity around the time POP came out. Seeing that kinda shit for the first time leaves a mark on you.

Actually think I discovered BOM exactly 10 years ago, I'm pretty sure it was right around when Superman Returns opened and then DMC killed all the records. Though I had first started following the numbers on IMDb and Comingsoon more than a year earlier when ROTS came out.

Friday.

Airbender had a $17m Thursday, without that its multiplier was about 2.8x. If Tarzan follows its weekend drops it gets 108m total, I think it could actually do a bit better (WOM on Airbender was definitely worse) but I think 120 is the roof.

Sucks for BFG. It's like the second wide release of this summer I really liked (after The Nice Guys) and both are BO disappointments.

One of the most chilling scenes in movie history right there.

Oh shit man, it's good thing you're still alive and able to type after that burn. Your dad gets my respect

He's still a better classicist than practically anyone else working, that's gotta count for something.

Not big on this - it's occasionally funny and beautifully shot, and both Dano and Radcliffe are fully committed, but for me it absolutely became the kind of a precious indie movie it seemingly tried to rail against early on, complete with slow-mo shots, lonely sadsack dude protagonist(s), whispery/triumphant soundtrack and insights spoken out loud. There are hints throughout of something darker and genuinely anarchic and irreverent, but it never arrives at that place, and the ending felt twice as long as it needed to be. As far as this week's films about friendship and farting go, I'm team BFG all the way.

1. Will Dory Threepeat this weekend? 2000 YES 2. Will Independence Day hold on to 2nd place? 3000 NO 3. Will BFG make more than $21.5M? YES 4. Will BFG make more than $27.5M? YES 5. Will BFG make more than $35M? NO 6. Will Legend of Tarzan open above Purge? NO 7. Will at least two out of the three main new entries make more than $20M? YES 8. Will The Purge have a higher PTA than Independence Day? 2000 YES 9. Will Free State of Jones finish above The Conjuring? YES 10. Will Alice have a larger Percentage drop than ME Before You? YES 11. Will Finding Dory Overtake Jungle Book's Domestic total by the end of the weekend? YES 12. Will Swiss Army Man enter the top 18 this weekend? YES 13. Will Xmen finish above TMNT2? 3000 YES 14. Will NYSM2 have the best percentage drop in the top 12? NO 15. Will Warcraft fall below Civil War this weekend? YES 16. Will Central Intelligence have a Saturday increase above 25%? YES 17. Will at least 8 of the top 12 increase on Sunday? 3000 NO 18. Will any film increase 100% on Friday? YES 19. How many different films will win a day this weekend? 2000 ONE 20. IF there was a Purge in the Pixar multiverse, who or what would be the first on your hitlist? Syndrome 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 Independence Day's percentage drop be this weekend? 5000 -62.855% 2. How many films increase on Sunday this weekend (out of every film in release)? 5000 15 3. How much will BFG make on Sunday? 5000 10.524m Part 3 2. The Purge 4. The Legend of Tarzan 8. Free State of Jones 11. Our Kind of Traitor 14. TMNT 16. Me Before You

Did not expect it, but this cast a spell on me right from the start - as confidently directed as a Spielberg movie possibly could be, unassumingly gorgeous and with immediately engaging, soulful performances by Rylance and Ruby Barnhill. While it's a big-budget spectacle, what really gets me is just how patient and peaceful it is - there's zero restlessness to it, no rush to get anywhere, absolutely no need to impress, the effects are everywhere but they never threaten to overwhelm anything else. I've already seen people call it boring or say something to the effect that "there isn't much of a movie/story here", but I was practically thrilled that Spielberg and Mathison were content with basically making this a sweet hangout movie. The one problem resulting from this is that it's hard to feel any real stakes once the climax arrives - it ends up feeling like an afterthought to BFG and Sophie's relationship. But on the whole, I was completely charmed by it.

Should have put Theme From Shaft on my list even though I haven't seen the movie. And this has to be among the Oscars' best moments ever, right?

I thought this was lovely.

Lol, old people. Amirite bros

Thanks! You're all right in my book. And yeah, they make some good smaller neo-noirs these days, but I'd love to see another well-made serious big production.

Bowie. His power.

Dory: The Dark Knight IDR: Driving Miss Daisy Bonus: Yes

I dunno, it's still kind of a victory any time any Lynch work makes it into a top list here.

That cast is ridiculous. WTF are all those people doing here.