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Part A: 1. Will Mamma Mia Open to more than $35M? Ye 2. Will Mamma Mia Open to more than $40M? Ye 3. Will The Equalizer Open to more than $25M 3 Day? Ye 4. Will The Equalizer Open to more than $30M 3 Day? Ye 5. Will the 2 films combine to more than $65? Ye 6. Will Unfriended open above $7.5M? Nah 7. Will Hotel Transylvania stay above $25M? Nah 8. Will Incredibles finish above Unfriended? Ye 9. Will Uncle Drew stay above Ocean's 8? Nah 10. Will Skyscraper have a bigger percentage drop than The First Purge? Ye 11. Will Sicario's PTA stay above $1,400? Nah 12. Will Ant Man drop more than 50%? Nah 13. Will Three Identical Strangers enter the top 12? Nah 14. Will Jurassic World stay above $10M? Nah 15. Will Piers Brosnan singing be more painful than anything done by Denzel? Pierce Brosnan ain't go SHIT on me 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 Mamma Mia make for its 3 day? $40.69M 2. What will Skyscraper's percentage change be? -56.9% 3. What will Sorry to Bother You's PTA be for the Weekend? $2,690 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! 3. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 5. Skyscraper 8. The First Purge 10. Unfriended: Dark Web 11. Sicario: Day of the Soldado Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000 2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000 4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000 6/6 - 50,000

Denzel should do more comedies.

January 6th - Star Wars: The Last Jedi 7th - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri 13th - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 19th - The Shape of Water 20th - The Post 26th - I, Tonya 27th - Darkest Hour February 3rd - Phantom Thread 11th - Lady Bird 15th - Black Panther 18th - Black Panther 20th - Black Panther 22th - Game Night March 22th - Pacific Rim: Uprising 29th - Ready Player One April 6th - A Quiet Place 25th - Avengers: Infinity War 29th - Avengers: Infinity War May 13th - Avengers: Infinity War 17th - Deadpool 2 24th - Solo: A Star Wars Story June 3rd - Upgrade 21st - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 26th - Ocean's Eight 26th - Tag 30th - Incredibles 2 July 1st - Incredibles 2 7th - Ant-Man and the Wasp 8th - Ant-Man and the Wasp 17th - Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 20th - The Equalizer 2 20th - First Reformed (NZIFF) Total ~ 32

Man, First Reformed is a live one. The ending works best with a full audience, I think. Everyone's collective response to that cracked me up. Sequelizer is good too. Go time indeed.

Truth be told, I think I'd rather just have two hours of Denzel being a Lyft driver and looking after his buds in the process. Still, these movies are fun. Denzel as a full-on slasher villian is entertaining as hell. I got a few grievances (mainly that they keep making Pedro a secret bad guy, just let the man be nice for once) but it's a good time. The third act is nuts in the best way and now I want more hurricane fights.

Courage Under Fire is solid. Real good Denzel performance; his big apology scene hit me hard. The way they unfold the story kept me on my toes. Good stuff! Eagle-eyed viewers will note the Matt Damon cameos sprinkled throughout the film.

Big previews down under. 994k in Australia and 182k in NZ.

6 MAMMA MIA!: HERE WE GO AGAIN UNIVERSAL $994,208 @DeeCee seems good?

Hidden in the actual MPDA report: 6 ~ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Universal Pictures $186,294 That's more than Ragnarok IIRC. Big weekend coming me thinks.

Devil in a Blue Dress is a good lil' noir. Denzel's great and so is Cheadle. It's kinda sad that Carl Franklin hasn't really been able to get his foot entirely in the door movie-wise, he's a solid director. I'd like to see some more from him but he seems to mostly be a TV guy now. Also: lmao

Year is starting to fall behind 2016's total at the same point. I'm not sure if there will be enough big hits to get it back over but we'll see how the rest of the slate shapes up.

Also, Wellington Paranormal continues to be hilarious. I dunno if there's anyway to actually watch it overseas (I know the Australians can but no idea on what's happening for rest of the world) but y'all gotta try get your hands on it. It's so good.

A Soldier's Story is decent. Wish it had a bit more bite but it's still pretty effective. Eighties dramas have the wackiest scores. Those dudes loved their synths and shit. The score for this one reminded me of Peter Weir's Gallipoli, which is also nuts.

Probably the best reply in there. Was gonna say something similar but this dude is better at putting it into words than me.

Mo' Better Blues is some good stuff. I think it's one of the very few cases where Denzel gets a little overshadowed. Wesley Snipes was the real stand out; dude was awesome in this. The dolly shots are aces too.

With Cher as her daughter.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/how-dark-knight-saved-character-actor-david-dastmalchian-1127575 This is a great article. Denis has the respect.

The Other Guys. She's cute, but she's not hot.

Out of Time is fun. Little silly but it's got Denzel in a Hawaiian shirt. Also Eva Mendes, who I greatly miss (four years since she's been in a movie!), is hot in it.

The special was meant to have been released in May. Anyway, get Russian Kenneth Branagh up in this thing. Tink dis is gaem and all that.

Did you end up going to their concert after Bret ruined everything? Saw that they finally did some of those UK shows a little while back.

Might be too busy with his Hitler stuff. We'll just send Julian Dennison.