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Ok lets summarize: BOM disappeared sometime on Friday? Sometime Friday night, it began redirecting to IMDB. There have been no posts by someone at BOM from either their Twitter or Facebook accounts since this happened. which are normally very active. No official word on what happened except speculation. HTTP headers indicate the redirection may be temporary. Speculation: Except the last point above, indications are BOM is gone. BOM disappearing is one thing but the fact their Twitter and Facebook accounts are quiet too is a big concern. (NormallyBOM posts Friday estimates by now) The headers could still mean anything. So no idea.

So the question is, What is next ? Does Amazon merge IMDB into it's sales site... merging all the box office data it has into a single point meaning you can go and buy direct where the data is.......

just played with some settings.. how does the post above look now lab ?

wow... i go away for a day and the box office data world collapses in on itself... We should have all seen this coming... (still holding out hope it's just having short holiday while some errors are fixed - but my gut tells me we will get some kind of announcement on imdb soon telling us it's all over) I've only ever popped on IMDB to check a release date (international mainly) ... otherwise i hated the layout and it's quite confusing.... certainly none of the data thats on bom.. (or was)... bad bad bad amazon!

Yo Chassmi... If Boxofficemojo is gone.. what are we going to base our official numbers on then ?

4. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button 127.509M Path A

1. Which new release will have the highest grossing weekend? 4000 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 2. Will Gone Girl hold on to number 1 spot? YES 3. Will Annabelle finish within 6M of Gone Girl for the weekend? 3000 NO 4. Will the Judge gross more than 5M on Sunday? NO 5. Will Addicted gross more than The Equalizer? NO 6. Will Left behind stay in the top 10? YES 7. Will Ninja Turtles finish above Skeleton Twins? YES 8. Will any film increase more than 300% on Friday? YES 9. Will Meet the Mormons gross more than The Life of Yogananda? YES 10. Will any film in the top 12 have a PTA below $1000? NO 11. Will Boxtrolls increase more than 108% on Saturday? YES 12. How many films will have a higher Sunday gross than Friday gross? 5 FILMS 13. Will This is Where I Leave you finish Above DOlphin Tale? NO 14. Will any film drop more than 51% on Sunday? NO 15. Will Bang Bang drop more than 55% NO 12/15 2000 bonus 13/15 3000 bonus 14/15 5000 bonus 15/15 7000 bonus Bonus Questions (The closest prediction for each bonus wins the bonus stated): 1. What will be the combined OW of the 4 main new releases? 5000 42.276M 2. What will be the difference in gross between Gone Girl and Annabelles Weekend? 5000 8.079M 3. What will be the combined weekend gross of Guardians, Boxtrolls and No Good Deed? 5000 10.677M Placements - Predict which film finishes in the following positions: 2. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 3. Annabelle 6. The Judge 7. The Maze Runner 17. The Good Lie 19. Let's be Cops 2000 points per correct answer, 6000 bonus if all 5 are correct. Should this be if all 6 are correct ? Any questions, please just ask and good luck

Not quite.

try the main thread in the box office forum... page 6

Domestic Top 7 Opening Weekend Standings Top 7 Opening Weekends as of October 5th 2014. (Films predicted are highlighted in BOLD) 1. Gone Girl - 37.513m 2. Annabelle - 37.134m 3. Left Behind (2014) - 6.3m 4. Bang Bang - 1.279m 5. The Good Lie - 0.841m 6. Haider - 0.508m 7. Breakup Buddies - 0.23m The following colors only apply to films in the Top 7 Opening Weekends: If your prediction is in GOLD, the prediction is in the top 7 AND within $1m. You get 40,000 points! If your prediction is in PURPLE, the prediction is in the top 7 AND within $2.5m. You get 35,000 points! If your prediction is in BRIGHT GREEN, the prediction is in the top 7 AND within $5m. You get 30,000 points! If your prediction is in BLUE, the prediction is in the top 7 AND within $10m. You get 25,000 points! If your prediction is in DARK GREEN, the prediction is in the top 7 AND within $15m. You get 20,000 points! If your prediction is in PINK, the prediction is in the top 7 AND within $20m. You get 15,000 points! If your prediction is in GREY, the prediction is in the top 7 AND within $30m. You get 10,000 points! If your prediction is in BLACK, the prediction is in the top 7 AND not within $30m. You get SAFE (0)! The following colors only apply to films that did not make the Top 7 Opening Weekends: If your prediction is in RED, the prediction is not in the top 7 AND within $30m. You lose 7,000 points (-7,000)! If your prediction is in RED strikethru, the prediction is not in the top 7 AND not within $30m. You lose 17,000 points (-17,000)! OCTOBER GONE GIRL (7/23) avi - 57m grim22 - 52m Alpha - 50m iceroll - 43m Snoopy of Suburbia - 38m Actual OW - 37.513m bcf26 - 37m Spaghetti - 33m ANNABELLE (1/23) Grey Ghost - 38m Actual OW - 37.134m

Check the main thread in the box office forum. and also the scoring log in this forum. Chasmmi has updated already for week 1 with the scores This thread is about the Top 15 domestic preseason predictions & top 10 worldwide preseason predictions only.

23 Players have supplied a Domestic Top 7 Opening Weekend out of 23 Total Players who submitted a preseason. Across all players a total of 14 films were selected. 1 Film has since been taken off the calendar (James Wan Demonic) but only had 1 player prediction. Everyone predicted The Hunger Games, The Hobbit, Interstellar & Big Hero 6 being in the top 7. (I should note, everyone has also picked the hunger games as their #1 film) Penguins of Madagascar and Exodus were also popular. Of interest the film with the widest range in the predictions was the Hobbit. The following points are made in regards to player predictions: 1. Grey Ghost predicted "James Wan Demonic" in 7th place which has now gone TBD. Unless it returns to a date within the period, Night at the Museum as his 8th selection replaces it. 2. Some users have given a 3 day and 5 day value for The Hobbit and other films that are released on Wednesday. As per the original post all $ up until the end of the first sunday is included. Hence I will use the 5 day prediction in those cases.

This is the thread where your Top 7 Opening Weekends will be tracked. Previously I tracked the worldwide weekends also but that has been replaced by World Hunger Games Challenge, which is position only (position only won't be known until the end of season). Scoring System for the Winter Game: B: DOMESTIC TOP 7 OPENING WEEKS NOTE: AN OPENING WEEKEND IS DEEMED ALL OF THE GROSS A FILM MAKES UNTIL ITS FIRST SUNDAY. SO IF A FILM IS RELEASE ON A WEDNESDAY IT WILL HAVE A 5 DAY OPENING WEEKEND. 2nd NOTE: BIG HERO 6’s OPENING WEEKEND WILL BE CONSIDERED AS NOV 7th, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER DISNEY DOES THEIR DISNEYLAND PREVIEW THING ALA FROZEN OR NOT. So it’s simple predict the top 7 OW of winter (plus a backup 8th OW in case of Calendar change) along with the predicted gross for the weekend. POINT SYSTEM: For each correctly predicted film, regardless of order you receive 10,000 points For each film in the exact spot you receive 5,000 bonus points (so 15,000 total) Call top 3 in order and receive 50,000 bonus points Call 5 of the top 7 correctly (any order) receive 75,000 bonus points Call 6 of the top 7 (any order) receive 100,000 bonus points Call top 7 (any order) receive 150,000 bonus points For every incorrect film lose 7,000 points GROSS ACCURACY: Call a film’s gross to within 1 million to get 30,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 2.5 million to get 25,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 5 million to get 20,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 10 million to get 15,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 15 million to get 10,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 20 million to get 5,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 30 million to get no bonus points Miss the gross by more than 30M and lose 10,000 points (You will lose these points even if the film doesn’t make the top 7 OW.)

It's seems some of the estimates were slightly off..... Here is the Top 20 Actuals: TW LW Movie Rating Distributor Weekend Gross % Change Screen Count / Change Average Total Gross Week # 1 N Gone Girl MA15+ Fox $ 4,696,764 - 401 - $11,713 $ 5,003,881 1 2 1 The Maze Runner M Fox $ 1,993,604 -33.7% 313 -6 $6,369 $ 12,819,929 3 3 N Dracula Untold M Universal $ 1,971,293 - 221 - $8,920 $ 1,971,293 1 4 N Annabelle M Warner Bros $ 1,904,995 - 166 - $11,476 $ 1,904,995 1 5 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles M Paramount $ 1,318,725 -33.8% 314 -60 $4,200 $ 16,317,976 4 6 4 The Boxtrolls PG Universal $ 1,197,837 -7.0% 277 -17 $4,324 $ 5,436,760 3 7 2 The Equalizer MA15+ Roadshow $ 1,188,678 -47.9% 303 0 $3,923 $ 4,537,310 2 8 5 Planes: Fire & Rescue G Walt Disney $ 852,358 -14.3% 276 -171 $3,088 $ 4,466,083 3 9 6 The House of Magic G Studiocanal $ 659,367 14.0% 214 22 $3,081 $ 2,483,498 3 10 8 Guardian's of the Galaxy M Walt Disney $ 301,200 -31.3% 83 -40 $3,629 $ 26,308,103 9 11 7 Step Up: All In PG Universal $ 271,656 -43.7% 147 -62 $1,848 $ 3,057,468 4 12 N Bang Bang M Mindblowing Films $ 255,845 - 22 - $11,629 $ 255,845 1 13 N Billy Elliot The Musical Live EX Universal $ 210,509 - 120 - $1,754 $ 210,509 1 14 9 The Hundred-Foot Journey PG Walt Disney $ 175,768 -43.2% 66 -38 $2,663 $ 11,644,008 8 15 N Breakup Buddies MA15+ Chinalion Film $ 114,314 - 10 - $11,431 $ 114,314 1 16 12 Magic in the Moonlight TBC Entertainment One $ 77,092 -45.8% 53 -26 $1,455 $ 2,964,704 6 17 13 Boyhood M Universal $ 77,033 -45.5% 40 -2 $1,926 $ 1,503,575 5 18 N Haider MA15+ Mindblowing Films $ 67,695 - 15 - $4,513 $ 67,695 1 19 16 The Skeleton Twins M Sony Pictures $ 60,472 -31.1% 21 0 $2,880 $ 251,700 2 20 17 The Little Death MA15+ Entertainment One $ 48,849 -37.1% 33 -1 $1,480 $ 175,632 2

Update on the above: The maze runner - 2m The equalizer - 1.1m

ok - i've tidied up the first 4 posts removing all the formating issues. should be a bit more readable now

Nice opening for Gone Girl.... Finchers biggest opening here ever i think. Boxtrolls looks to have had a big boost over the weekend. see below for my calcs... TMNT continues it's run @ 20m... i think it will wind up short but it's running strong. As is Maze Runner. 15m looks likely at this stage. Fantastic opening for Annabelle (a lot higher than i was expecting)... For comparison, the Conjuring opened with 1.6m (1.7m AUD) on it's way to over 8m. Looking at where things were last week, my estimated result for boxtrolls in the above chart (in USD) The Boxtrolls (4 / ?) 2m (+77%) / 5.7m

From Deadline Hollywood International Report... some #'s in USD for the Aussie Box Office: POS. Movie (LW / Screens) TW (I should note positions 2 & 3 are guesses based upon last week) 1. Gone Girl (New / 350) 4.6m (-) / 4.6m 2 / 3. The Boxtrolls ~ 5.7m total 2 / 3. The Equalizer (total is missing from report but it's the only film unless planes 2 somehow jumps ?) 4. Dracula Untold (New (-) / 213) 1.9m / 1.9m x. The Maze Runner (1 / 315) 1.85m (-30%) / 11.83m x. Annabelle (New / 166) 1.7m (-) / 1.7m x. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1.2m (-31%) / 14.6m x. Planes 2 ~ no idea what this made at this stage ?

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phew.... all done... preseason, sotm and week 1 I need a beer now...

JAJANG'S WINTER GAME - PREDICTIONS 10,000 points for as this is the template A: Domestic top 15: 1) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 - 417.4m 2) Interstellar - 369.4m 3) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - 332.3m 4) Big Hero 6 - 230.3m 5) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - 175.4m 6) The Penguins of Madagascar - 131.2m 7) Paddington - 107.9m 8) Dumb and Dumber Too - 105.1m 9) Taken 3 - 103.7m 10) Annie - 94.2m 11) Alexandar and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - 85.9m 12) Horrible Bosses 2 - 85.5m 13) Hot Tub Time Machine 2 - 85.3m 14) Fury - 84.5m 15) Gone Girl - 82.4m 16) The Interview - 80.9m 17) St. Vincent - 69.9m B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 - 173.4m 2) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - 140.3m 3) Interstellar - 91.4m 4) Big Hero 6 - 56.3m 5) The Penguins of Madagascar - 47.5m 6) Horrible Bosses 2 - 39.2m 7) Taken 3 - 38.4m 8) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - 33.9m C: Worldwide top 10: 1) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - 1153.2m 2) Interstellar - 993.7m 3) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 - 966.9m 4) The Penguins of Madascar - 470.4m 5) Big Hero 6 - 440.7m 6) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - 419.9m 7) Paddington - 328.8m 8) Dumb and Dumber To - 265.5m 9) Taken 3 - 237.6m 10) Gone Girl - 202.8m 11) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - 191.5m 12) Annie - 171.7m D: Top 5 Hunger Games Territories: 1) United Kingdom 2) China 3) Australia 4) Germany 5) France 6) Mexico E: Top 5 Lowest Grossing Films: 1) Before I go to Sleep 2) Laggies 3) Dracula Untold 4) The Best of me 5) Nightcrawler 6) Left Behind F: Pre-season Questions: (Answers highlighted in bold red) 1. A generous risk-free question to start you off: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game: A: 100M Taken 3 B: 200M Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb C: 300M The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies D: 400M The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 Each correctly predicted film scores you 10,000 points, get all four correct and receive 10,000 bonus points for 50k total. (This is the only preseason question where there is no penalty for being wrong so enjoy it). 2. Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the winter: 1) Big Hero 6 2) Interstellar ~ 369.4m 3) The Hobbit 4) Penguins of Madagascar Answer correctly: 10,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 10,000 point bonus. 3. Tell me which of these will be the lowest grossing film of the winter: 1) The Interview 2) Dracula Untold ~ 18.7m 3) Ouija 4) Addicted Answer correctly: 10,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 10,000 point bonus. 4. Will at least 3 films make more than 275M by the end of the game? YES Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 5. Will at least 2 animated films make more than 150M by the end of the game? NO Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 6. Will any film released in October make more than 120M by the end of the game? NO Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 7. Will at least 2 films make more than 95M OW? (Remember OW means gross up until first Sunday) YES Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 8. Will at least 2 films make more than 800M WW by the end of the game? YES Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 9. Will any month’s OW record be broken by the end of the game? (This is 3 day only) YES Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 10. Will at least 2 of the 5 top grossing sequels become the top grossing film of their franchise by the end of the game? (For the purposes of this question Hobbit and LOTR are 2 Separate Franchises) NO Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 11. Will any film listed as a horror gross more than 75M by the end of the game? NO Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 12. Will the combined gross of the top 2 films add up to more than the films that finish in 4th-10th by the end of the game? NO Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 13. Will there be a worldwide weekend of over 220M this winter? YES Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 14. Which combination of films will gross the most amount of money during the game? The Hobbit, Hot tub Time Machine, Annabelle, John Wick Hunger Games, Horrible Bosses, Dracula Untold, Annie Interstellar, Dumb and Dumber, Alexander’s Very Bad Day, Paddington <------- Answer! Big Hero 6, Penguins, The Judge, Exodus, Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 15 Which combination of films will gross the smallest amount of money during the game? The Interview, Annabelle, Unbroken, Ouija Night at the Museum, The Best of Me, Blackhat, Laggies Into the Woods, Addicted, Kitchen Sink, Left Behind <------- Answer! The Pyramid, Night Crawler, Beyond the Lights, St Vincent Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE AND RECEIVE 10,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

All questions are worth 1000 points and relate to the top 12 Unless otherwise stated. Good luck 1. Will Gone Girl make more than 30M OW? 3000 NO 2. Will Annabelle make more than 12M OD? 3000 NO 3. Will Left behind Open in the top 5? NO 4. Will the Equalizer make more than 20M this weekend? NO 5. Will The Maze Runner drop more than 46%? NO 6. Will let's be cops stay in the top 12? YES 7. Will any film have a 200% increase on Friday? YES 8. Will any new opener drop less than 33.5% on Sunday? NO 9. Will The Blue Room have a PTA above $8,000? YES 10. Will Guardians of the Galaxy drop less than 25% YES 11. Will The Maze Runner finish above Box Trolls? NO 12. Will The Good Lie make more than 750k? NO 13. Will No Good Deed pass 50m by the end of the Weekend? NO 14. Will Dolphin Tale 2 finish above Guardians? NO 15. Will Dawn of the Planet of The Apes finish above How to Train Your Dragon 2? YES 16. Will Turtles increase more than 95% on Saturday? NO 17. Will A Walk among the Tombstones have a $1M Saturday? NO 18. Which film will have the Highest Sunday drop? Annabelle 19. Will Annabelle's Friday, Saturday AND Sunday all be higher than The Equaliser's? NO 20. Will anybody at all watch the Director's cut of Nymphomaniac? YES Bonus Questions (The closest prediction for each bonus wins the bonus stated): 1. What will the combined gross of Annabelle and Left Behind? 5000 ~ 27.8M 2. How much will Gone Girl Gross on Friday? 5000 ~ 9.1M 3. What will be The Skeleton Twin's total Gross by the end of the weekend? 5000 ~ 4.1M Placements - Predict which film finishes in the following positions: 2. Annabelle 4. The Boxtrolls 5. The Maze Runner 6. Left Behind 9. Guardian's of the Galaxy 2000 points per correct answer, 5000 bonus if all 5 are correct.

ABSTAIN!

Hard @ Work... busy compiling numbers........

Strong results over weekend. #1 maze runner 3m (-17%) / 8.8m total (nice hold!) #2 equalizer 2.26m (ok opening. Expected more) #3 TMNT 2m / 13.5m total (gunning for 20m here?) Boxtrolls 1.3m / 2.9m (nice uptick there) Planes 2 987k / 2.7m (solid bump but as strong as hoped)