JamesFord92

Need Imax just for the tennis scenes. I'm obsessed with the one shot in the trailer where you get the tennis ball's eye view during their match.

Think Like A Man - C+ - Meh. Put it on while I was doing some work; it's alright for something to have on in the background. A couple fun characters, but overall it's pretty generic.Contraband - C - Pretty boring honestly, which is too bad since it has a bunch of actors that I like. Too much focus on plot and not enough on character.American Reunion - B+ - Really enjoyed it even if it's mostly due to nostalgia. I'd say it's the best one since the original.The Bourne Legacy - C+ - Pretty disappointed with this one. Renner and Norton were both solid, but the movie was pretty dull for stretches. The 3rd act was a mess. I'm all in if they can get Damon and Renner together for the next one though.Battleship - C+ - Maybe it was because of low expectations but I actually enjoyed this one a bit. The acting was horrible and the movie was pretty ridiculous at times, but hey by the second half I was actually into it.

1. The Hobbit2. Elysium3. The Silver Linings Playbook4. Skyfall5. Life of Pi6. Oblivion7. Star Trek 28. Argo9. Cloud Atlas10. Pacific Rim

1) Will Moonrise Kingdom stay in the top 10? YES2) Will The Intouchables increase? NO3) Will Chernobyl Diaries drop less than 60%? NO4) Will The Hunger Games increase more than 40% on Saturday? YES5) Will Battleship decrease by less than 50%? NO6) Will MIB3 finish within at least 7 mill of SWATH? YES7) Will The Avengers have a Friday increase of more than 60%? YES8) Will Rock of Ages make more than 26.5 mill? YES9) Will That's My Boy make more than 32.5 mill? NO10) Will Rock of Ages and TMB combine to make more than 60 mill? NO11) Will That's My Boy decrease by less than 8% on Sunday? NO12) Will Prometheus decrease by more than 25% on Sunday? NO10/12 300011/12 500012/12 7000Bonus 1: What will Avengers WW total be after the Sunday estimates come out? 40001.421BBonus 2: What will MAD3's WW total be after the Sunday estimates come out? 4000268MBonus 3:What films finish is spots:5 Snow White9 Moonrise Kingdom11 The Dictator14 Dark Shadows2000 each 7000 bonus if all 4 are right.

1) Will Prometheus open to more than 60 mill? NO2) Will Madagascar open to more than 44 mill? YES3) Will Madagascar have a Saturday increase of more than 20%? NO4) Will Prometheus make more than 1.5 mill at midnight? YES5) Will SWATH fall less than 46%? NO6) Will MIB3 have a Friday bump of more than 90%? NO 7) Will Bel Ami have a theater average of more than $4000.00? NO8) Will Peace Love and Misunderstanding gross more than $60,000? YES9) Will The Avengers fall less than 42%? YES10) Will SWATH have one the two best Saturday increases? NO11) Will Marigold Hotel have the best drop? YES12) Out of the films that cost at least 150 million, which will have the best Sunday drop? THE AVENGERS10/12 300011/12 400012/12 7000Bonus 1: What will be the combined weekend total of Prometheus and Madagascar? 4000104.91MBonus 2: What will be the combined total of all 3D films? 4000132.9MBonus 3: What will THG's total be after this weekend? 4000400.04MBonus 4: What finishes in slots:6 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel7 Battleship9 What To Expect When You're Expecting12 The Hunger Games2000 each bonus of 5000 if you call all 4 correctly.

1) Will Snow White open to more than 40 million? YES2) Will Piranha 3DD open to more 2.5 mill? NO3) Will Greater Glory have a per theater average of more than $4500? NO4) Will Battlefield America make more than 500K? NO5) Will Piranha have a Saturday drop of more than 20%? YES6) Will Snow White have a Saturday increase of more than 10%? YES7) Will The Avengers drop more than 49%? NO8) Will MIB3 drop more than 55%? NO9) Will any film in the top 10 have a Sunday drop of less than 40% from it's previous Sunday? YES10) Will Snow White make at least 15 mill more than MIB3? YES11) Will any film have a Friday increase of less than 30%? NO12) Will Chernobyl Diaries make at least 1 million more than Piranha 3DD YES13) Will Best Exotic Marigold finish in the top 10? YES10/13 300011/13 400012/13 500013/13 8000Bonus 1) What will the Avengers WW total be after estimates on Sunday? 40001.372BBonus 2) What will The Hunger Games domestic total be after Monday actuals? 4000398.91MBonus 3) What films finish in slots:4 Battleship6 What To Expect When You're Expecting7 Dark Shadows112000 each....get all four correct get a 5000 bonus.Good luck!

1) Will Men Black make more than 5 mill from midnights? NO2) Will MIB have an opening day of more than 25 mill? NO3) Will MIB make at least 35 mill more than The Avengers does? NO4) Will MIB double the gross of Avengers? NO5) Will any film increase on Sunday? NO6) Will any film increase by more than 55% on Saturday? YES7) Will MIB have an opening 3 day weekend of more than 150 mill WW? Only Sunday estimates will count. 3000 YES8) Will MIB's worst grossing day of the 4 day weekend be higher than Chernobyl Diaries 4 day total? 3000 NO9) Will Chernobyl Diaries gross more than Battleship and Dictator combined? NO10) Will Dark Shadows drop less than 20% (so this means, will DS's 4 day drop be less than 20% compared to it's previous weekends 3 day number)? NO11) Will Best Exotic Marigold Hotel have an increase (same scenario as number 10...4 day to 3 day)? YES12) Will What to Expect When You're Expecting have a Saturday increase of more than 45%? YES13) Will The Avengers best day be within 10 mill of MIB's worst day? 3000 YES10/13 200011/13 300012/13 500013/13 8000Bonus 1: What will MIB3 gross for the 4 day?4000 77.45MBonus 2: What will the combined 4 day gross of Dark Shadows, Battleship and THG be? 4000 25.54MBonus 3: What will be the best combined increase for Fri and Saturday, % wise. So if you think Battleship will have a 220% increase Friday and a 75% increase Saturday, you would put 295% as your answer. If this is the highest total increase % wise, added up, then you get the points.310%Three best answers gets points:400030002000What films finish in slots:4 Battleship5 The Dictator6 Dark Shadows10 Think Like A Man3000 each. Good luck all!

1) Will Battleship open to more than 47 mill? NO 2) Will What to Expect open to more than 20 mill? YES 3) Will The Dictator open to more than 30 mill for the 5 day? NO 4) Will The Dictator's two day (wed-Thurs) gross be more than 10 mill? NO 5) Will the combined gross of The Dictator (5 day) and What To Expect (3 day) be more than the Avengers (3 day)? NO 6) Will any film have a Saturday increase of more than 60%? YES 7) Will any film have a Sunday drop of less than 24%? YES 8) Will The Avengers drop more than 45%? YES 9) Will The Avengers weekend gross be more than the combined gross of films in places 3-10? NO 10) Will The Avengers total gross be more than 450 mill? YES 11) Will What to Expect and Battleship both have increases on Saturday? NO 12) Will THG make at least 500k more than The Lucky One? YES 13) Will Safe House have an increase this weekend? NO 14) Will The Raven make more than Safe? NO 15) Will Think Like a Man fall less than 30%? NO 12/15 3000 13/15 5000 14/15 6000 15/15 10,000 Bonus 1: To three decimal points, what will The Avengers % drop be this weekend? 3000 47.526% Bonus 2: What will the top five cume be for the weekend (only 3 day counts) 146.45M Bonus 3: What finishes in spots: 3 The Dictator 4 What To Expect 9 Marigold Hotel 11 Five Year Engagement 13 Safe 15 Raven 2000 each...get all 6 correct get a 7000 bonus!

SOTM 2 - Ghostbusters

1. The Dark Knight Rises2. The Hobbit3. Snow White and the Huntsman4. Prometheus5. Elysium6. Total Recall7. Skyfall8. Life of Pi9. Taken 210. Les Miserables

1) Will The Avengers make more than 22.5 mill for midnights? YES 2) Will The Avengers make more than 27 mill for midnights? NO 3) Will The Avengers make more than 30 mill for midnights? NO 4) Will The Avengers set the midnights record? NO 5) Will The Avengers set any daily or opening record this weekend (midnight, OD, Saturday, Sunday or opening weekend)? YES 6) Will The Avengers have a Friday of more than 68.5 mill? YES 7) Will The Avengers drop more than 15% on Saturday? YES 8) Will The Avengers have a Sunday drop of more than 30%? NO 9) Will The Avengers have a Sunday gross of more than 45 mill? YES 10) Will The Avengers make more than 160 mill this weekend? YES 11) Will The Avengers have a WW weekend (as reported by THR on Sunday, only estimates will count) of more than 225 mill?4000 YES 12) Will The Avengers WW total be more than 400 mill as reported by THR, only estimates will count? YES 13) Will The Avengers open to more than 15 mill in RUSSIA (as reported by THR and only estimates will count)? NO 14) Will The Avengers Friday total gross be at least 2.7 times bigger than it's midnight gross? YES 15) Will The Hunger Games have a drop of less than 40%? YES 16) Will Five Year Engagement finish number 2 for the weekend? NO 17) Will The Raven have a Friday increase of more than 125%? NO 18) Will any film increase by more than 60% on Saturday? YES 19) Will Nikki's FIRST Friday number (not her midnight report, but actual Friday report ) have The Avengers making more than 5 mill more than the real estimate reported by Boxofficemojo.com FOR THE FRIDAY NUMBER? 3000 YES 20) Will American Reunion have a Saturday increase of more than 40%? YES 15/20 2000 16/20 3000 17/20 4000 18/20 5000 19/20 8000 20/20 12000 Bonus #1: Tell me what the top 5 cume will be: 204.8M Closest: 5000 2nd closest: 3000 3rd closest: 2000 Bonus #2: What will the combined weekend gross be of The Raven, Safe and THG? 12.51M 5000..only one winner Bonus 3: What will TitaniC 3DS WW gross be according to THR when it comes out on Sunday? 329.4M 5000...only one winner. What will finish in spots: 3) The Hunger Games 7) The Raven 8) Safe 12) 21 Jump Street 15) Wrath of the Titans 2000 each correct spots, 5000 bonus if you get all five correct.

TOP 12 DOMESTIC: 1. The Dark Knight Rises - 453M 2. The Avengers - 407M 3. The Amazing Spider-Man - 239M 4. Brave - 212M 5. Men In Black 3 - 191M 6. Snow White and the Huntsman - 186M 7. Ice Age: Continental Drift - 177M 8. Prometheus - 177M 9. Madagascar 3 - 142M 10. The Bourne Legacy - 136M 11. Battleship - 131M JUST TOP 11...NO MORE JOE 12. GI Joe: Retaliation - 119M TOP 5 WORLDWIDE: 1. The Dark Knight Rises - 1.1B 2. The Avengers - 1.02B 3. The Amazing Spider-Man - 908M 4. Ice Age: Continental Drift - 901M 5. Brave - 575M TOP 5 WEEKEND WORLDWIDE: 1. The Dark Knight Rises - 280M 2. The Avengers - 275M 3. The Amazing Spider-Man - 215M 4. Ice Age: Continental Drift - 200M 5. Men in Black 3 - 160M TOP 7 OW DOMESTIC: 1. The Dark Knight Rises - 192M 2. The Avengers - 176M 3. Snow White and the Huntsman - 66M 4. Men in Black 3 - 65M 5. The Amazing Spider-Man - 64M 6. Prometheus - 61M 7. Brave - 55M Tell me, of these five films, which one will be the lowest grossing of the summer. Only these five films can you choose from. People Like Us - 25M FOR AN ADDITIONAL 10,000 Tell me, within 5 million dollars, what its gross will be. Anyone who calls this within 5 million dollars (note you MUST CALL THE CORRECT FILM TO QUALIFY FOR THE 5000 BONUS PTS) whether it is over or under the total, will get the 10,000 points. Second Bonus Question: Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the summer: Dark Shadows - 96M For 10,000 POSSIBLE bonus points, tell me, within 5 million dollars, what its gross will be. Anyone who calls this within 5 million dollars (note you MUST CALL THE CORRECT FILM TO QUALIFY FOR THE 10,000 BONUS PTS) whether it is over or under the total, will get the 10,000 points. Third Bonus Question: Tell me, of these five films, which will be the highest grossing? Total Recall - 111M For 15,000 bonus points, call the correct film within 5 mill. Any questions please let me know. THIS BONUS QUESTIONS ARE DUE BY MIDNIGHT MAY 2ND. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE. I CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER. TRIPLE BONUS Here are your 16 bonus questions that have to be answered before the MAY 2ND start date. Question 1: Will the Opening Weekend (3 day) record be broken? The current record holder is HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 WITH $169,189,427. YES Question 2: Will the opening day record be broken? This includes all monies earned from midnight as well, but will not include any money earned from early start times like 8pm and so on). The current record holder is DH2 WITH $91,071,119. NO Question 3: Will any film this summer open to a worldwide opening weekend of more than 400 million? (THIS WILL INCLUDE ANY 5 DAY WEEKENDS. WHATEVER IS REPORTED FOR THE ACTUALS ON MONDAY EVENING WILL BE THE NUMBER WE GO BY). NO Question 4: Will any film make more than 60 million this summer in FRANCE? NO Question 5: Will any film make more than 85 million dollars this summer in the UK box office? YES Question 6: Will any film make more than 50 million in CHINA this summer? Both Transformers 3 and DH2 did more than 60 in China last year. Abstain Question 7: Will at least 2 films make one billion WW this summer? YES Question 8: Will at least 2 films, listed as a comedy by Box Office Mojo, make more than 100 million dollars this summer? Yes Question 9: Will at least 2 animated film have a WW gross of more than 700 million dollars? No Question 10: Which combination of films will make more money domestically? 3) Brave, MIB, Battleship, Prometheus Question 11: Will any film make more than 30 million in Russia this summer? YES Question 12: Will TDKR and The Avengers combined make more this summer than the other top 5 films combined (domestic only)? I choose not to answer Question 13: Will at least three films gross more than 100 mill opening weekend? NO Question 14: Will The Avengers or The Dark Knight Returns have a better Saturday drop than The Hunger Games? Yes Question 15: Will The Amazing Spider-man have a better gross than TDKR in any of these three regions: Abstain 16) No, Yes, No, No 17) Yes, yes, No, Yes SOTM 1: Which of these films will hit 100 million in the shortest amount of time? (days) 3) Prometheus - 10 Days - 177M total

In of course

Lando is probably my favourite. The coolest guy in the entire galaxy for sure (sorry Han)Others that I really like (just considering the movies for now):Han SoloQui GonPalpatineAdmiral AckbarWedgeBoba FettJango FettNien NunbR2-D2

Wow, people need to calm the fuck down. This is only a box office forum after all. Anyways to get back on topic, I didn't see The Lorax opening quite that high. I guess I'm just bad at telling what appeals to young kids nowadays.

Pretty damn impressive for Act of Valor as long as those numbers don't go down too much. Doesn't look like my kind of movie, but good job by Relativity marketing it.

There are quite a lot of things that I appreciate about the prequels, but I'll stick mostly to Episode 1 given that it's the freshest in my mind (I went to see it in 3D over the weekend). - The Music: Obviously John Williams' score for each movie is fantastic. Many mediocre scenes are made much better by his score - The Palpatine plot line and Ian McDiarmid: I enjoyed watching how Palpatine shaped most of the events of the prequels, and Mcdiarmid's performance was always fun to watch. I did prefer him when he was a little bit more subdued in Episode 1 & 2, compared to the "NO! NO! NO!" type of stuff in Episode 3. - Political Stuff/Getting a better understanding of how the Galaxy functioned: I liked all the senate scenes, and seeing the political machinations of the different senators. In Episode 2 I was much more invested in Palpatine's rise to power in the senate than anything that was happening with Anakin and Padmé. And yes, I even liked hearing about trade negotiations in Episode 1. - Liam Neeson: I never really appreciated his performance until recently, but I think he really holds Episode 1 together. - Darth Maul: Even though I knew it was coming, the scene in where the door opens and Darth Maul extends his double-bladed lightsaber was great to see on the big screen again. - The climactic battle of Episode 1: I legitimately enjoy each of the four parts of the final fight, even Anakin blowing up the Droid control ship. Obviously it's not as good as the three part battle in ROTJ, but it was still a good ending to the movie. - Jango Fett: He was pretty bad-ass, and his fight with Obi-Wan was the best action sequence of Episode 2. - Costumes: I'm usually not much of a costumes kind of guy, but the sheer amount of different elaborate outfits that Queen Amidala wore in Episode 1 was pretty amazing. - New Planets: I liked seeing new, interesting planet designs like Naboo and Coruscant in Episode 1, or Kamino and Geonosis in Episode 2. Anyways, I could probably go on like this for a long time, just like I could go about things that are wrong with the prequels. The original trilogy is easily superior, but I really do believe that the prequels are very watchable, and have some pretty interesting things going on in them. The prequels get bashed a little too much around the internet I think.

1. The Hobbit2. The Dark Knight Rises3. Snow White and the Huntsman4. The Hunger Games5. Prometheus6. The Avengers7. This Is Forty8. John Carter9. American Reunion10. Gravity

Wow at Journey 2. Remember last week when early Friday numbers first started coming in and everyone thought it was a bomb. Now it might be able to crawl its way to 100M.

Damn, sucks that you were eliminated Spaghetti. Anyways what happens to me this week? Do my scores for the weekend count for whichever team I end up being placed on?

I'm going to cautiously say that the slump is over. It's been six straight weeks of mostly great performances, and some of them from some pretty average looking movies. For all any of us know the box office could fall apart again at any time, but things are looking good.

Pretty crazy weekend. I had started to buy into the hype for The Vow earlier this week, but I never thought Safe House would break out this much too. There aren't many stars that can open a film better than Denzel. Smith, and Cruise probably, and that might be about it. Also nice job for Journey 2 if it's really on track for 20m+. Considering it's an awful looking sequel to a movie that no one really cared about in the first place that's really a pretty decent performance. Of course given the budget it's not exactly a hit yet, but still it joins the long line of 2012 movies that have done better than I thought. Hope that streak continues for a long time.

Watched this after the Super Bowl and I was pretty impressed. Much more entertaining than American Idol or X-Factor.

January:1. True Grit (1969) - B-2. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle - B-3. The Goonies - B+4. Super 8 - A-5. Wild, Wild, West - C-6. The Gods Must Be Crazy - B7. Moneyball - B8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - A-9. Source Code - B10. Beginners - A-11. Hanna - C+12. Paul - B-13. Warrior - A14. The Change Up - F15. Real Steel - C16. The Way Back - C17. Contagion - A-18. Beverly Hills Cop 2 - C+19. 50/50 - A20. The Ides of March - A-21. The Fugitive - B22. The Cell - B-February:1. The Trip - C-

Surrogate seems like a sure thing for acting noms, but I don't know about picture. Beats of the Southern Wild has a chance but it feels like one of those movies that everyone loves at Sundance, but then doesn't stack up well against the true heavyweights of the year. Obviously I haven't seen either one though so who really knows.