Baumers Summer Game (2015) : Domestic Opening Weekends / Worldwide Weekends

[JJ-8]

Welcome to the "other" thread that tracks those pesky opening weekends and worldwide weekends.

 

Due to changes in the game this year, things will be a little different.  There is no scoring for grosses this year for the weekends part of this game.  However as most of you have predicted grosses for both opening weekend and worldwide weekend, i will post a bit of a bragging rights as who got the closest etc.  the real scoring for this part of the game however will be done at the end of the game we have the finalised list.

 

The Weekends part of Baumer's Summer Game 2015 is setup and Scored as follows:

 

 

WORLDWIDE WEEKENDS

What five films will have the best weekends World Wide? I realize some films open day and date, and others do not. This is why it is now just best weekend.  And to avoid more confusion, the weekend will include any numbers the film makes from the time it opens during that week.  So if a film opens on a Wednesday, and all of that gross is reported as the opening gross, it will count.

For every film in the top 5 you call correctly, you get 25,000 points.
For every film you call incorrectly, you lose 10,000 points.
If you call 3 of the top 5 correctly, regardless of order, you get a 20,000 point bonus.
If you call all 5 correctly, regardless of order, you get a 75,000 point bonus

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

DOMESTIC OPENING WEEKENDS

Tell me what films will finish with the 5 best opening weekends domestically. Opening weekends will include any money made on Thursday sneaks.  One caveat to this is that if a film changes it's release date, only the gross from Thursday to Sunday will count. So for example, if Jurassic World suddenly decides that it wants to open on a Wednesday, only the gross from Thursday to Sunday will count. There will be no exceptions to this.

Scoring for best opening weekends:

For every film you call correctly in the top five, regardless of order, you will receive 15,000 points. For every film you call in the exact spot it opens, you will get 25,000 points. If you are able to call 3 of the 5 correctly, you will receive a 75,000 point bonus. Call all five correctly, you get a 250,000 point bonus. For every film you call incorrectly in the top 5, you lose 10,000 points.

Edited May 6, 2015 by Jajang and Back Again

[JJ-8]

Ok i've compiled everyones answers for the Domestic OW answers and the following stats have come out...

 

• A total of 8 films were selected across all answers:
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Jurassic World
  • Inside Out
  • Ted 2
  • Minions
  • Ant-Man
  • Pixels
  • Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
• 1 user did answer the domestic top 5 OW ~ Mattrek Loves Del Toro (49 did answer)
• Everyone selected Avengers & Jurassic World in their top 5 (all 49)
• Only 1 user did not select Minions in their top 5 (48 had minions in their top 5)
• The remaining films were hit and miss on which was selected.
• Everyone had Avengers as their Top film (not surprising)
• Most had Jurassic World as their number 2 and minions as the number 3.
• Pixels had the lowest with only 2 users selecting this film in their top 5
• Of note, not many read the question (including me) - only 4 did not supply a gross (only position)

[JJ-8]

Standings as of May 5th 2014.

 

(Films predicted are highlighted in BOLD)

 

Domestic Top 5 Opening Weekend Standings

 

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron - 191.271m

 

Worldwide Weekends Top 5 Standings

 

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron - EST 359m

 

The following colors only apply to films in the Top 7  Opening Weekends:

 

If your prediction is in GOLD, then you are the closest to the Actual OW.

If your prediction is in BLUE, then you are within 10m of the Actuals OW.

If your prediction is in GREEN, then you are within 20m of the Actuals OW.

If your prediction is in BLACK, then you are within 30m of the Actuals OW.

If your prediction is in RED, then you are over the film's actual OW by at least 30m and missed by a wide margin!

 

FYI - The following users did provide an OW gross (or a WW Weekend Gross) for their films and aren't included here -

Baumer ; Matrix4you ; Snoopy of Suburbia ; tree - we're home

 

**** These charts DO NOT count towards the game.  Only the final positions will count and be scored for the game purposes.  These charts are only to provide a guideline on how close you got!

Edited May 6, 2015 by Jajang and Back Again

[JJ-8]

Domestic Opening Weekend : 

 

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

 

Neo - 255m

24Lost - 225m

Jake Gittes - 222.4m

Cjohn - 220m

druv10 - 220m

Exxdee - 220m

kayumanggi - 220m

MovieMan89 - 220m

The Panda - 220m

Blankments - 219m

Filmovie - 219m

iceroll - 219m

Kalo - 218m

Telemachos - 218m

Dipper - 217.563m

FocusFilms - 217.2m

DAJK - 215m

DAR - 215m

Geraldino - 215m

avi - 214m

Numbers of Westeros - 214m

darkelf - 212m

Empire Out - 212m

Jajang and Back Again - 211.9m

chasmmi - 211m

glassfairy - 211m

CEDAR - 210m

cmasterclay - 210m

grey ghost - 210m

laguy03 - 210m

narniadis - 210m

Wrath - 208m

K1stpierre - 207m

Chewy - 205m

DamienRoc - 205m

Jandrew - 205m

Simionski - 205m

Ethan Hunt - 202m

#ED - 201.2m

Goffe - 200m

Michael Gary Scottt - 195.75m

Alfredstellar - 195m

Alpha - 195m

bcf26 - 195m

Actual OW - 191.271m

grim22 - 181m

 

Congratulations to Alfredstellar, Alpha and bcf26 for the being the closest to the Actual OW of 191.271m

Edited May 6, 2015 by Jajang and Back Again

[K1stpierre]

Damn, I knew I should of stuck with my gut >.<

[iceroll]

IKR, all that sellout tracking for the preview numbers made me bump it up. Let's blame Tele 

[CJohn]

I had it at 200M and changed to 220M at the last minute. I will hunt you down for this Tele.

[sakskidz]

i'm glad u used some of my stats for the stats thing

[The Panda]

Yeah I had around 200m and 540m total then bumped it up after seeing all the hype... Nope bad idea

[sakskidz]

well just think about it u dont have to post here again till June 15th thats when the weekend of Jurassic World is done, then one week later is Inside Out, then the next week is Ted 2, then 2 weeks later is minions, then the week after is Ant-Man, then a week later is pixels, and then a week after that is MI5

[JJ-8]

well just think about it u dont have to post here again till June 15th thats when the weekend of Jurassic World is done, then one week later is Inside Out, then the next week is Ted 2, then 2 weeks later is minions, then the week after is Ant-Man, then a week later is pixels, and then a week after that is MI5

Still need to add worldwide weekend. Just waiting until China opening happens before I confirm it.

[Avatree]

**** These charts DO NOT count towards the game.  Only the final positions will count and be scored for the game purposes.  These charts are only to provide a guideline on how close you got!

Phew, I was panicking for a second. I didn't put a Domestic OW gross since the question didn't ask for it.

[JJ-8]

Phew, I was panicking for a second. I didn't put a Domestic OW gross since the question didn't ask for it.

Tree. I'm happy for you to post your #'s here for ow and WW we if u want to be included in the charts. Just keep your order the same as your original predict. Of course the grosses mean nothing to the scoring of the game. But if u want too ill use those grosses going forward in here

[Avatree]

Tree. I'm happy for you to post your #'s here for ow and WW we if u want to be included in the charts. Just keep your order the same as your original predict. Of course the grosses mean nothing to the scoring of the game. But if u want too ill use those grosses going forward in here

Domestic OW:

 

1) Avengers: Age of Ultron - 219M

2) Jurassic World - 135M

3) Minions - 110M

4) Ant-Man - 92M

5) Inside Out - 79M

 

 

Worldwide OW:

 

1) Jurassic World - 376M

2) Avengers: Age of Ultron - 322M

3) Minions - 197M

4) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - 181M

5) Ant-Man - 156M

[Neo]

Why was the 168M wknd used for AOU why not the OS OW?

[narniadis]

Why was the 168M wknd used for AOU why not the OS OW?

Because that was before the start ?? Why do you insist on bringing this up?

[Neo]

Because that was before the start ?? Why do you insist on bringing this up?

I brought it up because I brought it up. If it bothers you...I don't know what to tell you. lol lol lol

[JJ-8]

Why was the 168M wknd used for AOU why not the OS OW?

Because this was made clear before the game. That chart refers to HIGHEST WW weekend. Not OW. read the rules Neo. It was clear and I believe you already asked this in the main thread a month back.

For all we know the China OW will blow up and beat the U.S. opening pushing that number higher for AOU.

Edited May 11, 2015 by Jajang and Back Again

[The Panda]

Even with a 70m opening domestically Pitch Perfect 2 could still possibly miss the top 5.

[JJ-8]

Standings as of May 18th 2014.

 

(Films predicted are highlighted in BOLD)

 

Domestic Top 5 Opening Weekend Standings

 

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron - 191.271m

2. Pitch Perfect 2 - 70.3m

3. Mad Max: Furty Road - 44.44m

4. Hot Pursuit - 13.942m

5. The D Train - 0.448m

 

Worldwide Weekends Top 5 Standings

 

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1st - 3rd) - 359.271m

2. Pitch Perfect 2 (May 15th - 17th) - 118.3m

3. Mad Mad: Fury Road (May 15th - 17th) - 109.44m

4. Hot Pursuit (May 8th - 10th) - 15.642m

5. TBA

 

The following colors only apply to films in the Top 5 Opening Weekends:

 

If your prediction is in GOLD, then you are the closest to the Actual OW.

If your prediction is in BLUE, then you are within 10m of the Actuals OW.

If your prediction is in GREEN, then you are within 20m of the Actuals OW.

If your prediction is in BLACK, then you are within 30m of the Actuals OW.

If your prediction is in RED, then you are over the film's actual OW by at least 30m and missed by a wide margin!

 

FYI - The following users did provide an OW gross (or a WW Weekend Gross) for their films and aren't included here -

Baumer ; Matrix4you ; Snoopy of Suburbia

 

**** These charts DO NOT count towards the game.  Only the final positions will count and be scored for the game purposes.  These charts are only to provide a guideline on how close you got!