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[Box Office Freak]

On 3/18/2016 at 11:10 PM, Kung Fu Panda Tree said:

The guarantees for 200M are Civil War, X-Men and Finding Dory, nothing else. The rest are all maybes.

 

I'd add Suicide Squad as a lock

[grey ghost]

What points are the risk or reward for answering or abstaining from the Finding Dory and Comic Book movie questions at the end of the preseason question list?

[chasmmi]

33 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

What points are the risk or reward for answering or abstaining from the Finding Dory and Comic Book movie questions at the end of the preseason question list?

 

Scoring (Overall)
General Scoring & Bonus points are listed after each set of questions.
You can choose to ABSTAIN from both sections for 10k (ie. Both Part A & Part B).

 

Bonus Scores (Overall)
There is bonus scoring under each Part, but this is an overall bonus score between both Parts and is in addition to all points gained from each Part.
If you get  at least 9 out of 10 in Part A and at least 18 out of 20 in Part B, you will receive a bonus of 20k (if get them all right see, then see the point below).
If you are GOD and get all 30 questions correct, you will receive a crazy bonus of 100k.

 

 

DORY

 

Scoring
For each correct answer you will receive +5k.
For each incorrect answer you will receive -5k.
(No Answer / abstain 1 question will be assumed to be incorrect. YOU MUST ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION IF YOU GO FOR IT)
You can choose to ABSTAIN Part A (This section) for 5k.

 

Bonus Scores
If you get 7 or 8 out of 10 correct, you receive a Bonus of 2k.
If you get 9 out of 10 correct, you receive a Bonus of 5k.
If you get 10 out of 10 correct, you receive a Bonus of 10k.

 

COMICS

 

Scoring
For each correct answer you will receive +5k.
For each incorrect answer you will receive -5k.
(No Answer / abstain 1 question will be assumed to be incorrect. YOU MUST ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION IF YOU GO FOR IT)
You can choose to ABSTAIN Part B (This section) for 10k.

 

Bonus Scores
If you get 14, 15 or 16 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 2k.
If you get 17 or 18 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 3k.
If you get 19 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 5k.
If you get 20 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 20k.

[chasmmi]

About 13 days to go people

 

I need to start working on my real predicitions

 

[JJ-8]

@chasmmi

 

Updated movie list (there have been some changes)  (i've marked it up in red )

 

On 3/15/2016 at 1:07 AM, chasmmi said:

Films Eligible for the Summer Game

(This list is subject to change as films gets added/subtracted up until the start of the game)

 

Keanu

Mother’s Day

Ratchet and Clank

Civil War

The Darkness

Kidnap current date is now TBA

Money Monster

 

Angry Bird

Neighbours 2

The Nice Guys

Alice Through the Looking Glass

X-Men: Apocalypse

The Bye Bye Man ~ has been added to the schedule

Me Before You

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

 

The Conjuring 2

Now You See Me 2

Warcraft

Central Intelligence

Finding Dory

Free State of Jones

Independence Day: Resurgence

The Shallows

 

The BFG

Legend of Tarzan

Purge: Election Year

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Secret Life of Pets

Ghostbusters

The Infiltrator ~ brought forward from 31st August

Ice Age: Collision Course

Lights Out

 

Star Trek Beyond

Jason Bourne

The Space Between Us

The Founder

Nine Lives

Suicide Squad

Florence Foster Jenkins

Ben-Hur

Pete’s Dragon

 

Sausage Party

Spectral

Arms and the Dudes War Dogs ~ renamed

Kubo and the Two Strings

Untitled Lucas and Moore Comedy Bad Moms ~ renamed

 

I should also note the order is different to the release dates.  I'll check questions soon to see if any are impacted by these changes and update accordingly.

[JJ-8]

@chasmmi

 

ok just reviewed the question.  Only Question 20 is impacted.

 

20)  Which combination of films will gross the smallest amount of money during the game?

 

1)        Pete’s Dragon, Keanu, The Shallow, Nine Lives,

2)        Legend of Tarzan, Ratchett and Clank, Me Before You, Arms and the Dudes

3)        Ice Age, Money Monster, Lights Out, The Space Between Us,

4)        Ben Hur, Now You See Me 2, The Shallows, Mechanic: Resurrection,

 

Answer correctly: 30,000 points

Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

Part 2 has Arms and the Dudes.  no real change since that film has only been renamed to War Dogs.

[chasmmi]

On ‎17‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 3:39 AM, Treetrunk Special said:

TOP 15 ETC PREDICTION TEMPLATE

 

 

 

 

 

Below is a helpful template to use for making predictions. All Players who use this template for their predictions will receive 10,000 bonus points for making my life easier when I have to score everything at the end of the game.

 

 

 

 

 

A: Domestic top 15:

 

 

 
1) Captain America: Civil War – 512M
2) Finding Dory – 345M
3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 260M
4) Suicide Squad – 248M
5) Ghostbusters – 241M
6) Warcraft – 203M
7) Alice Through the Looking Glass – 201M
8) The Secret Life of Pets – 195M
9) Jason Bourne – 188M
10) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows – 176M

 

 

11) Sausage Party – 151M
12) Now You See Me 2 – 146M
13) Independence Day: Resurgence – 138M
14) Angry Birds – 136M
15) Central Intelligence – 132M

 

 

 

 

 

B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

 

 

 

 

 

1) Captain America: Civil War – 202M
2) X-Men: Apocalypse – 105M
3) Finding Dory – 97M
4) Suicide Squad – 91M
5) Warcraft – 75M
6) Ghostbusters – 68M
7) Alice Through The Looking Glass – 66M

 

 

 

 

 

C: Worldwide top 10:

 

 

 

 

 

1) Captain America: Civil War – 1587M
2) Warcraft – 1030M
3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 884M
4) Finding Dory – 861M
5) Ice Age: Collision Course – 812M
6) Alice Through The Looking Glass – 632M
7) Suicide Squad – 596M
8) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows – 511M
9) Ghostbusters – 502M
10)  Star Trek Beond – 494M

 

 

 

 

 

D: Worldwide Weekends:

 

 

 

 

 

1) Captain America: Civil War – 450M
2) Warcraft – 250M
3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 190M
4) Finding Dory – 175M
5) Suicide Squad – 160M

 

 

 

 

 

E: China Box Office:

 

 

 

 

 

1) Warcraft – 450M
2) Captain America: Civil War – 280M
3) X-Men: Apocalypse – 170M
4) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows – 130M
5)  Indepdence Day: Resurgence – 95M

 

 

 

 

 

6) Ice Age: Collision Course – 80M
7)  Star Trek Beyond: 75M

 

 

 

 

 

F: Total Grosses:

 

 

 

 

 

Top 15 Dom) 3272M

 

 

Top 7 W/E) 704M

 

 

 

 

 

Top 10 WW) 7909M

 

 

 

 

 

Top 5 China) 1125M

 

 

G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices:

 

 

 

 

 

South Korea #1) Warcraft
South Africa #1) Warcraft

 

 

Brazil #1) Captain America: Civil War

 

 

Mexico #1) Captain America: Civil War

 

 

Australia #1 ) Captain America: Civil War

 

 

Italy #1 ) Captain America: Civil War

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-season Questions:

 

 

 

 

 

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 Neighbors 2

 

 

B: 200M Star Trek Beyond

 

 

C: 300M X-Men: Apocalypse

 

 

D: 400M Finding Dory

 

 

E: 500M Captain America: Civil War

 

 

 

 

 

Each correctly predicted film scores you 15,000 points, get all four correct and receive 25,000 bonus points for 100k total. (This is the only preseason question where there is no penalty for being wrong so enjoy it).

 

 

 

 

 

1)        Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the summer domestically:

1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
2) Independence Day Resurgence
3) Angry Birds Movie
4) Ghostbusters

 

 

Answer correctly: 12,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 2,000 points

 

 

Correctly predict the films gross to within 20M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 10M and receive 23,000 points bonus.

 

 

   

 

 

2)        Tell me which of these will be the lowest grossing film of the summer domestically:

1) Free State of Jones
2) Purge: Election Year
3) Popstar: Never Stop Not Stopping
4) Nine Lives

 

 

Answer correctly: 12,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 2,000 points

 

 

Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 5M and receive 23,000 points bonus

 

 

 

 

 

 3)      Will at least 3 films make more than 300M domestically 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

 

 

 

 

 

4)      Will animated films combine to make more than 800M domestically 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 3 films make more than 100M OW domestic?

 

 

NO

 

 

 

 

 

Answer correctly: 20,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 4,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

6)      Will any film have either a second domestic 3 day weekend or a second worldwide weekend that would have qualified for its respective top X table if multiple entries had been allowed?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 20,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 4,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

7)      Will at least 3 of the top 5 domestic films of the summer NOT be comic book films?

 

 

NO

 

 

Answer correctly: 20,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 4,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

8)      Will the top 3 films of the summer’s combined gross be higher than the combined gross of Batman vs Superman, Jungle Book and Zootopia?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 20,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 4,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

9)      Will any film have a domestic Opening Weekend above $50M but not open to number one at the box office?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 25,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points 

 

 

 

 

 

10)  Will at least 2 sequel/prequel/reboots drop more than 33.33% Domestically from the previous installment in its franchise (Civil War is vs Winter Soldier, Apocalypse is against DOFP and Bourne is vs Ultimatum for this question)?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 25,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

11)  Will at least 2 DOMESTIC titles make over $150M in China?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 25,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

12)  Will at least 3 animated films open to number one at the domestic box office?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 25,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

13)  Will any film with a budget above $120M (according to BOM or another credible source) gross less than $60M domestically?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 25,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

14)  Will any domestic film get more than 8 million admissions in South Korea?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 25,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

15)  Will any film make more than $45M in Germany?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 30,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 6,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

16)  Will at least 3 comedy films (as listed by BOM) make over $100M domestic?

 

 

YES

 

 

Answer correctly: 30,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 6,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

17)  Will any film open to 1^st place domestically in its opening weekend and then drop more than 64% in its second week?

 

 

NO

 

 

Answer correctly: 30,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 6,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

18)  Will any film in the worldwide top 10 NOT be in the domestic top 15 films at the end of the game?

 

 

YES (WILL MISS DOM TOP 15)

 

 

Answer correctly: 30,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 6,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

19)    Which combination of films will gross the most amount of money domestically during the game?

 

 

 

 

 

1)      Finding Dory, Civil War, Popstar: Never stop Never Stopping, Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates

 

 

2)      Apocalypse, Star Trek 3, Sausage Party, Alice Through the Looking Glass

 

 

3)      Warcraft, Neighbours 2, Tarzan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

 

 

4)      Jason Bourne, Central Intelligence, Secret Life of Pets, Conjuring 2

 

 

 

 

 

Answer correctly: 30,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

20)  Which combination of films will gross the smallest amount of money during the game?

 

 

 

 

 

1)        Pete’s Dragon, Keanu, The Shallow, Nine Lives,

 

 

2)        Legend of Tarzan, Ratchett and Clank, Me Before You, Arms and the Dudes

 

 

3)        Ice Age, Money Monster, Lights Out, The Space Between Us,

 

 

4)        Ben Hur, Now You See Me 2, The Shallows, Mechanic: Resurrection,

 

 

 

 

 

Answer correctly: 30,000 points

 

 

Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points

 

 

State that you abstain: 5,000 points

 

 

 

 

 

Jajang’s (JJ-8) little set of Questions.  Answer if you Dare!
Part A: A Fish called Dory 

 

 

1) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend of 2016 ?   (Current Record – 2016 = Zootopia 75.1m) YES
2) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend ever ?  (Current Record = Shrek the Third : 121.6m) NO
3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ? YES
4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ? NO
5) Will Finding Dory top the Summer Game domestically ? (ie. #1 film for the game) NO

 

 

6) Will Finding Dory make more than 1B worldwide ? NO
7) Will Finding Dory become the #1 Animated Film Worldwide (Current #1 = Frozen 1.277B) NO
8) How many weekends will an Animated Film be on top of the weekend chart ? (You have a Cushion of 1 Weekend – so if you are off by 1 you still get this correct) 5
9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends ? NO
10) How many Animated Films will be in the top 15 for the summer game ? (you have a Cushion of 1 Film) 4

 

 

Part B: It’s a Comic Book World

 

 

1) A comic book film is expected to make the highest opening weekend during the summer game (Many of you will have it as your number 1 Weekend).  Name that Film OR if you don’t think a Comic Film will be the number 1 weekend this summer, then put NONE. Captain America: Civil War
2) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 2 (128.1m) on Opening Weekend? YES
3) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 3 (174.1m) (and inherently more than BVS) on Opening Weekend? YES
4) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Captain America: The Winter Soldier (259.8m)? YES
5) Will Captain America: Civil War become the biggest MCU film which doesn’t have “The Avengers” in its title (ie. More than Iron Man 3 (409m)) YES

 

 

6) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: Days of Future Past (90.8m) on Opening weekend? YES
7) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than Deadpool (132.4m) on Opening weekend (this would make it the largest of the X-Men series)? NO
8) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: The Last Stand (234.4m)? YES
9) Will X-Men: Apocalypse become the biggest of the X-Men series/franchise (Deadpool – Final number isn’t done yet)? NO
10) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (65.6m) on Opening weekend? NO

 

 

11) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (191.2m)? NO
12) Will Suicide Squad make more than Captain America: The First Avenger (65.1m)? YES
13) Will Suicide Squad (Total) make more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Opening Weekend (170m – estimate)? YES
14) Will All Comic Book films (Total) make more than 1 Billion domestically (Total of all 4 films together)? YES
15) Will any Comic Book film drop more than 62% in it’s second weekend? (this will always reference 3 day totals only) NO

 

 

16) In how many of the following markets will a Comic Book film be the number 1 film (Total Gross) during the Game? (You have a cushion of 1 country) (Australia; Brazil; China; France; Germany; Mexico; Russia; South Korea; United Kingdom) 6
17) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than 1 Billion Worldwide? YES
18) Will Captain America: Civil War (Worldwide Total) OR X-Men: Apocalypse (Worldwide Total) make than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Worldwide Total) AND Suicide Squad (Worldwide Total) Worldwide? YES
19) Will at least 2 Comic Book films receive a Cinema Score of at least “A”? NO
20) How Many Comic Book films will be in the ALL 3 of the main game charts? (there is no Cushion for this one!) 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Shall I move this to the correct thread?  

 

(Thanks for playing)

[Avatree]

2 minutes ago, chasmmi said:

 

Shall I move this to the correct thread?  

 

(Thanks for playing)

Oh, we have to post them another thread instead? Whoops

[chasmmi]

5 minutes ago, Treetrunk Special said:

Oh, we have to post them another thread instead? Whoops

 

[Chewy]

I totally didn't notice this until just now, there are too many damn stickies

[chasmmi]

11 hours ago, Chewy said:

I totally didn't notice this until just now, there are too many damn stickies

 

I think a lot of folks aren't noticing it

 

I May just start spamming all other threads to bannable levels when there is 6 days to go  

[WrathOfHan]

5 minutes ago, chasmmi said:

 

I think a lot of folks aren't noticing it

 

I May just start spamming all other threads to bannable levels when there is 6 days to go  

It'd probably be wise to advertise this in the weekend thread.

[chasmmi]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

It'd probably be wise to advertise this in the weekend thread.

 

I may just do that, and you nice folks can drop hints there too

 

Oh and I will change the thread title to caps lock to make it seem important  

[chasmmi]

On ‎18‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 6:06 AM, Treetrunk Special said:

Oh, we have to post them another thread instead? Whoops

 

I moved the thread to the right place for you

[narniadis]

Well Chas after much deliberation I decided to play after all.... Hard to imagine a summer without the game lol. 

[chasmmi]

23 hours ago, narniadis said:

Well Chas after much deliberation I decided to play after all.... Hard to imagine a summer without the game lol. 

 

Good man! You know it makes sense

[DAJK]

I gotta get on this, don't want to miss the deadline...

[chasmmi]

9 hours ago, DAJK said:

I gotta get on this, don't want to miss the deadline...

 

Tell me about it, I still have my joke top 15 up in the prediction thread with Sausage Party number 1making something like 400M  

[chasmmi]

Weekly questions will go up pretty soon

 

 

 

[narniadis]

4 hours ago, chasmmi said:

Weekly questions will go up pretty soon

 

 

 

 

Such a tease....

 

I seriously am having issues with my top 15... I could literally see about 20 100th films but there is some seriously wonky scheduling that will kill legs, particularly of the last half of July releases (12 new wide releases in the first half of august!!!)