Summer Game Preseason Predictions Thread

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This is the thread to post your main preseason predictions in. This thread will be LOCKED upon the passing of the preseason deadline.

 

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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:

 
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B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

 

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C: Worldwide top 10:

 

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D: Worldwide Weekends:

 

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E: China Box Office:

 

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F: Total Grosses:

 

Top 15 Dom) 

Top 7 W/E) 

 

Top 10 WW)

 

Top 5 China)
 

G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices:

 

South Korea #1) 
South Africa #1) 

Brazil #1) 

Mexico #1) 

Australia #1 )

Italy #1 )

 

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

B: 200M

C: 300M

D: 400M

E: 500M

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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)?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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)
2) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend ever ?  (Current Record = Shrek the Third : 121.6m)
3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ?
4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ?
5) Will Finding Dory top the Summer Game domestically ? (ie. #1 film for the game)

6) Will Finding Dory make more than 1B worldwide ?
7) Will Finding Dory become the #1 Animated Film Worldwide (Current #1 = Frozen 1.277B)
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)
9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends ?
10) How many Animated Films will be in the top 15 for the summer game ? (you have a Cushion of 1 Film)
 

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.
2) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 2 (128.1m) on Opening Weekend?
3) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 3 (174.1m) (and inherently more than BVS) on Opening Weekend?
4) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Captain America: The Winter Soldier (259.8m)?
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))

6) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: Days of Future Past (90.8m) on Opening weekend?
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)?
8) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: The Last Stand (234.4m)?
9) Will X-Men: Apocalypse become the biggest of the X-Men series/franchise (Deadpool – Final number isn’t done yet)?
10) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (65.6m) on Opening weekend?

11) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (191.2m)?
12) Will Suicide Squad make more than Captain America: The First Avenger (65.1m)?
13) Will Suicide Squad (Total) make more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Opening Weekend (170m – estimate)?
14) Will All Comic Book films (Total) make more than 1 Billion domestically (Total of all 4 films together)?
15) Will any Comic Book film drop more than 62% in it’s second weekend? (this will always reference 3 day totals only)

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)
17) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than 1 Billion Worldwide?
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?
19) Will at least 2 Comic Book films receive a Cinema Score of at least “A”?
20) How Many Comic Book films will be in the ALL 3 of the main game charts? (there is no Cushion for this one!)

 

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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) Civil War - 525m
2) Finding Dory - 345m
3) Suicide Squad - 305m
4) Independence Day -  295m
5) Secret Life of Pets - 245m
6) X Men Apocalypse - 232m
7) Jason Bourne - 225m
8) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - 189m
9) Central Intelligence - 168m
10) Alice in Wonderland 2 - 151m

11) Big Friendly Giant -  148m
12) Angry Birds - 143m
13) Star Trek Beyond - 141m
14) Neighbours 2 - 137m
15) Conjuring 2  - 122m
 

B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

 

1) Civil War - 206m
2) Suicide Squad - 132m
3) Independence Day - 117m
4) Finding Dory - 96m
5) Xmen Apocalypse - 92m
6) Jason Bourne - 78m 
7) Secret Life of Pets - 76m

 

C: Worldwide top 10:

 

1) Civil War - 1.42b
2) Finding Dory - 1.13b
3) Ice Age 5 - 922m
4) Suicide Squad - 885m
5) Xmen Apocalypse - 857m
6) Independence Day - 837m
7) Secret Life of Pets - 719m
8) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 697m
9) Jason Bourne - 674m
10) Warcraft - 672m

 

D: Worldwide Weekends:

 

1) Civil War - 317m
2) Suicide Squad - 288m
3) Finding Dory - 275m
4) Independence Day - 265m
5) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 249m

 

E: China Box Office:

 

1) Civil War - 188m
2) Finding Dory - 154m
3) Suicide Squad - 132m
4) Independence Day - 105m
5) Warcraft - 102m

 

6) Apocalypse - 98m
7) Turtles - 95m

 

F: Total Grosses:

 

Top 15 Dom) $3.21b

Top 7 W/E) $811m

 

Top 10 WW) $8.66b

 

Top 5 China) $648m
 

G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices:

 

South Korea #1) Civil War
South Africa #1) Civil War 

Brazil #1) Civil War

Mexico #1) Civil War

Australia #1) Civil War

Italy #1 ) 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 Ghostbusters 

B: 200M Turtles

C: 300M Independence Day

D: 400M Dory

E: 500M 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 - 295m
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 - 17.25m

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?  YES

 

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? YES

 

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? ABSTAIN

 

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? NO

 

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?  ABSTAIN

 

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? ABSTAIN

 

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? ABSTAIN

 

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? ABSTAIN

 

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

 

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 ? YES
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) 3
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. 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? YES

11) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (191.2m)? YES
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) 8
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? NO
19) Will at least 2 Comic Book films receive a Cinema Score of at least “A”? YES
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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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: 550M
2) Finding Dory: 460M 
3) Suicide Squad: 280M
4) The Secret Life of Pets: 270M
5) Jason Bourne: 250M
6) X-Men Apocalypse: 220M

7) Independence Day Resurgence: 180M
8) Star Trek Beyond: 170M
9) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: 155M

10) Alice Through the Looking Glass: 140M

11) The Conjuring 2: 135M
12) Ice Age Collision Course: 130M
13) Central Intelligence: 125M
14) The BFG: 120M

15) The Angry Birds Movie: 115M

 

B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

 

1) Captain America: Civil War: 205M
2) Finding Dory: 130M
3) Suicide Squad: 115M
4) X-Men Apocalypse: 80M
5) Independence Day: Resurgence: 77M
6) The Secret Life of Pets: 75M
7) Jason Bourne: 70M

 

C: Worldwide top 10:

 

1) Captain America: Civil War: 1.4B
2) Finding Dory: 1.2B
3) Independence Day Resurgence: 850M
4) Ice Age Collision Course: 820M
5) X-Men Apocalypse: 750M
6) Suicide Squad: 670M
7) The Secret Life of Pets: 650M
8) Alice Through the Looking Glass: 630M
9) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: 580M
10) Star Trek Beyond: 550M

 

D: Worldwide Weekends:

 

1) Captain America: Civil War: 380M
2) Finding Dory: 220M
3) Independence Day Resurgence: 190M
4) X-Men Apocalypse: 170M
5) Suicide Squad: 160M

 

E: China Box Office:

 

1) Captain America: Civil War: 240M
2) X-Men Apocalypse: 160M
3) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: 130M
4) Independence Day Resurgence: 110M
5) Now You See Me 2: 105M

 

6) Ice Age: Collision Course: 80M
7) Warcraft: 70M

 

F: Total Grosses:

 

Top 15 Dom) $3,290,000,000

Top 7 W/E) $752,000,000

 

Top 10 WW) $8,100,000,000

 

Top 5 China) $745,000,000
 

G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices:

 

South Korea #1) Captain America: Civil War
South Africa #1) Captain America: Civil War

Brazil #1) Captain America: Civil War

Mexico #1) Captain America: Civil War

Australia #1 ) Finding Dory

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 Ghostbusters

B: 200M Independence Day Resurgence

C: 300M The Secret Life of Pets

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 180M
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 20M
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? Abstain

 

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? Yes

 

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? Yes

 

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? Abstain

 

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? No

 

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? Abstain

 

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? Abstain

 

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? Abstain

 

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? Abstain

 

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? No

 

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) Yes
3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ? Yes
4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ? Yes
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 ? Yes
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) 3
9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends ? Yes
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? No
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)? No
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”? Yes
20) How Many Comic Book films will be in the ALL 3 of the main game charts? (there is no Cushion for this one!) 4

 

REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE (WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING) AND RECEIVE 20,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

Edited May 5, 2016 by WrathOfHan

[Wrath]

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) Civil War - 465M
2) Finding Dory - 415M
3) Suicide Squad - 267M
4) X-Men - 222M
5) Star Trek Beyond - 190M
6) Independence Day 2 - 176M
7) TMNT 2 - 163M
8) Bourne - 161M
9) Secret Life of Pets - 153M
10) Ice Age - 139M

11) Alice 2 - 122M
12) The BFG - 113M
13) Tarzan - 112M
14) Conjuring 2 - 105M
15) Neighbors 2 - 104M

 

B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

 

1) Civil War - 205M
2) Finding Dory - 125M
3) Suicide Squad - 108M
4) X-Men - 87M
5) Star Trek Beyond - 69M
6) Independence Day - 64M
7) TMNT 2 - 55M

 

C: Worldwide top 10:

 

1) Civil War - 1.2B
2) Finding Dory - 1B
3) X-Men - 755M
4) Ice Age - 715M
5) Suicide Squad - 705M
6) Independence Day - 700M
7) Alice - 610M
8) TMNT 2 - 445M
9) Star Trek - 415M
10) Warcraft - 380M

 

D: Worldwide Weekends:

 

1) Civil War 340M
2) Finding Dory 210M
3) Suicide Squad 190M
4) X-Men 165M
5) Independence Day 135M

 

E: China Box Office:

 

1) Civil War 210M
2) Finding Dory 140M
3) X-Men 125M
4) Ice Age 85M
5) Warcraft 80M

 

6) Suicide Squad 70M
7) TMNT2 60M

 

F: Total Grosses:

 

Top 15 Dom) 2.9B

Top 7 W/E) 725M

 

Top 10 WW) 7.1B

 

Top 5 China) 500M
 

G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices:

 

South Korea #1) Finding Dory
South Africa #1) Civil War

Brazil #1) Civil War

Mexico #1) Civil War

Australia #1 ) Finding Dory

Italy #1 ) 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 Conjuring 2

B: 200M Star Trek Beyond

C: 300M Suicide Squad

D: 400M Finding Dory

E: 500M 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: *INDEPENDENCE DAY* 179M

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: *FREE STATE OF JONES* 12M

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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* (In fact, I'm pretty confident it'll happen at least twice)

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *No*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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*

 

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? *Abstain*

 

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) *YES*
3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ? *YES*
4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ? *YES*
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) *3*
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. *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? *NO*
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)? *NO*
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? *YES*

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? *NO*
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*

 

REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE (WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING) AND RECEIVE 20,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

Edited April 29, 2016 by Wrath

[The Panda]

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) Finding Dory - 550.2m
2) Captain America: Civil War - 500m
3) Suicide Squad - 284.5m
4) The Secret Life of Pets - 216.3m
5) X-Men: Apocalypse - 212m
6) Ghostbusters - 200m
7) Independence Day: Resurgence - 192.7m
8) The BFG - 191.5m
9) Star Trek Beyond - 178.7m
10) Jason Bourne - 151.7m

11) Sausage Party - 137m
12) Central Intelligence - 134.2m
13) Alice Through the Looking Glass - 128.9m
14) The Conjuring 2 - 124.1m
15) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - 123.4m

 

B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

 

1) Captain America Civil War - 185.2m
2) Finding Dory - 150.3m
3) Suicide Squad - 120.1m
4) X-Men: Apocalypse - 85.4m
5) Ghostbusters - 85.2m
6) Independence Day: Resurgence - 79.7m
7) The Secret Life of Pets - 65.2m

 

C: Worldwide top 10:

 

1) Captain America: Civil War - 1.5b
2) Finding Dory - 1.35b
3) Suicide Squad - 820m
4) X-Men: Apocalypse - 770m
5) Ice Age: Collision Course - 750m
6) Independence Day: Resurgence - 650m
7) The Secret Life of Pets - 620m
8) Ghostbusters - 530m
9) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - 500m
10) Warcraft - 450m

 

D: Worldwide Weekends:

 

1) Captain America: Civil War - 320m
2) X-Men: Apocalypse - 270m
3) Finding Dory - 265m
4) Suicide Squad - 250m
5) Independence Day: Resurgence - 185m

 

E: China Box Office: ABSTAIN

 

1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
5) 

 

6) 
7) 

 

F: Total Grosses:

 

Top 15 Dom) 3325.2M

Top 7 W/E) 771.1M

 

Top 10 WW) 7440M

 

Top 5 China) ABSTAIN
 

G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices:

 

South Korea #1) FINDING DORY
South Africa #1) CIVIL WAR

Brazil #1) CIVIL WAR

Mexico #1) CIVIL WAR

Australia #1 ) FINDING DORY

Italy #1 ) FINDING DORY

 

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 Angry Birds the Movie

B: 200M Ghostbusters

C: 300M Suicide Squad

D: 400M Captain America: Civil War

E: 500M Finding Dory

 

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? YES

 

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? YES

 

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 1st place domestically in its opening weekend and then drop more than 64% in its second week? YES

 

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

 

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) YES
3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ? YES
4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ? YES
5) Will Finding Dory top the Summer Game domestically ? (ie. #1 film for the game) YES

6) Will Finding Dory make more than 1B worldwide ? YES
7) Will Finding Dory become the #1 Animated Film Worldwide (Current #1 = Frozen 1.277B) YES
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) 3
 

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? NO
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)? NO
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) YES

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) 5
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”? YES
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

 

REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE (WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING) AND RECEIVE 20,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

Edited April 28, 2016 by The Panda Knight

[That One Girl]

A: Domestic top 15:

 
1) Captain America Civil War - 570 M
2) Finding Dory - 490 M
3) Secret Life of Pets - 270 M
4) The BFG - 235 M

5) X-Men Apocalypse - 225M
6) Suicide Squad - 220 M
7) Independence Day Resurgence - 215 M
8) Jason Bourne - 210 M
9) Star Trek Beyond - 190 M
10) TMNT 2 - 184 M

11) Central Intelligence - 170 M
12) Alice 2 - 165 M
13) Neighbors 2 - 153M
14) Angry Birds - 152 M
15) Ghostbusters - 146 M

 

Poor Warcraft, Ice Age 5, Mike and Dave, Conjuring 2, Pete's Dragon, Tarzan, and NYSM 2 missed the cut, all films I believe will make over 100M.

 

B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

 

1) Civil War - 204 M
2) Finding Dory - 125 M
3) Suicide Squad - 120 M
4) ID: R - 95 M
5) Apocalypse - 85 M
6) Jason Bourne - 70 M

7) The Secret Life of Pets - 69 M

 

C: Worldwide top 10:

 

1) Civil War - 1.6 B

2) Finding Dory - 1.3 B
3) Independence Day Resurgence - 900 M
4) Ice Age Collision Course - 845 M
5) Suicide Squad - 760 M
6) X-Men Apocalypse - 755 M
7) Secret Life of Pets - 734 M
8) Alice - 645 M
9) TMNT 2 - 630 M
10) Star Trek Beyond - 600 M

 

D: Worldwide Weekends:

 

1) Civil War - 320 M
2) Finding Dory - 250 M
3) Resurgence - 220 M
4) Ice Age - 215 M
5) Suicide Squad - 210 M

 

E: China Box Office:

 

1) Civil War - 200 M
2) X-Men Apocalypse - 150 M
3) TMNT 2 - 145 M
4) Suicide Squad - 124 M
5) Independence Day Resurgence - 100 M

 

6) Ice Age Collision Course - 95 M
7) Now You See Me 2 - 90 M

 

F: Total Grosses:

 

Top 15 Dom) 3.525 B

Top 7 W/E) 770 M

 

Top 10 WW) 8.469 B

 

Top 5 China) 719 M
 

G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices:

 

South Korea #1) Civil War
South Africa #1) Civil War

Brazil #1) Civil War

Mexico #1) Civil War

Australia #1) Finding Dory

Italy #1 ) Finding Dory

 

(I'M REALLY BAD WITH WORLDWIDE NuMBERS :P)

 

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 Now You See Me 2

B: 200M Jason Bourne

C: 300M Secret Life of Pets

D: 400M Finding Dory

E: 500M Finding Dory

 

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, 215 M
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, 25 M

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? Yes

 

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? Abstain 

 

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? Yes

 

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 (it's hard to see Alice below 50M)

 

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? No

 

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? Abstain

 

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? No

 

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

 

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

Edited May 3, 2016 by ThatOneGuy