JJ-8 Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 1 hour ago, chasmmi said: This thread is still open for new posts and edits for another 7 days. However, any post made below this post, or any edit made after the timestamp on this post will invalidate any points scored from Week 0 weekly questions. Can I ask if you do make an edit after this point, please add a post in that you have made an edit, I'm going start collating data this weekend to get a handle on the spreads so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 So is thread suppose to be locked it says Thrusday April 29 at midnight or does it mean Friday April 29 at midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandeak2000 Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 A: Domestic top 15: 1) Captain America: Civil War $500M 2) Independence Day: Resurgence $450M 3) Finding Dory $445M 4) Suicide Squad $300M 5) X-Men: Apocalypse $250M 6) Angry Birds $230M 7) The Secret Life of Pets $215M 8) Now You See Me 2 $200M 9) Jason Bourne $199M 10) Alice Through the Looking Glass $190M 11) Warcraft $185M 12) Star Trek Beyond $170M 13) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 $150M 14) Ghostbusters $140M 15) Ice Age: Collision Course $130M B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) Captain America Civil War $209M 2) Finding Dory $180M 3) Independence Day: Resurgence $175M 4) Suicide Squad $90M 5) X-Men: Apocalypse $85M 6) Angry birds $80M 7) Secret Life of Pets $75M C: Worldwide top 10: 1) Captain America: Civil War $1.6B 2) Finding Dory $1.2B 3) Independence Day: Resurgence $1B 4) Ice Age: Collision Course $850M 5) Suicide Squad $800M 6) Angry Birds $799M 7) Secret Life of Pets $750M 8) Warcraft $730M 9) X-Men: Apocalypse $600M 10) Alice Through the Looking Glass $450M D: Worldwide Weekends: 1) Captain America: Civil War $200M 2) 3) 4) 5) E: China Box Office: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) F: Total Grosses: Top 15 Dom) $4B Top 7 W/E) $800M Top 10 WW) $9B Top 5 China) $2B 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 Ice Age Collision Course B: 200M Now You See Me 2 C: 300M Suicide Squad 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 $445M 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 $31M 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 instalment 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? 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 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 Maybe Ice Age 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, Ratchet 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 ? YES (Current Record – 2016 = Zootopia 75.1m) 2) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend ever ? YES (Current Record = Shrek the Third : 121.6m) 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 ? NO (ie. #1 film for the game) 6) Will Finding Dory make more than 1B worldwide ? NO 7) Will Finding Dory become the #1 Animated Film Worldwide YES (Current #1 = Frozen 1.277B) 8) How many weekends will an Animated Film be on top of the weekend chart ? 3 (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 off “< 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? 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)? NO 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 its 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) 50 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!) 2 REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE (WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING) AND RECEIVE 20,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 On 29/04/2016 at 3:10 AM, Dexter of Suburbia said: So is thread suppose to be locked it says Thrusday April 29 at midnight or does it mean Friday April 29 at midnight. There is still another 5 days till locakage. There is an extended deadline for those who wish to sacrifice week zero points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxmoser3 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Domestic top 15: 1. Captain America:Civil War:500 million. 2. Finding Dory: 400 million. 3.Secret Life Of Pets: 300 million. 4. Suicide Squad: 295 million. 5. X-Men:Apocylpse:240 million. 6.Independence Day:Resurgance: 225 million. 7. Star Trek: Beyond: 195 million. 8. Jason Bourne: 180 million. 9. Central Intelligence: 155 million. 10. Ghostbusters: 155 million. 11. Neighbors 2:Sorioity Rising: 145 million. 12. Angry Birds: 140 million. 13. Conjuring 2: 130 million. 14. Alice 2: 125 million. 15. Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates: 110 million. Worldwide top 10: 1. Captain America 3: 1.3 billion. 2. Finding Dory; 1.0 billion. 3. Secret Life Of Pets: 655 million. 4. Suicide Squad: 650 million. 5. Ice Age 5: 600 million. 6. Independence Day:600 million. 7. Star Trek: Beyond:415 million. 8. Jason Bourne:415 million. 9. Alice 2: 410 million. 10. Angry Birds:410 million. Top 7 domestic OW: 1. Captain America: Civil War: 212 million. 2. Finding Dory: 120 million. 3. X-Men: Apocylpse: 96 million. 4. Independence Day:Resurgance: 85 million. 5. Secret Life Of Pets:75 million. 6. Star Trek: Beyond:65 million. 7. Jason Bourne: 55 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxmoser3 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Top 7 domestic OW: 1. Captain America: Civil War: 212 million. 2. Finding Dory: 120 million. 3. X-Men: Apocylpse: 96 million. 4. Independence Day:Resurgance: 85 million. 5. Secret Life Of Pets:75 million. 6. Star Trek: Beyond:65 million. 7. Jason Bourne: 55 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxmoser3 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Lowest grossing films domestic: Money Monster: 30 million, Popstar: 29 million, Shallows:25 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 (edited) Nullify week zero for me. I edited my top 15, top 10 OW, top WW weekends, and preseason question A. I couldn't resist. Edited May 2, 2016 by grey ghost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 @Maxmoser3, put all your predictions in one post. Just use the template, it's way easier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 (edited) A: Domestic top 15: 1) Captain America: Civil War - $510M 2) Finding Dory - $380M 3) Suicide Squad - $280M 4) The Secret Life of Pets - $260M 5) X-Men: Apocalypse - $205M 6) Star Trek: Beyond - $200M 7) Jason Bourne - $195M 8) Independence Day: Resurgence - $190M 9) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - $160M 10) Alice Through the Looking Glass - $150M 11) Angry Birds - $135M 12) The Nice Guys - $125M 13) Ghostbusters - $115M 14) Central Intelligence - $110M 15) Warcraft - $110M B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) Captain America: Civil War - $200M 2) Finding Dory - $120M 3) Suicide Squad - $95M 4) X-Men: Apocalypse - $80M 5) Independence Day: Resurgence - $75M 6) The Secret Life of Pets - $70M 7) Star Trek: Beyond - $65M C: Worldwide top 10: 1) Captain America: Civil War - $1.400B 2) Finding Dory - $1.050B 3) The Secret Life of Pets - $750M 4) Suicide Squad - $680M 5) Ice Age: Collision Course - $650M 6) Independence Day: Resurgence - $630M 7) Alice Through the Looking Glass - $570M 8) X-Men: Apocalypse - $550M 9) Star Trek: Beyond - $520M 10) Warcraft - $480M D: Worldwide Weekends: 1) Captain America: Civil War - $370M 2) Finding Dory - $280M 3) Independence Day: Resurgence - $220M 4) Suicide Squad - $200M 5) The Secret Life of Pets - $180M 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) $3.125B Top 7 W/E) $705M Top 10 WW) $7.090B Top 5 China) $874M 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 ) 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: Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates - 100M B: Star Trek: Beyond - 200M C: Suicide Squad - 300M D: Finding Dory - 400M E: Captain America: Civil War - 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:2) Independence Day Resurgence 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: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?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?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?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?NO 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)?ABSTAIN 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?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?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) Civil War 2) Apocalypse 3) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 4) Secret Life of Pets 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? 3) Ice Age, Money Monster, Lights Out, The Space Between Us, Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 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) 5 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) 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. 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) 7 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!) 5 Edited May 5, 2016 by Alpha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 TELE’S TOP 15 ETC PREDICTIONS 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 - 490m 2) Finding Dory - 363m 3) Independence Day: Resurgence - 318m 4) Secret Life of Pets - 248m 5) X-Men: Apocalypse - 207m 6) Suicide Squad - 185m 7) Jason Bourne - 175m 8) Star Trek Beyond - 170m 9) Alice 2 - 164m 10) TMNT 2 - 160m 11) Central Intelligence - 156m 12) Pete’s Dragon - 135m 13) Ice Age: Collision Course - 132m 14) Warcraft - 110m 15) Ghostbusters - 108m B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) Captain America: Civil War - 193m 2) Independence Day: Resurgence - 108m 3) Finding Dory - 95m 4) X-Men: Apocalypse - 84m 5) Suicide Squad - 77m 6) Secret Life of Pets - 68m 7) TMNT 2 - 63m C: Worldwide top 10: 1) Captain America: Civil War - 1377m 2) Independence Day: Resurgence - 924m 3) Finding Dory - 891m 4) X-Men: Apocalypse - 728m 5) Secret Life of Pets - 638m 6) Alice 2 - 625m 7) Suicide Squad - 570m 8) Ice Age: Collision Course - 532m 9) Jason Bourne - 495m 10) Warcraft - 475m D: Worldwide Weekends: 1) Captain America: Civil War (2nd weekend) - 395m 2) Independence Day: Resurgence - 216m 3) Alice 2 - 210m 4) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - 202m 5) X-Men: Apocalypse - 185m E: China Box Office: 1) Independence Day: Resurgence - 230m 2) Captain America: Civil War - 225m 3) Alice 2 - 150m 4) X-Men: Apocalypse - 125m 5) Warcraft - 105m 6) Secret Life of Pets - 100m 7) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - 95m F: Total Grosses: Top 15 Dom) 3,102m Top 7 W/E) 688m Top 10 WW) 7,278m Top 5 China) 811m 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 ) 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 X-Men: Apocalypse C: 300M Independence Day: Resurgence 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 (15.6m) 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? 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? 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)? NO 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? 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 1st 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? 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? 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) 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) TWO 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) THREE 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) SEVEN 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!) THREE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HeyItsMoses Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) Good luck you bastards, you're gonna need it. 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 $465m 2) Captain America: Civil War $452m 3) Independence Day: Resurgence $356m 4) X-Men: Apocalypse $320m 5) The Secret Life of Pets $255m 6) Angry Birds $210m 7) The Legend of Tarzan $194m 8) Star Trek Beyond $193m 9) Alice Through the Looking Glass $171m 10) The BFG $163m 11) Jason Bourne $160m 12) TMNT $160m 13) Suicide Squad $144m 14) Neighbors $140m 15) Ice Age $132m B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) Captain America $167m 2) Finding Dory $124m 3) X-Men Apocalypse $112m 4) Independence Day $97m 5) Secret Life of Pets $70m 6) Legend of Tarzan $65m 7) Angry Birds $60m C: Worldwide top 10: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) D: Worldwide Weekends: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) E: China Box Office: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) F: Total Grosses: Top 15 Dom) $3.515b Top 7 W/E) $695m 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 Ice Age B: 200M Legend of Tarzan C: 300M XMen Apocalypse D: 400M Independence Day 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 22) Independence Day Resurgence 3) Angry Birds Movie4) 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 Stopping4) 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? ABSTAINED 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? ABSTAINED 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)? NO 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? ABSTAINED 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? ABSTAINED 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? ABSTAINED 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? ABSTAINED 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? ABSTAINED 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? ABSTAINED 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? ABSTAINED 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) ABSTAINED 9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends ? ABSTAINED 10) How many Animated Films will be in the top 15 for the summer game ? (you have a Cushion of 1 Film) FOUR 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 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)? NO 13) Will Suicide Squad (Total) make more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Opening Weekend (170m – estimate)? NO 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) ABSTAINED 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) SEVEN 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!) ABSTAINED REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE (WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING) AND RECEIVE 20,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! Edited May 6, 2016 by HeyItsMoses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cmasterclay Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) Just made it in, senoritis style. 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- 480 2) Captain America- 464 3) Secret Life of Pets- 260 4) ID42- 238 5) Suicide Squad- 222 6) X-Men- 208 7) Jason Bourne- 188 8) TMNT2-176 9) Ghostbusters- 168 10) Star Trek-160 11) Central Intelligence- 142 12) Angry Birds- 123 13) Ice Age- 115 14) Conjuring 2- 105 15) Neighbors 2-101 B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) Captain- 190 2) Dory- 134 3) ID2-91 4) X-Men: 85 5) Suicide Squad: 79 6) Secret Life- 72 7) Jason Bourne- 67 C: Worldwide top 10: 1) Cap- 1.35 b 2) Dory- 950 m 3) ID42- 910 4) X-Men- 865 5) Ice Age- 812 6) Pets- 660 7) TMNT-630 8) Bourne- 580 9) Squad- 575 10) Angry Birds-520 D: Worldwide Weekends: 1) Cap-280 2) Dory-280 3) ID42- 240 4) X-Men- 190 5) Squad-140 E: China Box Office: 1) Cap- 195 2) ID42- 160 3) Dory-140 4) X-Men- 120 5) Angry Birds-90 6) Squad- 80 7) Bourne-70 F: Total Grosses: Top 15 Dom) 3.15b Top 7 W/E) 718m Top 10 WW) 7,852b Top 5 China) 705m G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices: South Korea #1) Cap South Africa #1) Cap Brazil #1) Cap Mexico #1) Cap Australia #1 ) Dory Italy #1 ) 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 Neighbors B: 200M X-Men C: 300M Pets D: 400M Cap E: 500M 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? 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? 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? No 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)? No 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? o 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 ? 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) 4 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 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) 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? 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!) 2 Edited May 5, 2016 by Cmasterclay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narniadis Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Made some edits I feel so bullish on a couple of films (namely ID2) but I am wondering if I am leaving the wrong ones out... @Telemachos what do you see in Pete's Dragon that you don't see in the BFG if you don't mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 Just for clarity for everyone else, I also edited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 4 hours ago, narniadis said: Made some edits I feel so bullish on a couple of films (namely ID2) but I am wondering if I am leaving the wrong ones out... @Telemachos what do you see in Pete's Dragon that you don't see in the BFG if you don't mind? Schedule. And for some bizarre reason, people have fond memories of the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 @JJ-8... I edited again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...