Summer Game Preseason Predictions Thread

[darkelf]

Edited my stuff...

[HeyItsMoses]

I edited my stuff, but didn't have time to answer every question. 

[grey ghost]

I edited my top 15 a few hours ago.

[laguy03]

  A: Domestic top 15:
1) Captain America: Civil War - $475M
2) Finding Dory - $400M
3) X-Men: Apocalypse - $255M
4) Suicide Squad - $225M
5) Star Trek Beyond - $215M
6) The Secret Life of Pets - $198M
7) Jason Bourne - $185M
8) TMNT: Out of the Shadows - $154M
9) Alice Through the Looking Glass - $145M
10) Ice Age: Collision Course - $142M

11) Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising - $128M

12) The Angry Birds Movie - $125M

13) The Conjuring 2 - $109M
14) Central Intelligence - $99M
15) Independence Day: Resurgence - $92M

 

B: Top 7 Domestic OW:

1) Captain America: Civil War - $210M
2) Finding Dory - $95M
3) X-Men: Apocalypse - $90M
4) Suicide Squad - $80M
5) Star Trek Beyond - $67M
6) The Secret Life of Pets - $63M
7) TMNT: Out of the Shadows - $62M

 

C: Worldwide top 10:

1) Captain America: Civil War - $1.45B

2) Finding Dory - $912M
3) X-Men: Apocalypse - $825M
4) Ice Age: Collision Course - $620M

5) Independence Day: Resurgence - $555M

6) The Secret Life of Pets - $537M

7) Star Trek Beyond - $499M

8) Alice Through the Looking Glass - $485M
9) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $411M
10) Suicide Squad - $380M
 

D: Worldwide Weekends:

1) Captain America: Civil War - $350M
2) X-Men: Apocalypse - $245M
3) Finding Dory - $211M
4) Independence Day: Resurgence - $200M
5) Alice Through the Looking Glass - $199M

 

E: China Box Office:

1) Finding Dory - $240M
2) Captain America: Civil War - $225M
3)  ID: Resurgence - $200M
4)  X-Men: Apocalypse - $140M
5) The Secret Life of Pets - $125M

 

6) Ice Age: Collision Course - $111M
7) Suicide Squad - $85M

 

F: Total Grosses:  

 

Top 15 Dom)  $2.972B

Top 7 W/E) $667M

 

Top 10 WW) $6.674B

 

Top 5 China) $930M
 

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:

 

Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game:A generous risk-free question to start you off:

 

A: 100M The Conjuring 2

B: 200M Jason Bourne

C: 300M X-Men

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
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.

 

1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 ($145M)

 

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) Popstar: Never Stop Not Stopping ($17M) 

 

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

 

ABSTAIN

 

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

 

YES

 

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

 

ABSTAIN

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

YES

 

 

 

 

 

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 

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

YES

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

NO

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

YES

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

YES

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

ABSTAIN

 

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) 4
9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends? NO
10) How many Animated Films will be in the top 15 for the summer game ? (you have a Cushion of 1 Film) 4
 

Part B: It’s a Comic Book World

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

11) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (191.2m)? NO
12) Will Suicide Squad make more than Captain America: The First Avenger (65.1m)? YES
13) Will Suicide Squad (Total) make more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Opening Weekend (170m – estimate)? NO
14) Will All Comic Book films (Total) make more than 1 Billion domestically (Total of all 4 films together)? NO
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) 3
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

 

 

 

  

Edited May 6, 2016 by laguy03

[JJ-8]

And I do believe that is that.

 

laguy is the final submission accepted.  If you disagree PM me or Chas with your answers and we will consider whether to include (if we do, then we will post it in here)

 

I AM LOCKING THIS BABY NOW!

[JJ-8]

@chasmmi

 

I know this thread is locked, but i'm posting a player count in here for reference.

 

Total Entries Accepted = 39 Players

Correct Template Used = 38 Players

• Maxmoser3 will not receive points for using the template since he didn't use the template

#Entries "Accepted" by the 29th April = 20 Players (list is below) (ie. was not edited after Chasmmi's posted / timestamp)

• Wrath
• The Panda
• firedeep
• Blank Panther
• Kalo
• jj99
• Movieman89
• Treetrunk Special
• Dexter of Surburbia
• 24Lost
• Empire
• JJ-8
• Jake Gittes
• Jayhawk
• #ED
• glassfairy
• DamienRoc
• Exxdee
• bcf26
• Chewy

Which means all players listed above are eligible for Week 0 if they answered those questions.