Summer Game Preseason Predictions Thread

[JJ-8]

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.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

So is thread suppose to be locked it says Thrusday April 29 at midnight or does it mean Friday April 29 at midnight. 

[Dandeak2000]

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:

 

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3) 
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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

 

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[chasmmi]

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.

[Maxmoser3]

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. 

 

 

[Maxmoser3]

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. 

[Maxmoser3]

Lowest grossing films domestic: Money Monster: 30 million, Popstar: 29 million, Shallows:25 million. 

[grey ghost]

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

[Plain Old Tele]

@Maxmoser3, put all your predictions in one post. Just use the template, it's way easier.

[Alpha]

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

[Plain Old Tele]

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

 

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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 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? 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 1^st 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

 

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Edited May 6, 2016 by HeyItsMoses

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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)  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

[narniadis]

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?

[chasmmi]

Just for clarity for everyone else, I also edited

[Plain Old Tele]

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.

[Plain Old Tele]

@JJ-8... I edited again.