darkelf Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Edited my stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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laguy03 Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) 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 - $109M14) 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 - $912M3) X-Men: Apocalypse - $825M4) 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 - $485M9) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $411M10) 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 22) Independence Day Resurgence3) 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. 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 1st 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 @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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...