Summer 2007 Box office Contest Week 5 Picks Due by 9PM PST

[Jedi Master Carr]

Week 5 here and everybody is pretty much still alive
Here is last week's top 5
1. POTC 3: $139,802,190
2. Shrek 3: $67,010,012
3. Spider-man 3: $18,112,261
4. Bug: $4,015,846
5. Waitress: $4,005,008

I will post New Openers later.

[Jedi Master Carr]

New Releases
Knocked up
Allison Scott is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby's father, Allison decides to give the lovable doof a chance

Trailers
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809701428/trailer

Mr Brooks
Consider Mr. Brooks: a successful businessman; a generous philanthropist; a loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret--he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him--until now. Earl Brooks is a man who has managed to keep his two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall. But now, as Mr. Brooks succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in the dark agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood. Can Mr. Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double life from his wife and daughter--or will someone expose his crimes and his identity once and for all?

trailers
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809426416/trailer

Gracie
Set in 1978, a teenage girl overcomes the loss of her brother and fights the odds to achieve her dream of playing competitive soccer at a time when girls' soccer did not exist. Living in South Orange New Jersey, 15 year old Gracie Bowen is the only girl in a family of three brothers. Their family life revolves almost entirely around soccer: her father and brothers are obsessed with the sport, practicing in the backyard's makeshift field every day from morning 'til night. Tragedy unexpectedly strikes when Gracie's older brother Johnny, star of the high school varsity soccer team and Gracie's only protector, is killed in a car accident. Struggling with grief over her family's loss, Gracie decides to fill the void left on her brother's team by petitioning the school board to allow her to play on the boy's high school varsity soccer team in his place. Her father, a former soccer star himself, tries to prove to Gracie that she is not tough enough or talented enough to play with boys. Her mother, Lindsey Bowen, already an outsider in the sports-obsessed family, is no help either. Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew existed, and persists in changing everyone's beliefs in what she is capable of, including her own. Gracie not only forces her father to wake up from his grief and see her as the beautiful and strong person that she has always been but she also brings her family together in the face of their tragedy.

Trailers
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809760961/trailer

Theater Counts
1 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Buena Vista 4,362 0 2
2 2 Shrek the Third Paramount (DreamWorks) 4,109 -63 3
3 3 Spider-Man 3 Sony / Columbia 3,402 -321 5
4 - Knocked Up Universal 2,871 - 1
5 - Mr. Brooks MGM 2,453 - 1
6 6 Bug Lionsgate 1,661 0 2
7 - Gracie Picturehouse 1,164 - 1
8 4 28 Weeks Later Fox Atomic 1,121 -892 4
9 7 Disturbia Paramount (DreamWorks) 1,035 -597 8
10 5 Georgia Rule Universal 953 -951 4
11 8 Fracture New Line 608 -299 7
12 10 Waitress Fox Searchlight 605 +95 5
13 9 Delta Farce Lionsgate 501 -332 4
14 14 300 Warner Bros. 358 -45 13
15 19 Away from Her Lionsgate 275 +19 5
16 11 Hot Fuzz Rogue Pictures 251 -211 7
17 16 Blades of Glory Paramount (DreamWorks) 242 -75 10
18 12 The Invisible Buena Vista 222 -235 6
19 22 Shooter Paramount 201 +10 11
20 17 Next Paramount 163 -146 6
21 21 TMNT Warner Bros. 153 -67 11
22 26 The Namesake Fox Searchlight 127 -38 13
23 46 Miss Potter MGM (Weinstein) 105 +73 23
24 23 Grindhouse Weinstein / Dimension 98 -77 9
25 36 Paris, je t'aime First Look 79 +21 5
26 51 Kickin' It Old Skool Yari Film Group 66 +45 6
27 53 Once Fox Searchlight 60 +40 3

[Jedi Master Carr]

Finally, a weekend where the bottom 2 should be above 5 million.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

1. Pirates of the Carribean $51.92
2. Knocked Up $39.78
3. Shrek 3 $28.13
4. Mr. Brooks $15.90
5. Spidey 3 $11.26

[CMJ]

1. At World's End - 47.59M
2. Knocked Up - 31.32M
3, Shrek 3 - 27.58M
4. Mr. Brooks - 11.15M
5. Spider-Man 3 - 7.31M

[JMK]

1. PotC3 - 43.99M
2. Knocked Up - 34.05M
3, Shrek 3 - 22.78M
4. Spider-Man 3 - 9.31M
5. Mr. Brooks - 8.95M

[Jedi Master Carr]

1 POTC AWE 49.67
2 Knocked Up 31.45
3 Shrek the Third 23.06
4 Mr Brooks 11.11
5 Spiderman 3 6.98

[Yog]

1. At World's End: $53.07M
2. Knocked Up: $42.11M
3. Shrek 3: $32.76M
4. Mr. Brooks: $12.41M
5. Spidey 3: $8.42M

[Hera]

1. POTC 3: $48.3M
2. Knocked Up: $36.6M
3. Shrek 3: $21.8M
4. Mr. Brooks: $18.2M
5. Spideman 3: $12.44M

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Have you seen Knocked Up's rating at Rotten Tomatoes?! (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/knocked_up/)

92%!!!!

[Yog]

It used to be higher :p

Anyway, it is an early favorite for best comedy of the year.

[Jedieb]

1. At World's End: $45.123456M
2. Knocked Up: $29.987654M
3. Shrek 3: $28.123456M
4. Mr. Brooks: $11.123456M
5. Spidey 3: $7.987654M

[Ryan Pode]

I hope it's not too late.

1. At World's End - $54,529,596
2. Knocked Up - $34,103,405
3. Shrek 3 - $27,982,200
4. Mr. Brooks - $12,450,000
5. Spidey 3 - $6,707,504

[sirdizzy]

I totally freaking forgot again but numbers aren't in so take pity


1. At World's End - $55.01
2. Knocked Up - $28.9
3. Shrek 3 - $26.2
4. Mr. Brooks - $8.2
5. Spidey 3 - $7.1

[Jedi Master Carr]

I have no idea when the numbers came in. I only saw them a few minutes ago from Showbiz. I will Yog sort it out about what to do, or we can let the rest of the people who got their numbers in decide. Right now to me I am okay with Ryan because I don't think there were any numbers in that late. Dizzy well its tough becuase there could have been numbers out there somewhere. We have until Monday to sort it out though, so we can come to some kind of decision then.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Stop forgetting, dizzy! :twak

[Jedi Master Carr]

Also Dizzy even if they don't get counted you aren't done, you could miss 4 weeks and still be alive. I am thinking about pushing the deadline back to Midnight PST as well. Mainly because the site that I thought was giving out early info is lately been giving off numbers that are very off.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Mojo's numbers
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

Pirates 13.5
Knocked up 9.8
Shrek 3 7.4
Mr Brooks 3.02
Spiderman 3 2.0

Pirates had an expected but steep drop but should rebound some and make 45-49 for the weekend
Knocked up should make around 28-31
Shrek the Third 25-28 million
Mr Brooks 10-12

[sirdizzy]

i am probably totally off because once I realized I had forgot I just made the most random of guesses, no research or anything, I was afraid to research in case there was some numbers so I just blind guessed

[Jedi Master Carr]

We will probably accept both, I don't think you cheated Dizzy so that part I am not worried about. I am probably doing it more out of pity because you missed last week.

[Jedi Master Carr]

I think Yog is busy so I will post the winners.
Here are the actuals
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End BV $44,206,660 JMC
2 N Knocked Up Uni. $30,690,990
3 2 Shrek the Third P/DW $28,020,991
4 N Mr. Brooks MGM $10,017,067
5 3 Spider-Man 3 Sony $7,578,055


Accuracy Points
# 1 - 25 pts: JMK (POTC 3)
# 2 - 20 pts: CMJ (Knocked Up)
# 3 - 15 pts: Ryan Pode (Shrek)
# 4 - 10 pts: Jedi Master Carr (Mr Brooks)
# 5 - 5 pts: CMJ (Spiderman 3)

Weekend Points
CMJ 50
Ryan Pode 40
JMK 40
Jedi Master Carr 35
Lilaena De'Ville 25
Yog 25
Sir Dizzy 25
Jedeib 25
Hera 25

Season Totals (keep in mind your lowest 4 scores don't count).
Lilaena De'Ville: 225
CMJ: 210
Jedieb: 165
Hera: 165
Jedi Master Carr: 155
Yog: 140
Ryan Pode: 135
Kaast Dulli: 85
SirDizzy: 80
JMK: 75


Also check your scores some of these were extremely close, especially #2, #3, and #4.

[sirdizzy]

LOL see i never get anything but the order

[CMJ]

Another good week. :D

[Lilaena De'Ville]

:shakefist You take the weekend this time, CMJ!

hehe I feel like Dr. Claw.

[Ryan Pode]

I wish to file a grievance.

Jedieb - 3. Shrek 3: $28.123456M
Ryan Pode - 3. Shrek 3 - $27,982,200

Actual: $28,020,991

Difference:

Jedieb - 102,465
Ryan Pode - 38,791

[Jedieb]

Looks to me like Ryan should get those 15 points.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Yeah you are right, not sure how I missed it. As I said there was some very close ones this time which made it a lot harder than usual. I will fix it now.