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Jedi Master Carr
May 3rd, 2010, 09:01:23 PM
Here are the rules
1. How to play: Each weekend, predict the order of the top 5 movies, and how much each film will make. To make sure people don’t make the same predictions, post your dollar figures to the nearest ten thousand, for example "25.58M" (25 million 580 thousand).

2. Movie Order Points: For every film you place in the correct order, you get 5 points. If you get #1- 5 right, you would get 25 points.

3. Accuracy Points: The closest person to each of the five films also gets points, and they are as follows;

# 1 - 25 pts
# 2 - 20 pts
# 3 - 15 pts
# 4 - 10 pts
# 5 - 5 pts

This year you don't have to get the movies in order. If you are closest to the #2 movie and picked it third you still get the points.

4. Double Points Weekends. Points are doubled on the following weekends:
* Memorial Day May 28 - May 31 All points are doubled.
* 4th of June 30th to July 4th All points are doubled.
* Labor day weekend September 4th - September 7th
* Toy Story 3 weekend June 18h –Jun 20 28th All points are doubled.
* Double points for Iron Man 2 May 7-9
5. Vacation rule: New to the Contest this year, we will only count your top 12 scores. So, if you miss a week or two you won’t be out of it.

6. Deadline: All predictions must be in by Friday 10PM PST every weekend. On double points weekends, special deadline will apply. Please make sure your predictions are in before the deadline, however, we may look the other way if the estimates are not yet made public and/or it is obvious such results have not been seen.

8. Who can play? Everyone. It is fun! You may enter or exit the contest at any time or post predictions whenever you like, as long it is within the deadline.

8. The winner: The player with the most points at the end of contest, wins instant fame and glory (being worshiped by the all the BO forum posters) AND a Supporter account!
It all starts this Friday, good luck.


Last weekend's top 5
1 N A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) WB (NL) $32,902,299 - 3,332 - $9,875 $32,902,299 $35 1
2 1 How to Train Your Dragon P/DW $10,614,289 -30.9% 3,426 -239 $3,098 $192,173,750 $165 6
3 3 Date Night Fox $7,577,352 -27.6% 3,093 -201 $2,450 $73,604,361 $55 4
4 2 The Back-Up Plan CBS $7,255,762 -40.5% 3,280 - $2,212 $22,963,517 $35 2
5 N Furry Vengeance Sum. $6,627,564 - 2,997 - $2,211 $6,627,564 $35 1

New Releases
Iron Man 2

Jedi Master Carr
May 6th, 2010, 12:06:30 PM
I will go first since I may not be around tomorrow
Iron Man 2 161.75
Nightmare on Elm Street 11.62
How to Train your Dragon 7.77
Date Night 6.23
The Back Up Plan 5.23

CMJ
May 6th, 2010, 06:39:25 PM
1. Iron Man 2 - 153.53M
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 9.24M
3. How to Train Your Dragon - 6.59M
4. Date Night - 5.08M
5. The Back-up Plan - 4.52M

Crusader
May 7th, 2010, 01:31:20 AM
1. Iron Man 2 - 145.35M
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 8.74M
3. How to Train Your Dragon - 7.02M
4. Date Night - 6.45M
5. The Back-up Plan - 4.86M

Lilaena De'Ville
May 7th, 2010, 02:19:25 AM
1. Iron Man 2 - 164.55M
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 9.47M
3. How to Train Your Dragon - 7.12M
4. Date Night - 4.89M
5. The Back-up Plan - 3.79M

Yog
May 7th, 2010, 06:49:34 AM
Iron Man 2 150.39M
Nightmare on Elm Street 9.87M
How to Train your Dragon 7.22M
Date Night 5.28M
The Back Up Plan 4.35M

Lykaios
May 7th, 2010, 10:42:23 AM
1. Iron Man 2 - 173.01M
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 8.73M
3. How to Train Your Dragon - 7.97M
4. The Back -up Plan - 4.59M
5. Date Night - 4.23M

Crusader
May 10th, 2010, 06:10:46 AM
It looks like we overestimated Iron Man 2...

Jedi Master Carr
May 10th, 2010, 12:41:40 PM
I know you are telling me, it looks like you have it the bag Crusader. I think two things happened. One the marketing was weak for this movie. The previews didn't do the movie any justice. Second I think the tracking was so high because of what the Dark Knight did that made many of us think this would do higher.

Crusader
May 11th, 2010, 02:59:58 AM
I think that we are still in a time where people do not spend that much money on movies except they are called Avatar and it is the first big blockbuster of the season.


Weekend Actuals
1 N Iron Man 2 Par. $128,122,480 (Crusader)
2 1 A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) WB (NL) $9,119,389 (CMJ)
3 2 How to Train Your Dragon P/DW $6,680,374 (CMJ)
4 3 Date Night Fox $5,448,257 (Yogs)
5 4 The Back-Up Plan CBS $5,033,471 (Crusader)

So this should be the winners for this weekend. CMJ is doing his magic once again :)

Jedi Master Carr
May 11th, 2010, 01:06:52 PM
Thank you Crusader for helping me out, got busy last night. You actually made out the best since Iron Man 2's points were doubled. Still, it is very early anybody could win, and nobody really did bad this weekend. Next week should be interesting though. Will put that up later today.

Weekend points
Crusader 80
CMJ 60
Yog 35
Lykaios 25
Lilaena De’Ville 25
Jedi Master Carr 25

Liam Jinn
May 11th, 2010, 07:20:11 PM
Bah, I forgot to make my picks. Hopefully I don't forget again this week.