Box office Contest Week 1

[Jedi Master Carr]

Okay here is the moment we have all been waiting for the start of the summer box office
contest which will go from May 3 to Labor Day Weekend. First let me go over the rules.
1 Predict the top 5 movies in order of finish and predict how much each film will make. To make
sure people don’t make the same prediction post your dollar figures to the nearest ten thousand,
example 25.58.
2 For every film you place in the correct order you get 5 points, so if you get #1- #5 right you
would get 25 points

3 The closets person to each of the five films also gets points and they are as follows:
1- 25
2- 20
3- 15
4- 10
5- 5

4 Also the 2 or 3 (not sure about the fourth yet) Holiday Weekends (Memorial Day and Labor
Day) will count double points so those weekends could be a difference in winning.

There will be prizes awarded at the end so good luck to all. The contest begins now you have
until May 4 9:00 AM EST to get your predictions in.

To help you out I am listing the movies opening May 3
Spiderman
Deuces Wild
Hollywood Ending

By the way CMJ will be assisting me to make sure the contest is run fair besides I need all the
help I can get ;)

[JMK]

If the point is to get the order of the movies right, then what's the use in predicting their totals? Just curious...:angel

[ReaperFett]

3 The closets person to each of the five films also gets points and they are as follows:
1- 25
2- 20
3- 15
4- 10
5- 5
Read :)

[Jedi Master Carr]

I guess Reaper answered that question, also I don't expect anybody to post predictions yet, I would wait until at least tomorrow when we know how much the top 5 made, would be easier to figure out what will be in the top 5.

[JMK]

Oh, sorry, I missed that whole damned paragraph. :headbash

[Darth23]

Those rules look vaguely familiar. :p


BTW, July 4th us on a Thursay so I'm guessing that they'll look at the Thurs - Sun period as a Holiday weekend also.

[CMJ]

We tried not to copy the rules exactly Darth23...I went off of what I remembered from the past. If they are the exact rules then I guess my memory is better than I thought.

[JonathanLB]

I cannot even remember what I had for dinner tonight and I just ate it 5 minutes ago.

j/k.

[CMJ]

LOL... Jon that was pretty darn funny. :)

[Darth23]

Originally posted by CMJ
We tried not to copy the rules exactly Darth23...I went off of what I remembered from the past. If they are the exact rules then I guess my memory is better than I thought.

My contest has more points for guessing the top 3 movies in order - other than that is pretty close.


My contest has 3 winners overall:

*Most points at the end of the Season

*Most number one movie gross wins

*Random drawing for anyone who has played at leasr 4 rounds.
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Btw, I'm doing an Openign Weekend contest here:

http://www.coruscantcity.net/board//Forum2/HTML/000260.html

The winner gets an AOTC theatrical movie poster

[CMJ]

We might have more than one 1 winner too...depending on how many ppl participate in the contest. We've discussed a Gold, Silver, and Bronze type scenario depending on the numbers. :)

[Jedi Master Carr]

I guess everybody is waiting for the first person to post their predictions I think I will go ahead then, I might change them Friday, or keep them haven't decided yet

1 Spiderman 77.58
2 Scorpion King 10.42
3 Changing Lanes 7.58
4 Murder By Numbers 4.95
5 Life or Something Like 4.44

[CMJ]

I guess I'll go, I may change mine as well.

1 Spiderman 72.63
2 Scorpion King 9.92
3 Changing Lanes 7.71
4 Murder By Numbers 5.54
5 Deuces Wild 4.40

[Jedi Master Carr]

So CMJ I guess everybody else is waiting to see what the box office experts think (though I think that is mistake, I used that last year and it hardly ever helped me) people better start posting tomorrow or noboby will be winning a prize ;)

[Mu Satach]

I think you all are vastly underestimating the pull of the spider...

Comic book freaks + Evil Dead freaks = mass mania... ;)


1. Spiderman: 82.2948759345879
2. Scorpion Dude: 12.563847594
3. Changing Lanes: 7.364848429
4. Murder by Numbers: 5.28495340
5. Hollywood Ending: 4.9029485734

[Jedieb]

1 Spiderman 82.59M
2 Scorpion King 11.75M
3 Changing Lanes 9.25M
4 Murder By Numbers 6.65M
5 Deuces Wild 4.24M

[Jedi Master Carr]

Here are Lee's prediction if you are interested
1 Spider-Man $79.0
2 The Scorpion King $8.2 - 55%
3 Changing Lanes $6.4 - 29%
4 Life or Something Like It $4.6 - 26%
5 The Rookie $4.1 - 27%

With that I am going to change my predicitons a little, I didn't realize how few theaters deuces Wild was opening in (1480) and that it is an MGM film, I doubt it will crack the top 5 now, also Hollywood Ending is opening only in 780 theaters so I don't see that doing very well either.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Looks like Mu is going into the cents :p Just a reminder you have about 24 hours to go, the deadline is 9AM EST the numbers I think come out around 11 AM at the earliest so there isn't any way anybody can cheat.

[Master Yoghurt]

My prediction. I will likely change some of the numbers before deadline.

1. Spiderman: 84.62M
2. Scorpion King: 10.48M
3. Changing Lanes: 5.99M
4. Murder by Numbers: 4.85M
5. Life and Something Like It: 4.41M

[Admiral Lebron]

1Spiderman 79.31M
2 Changing Lanes 9.50M
3 Scorpion King 8.34M
4 Murder By Numbers 7.70M
5 Life or Something like it 6.44M

[dbn]

1. Spiderman: 78.5
2. Scorpion Dude: 10.56
3. Changing Lanes: 8.55
4. Murder by Numbers: 5.56
5. Hollywood Ending: 5.25:smokin

[Marcus Telcontar]

1 Spider-Man $79.0
2 The Scorpion King $8.2 - 55%
3 Changing Lanes $6.4 - 29%
4 Life or Something Like It $4.6 - 26%
5 The Rookie $4.1 - 27%


Yes, I'm copyiong Lee's figures - cause I have NO idea wahts going to happen

[ReaperFett]

1 Spider-Man $83.82
2 The Scorpion King $8.78
3 Changing Lanes $7.26
4 Life or Something Like It $5.73
5 The Rookie $4.98

[JMK]

1 Spider-Man $78.82
2 Changing Lanes $7.56
3 Scorpion King $6.86
4 Life or Something Like It $5.13
5 The Rookie $4.10

[Darth23]

Spiderman - 78.6
Scorpion King - 8.12
Deuces Wild - 6.13
Changing Lanes - 5.15
Murder By Numbers - 4.13

[sirdizzy]

1. Spiderman: 85.00M
2. Scorpion King: 13.40M
3. Changing Lanes: 5.02M
4. Murder by Numbers: 4.15M
5. Life and Something Like It: 4.00M

[RHJediKnight]

Aw, dang! I forgot about this. :(

[Jedi Master Carr]

You can still do it next week if you want.

[sirdizzy]

yea but he will have alreadt fallen behind me and its hard enought to compete with me as is without starting yourself in a hole


and a MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH too boot :p:p:p:p

[RHJediKnight]

Your overconfidence is your weakness, sirdizzy! :p

[Jedi Master Carr]

I won the first weekend, last year and it didn't do me any good :p Also he has chance to make it up with Memorial Day and Labor Day (maybe the 4th will depend on what we do there) I am also thinking about adding a bonus for AOTC's weekend where you get double the points if you pick Thursday-Sunday's gross only for AOTC though the rest of the films might be hard to pick there.

[sirdizzy]

i only lost by 5 points last year and that was because of my slow start i didn't win anything for the first 4-5 weeks after that i never lost


and it looks like i will get points for the rookie too


me getting off too a good start does not bode well for you guys

[CMJ]

When the final numbers are released I may take the #2 film this week...so thats pretty good for me. I didn't get the top 5 in the correct order however.

[Jedieb]

Points, when will we see out points! I demand an update!:crack

[sirdizzy]

i missed #5 it doesn't hurt me too bad 5 points and all

life or something like it is bombing

[CMJ]

LOL...Jedieb, we can't grade the guesses till FINAL figures come out. ;)

[Jedieb]

Excuses, excuses!!! :shootin

[Jedi Master Carr]

I don't know which film will be #5, Life and Rookie were virtually tied according to the estimates, the actuals should reveal the which one gets the 5th spot.

[Master Yoghurt]

My thoughts excactly JMK. It is an estimate, and the difference is only about 20,000. The fifth spot may very well change when the final numbers are released.

[sirdizzy]

it looks like i got #5 so i did great