Box Office Contest Week 8

[Jedi Master Carr]

Another week another contest you guys know the rules pick the top 5 in order and so forth. We have two knew movies Minority Report and Lilo and Stitch should be an interesting weekend.

[CMJ]

1. Minority Report - 50.09M
2. Lilo & Stitch - 35.17M
3. Scooby-Doo - 25.29M
4. The Bourne Identity - 16.72M
5. The Sum of All Fears - 9.03M

[JMK]

Minority Report 49.19
Lilo & Stitch 33.78
Scooby-Doo 23.54
The Bourne Identity 14.65
Sum of All Fears 8.54

[Marcus Telcontar]

I'll go with Box Office Mojo - but with one important difference.

Minority Report - 68 million. And even then I'm thinking that could well be too low.

[sirdizzy]

ok i gotta do mine early this week i am in salt lake tonight and i will be in boise tommorow (i am going to see my grandpa for the first time since 1989 after my gradma died, plus some of my cousins and aunts i haven't seen since the funreal)

so here we go

1) Lilo & Stitch________$44.12
2) Minority Report_____________$40.01
3) Scooby-Doo__________$22.88
4) The Bourne Identity____$17.51
5) The Sum of All Fears___$8.13

[Jedi Master Carr]

Ok here is Lee's guess for those who are curious
1 Minority Report $48.2
2 Scooby-Doo $31.9
3 Lilo & Stitch $27.9
4 The Bourne Identity $16.5
5 The Sum of All Fears $8.8

I think he is wrong about Lilo and Stitch I think that will beat Scooby partly because Scooby is going to take a huge dive I think 50-55% and also Lilo and Stitch looks funny and there is a lot of buzz on it.

Okay here is the Theater count for tomorrow from Mojo
Scooby-Doo 3,447 0
Lilo & Stitch 3,191 -
The Sum of All Fears 3,037 -193
Minority Report 3001 -
Windtalkers 2,898 0
The Bourne Identity 2,643 +5
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2,310 -197
Spider-Man 2,278 -424
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2,107 -294
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 2,005 -868
Bad Company 1,562 -1,382


Well Bad Company and Spirt lost the most theaters Bad Company lost half its theaters after two weeks ouch, Spirt got hit hard too, SM lost more than SW this time which is good.


Also I am going to post my guesses
1 Minority Report 44.54
2 Lilo and Stitch 37.56
3 Scooby Crap 27.44
4 The Bourne Identity 15.37
5 The Sum of All Fears 9.32

I am going low for Minority Report for two reasons first AI made in the high 20's which was a shock to me and I am factoring that in. Second the screen count is low plus there are so many movies out there I think it will open in the mid 40's which is still great what it will need more is legs IMO.

[Marcus Telcontar]

I have a feeling Minority Report is going to go much better that expected. If it's as good as the critics say, a Spielberg movie with Cruise as the star - that's the formula for a big, big success. I'm standing by my prediction

Box Office Guru are going with 35 million for Minority report??? Are they drunk????

[Jedi Master Carr]

35 seems very low, so maybe they are. I think 45 is a decent estamite my reasoning is it is a crowded marketplace but hey I could be wrong. I also only know one person who wants to really see it opening weekend, a couple of my friends don't like how the movie looks but I am not sure what that means, maybe nothing, it will be interesting to see Friday's numbers.

[Darth23]

1) Minority Report - $ 65.12 million
2) Lilo & Stich - $32.81 million
3) Poopy Poo - $22.91 million
4) Bourne Idenity - $14.13 million
5) The Sum of All Fears - $8.076 million

[UPDATE: I decided to be bullish about a movie for once. Upped my Minority Report pick by 20 million ]

[ReaperFett]

I THINK Scooby will beat Lilo. But its too close, so I'll wimp out and disagree with myself :)


1) Minority Report - $ 50.83 million
2) Lilo & Stich - $29.92 million
3) Scooby Doo - $26.74 million
4) Bourne Idenity - $15.72 million
5) The Sum of All Fears - $8.84 million

[Mu Satach]

1) Minority Report - $46
2) Scooby Doo - $28
3) Lilo and Stich - $24
4) The Bourne Identity - $9
5) AOTC - $7


this week i break the tradition...

no decimals. :p

[ReaperFett]

Mu, isnt $7 for EP2 a bit low? Isnt that about one person? :)

[Quadinaros]

1. Minority Report $58.62
2. Scoob $34.62
3. Bourne $19.62
4. Lilo $18.62
5. The Buzz Of Eight Beers $8.62

:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin

[Admiral Lebron]

1. Minority Report - 49.92
2. Lilo & Stitch - 25.62
3. Scooby Doo - 25.00
4. The Bourne Identity - 19.32
5. Sum of All Fears - 14.42

I see Clones taking 7th with 8.78 for what its worth.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Just to let you you have until 9AM to get your picks in but I will allow late entries as long as they don't get posted before the estimates get posted.

Also since Mojo has there numbers up here is Marcus' picks
Minority Report 68
Lilo and Stitch 34.4
Scooby Doo 25.1
The Bourne Identity 15.2
The Sum of All Fears 7.5

[dbn]

hello all, I have to drop out of the boxoffice games. I don''t have access to a computer where I am at, and I come home during the weekends it is too late to enter any numbers. Sorry guys, and good luck to you all!!!

[Master Yoghurt]

1. Minority Report 52.24
2. Lilo and Stitch 38.01
3. Scooby-Doo 27.97
4. The Bourne Identity 19.31
5. The Sum of All Fears 7.96

[Jedieb]

1. Minority Report 64.5
2. Lilo and Stitch 35.4
3. Scooby-Doo 23.5
4. The Bourne Identity 17.9
5. The Sum of All Fears 8.78

[Jedi Master Carr]

Looks like Dizzy the lucky person this weekend, he was the only one who picked Lilo and Stitch first and it looks he will win both 1 and 2.

[sirdizzy]

lucky my ass it looks like i am the only one who didn't believe the so called experts and went with a gut feeling


on one hand we got a dark, twisted spielberg movie (need i say AI) that looks really good starring tom cruise and gettinf great reviews

vs

a disney movie thats also looks really good (ala lion king highest grossing diseny movie ever) that its getting much hype and putting out tons of pressure


to be honest i did have my doubts slightly (but i still felt it could do it plus i need to take risks to get back in the game) and since i am way out of town i didn't even have to be tempted to change them and fridays numbers were close

[Darth23]

Uh.. Sorry dizz, According to the Estimates (http://www.entdata.com/bonews/bonewsframes.html), Minority Report managed to pull out the number 1 position. :p

1 Minority Report - 36.90
2 Lilo & Stitch - 35.80
3 Scooby-Doo - 24.36
4 The Bourne Identity - 14.76
5 The Sum Of All Fears - 7.90
6 Windtalkers - 6.70
7 Juwanna Mann - 6.00
8 Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya... - 5.68
9 Star Wars: Ep.Ii-Attack Clones - 5.10
10 Spider-Man - 4.40



AOTC really took a BIG hit if these numbers are accurate. Hopefully they underestimated the movies numbers again this week.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Well if those estamites are right I guess I will take the first spot but if they are wrong and Lilo wins than Sir Dizzy will win looks like we won't know until tomorrow afternoon.

[sirdizzy]

well see thats less then a mil darth and the box office estimates are ussually give or take 2 million so ya never know

[CMJ]

Results....

Winner of the #1 film is....Jedi Master Carr!

Winner of the #2 film is....CMJ!

Winner of the #3 film is....Admiral Lebron!

Winner of the #4 film is Jedi Master Carr!

Winner of the #5 film is Master Yoghurt!

WEEKLY TOTALS:
Jedi Master Carr - 60
CMJ - 45
Admiral Lebron - 40
Master Yoghurt - 30
Jedieb - 25
Marcus Q. Dunn - 25
ReaperFett - 25
Darth23 - 25
JMK - 25
sir dizzy - 15
Quadinaros - 5
Mu Satach - 5

CONTEST TOTALS

Admiral Lebron - 310
Master Yoghurt - 250
Jedi Master Carr - 245
CMJ - 200
Quadinaros - 190
sir dizzy - 185
ReaperFett - 170
Darth23 - 150
JMK - 135
Jedieb - 125
Mu Satach - 120
dbn - 105
Marcus Q. Dunn - 85
Darth McBain - 70

[Mu Satach]

I am so just not doing well over here.... =\

hmmm.... do the judges accept bribes??? ;) ;) ;)

hehehehehe....

[CMJ]

Bribes? I don't take bribes!!

(PM me I'll work something out for you)

LOL!! ;)

[Mu Satach]

Iron Monkey: "How dare you try and bribe me!!! in public... "

[CMJ]

LOL!!

Basically. ;)

[JMK]

Wow, I'm not in last anymore! How'd that happen?!?;)
(I won't tell anyone about the bribes CMJ! Your secret is safe with me!;) )

[sirdizzy]

man had lilo made a half million more i ould have cleaned up this weekend

[CMJ]

(Thanks Kyle...by the end of the summer you'll be in the top 3, I promise ;) )

[Admiral Lebron]

CMJ the dog is being walked. *wink wink*

[CMJ]

LMAO Lebron!

You guys are too funny. :)

[Jedi Master Carr]

Bribes what Bribes If there are any going around I must be not getting any :)

As far as the contest looks like I am only 60 points behind Lebron, right now there is 3 way log jam and there are a few others who aren't too far behind, and we still have the 4th that could shake things up.

[CMJ]

I'm in 4th place...perfect stalking position. ;)

[Jedi Master Carr]

Yeah you are right there, just about everybody is still in it even JMK and Jedieb who both could make a run with the 4th coming up.

[CMJ]

Yep...I remember last summer Jedieb made a late surge and ended up in the top 4 or 5, even though he spent most of the contest near the bottom(like this year).

[Admiral Lebron]

If you keep up your performance of this week, I'll be gone in no time.