Screened Box Office Winners League: Week 3 (Weekend Of June 8th)

Topic started by jackanderson on June 6, 2012. Last post by OrigamiAngel 11 months, 1 week ago.
Post by jackanderson (495 posts) See mini bio

EDIT 3: The results are in! In this very surprising weekend (seriously, I'm amazed at how that chart finally turned out), let's see who's taking home the points, metaphorically speaking!

FilmGrossUser(s) Who Was/Were ClosestDifference
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$60.35 millionFinalDasa ($60 million)$0.35 million under (1 point)
Prometheus$50 millionAcura_Max ($48 million)$2 million under (1 point)
Lola Versus$34,100jackanderson ($30,000)$4,100 under (1 point)
Safety Not Guaranteed$100,000skidd ($90,000)$10,000 under (1 point)
Total Gross For The Weekend$110,484,100meaninoflife42 ($110,920,000)$435,900 over (1 point)

So, Madagascar soundly beat Prometheus. Regardless of your opinions on Prometheus, you still have to admit that this is rather a bit of a tragedy. What is wrong with you, America? What the f*ck is wrong with you, America!!?

Anyways, here's the scoreboard!

PositionUserW1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10W11Total
1Monkeyman044105
2skidd0213
3jackanderson1012
4Acura_Max1011
5Bigheart7111001
6RockinKemosabe1001
7Suedehead0101
8OrigamiAngel0101
9staceywi0101
10FinalDasa0011
11meaninoflife420011
12obscurefan0000
13TopSteer0000
14MrMazz0000
15NlGHTCRAWLER0000
16Rem250000
17litrock0000
18Tylea0020000
19Mr_Skeleton0000
20Red0000
21alexpiercey0000
22
23
DustinFun1704
VioletEyedDragon
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

It says a lot about is coming up fast! Also, congrats to and for finally getting on the scoreboard! Half of the people who have played at some point over the last 3 weeks currently have at least one point, and with 8 weeks still to go, it's still anyone's game!

That'll do it for Week 3, then! As always, feel free to comment away on this here thread to congratulate one another and grumble about how the American public screwed you out of a few points! Make sure to come on back to the forums tomorrow to start betting for Week 4!

Post by jackanderson (495 posts) See mini bio

My predictions!

FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$35 million
Prometheus$55 million
Lola Versus$30,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$400,000
Total$90.43 million

So, after completely overshooting literally everything last week, I've gone a bit more conservative, this time around. Madagascar will do good. It's the first big kids film of the Summer and it will make money. It won't make enough money to hit number 1 (which is why I've gone for $35 million), but it will have legs, Puss In Boots legs, even. Prometheus, I think I've low balled. But there's been a tonne of mixed messages and after the underwhelming performances of Snow White and Men In Black, I'm really scaling back my idea of just how much a "blockbuster" makes opening weekend in America now. Whether it hangs around long or not will entirely depend on whether people are bummed about it not really being an Alien prequel or not.

Lola Versus won't do well, and I think I've overshot it with $30 grand. But I think Safety Not Guaranteed will be the big winner this weekend. It's drummed up a crap tonne of good buzz and I just know that the art crowd are going to fall head over heels for it, like they did with Moonrise Kingdom two weeks ago.

Of course, I'm probably going to get all of these wrong and look like a complete tool for putting this much effort into my predictions, but life sucks.

Post by Monkeyman04 (350 posts) See mini bio
FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$45 million
Prometheus$66 million
Lola Versus$25,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$250,000
Total$111.2 million
Post by TopSteer (247 posts) See mini bio

One dollar Bob!

FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$53.7 Million
Prometheus$42.3 Million
Lola Versus$17,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$186,000
Total$96.2 Million
Post by OrigamiAngel (100 posts) See mini bio
FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$35 Million
Prometheus$62.5 Million
Lola Versus$20,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$60,000
Total$97.58 Million
Post by obscurefan (450 posts) See mini bio
FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$62 Million
Prometheus$67 Million
Lola Versus$25,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$40,000
Total$129,065,000
Post by skidd (2,155 posts) See mini bio
FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$59 million
Prometheus$62 million
Lola Versus$12,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$90,000
Total$121.12 million
Post by jackanderson (495 posts) See mini bio
@TopSteer I am surprised and shocked and appalled that nobody made that reference at any point before you! In fact, I'm disappointed that I didn't.
Why do I have this horrible feeling that you're right when you say that Madagascar will beat Prometheus?
Post by MrMazz (1,541 posts) See mini bio
Column HeadColumn Head
Madagascar 357 million
Promethus38 million
Lola Versus27 thousand
Saftey Not Gurenteed30 thousand

TOTAL 95.57 million

Post by litrock (560 posts) See mini bio
FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$55 million
Prometheus$45 million
Lola Versus$100,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$250,000
Total$100.35 million

I hope I'm wrong about Prometheus, because even if it's bad (we find out tomorrow!) I really want big ambitious sci-fi to exist and succeed.

Post by FinalDasa (2,775 posts) See mini bio
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FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$60 million
Prometheus$47 million
Lola Versus$135,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$1.2 million
Total$118.335 million
Post by DustinFun1704 (115 posts) See mini bio

FilmPrediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$48 million
Prometheus$53.5 million
Lola Versus$125,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$500,000
Total$102.125 million
Post by TopSteer (247 posts) See mini bio

@jackanderson: I hope I'm wrong. I'd rather see Prometheus make more but I don't think it will.

Post by VioletEyedDragon (1,815 posts) See mini bio

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted -- $50 million

Prometheus -- $55 million

Lola Versus -- $124k

Safety Not Guaranteed -- $400k

Bel Ami -- $350k

Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding -- $500k

Post by Bigheart711 (1,496 posts) See mini bio
MovieAmount Prediction
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$62 Million
Prometheus$54 Million
Lola Versus$120,000
Safety Not Guaranteed$560,000
Grand Total$116,680,000
Post by Acura_Max (882 posts) See mini bio
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FilmEstimate
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$56 Million
Prometheus$48 Million
Lola Versus150,000
Safety Not Guaranteed450,000
Total$104.6 million
Post by jackanderson (495 posts) See mini bio

Today is your last chance to submit your predictions! I know that I sprung this week up on you late and without warning, but the standard deadlines still apply, unfortunately. You have until Midnight tonight and, per usual, any predictions made after that point WILL NOT be counted.

Also, none of your predictions are filling me with confidence. Both for my score and the fortunes of Prometheus. Please, please, Maker, don't let Prometheus get destroyed by f*cking Afro Circus!

Post by alexpiercey (243 posts) See mini bio
FilmEstimate
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted$34.6 million
Prometheus$30.4 million
Lola Versus $1.0 million
Safety Not Guaranteed$1.0 million
Total$67 million

I screwed up this layout but it should still make sense.

Post by jackanderson (495 posts) See mini bio

@alexpiercey: Don't worry, I got it all!

Post by RockinKemosabe (884 posts) See mini bio
FilmsPredictions
Madagascar 3$59 Million
Prometheus$60 Million
Lola Versus$125K
Safety Not Guaranteed$200K
Total$112 325 000
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