Predict the Box Office (New Game)
 

Okay, I'm online 5 nights a week and sometimes I get bored. Now is one of those times, so while I was sitting here bored I ended up thinking of a new game that could end up being pretty fun...

It will be played once a week. Your goal is to predict the top 10 films at the box office for the upcoming weekend (Friday- Sunday)in order of which film will pull in the most money.

I will always make sure to post what new releases will be opening that weekend as well.

This week's new releases....

• Poseidon
• Just My Luck
• Goal! The Dream Begins

So basically, you want to predict the top 10 films of the upcoming weekend in order.

A weekly winner will be declared on Monday of each week based on who had the most right answers. 10 points will be given for picking the box office winner, 9 for second, 8 for third, 7 for fourth, 6 for 5th and 5 for every correct pick in positions 6-10 on the box office chart. In the event of a tie, whoever posted their picks first will be deemed the winner.

Good luck to all.

If it turns out to be fun or well received, then you can expect to see this game again next week, and the week after and the week after, etc...


Just to give people a little aid the first week, here's last weekend's box office numbers...

1 Mission: Impossible III $47,743,273
2 RV $11,004,706
3 An American Haunting $5,783,508
4 Stick It $5,479,658
5 United 93 $5,347,860
6 Ice Age: The Meltdown $4,161,724
7 Silent Hill $4,013,871
8 Scary Movie 4 $3,690,454
9 Akeelah and the Bee $3,369,630
10 Hoot NL $3,368,197


Oh and by the way, since there isn't really any way I could cheat in this, I will be playing too.

I'll post my picks first so everyone gets the idea, but feel free to ask any questions you may have as well...


1 Poseidon
2 Mission: Impossible III
3 Just My Luck
4 RV
5 An American Haunting
6 United 93
7 Stick It
8 Ice Age: The Meltdown
9 Scary Movie 4
10 Goal! The Dream Begins


Those are my picks for this week.

I also forgot to mention that the deadline for submitting your picks is noon (CST) on Fridays. Any picks submitted after that won't be eligible.

Good luck.

Cool idea, I'll do this sometime on Sunday.

Sunday? You need to make your picks before the weekend happens or else it kinda defeats the purpose ya know?

Sunday's too late. (Unless you are answering for next weekend.)

I could go over to boxofficemojo.com on Sunday and tell you with 90% certainty what the top 10 will end up.

I wasn't planning on doing so, the official stuff comes out Monday so I figured Sunday would be the deadline. Guess I'll do it sometime today then.

Haha. Deadline is Friday's at noon (central US time). I think I said that in the first post somewhere but I understand it was long and rambling. ;)

1. MI:III
2. Poseidon
3. Just My Luck
4. An American Haunting
5. RV
6. Stick It
7. Hoot
8. Ice Age
9. Silent Hill
10. Akeelah


p.s. I think as a tie-breaker we should also predict the gross of the #1 film that weekend.

1 Poseidon
2 Mission: Impossible III
3 RV
4 An American Haunting
5 United 93
6Silent Hill
7 The Sentinel
8 Ice Age: The Meltdown
9 Scary Movie 4
10 Akeelah & Bee

1. Poseidon
2. Mission: Impossible 3
3. Just My Luck
4. RV
5. United 93
6. An American Haunting
7. Stick It
8. Silent Hill
9. Scary Movie 4
10. Ice Age: The Meltdown

BTW- You forgot that "Keeping up with the Steins" is also coming out this weekend. It's limited though, so it doesn't really matter.

Yeah, it's extremely limited. As in, no chance of cracking the list this weekend. (Only 138 theatres, compared to 3,555 for Poseidon.)

Once it gets a wider release and has a chance at cracking the list, I'll make mention.

I'm just hoping that Keeping up with the Steins is released in a theater near me, because I desperatly want to see it (mainly because of Jeremy Piven)! If not, I'll go see Poseidon.

Jeremy Piven rocks on Entourage. Ari is one of my favorite television assholes ever!

There's still 4 hours left to make your picks and have them count towards this weekend! Anyone that hasn't done so yet, is strongly encouraged to give 'er a go.

Thanks.

1. Poseidon
2. MI3
Uninted 93
4.RV
5. An American Haunting
6.Just My Luck
7. Silent Hill
8.Stick It
9. Scary Movie 4
10. Ice Age

Excellent idea! I like that way better. We will start that next week. Thanks for the suggestion.







We can do it for this week as well, but it's not required since some people already voted without it. No biggie.


Week 1 is just to see if this is even a good idea to begin with...


Anyways, my guess is Poseidon will pull in about 38 million right ahead of MI3 which will get about 36. That's my guess.

Though bwind said it's not necessary for this weekend, I'm going to still do it. But, I'm going to predict the income of all ten movies.

1. Poseidon- $34.12 Million
2. Mission: Impossible 3- $20.5 Million
3. Just My Luck- $11.3 Million
4. RV- $8.5 Million
5. United 93- $6.22 Million
6. An American Haunting- $4.7 Million
7. Stick It- $4.3 Million
8. Silent Hill- $3.9 Million
9. Scary Movie 4- $2 Million
10. Ice Age: The Meltdown- $1.4 Million

1. Poseidon
2. Just My Luck
3. Mission: Impossible 3
4. RV
5. An American Haunting
6. Stick It
7. United 93
8. Silent Hill
9. Scary Movie 4
10. Ice Age: The Meltdown

Results - Week 1

Well, here is what the weekend box office Top 10 came in at....

Mission: Impossible III $24,514,000
Poseidon $20,325,000
RV $9,500,000
Just My Luck $5,500,000
An American Haunting $3,689,000
United 93 $3,583,000
Stick It $3,239,000
Ice Age: The Meltdown $2,975,000
Silent Hill $2,200,000
Hoot $2,125,000



And here aer the results of for those who played... (Refer back to first couple posts for more info on scoring.)


Yellow Jacket - 5 points
The Return - 6 points
pinkfloyd - 6 points
Newb - 13 points
bwind22 - 21 points
Zero - 29 points



Well, Zero came out on top in the inaugural weekend! Can he keep up the same momentum next week or will he be dethroned?


Thanks for playing everyone. Keep your eyes peeled for Week 2.

This upcoming weekend should be an interesting one at the box office with 2 HUGE new releases (The Da Vinci Code & Over the Hedge), not to mention the latest horror film to arrive, See No Evil.


I actually want to see all 3 of them, although I'll more than likely be waiting for all of them on video.

Thank you - thank you all. . . if anyone from a major studio would like my unique predicting skills they are available for a reasonable fee!

Here are my predictions (including income):

1. The Da Vinci Code- $44.3 Million
2. Mission: Impossible 3- $18.2 Million
3. Over the Hedge- $15.17 Million
4. Poseidon- $10.12 Million
5. RV- $7.1 Million
6. Just My Luck- $5.5 Million
7. United 93- $4.12 Million
8. See No Evil- $2.4 Million
9. An American Haunting- $2.1 Million
10. Stick It- $1.8 Million

Nice. I'm holding off on mine until I can decide if I think Over the Hedge can top MI3...

The Da Vinci Code - 42.5 million
Over the Hedge - 26 million
Mission: Impossible III - 17 million
Poseidon - 15 million
RV -7 million
Just My Luck -4.5 million
See No Evil -4 million
An American Haunting - 3 million
United 93 - 3 million
Ice Age: The Meltdown -2.5 million


Those are my guesses for week 2.


Just so everyone knows, our tiebreaker is now whoever is closest to guessing the weekend gross for the top movie.

Theres still 2.5 days left to submit your picks for week 2.

This is somewhat tricky but here are mine...


The Da Vinci Code - $41 million

Over the Hedge - $ 22 million

Mission: Impossible III - $ 16 million

Poseidon - $ 14 million

RV - $ 6.5 million

See No Evil - $ 6 million

Just My Luck - $ 5 million

An American Haunting - $ 3.5 million

United 93 - $ 2 million

Ice Age: The Meltdown - $ 1.5 million

Right or wrong?

You only have to predict the weekend's gross of whatever film you list as #1 and since everybody's #1 pick will at least be in the top ten(barring a badly misinformed player), then the tie breaker will be determined by who's closest to their particular #1's gross. Therefor there's no need to predict the gross of the other films.

I'm wondering that too. I suck at this game! :rolleyes:

You only need to predict the dollar amount of the top grossing film that week. Everyone that is putting dollar amounts for more than just their #1 film is just doing extra for shits and giggles, but if it ever comes in to play, the tiebreaker will be who is closest to guessing the $$$ made by the top movie at the box office that weekend.

so we dont need to predict the gross $$ of other movies cept the #1 movie we choose?

OK - time for the correct answer (please don't everyone else just copy mine) :rolleyes:

DaVinci Code - 48mil
MI:III
Over the Hedge
Poseidon
See no Evil
An American Haunting
United 93
Hoot
Akeelah
Ice Age II:

OK - time for the correct answer (please don't everyone else just copy mine)

DaVinci Code - 48mil
MI:III
Over the Hedge
Poseidon
See no Evil
An American Haunting
United 93
Hoot
Akeelah
Ice Age II:

Correct. You don't need to, but if you want to for fun, feel free.

Over the Hedge - 48mil
Poseidon
DaVinci Code
MI:III
See no Evil
An American Haunting
United 93
Hoot
Akeelah
Ice Age II:

Today is the last day to submit answers for this weekend.

I know this is past the deadline but my computer was acting retarded yesterday. So it's all good if you don't count this but I'm still doing just for the hell of it.


1. The DaVinci Code- 63Mil
2. Over The Hedge
3. MI3
4. Poseidon
5. Just My Luck
6. An American Haunting
7. See No Evil
8.United 93
9. Stick It
10 Ice Age

Haha. If you win there will be an asterik by your name.

New Game
 

[COLOR=blue]:cool: O.K. I'll play. I think Poisidon will be first in the box office. I'll figure out the rest later. I have until Monday.

Re: New Game
 

You had until yesterday. Deadline is Friday because after that numbers are already coming in.

Results - Week 2

Well, here is what the weekend box office Top 10 came in at....

The Da Vinci Code $77,000,000
Over the Hedge $37,228,000
Mission: Impossible III $11,015,000
Poseidon $9,200,000
RV $5,100,000
See No Evil $4,350,000
Just My Luck $3,375,000
An American Haunting $1,663,000
United 93 $1,426,000
Akeelah and the Bee $1,000,000




And here are the results of for those who played... (Refer back to first couple posts for more info on scoring.)

Amalthea - 0 points
zero- 17 points
newb - 17 points
Yellow Jacket - 23 points
Austin - 34 points
bwind22 - 50 points
___V___ - 60 points




Well, ____V_____ came out on top in this second week, pegging an impressive 9 out of 10!!


Thanks for playing everyone. Keep your eyes peeled for Week 3.