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.