UPDATE! JUNE PREDICTIONS OPEN UNTIL JUL 3RD
With Ironman 3 just a few weeks away, the summer movie season is fast approaching. Considering how much entertainment came from this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=470005 last year, I thought it would be fun to start a summer prediction league. If you want to participate, fill out the form below. I will update the leaderboard and loserboard standings every 1-2 weeks as summer progresses. Winners will get to brag about their Nostradamus like skills while losers will have to learn to like the taste of roasted crow.
Feel free to make predictions for movies that you think will fall outside of the ranks listed on the form, just make sure you keep those predictions separate. Also feel free to discuss summer box office predictions in general!
How to Participate:
PREDICTION MONTH 3: July 2013 - NOTE: Standings will be separated by month, so feel free to join in even if you missed May/June
Copy the form below into your post. Other than entering your box office predictions, Do Not Modify it in any way! Predictions are due on Jul 3rd, 2013.
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BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS FOR JULY 2013
Despicable Me (Opening July 3rd, 5-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
The Lone Ranger (Opening July 3rd, 5-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
Grown Ups 2 (Opening July 12th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
Pacific Rim (Opening July 12th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
R.I.P.D (Opening July 19th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
Red 2 (Opening June 19th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
The Wolverine (Opening July 26th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
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Notes:
1) Do not modify the form in any way. Just copy it as is into your reply and replace the missing number values
2) Domestic Totals will be based on final gross as of Aug 31st for all June titles.
3) Opening weekend is defined the domestic box office gross a movie makes from its opening night to its first Sunday. If a movie opens on a Friday, you will predict a 3 day opening weekend. If it opens on a Wednesday, you will predict a 5 day opening weekend.
4) You do not have to predict worldwide grosses if you do not want to. They will be counted separately in a special bracket.
How the scoring will Work:
1) Every total box office prediction can earn you up to 100 points. Points earned drop off in a linear fashion based on how far off your prediction was. You need to be within 50% over or under to receive points for a film. For example, if you predict $200M for Man of Steel and it makes $200M, you would receive 100 points. If it makes $250M, you would receive 50 points. If it makes $300M+, you receive nothing.
2) Every opening weekend box office prediction can earn you up to 50 points. Points earned drop off in the manner described above.
3) If you guess the bomb of the month correctly, you get a 100 point bonus.
4) Worldwide gross predictions are optional and will not count against you.
Not sure where to start? Check the release slate below.
June 2013 Movie List
After Earth
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman
Plot: A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcNyzu4IdM
This is the End
Director: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Cast: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson
Plot: While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24fo2W5EaE
Man of Steel
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon
Plot: A young journalist, molded by the morals of his earth parents, discovers that he is gifted with powers beyond his imagination, and he uses those powers to defend his adopted home from an insidious evil.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu3gS7iJu4
Monsters University
Director: Dan Scanlon
Cast: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi
Plot: A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University - when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODePHkWSg-U
World War Z
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, David Morse, Matthew Fox
Plot: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk
The Heat
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Marlon Wayans
Plot: Uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner -- or a friend for that matter.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-KKx0lcn2A
White House Down
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Plot: While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AXbiCdmXgw
July 2013 Movie List
Dispicable Me 2
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Cast: Steve Carell, Al Pacino, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand
Plot: Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwXbtZXjbVE\\
The Lone Ranger
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson
Plot: Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFsNSoDZK8
Pacific Rim
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman
Plot: When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A85EtOalcsM
Grown Ups 2
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Andy Samberg, Taylor Lautner
Plot: The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq5CIH0duMk
Turbo
Director: David Soren
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph
Plot: A freak accident might just help an everyday garden snail achieve his biggest dream: winning the Indy 500.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-L5bzwdpVI
R.I.P.D.
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon
Plot: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
Trailer: Not Released
Red 2
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren
Plot: Frank Moses and his motley crew of retired assassins return for a second outing.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTcWTf-pfyU
The Wolverine
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto
Plot: Wolverine makes a voyage to modern-day Japan, where he encounters an enemy from his past that will impact on his future.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Yu9uwHLVI
August 2013 Movie List
2 Guns
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, Edward James Olmos
Plot: A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNe3RK2fgI
Disney's Planes
Director: Klay Hall
Cast: Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Priyanka Chopra, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Carlos Alazraqui
Plot: Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPemxNx1B4k
Elysium
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley
Plot: Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Trailer: Not Released
Kick-Ass 2
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey
Plot: The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMbwxbgv8U
The World’s End
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman
Plot: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Trailer: Not Released
With Ironman 3 just a few weeks away, the summer movie season is fast approaching. Considering how much entertainment came from this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=470005 last year, I thought it would be fun to start a summer prediction league. If you want to participate, fill out the form below. I will update the leaderboard and loserboard standings every 1-2 weeks as summer progresses. Winners will get to brag about their Nostradamus like skills while losers will have to learn to like the taste of roasted crow.
Feel free to make predictions for movies that you think will fall outside of the ranks listed on the form, just make sure you keep those predictions separate. Also feel free to discuss summer box office predictions in general!
How to Participate:
PREDICTION MONTH 3: July 2013 - NOTE: Standings will be separated by month, so feel free to join in even if you missed May/June
Copy the form below into your post. Other than entering your box office predictions, Do Not Modify it in any way! Predictions are due on Jul 3rd, 2013.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS FOR JULY 2013
Despicable Me (Opening July 3rd, 5-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
The Lone Ranger (Opening July 3rd, 5-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
Grown Ups 2 (Opening July 12th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
Pacific Rim (Opening July 12th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
R.I.P.D (Opening July 19th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
Red 2 (Opening June 19th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
The Wolverine (Opening July 26th, 3-day weekend)
- Opening Weekend: $XXM
- Domestic Total Gross: $XXXM
- (Bonus) Worldwide Total: $XXXM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes:
1) Do not modify the form in any way. Just copy it as is into your reply and replace the missing number values
2) Domestic Totals will be based on final gross as of Aug 31st for all June titles.
3) Opening weekend is defined the domestic box office gross a movie makes from its opening night to its first Sunday. If a movie opens on a Friday, you will predict a 3 day opening weekend. If it opens on a Wednesday, you will predict a 5 day opening weekend.
4) You do not have to predict worldwide grosses if you do not want to. They will be counted separately in a special bracket.
How the scoring will Work:
1) Every total box office prediction can earn you up to 100 points. Points earned drop off in a linear fashion based on how far off your prediction was. You need to be within 50% over or under to receive points for a film. For example, if you predict $200M for Man of Steel and it makes $200M, you would receive 100 points. If it makes $250M, you would receive 50 points. If it makes $300M+, you receive nothing.
2) Every opening weekend box office prediction can earn you up to 50 points. Points earned drop off in the manner described above.
3) If you guess the bomb of the month correctly, you get a 100 point bonus.
4) Worldwide gross predictions are optional and will not count against you.
Not sure where to start? Check the release slate below.
June 2013 Movie List
After Earth
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman
Plot: A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcNyzu4IdM
This is the End
Director: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Cast: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson
Plot: While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24fo2W5EaE
Man of Steel
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon
Plot: A young journalist, molded by the morals of his earth parents, discovers that he is gifted with powers beyond his imagination, and he uses those powers to defend his adopted home from an insidious evil.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu3gS7iJu4
Monsters University
Director: Dan Scanlon
Cast: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi
Plot: A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University - when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODePHkWSg-U
World War Z
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, David Morse, Matthew Fox
Plot: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk
The Heat
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Marlon Wayans
Plot: Uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner -- or a friend for that matter.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-KKx0lcn2A
White House Down
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Plot: While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AXbiCdmXgw
July 2013 Movie List
Dispicable Me 2
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Cast: Steve Carell, Al Pacino, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand
Plot: Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwXbtZXjbVE\\
The Lone Ranger
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson
Plot: Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFsNSoDZK8
Pacific Rim
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman
Plot: When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A85EtOalcsM
Grown Ups 2
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Andy Samberg, Taylor Lautner
Plot: The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq5CIH0duMk
Turbo
Director: David Soren
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph
Plot: A freak accident might just help an everyday garden snail achieve his biggest dream: winning the Indy 500.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-L5bzwdpVI
R.I.P.D.
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon
Plot: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
Trailer: Not Released
Red 2
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren
Plot: Frank Moses and his motley crew of retired assassins return for a second outing.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTcWTf-pfyU
The Wolverine
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto
Plot: Wolverine makes a voyage to modern-day Japan, where he encounters an enemy from his past that will impact on his future.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Yu9uwHLVI
August 2013 Movie List
2 Guns
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, Edward James Olmos
Plot: A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNe3RK2fgI
Disney's Planes
Director: Klay Hall
Cast: Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Priyanka Chopra, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Carlos Alazraqui
Plot: Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPemxNx1B4k
Elysium
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley
Plot: Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Trailer: Not Released
Kick-Ass 2
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey
Plot: The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMbwxbgv8U
The World’s End
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman
Plot: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Trailer: Not Released
