2014 Summer Blockbuster Movie Pool

[_MJ_]

Blockbuster-wise, there ain't shit coming out this week.  There's a couple of interesting indy flicks but I don't see much else.  Hell, the re-release of Forrest Gump might have a decent showing with nothing else going on.

[S.K.o.S.]

Yeah, it's weird getting myself so familiar with everything coming out in theatres from May to August, and then September hits and I'm like "What the hell are these?  Why have I never heard of them?"

[Elsalvajeloco]

It's good to see that Universal and Legendary started their relationship off with a bang with As Above, So Below though. Blockbusters like that shouldn't be wasted under New Line Cinema.

[Brian Fowler]

The weekend after Labor Day is typically one of the slowest (if not THE slowest) of the year, anyway.

 

Assuming GotG does win (and it's hard to not assume so) it will be the first movie to win 4 different weekends since the first Hunger Games in early 2012.

[S.K.o.S.]

UPDATE 18 OF 20 - through September 4

 

Standings

1 [- 1] -MJ- - 62 points (32/30, tiebreak 1.178)

2 [↑ 4] Control - 64 points (32/32, tiebreak 0.657)

3 [↓ 2] The Erotic Terrorist - 66 points (36/30, tiebreak 0.128)

4 [↓ 3] Chaos - 68 points (34/34, tiebreak 0.328)

5 [- 5] RossWB - 70 points (36/34, tiebreak 0.062)

6 [- 6] The Natural - 72 points (40/32, tiebreak 0.206)

7 [↑ 8] The Z - 74 points (42/32, tiebreak 0.05)

8 [↓ 7] Ligerbusa - 74 points (38/36, tiebreak 1.173)

9 [↑ 10] hobo joe - 75 points (34/41, tiebreak 0.055)

10 [↓ 9] The Veeg - 76 points (30/46, tiebreak 0.599)

11 [- 11] Paco - 77 points (41/36, tiebreak 0.245)

12 [- 12] Suicide King of Spades - 78 points (30/48, tiebreak 0.538)

13 [- 13] JRGoldman - 78 points (39/39, tiebreak 1.149)

14 [- 14] Cameron Swift - 79 points (32/47, tiebreak 0.145)

15 [↑ 18] Dr. Bathroom - 82 points (38/44, tiebreak 0.063)

16 [↓ 15] Niners Fan in CT - 82 points (34/48, tiebreak 0.064)

17 [- 17] CSC - 83 points (40/43, tiebreak 0.237)

18 [↓ 16] Rippa - 84 points (40/44, tiebreak 0.209)

19 [- 19] DreamBroken - 84 points (42/42, tiebreak 0.925)

20 [↑ 22] Raziel403 - 85 points (38/47, tiebreak 1.033)

21 [↓ 20] Ultimo The Great - 86 points (45/41, tiebreak 0.197)

22 [↓ 21] ivpvideos - 87 points (36/51, tiebreak 0.8)

23 [- 23] pipGofern - 89 points (41/48, tiebreak 1.636)

24 [- 24] MushroomJones - 90 points (51/39, tiebreak 0.226)

25 [- 25] Hoffman - 90 points (28/62, tiebreak 0.244)

26 [- 26] jaedmc - 92 points (43/49, tiebreak 0.029)

27 [- 27] Kevin Wilson - 95 points (44/51, tiebreak 0.213)

28 [↑ 30] The Damn Yeti - 95 points (44/51, tiebreak 0.351)

29 [- 29] Mike Zeidler - 95 points (47/48, tiebreak 0.667)

30 [↑ 31] Elsalvajeloco - 96 points (58/38, tiebreak 0.048)

31 [↓ 28] Lacelle - 97 points (41/56, tiebreak 0.409)

32 [↑ 33] blitzkrieg - 102 points (40/62, tiebreak n/a)

33 [↓ 32] Super Ape - 103 points (41/62, tiebreak 0.51)

34 [- 34] caley - 105 points (54/51, tiebreak 0.202)

35 [- 35] Sublime - 113 points (32/81, tiebreak 0.274)

36 [- 36] Death From Above - 120 points (50/70, tiebreak 0.324)

37 [- 37] SorceressKnight - 144 points (76/68, tiebreak 0.439)

 

Box office

1 [- 1] Guardians of the Galaxy - $258,297,268 (28 days)

2 [- 2] Transformers: Age of Extinction - $231,752,475 (28 days)

3 [- 3] X-Men: Days of Future Past - $210,594,250 (28 days)

4 [- 4] Maleficent - $193,615,390 (28 days)

5 [- 5] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $192,851,280 (28 days)

6 [- 6] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $188,957,297 (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - $188,144,600 (28 days)

8 [↑ 9] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $168,146,529 (28 days)

9 [↓ 8] 22 Jump Street - $165,261,139 (28 days)

10 [- 10] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - $146,203,361 (28 days)

11 [- 11] Neighbors - $132,600,495 (28 days)

12 [- 12] Lucy - $110,235,270 (28 days)

13 [- 13] Edge Of Tomorrow - $87,227,625 (28 days)

14 [- 14] The Purge: Anarchy - $69,494,380 (28 days)

15 [- 15] Hercules - $69,086,296 (28 days)

16 [- 16] A Million Ways To Die In The West - $41,158,955 (28 days)

17 [- 17] The Expendables 3 - $34,897,819 (21 days)

18 [- 18] The Giver - $34,243,995 (21 days)

19 [- 19] Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - $12,217,157 (14 days)

 

Rotten Tomatoes

1 [- 1] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - 132/143 = 92% (28 days)

2 [- 2] Guardians of the Galaxy - 205/223 = 92% (28 days)

3 [- 3] X-Men: Days of Future Past - 205/224 = 92% (28 days)

4 [- 4] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 213/235 = 91% (28 days)

5 [- 5] Edge Of Tomorrow - 211/235 = 90% (28 days)

6 [- 6] 22 Jump Street - 161/190 = 85% (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - 180/246 = 73% (28 days)

8 [- 8] Neighbors - 141/193 = 73% (28 days)

9 [- 9] Lucy - 106/166 = 62% (28 days)

10 [- 10] Hercules - 62/100 = 62% (28 days)

11 [- 11] The Purge: Anarchy - 65/113 = 58% (28 days)

12 [- 12] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 133/250 = 53% (28 days)

13 [- 13] Maleficent - 91/182 = 50% (28 days)

14 [- 14] Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - 66/144 = 46% (14 days)

15 [- 15] The Expendables 3 - 49/144 = 34% (21 days)

16 [- 16] A Million Ways To Die In The West - 59/180 = 33% (28 days)

17 [- 17] The Giver - 36/112 = 32% (21 days)

18 [- 18] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 20/101 = 20% (28 days)

19 [- 19] Transformers: Age of Extinction - 29/168 = 17% (28 days)

[S.K.o.S.]

That could pretty much be it for the results.  The only likely movement on the lists is Giver moving ahead of Expendables 3 on box office, and that won't affect the top six players.

[J.T.]

Rippa cracked the Top 20.  Way to represent!

 

Pre-emptive congrats to MJ on the big win and as always, huge ups to SKoS for putting this on every year.

[Raziel]

I'm getting better, a big step up from the bottom 5 from the last two years.

[_MJ_]

I don't want to jinx anything because something bizarre might still happen; a producer from Sin City could still sell his soul to the devil to win the box office race for the next two weeks or something worse.  I was in 14th place one of these weeks so I don't trust it until the final update.

 

This year, I spent way too much time on my list and definitely did some research, so I can't act nonchalant about it.  Fantasy football-esque.

[S.K.o.S.]

From the rules:

 

Also, if two or more movies end up tied in box office gross right down to the dollar (pretty much impossible, but just in case), or end up with the exact same rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the ranking of those two movies will be set to whatever is more favorable for each individual person.

 

This rule has never actually come into play before, but as of this morning, Expendables 3 and The Giver are tied with 33.3333...% on Rotten Tomatoes.  We'll see if it stays that way.

[S.K.o.S.]

UPDATE 19 OF 20 - through September 11

 

Standings

1 [- 1] -MJ- - 62 points (32/30, tiebreak 1.044)

2 [- 2] Control - 64 points (32/32, tiebreak 0.657)

3 [- 3] The Erotic Terrorist - 66 points (36/30, tiebreak 0.128)

4 [- 4] Chaos - 68 points (34/34, tiebreak 0.328)

5 [- 5] RossWB - 70 points (36/34, tiebreak 0.062)

6 [- 6] The Natural - 72 points (40/32, tiebreak 0.206)

7 [- 7] The Z - 74 points (42/32, tiebreak 0.05)

8 [- 8] Ligerbusa - 74 points (38/36, tiebreak 1.039)

9 [↑ 10] The Veeg - 76 points (30/46, tiebreak 0.599)

10 [↓ 9] hobo joe - 77 points (36/41, tiebreak 0.055)

11 [- 11] Paco - 77 points (41/36, tiebreak 0.245)

12 [- 12] Suicide King of Spades - 78 points (30/48, tiebreak 0.538)

13 [- 13] JRGoldman - 78 points (39/39, tiebreak 1.017)

14 [- 14] Cameron Swift - 81 points (34/47, tiebreak 0.145)

15 [↑ 16] Niners Fan in CT - 82 points (34/48, tiebreak 0.064)

16 [↑ 17] CSC - 83 points (40/43, tiebreak 0.237)

17 [↓ 15] Dr. Bathroom - 84 points (40/44, tiebreak 0.063)

18 [- 18] Rippa - 84 points (40/44, tiebreak 0.209)

19 [- 19] DreamBroken - 84 points (42/42, tiebreak 0.807)

20 [- 20] Raziel403 - 85 points (38/47, tiebreak 1.033)

21 [- 21] Ultimo The Great - 86 points (45/41, tiebreak 0.197)

22 [- 22] ivpvideos - 87 points (36/51, tiebreak 0.8)

23 [↑ 24] MushroomJones - 90 points (51/39, tiebreak 0.226)

24 [↑ 25] Hoffman - 90 points (28/62, tiebreak 0.244)

25 [↓ 23] pipGofern - 91 points (43/48, tiebreak 1.474)

26 [- 26] jaedmc - 92 points (43/49, tiebreak 0.029)

27 [- 27] Kevin Wilson - 95 points (44/51, tiebreak 0.213)

28 [- 28] The Damn Yeti - 95 points (44/51, tiebreak 0.351)

29 [- 29] Mike Zeidler - 95 points (47/48, tiebreak 0.667)

30 [- 30] Elsalvajeloco - 96 points (58/38, tiebreak 0.048)

31 [- 31] Lacelle - 97 points (41/56, tiebreak 0.409)

32 [- 32] blitzkrieg - 102 points (40/62, tiebreak n/a)

33 [- 33] Super Ape - 103 points (41/62, tiebreak 0.51)

34 [- 34] caley - 105 points (54/51, tiebreak 0.202)

35 [- 35] Sublime - 113 points (32/81, tiebreak 0.274)

36 [- 36] Death From Above - 122 points (52/70, tiebreak 0.324)

37 [- 37] SorceressKnight - 144 points (76/68, tiebreak 0.439)

 

Box office

1 [- 1] Guardians of the Galaxy - $258,297,268 (28 days)

2 [- 2] Transformers: Age of Extinction - $231,752,475 (28 days)

3 [- 3] X-Men: Days of Future Past - $210,594,250 (28 days)

4 [- 4] Maleficent - $193,615,390 (28 days)

5 [- 5] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $192,851,280 (28 days)

6 [- 6] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $188,957,297 (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - $188,144,600 (28 days)

8 [- 8] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $168,146,529 (28 days)

9 [- 9] 22 Jump Street - $165,261,139 (28 days)

10 [- 10] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - $146,203,361 (28 days)

11 [- 11] Neighbors - $132,600,495 (28 days)

12 [- 12] Lucy - $110,235,270 (28 days)

13 [- 13] Edge Of Tomorrow - $87,227,625 (28 days)

14 [- 14] The Purge: Anarchy - $69,494,380 (28 days)

15 [- 15] Hercules - $69,086,296 (28 days)

16 [- 16] A Million Ways To Die In The West - $41,158,955 (28 days)

17 [↑ 18] The Giver - $38,703,400 (28 days)

18 [↓ 17] The Expendables 3 - $37,190,394 (27 days)

19 [- 19] Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - $12,217,157 (21 days)

 

Rotten Tomatoes

1 [- 1] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - 132/143 = 92% (28 days)

2 [- 2] Guardians of the Galaxy - 205/223 = 92% (28 days)

3 [- 3] X-Men: Days of Future Past - 205/224 = 92% (28 days)

4 [- 4] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 213/235 = 91% (28 days)

5 [- 5] Edge Of Tomorrow - 211/235 = 90% (28 days)

6 [- 6] 22 Jump Street - 161/190 = 85% (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - 180/246 = 73% (28 days)

8 [- 8] Neighbors - 141/193 = 73% (28 days)

9 [- 9] Lucy - 106/166 = 62% (28 days)

10 [- 10] Hercules - 62/100 = 62% (28 days)

11 [- 11] The Purge: Anarchy - 65/113 = 58% (28 days)

12 [- 12] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 133/250 = 53% (28 days)

13 [- 13] Maleficent - 91/182 = 50% (28 days)

14 [- 14] Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - 66/147 = 45% (21 days)

15 [- 15] The Expendables 3 - 49/144 = 33% (28 days)

16 [- 16] A Million Ways To Die In The West - 59/180 = 33% (28 days)

17 [- 17] The Giver - 38/116 = 33% (28 days)

18 [- 18] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 20/101 = 20% (28 days)

19 [- 19] Transformers: Age of Extinction - 29/168 = 17% (28 days)

[S.K.o.S.]

The Giver/Expendables 3 Rotten Tomatoes tie did not stay that way.

[_MJ_]

Expendables pulled it out, but The Giver is going to edge it out in the box office race.  Odd battle between the two.

 

Sin City is not going even going to clear 20 million.  Ouch.

 

Is Idris Elba's psycho killer movie really going to win the box office this weekend?

[jaedmc]

TWO MORE WEEKS FOR ME TO MAKE RUN. 

[Brian Fowler]

Expendables pulled it out, but The Giver is going to edge it out in the box office race.  Odd battle between the two.

 

Sin City is not going even going to clear 20 million.  Ouch.

 

Is Idris Elba's psycho killer movie really going to win the box office this weekend?

 

That or Dolphin Tale 2, I guess.  Unless everyone else is like I was tonight and says "eh, fuck it, lets just go see Guardians again."

[_MJ_]

That Dolphin Tale movie doesn't have the same amount of buzz Idris Elba's flick has right now.  I know the original Dolphin Tale must have had at least a moderate amount of success and everyone likes to give family movies the benefit of doubt, but I've seen very little marketing for it.  No Good Deed is getting terrible reviews, but they are dropping it at the perfect time in this little thrills September.  The marketing push has been pretty solid for it too.

[Brian Fowler]

Deed did indeed win.

Real story though is GOTG became first 300 million movie year.

[S.K.o.S.]

Final update will be late because I'm travelling to and attending King of Trios today.  I'll try to get it posted before I go to sleep tonight.

[S.K.o.S.]

UPDATE 20 OF 20 - through September 18

 

Standings

1 [- 1] -MJ- - 62 points (32/30, tiebreak 1.037)

2 [- 2] Control - 64 points (32/32, tiebreak 0.657)

3 [- 3] The Erotic Terrorist - 66 points (36/30, tiebreak 0.128)

4 [- 4] Chaos - 68 points (34/34, tiebreak 0.328)

5 [- 5] RossWB - 70 points (36/34, tiebreak 0.062)

6 [- 6] The Natural - 72 points (40/32, tiebreak 0.206)

7 [- 7] The Z - 74 points (42/32, tiebreak 0.05)

8 [- 8] Ligerbusa - 74 points (38/36, tiebreak 1.031)

9 [- 9] The Veeg - 76 points (30/46, tiebreak 0.599)

10 [- 10] hobo joe - 77 points (36/41, tiebreak 0.055)

11 [- 11] Paco - 77 points (41/36, tiebreak 0.245)

12 [- 12] Suicide King of Spades - 78 points (30/48, tiebreak 0.538)

13 [- 13] JRGoldman - 78 points (39/39, tiebreak 1.009)

14 [- 14] Cameron Swift - 81 points (34/47, tiebreak 0.145)

15 [- 15] Niners Fan in CT - 82 points (34/48, tiebreak 0.064)

16 [- 16] CSC - 83 points (40/43, tiebreak 0.237)

17 [- 17] Dr. Bathroom - 84 points (40/44, tiebreak 0.063)

18 [- 18] Rippa - 84 points (40/44, tiebreak 0.209)

19 [- 19] DreamBroken - 84 points (42/42, tiebreak 0.8)

20 [- 20] Raziel403 - 85 points (38/47, tiebreak 1.033)

21 [- 21] Ultimo The Great - 86 points (45/41, tiebreak 0.197)

22 [- 22] ivpvideos - 87 points (36/51, tiebreak 0.8)

23 [- 23] MushroomJones - 90 points (51/39, tiebreak 0.226)

24 [- 24] Hoffman - 90 points (28/62, tiebreak 0.244)

25 [- 25] pipGofern - 91 points (43/48, tiebreak 1.465)

26 [- 26] jaedmc - 92 points (43/49, tiebreak 0.029)

27 [- 27] Kevin Wilson - 95 points (44/51, tiebreak 0.213)

28 [- 28] The Damn Yeti - 95 points (44/51, tiebreak 0.351)

29 [- 29] Mike Zeidler - 95 points (47/48, tiebreak 0.667)

30 [- 30] Elsalvajeloco - 96 points (58/38, tiebreak 0.048)

31 [- 31] Lacelle - 97 points (41/56, tiebreak 0.409)

32 [- 32] blitzkrieg - 102 points (40/62, tiebreak n/a)

33 [- 33] Super Ape - 103 points (41/62, tiebreak 0.51)

34 [- 34] caley - 105 points (54/51, tiebreak 0.202)

35 [- 35] Sublime - 113 points (32/81, tiebreak 0.274)

36 [- 36] Death From Above - 122 points (52/70, tiebreak 0.324)

37 [- 37] SorceressKnight - 144 points (76/68, tiebreak 0.439)

 

Box office

1 [- 1] Guardians of the Galaxy - $258,297,268 (28 days)

2 [- 2] Transformers: Age of Extinction - $231,752,475 (28 days)

3 [- 3] X-Men: Days of Future Past - $210,594,250 (28 days)

4 [- 4] Maleficent - $193,615,390 (28 days)

5 [- 5] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $192,851,280 (28 days)

6 [- 6] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $188,957,297 (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - $188,144,600 (28 days)

8 [- 8] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $168,146,529 (28 days)

9 [- 9] 22 Jump Street - $165,261,139 (28 days)

10 [- 10] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - $146,203,361 (28 days)

11 [- 11] Neighbors - $132,600,495 (28 days)

12 [- 12] Lucy - $110,235,270 (28 days)

13 [- 13] Edge Of Tomorrow - $87,227,625 (28 days)

14 [- 14] The Purge: Anarchy - $69,494,380 (28 days)

15 [- 15] Hercules - $69,086,296 (28 days)

16 [- 16] A Million Ways To Die In The West - $41,158,955 (28 days)

17 [- 17] The Giver - $38,703,400 (28 days)

18 [- 18] The Expendables 3 - $37,329,936 (28 days)

19 [- 19] Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - $13,609,429 (28 days)

 

Rotten Tomatoes

1 [- 1] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - 132/143 = 92% (28 days)

2 [- 2] Guardians of the Galaxy - 205/223 = 92% (28 days)

3 [- 3] X-Men: Days of Future Past - 205/224 = 92% (28 days)

4 [- 4] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 213/235 = 91% (28 days)

5 [- 5] Edge Of Tomorrow - 211/235 = 90% (28 days)

6 [- 6] 22 Jump Street - 161/190 = 85% (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - 180/246 = 73% (28 days)

8 [- 8] Neighbors - 141/193 = 73% (28 days)

9 [- 9] Lucy - 106/166 = 62% (28 days)

10 [- 10] Hercules - 62/100 = 62% (28 days)

11 [- 11] The Purge: Anarchy - 65/113 = 58% (28 days)

12 [- 12] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 133/250 = 53% (28 days)

13 [- 13] Maleficent - 91/182 = 50% (28 days)

14 [- 14] Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - 69/151 = 46% (28 days)

15 [- 15] The Expendables 3 - 49/144 = 33% (28 days)

16 [- 16] A Million Ways To Die In The West - 59/180 = 33% (28 days)

17 [- 17] The Giver - 38/116 = 33% (28 days)

18 [- 18] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 20/101 = 20% (28 days)

19 [- 19] Transformers: Age of Extinction - 29/168 = 17% (28 days)

[S.K.o.S.]

Absolutely nothing changes from last week.  -MJ- becomes the first person to win this whole thing twice, and everyone down to The Natural at #6 gets a prize.  I'll start sending out PMs to get addresses after this weekend.

[Death From Above]

Thanks for your efforts towards this foolish contest, as always.

[Brian Fowler]

If you don't hear from The Natural, let me know, I can try and get a hold of him on Facebook.

 

Paul has understandably not been around lately.

[The Z]

So close...

Well, there's always next year. Thanks for doing this, SKOS!

[ivpvideos]

Thanks for running this as always. I refuse to watch Maleficient as it totally screwed me. Why did I put that as number one. To hell with you Angelina Jolie, to hell with you.

[S.K.o.S.]

If you don't hear from The Natural, let me know, I can try and get a hold of him on Facebook.

 

Paul has understandably not been around lately.

 

Will do.