S.K.o.S. Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 My three most anticipated movies of the summer are The Gift, Regression and Sinister 2. But this is not about me! Below are 20 movies set to be released this summer. You need to make two lists: List 1: Choose 15 of the 20 movies and rank them from highest to lowest according to the domestic box office gross you think each movie will make through its first 4 weeks (28 days) of release. Note that you're not trying to leave out the 5 movies you think will do the worst; just leave out the 5 that you feel least confident about ranking. Also, you don't need to guess how much money they'll make - just rank them. I'll be using boxofficemojo.com as the source for how much money each movie makes. List 2: Choose 15 of the 20 movies (doesn't have to be the exact same 15 as your first list) and rank them from highest to lowest according to the rating you think each movie will have on rottentomatoes.com after it's been out for 4 weeks. Again, you're not necessarily trying to leave out the five worst movies. Scoring: Your two lists will be compared with the actual ranks of the 15 movies, and your score will be the sum of the absolute values of the differences between the rank you gave to each movie and its correct rank. LOWEST score wins. Tiebreaking: In addition to your two lists, pick any one of the twenty movies and post exactly how much money you think it'll make domestically, in dollars, in its first 28 days of release. If two or more people end up with the same number of points, the person whose dollar figure is closer to correct (on a percentage basis) will be ranked ahead of the other. If that still results in a tie, then the person who posted their entry earlier will be ranked ahead of the other. 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. The movies: Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1) Hot Pursuit (May 8) Mad Max: Fury Road (May 15) Tomorrowland (May 22) Aloha (May 29) Entourage (Jun 3) Spy (Jun 5) Jurassic World (Jun 12) Inside Out (Jun 19) Ted 2 (Jun 26) Magic Mike XXL (Jul 1) Terminator: Genisys (Jul 1) Minions (Jul 10) Ant-Man (Jul 17) Trainwreck (Jul 17) Pixels (Jul 24) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Jul 31) Fantastic Four (Aug 7) Straight Outta Compton (Aug 14) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Aug 14) Deadline: The last day you can post your lists is June 2nd, 2015, but any movie that has already premiered must be left off your lists. So, for example, if you enter after May 1st, you can't put Avengers 2 on either of your lists because it'll already be in theatres. Editing lists: You may edit your lists after they're posted, but only up until the release of any movie that appears on at least one of your lists. Since time of entry is a tiebreaker, if you edit a list, make a new post stating that you've edited. "The Adjustment Bureau" rule: Movies' release dates are not set in stone. If a movie's release date gets moved past September 30, 2015, and you have it on a list, it gets removed, and you get an additional number of points equal to your average points per movie on that list, rounded to the nearest whole number. Prizes: The prize pool will consist of three Criterion dvds: THE THIN BLUE LINE, THE FISHER KING and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, along with copies of up to three of my favorite movies from 2014, to be added to the prize pool when we hit 12, 15 and 18 entrants. The first-place finisher will get to choose their prize out of all the available movies, second place will get to pick from what's left, and so on. Good luck! In so far: The Veeg SorceressKnight Death From Above Skeeball Wizard ivpvideos Ligerbusa The Natural hobo joe Control Rippa The Z DreamBroken _MJ_ Sublime RossWB Paco Phantom Lord JRGoldman Hail Sabin S.K.o.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 SBMP Hall of Fame: In 2008, 9 people entered, and the top 3 got prizes: 1. Evil Ash 2. Nathan Davis 3. Brocklock In 2009, 28 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. SoopArr AE 2. The Erotic Terrorist 3. RossWB 4. Genesis 5. Nathan Davis 6. MushroomJones In 2010, 39 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. -MJ- 2. RossWB 3. Pavel6969 4. Brocklock 5. SoopArr AE 6. shoogbear63 In 2011, 42 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. Hobo Joe 2. scraylo187 3. -MJ- 4. Hail Sabin 5. shoogbear63 6. The Erotic Terrorist In 2012, 39 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. blitzkrieg 2. IVPvideos 3. jesseewiak 4. DreamBroken 5. Patty1369 6. TrevL In 2013, 32 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. The Damn Yeti 2. RossWB 3. Genesis 4. Death From Above 5. The Erotic Terrorist 6. -MJ- In 2014, 36 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. -MJ- 2. Control 3. The Erotic Terrorist 4. Chaos 5. RossWB 6. The Natural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligerbusa Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 This is a hard list, I'm really not sure on some of this stuff so I'm going random. -- Box Office -- 1. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2. Minions 3. Jurassic World 4. Ted 2 5. Pixels 6. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 7. Ant-Man 8. Magic Mike XXL 9. Straight Outta Compton 10. Mad Max: Fury Road 11. Spy 12. Aloha 13. Trainwreck 14. Entourage 15. Hot Pursuit -- Rotten Tomatoes -- 1. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol 3. Aloha 4. Mad Max: Fury Road 5. Magic Mike XXL 6. Ant-Man 7. Straight Outta Compton 8. Minions 9. Trainwreck 10. Fantastic Four 11. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 12. Spy 13. Entourage 14. Terminator: Genisys 15. Hot Pursuit Tiebreaker: Minions ($313,957,310 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincey Greene Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 BO 1. Jurassic World 2. Avengers Age of Ultron 3. Inside Out 4. Minions 5. Tomorrowland 6. Fantastic 4 7. Ted 2 8. Spy 9. Aloha 10. Magic Mike XXL 11. Mad Max Fury Road 12. Terminator Genisys 13. Straight Outta Compton 14. Entourage (tiebreaker: 69,420,666) 15. Pixels RT 1. Avengers Age of Ultron 2. Ant-Man 3. Tomorrowland 4. Aloha 5. Minions 6. Jurassic World 7. Fantastic 4 8. Trainwreck 9. Terminator Genisys 10. The Man From UNCLE 11. Spy 12. Pixels 13. Entourage 14. Ted 2 15. Hot Pursuit I worked backwards on RT. Let's see how that works out. Edited merely to add tiebreaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorceressKnight Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 In, even though I always lose big at this: BOX OFFICE: 1- Avengers: Age of Ultron- TIEBREAKER: $1 Billion 2- Minions 3- Ant-Man 4- Jurassic World 5- Terminator: Genisys 6- Magic Mike XXL 7- Ted 2 8- Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation 9- Pixels 10- Fantastic Four 11- Mad Max: Fury Road 12- The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 13- Straight Outta Compton 14- Hot Pursuit 15- Entourage ROTTEN TOMATOES: 1-Minions 2-Avengers: Age of Ultron 3- Tomorrowland 4- Ant-Man 5- Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation 6- Pixels 7- Terminator: Genisys 8- Jurassic World 9- Entourage 10- Ted 2 11- The Man From U.N.C.L.E 12- Trainwreck 13- Mad Max: Fury Road 14- Magic Mike XXL 15- Fantastic Four Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivpvideos Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I still proudly smile at being in second place in 2012. THIS IS MY YEAR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Ligerbusa needs a tiebreaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivpvideos Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Box Office Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1) Minions (Jul 10) Jurassic World (Jun 12) Terminator: Genisys (Jul 1) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Jul 31) Ant-Man (Jul 17) Tomorrowland (May 22) Inside Out (Jun 19) Ted 2 (Jun 26) Mad Max: Fury Road (May 15) Fantastic Four (Aug 7) Magic Mike XXL (Jul 1) Hot Pursuit Straight Outta Compton (Aug 14) Entourage (Jun 3) (Tiebreaker 38 million) Rotten Tomatoes Inside Out (Jun 19) Ant-Man (Jul 17) Minions (Jul 10) Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1) Jurassic World (Jun 12) Straight Outta Compton (Aug 14) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Jul 31) Pixels (Jul 24) Fantastic Four (Aug 7 Terminator: Genisys (Jul 1) Trainwreck (Jul 17) Magic Mike XXL (Jul 1) Ted 2 (Jun 26) Hot Pursuit (May 8) Entourage (Jun 3) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Will probably fill one out but need to do some research about rotten tomatoes since that is the part that always kills me. Also why isn't Pitch Perfect 2 on the list? and can I write it in for my list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I was thinking about taking a break from the game this summer. I really get into the research part of this game, but it takes time. However, I have a feeling Suicide Kings is going put WHIPLASH as one of the prizes this year. If he does that, I have no choice but to go all out this year. I need that movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Damn Yeti Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 It's the most wonderful time of the year! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yeah - Pitch Perfect 2 might be the most stunning omission Actually AND San Andreas not being there And I have no idea what Aloha is EDIT - Okay - now I remember what Aloha is. But still of the two movies opening that day - I would have picked San Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 "Summer 2015: Yikes" BOX OFFICE 1- Avengers: Age of Ultron2- Minions3- Jurassic World4- Inside Out5- Ted 26- Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation7- Terminator: Genisys8- Magic Mike XXL9- Fantastic Four10- Pixels11- Ant-Man12- Spy13- Trainwreck14- Entourage15- Straight Outta Compton ROTTEN TOMATOES 1- Minions2- Avengers: Age of Ultron3- Inside Out4- Entourage5- Jurassic World6- Ted 27- Ant Man8- Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation9- Straight Outta Compton10- Pixels11- Fantastic Four12- Terminator: Genisys13- Magic Mike XXL14- Spy15- Trainwreck Tiebreaker: Minions - $366 000 000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 SBMP Hall of Fame: In 2014, 36 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. -MJ- 2. Control 3. The Erotic Terrorist 4. Chaos 5. RossWB 6. The Natural Taken part every year, came close twice but no cigar and I finally lucked out in the Pool last year! Can't believe I've posted here today and not seen the thread for this year till now. My entry is a combination of research, randoms, gambles and hopes. The pools are difficult every year. Box Office. 1. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2. Minions 3. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 4. Ant-Man 5. Jurassic World 6. Ted 2 7. Terminator: Genisys 8. Pixels 9. Magic Mike XXL 10. Mad Max: Fury Road 11. Straight Outta Compton 12. Spy 13. Trainwreck 14. Entourage 15. Hot Pursuit Rotten Tomatoes. 1. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2. Minions 3. Inside Out 4. Tomorrowland 5. Ant-Man 6, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol 7. Pixels 8. Jurassic World 9. Fantastic Four 10. Mad Max: Fury Road 11. The Man From U.N.C.L.E 12. Magic Mike XXL 13. Spy 14. Hot Pursuit 15. Trainwreck Tiebreaker: Minions ($375 000 000) Please let Inside Out be a Pixar hot and Tomorrowland be another Brad Bird live action success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Fuck, I've got less than a week. No way can I get a list done anytime next week with me packing and shit. Yeah - Pitch Perfect 2 might be the most stunning omission Actually AND San Andreas not being there And I have no idea what Aloha is EDIT - Okay - now I remember what Aloha is. But still of the two movies opening that day - I would have picked San Andreas As per our discussion, I think that Ant-Man will be my most stunning omission. I have no idea how AoU hype / backlash will help or hinder the box office take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 We'll see how the films perform and whether that helps or hinders our entries. There are always the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Fuck, I've got less than a week. No way can I get a list done anytime next week with me packing and shit. Yeah - Pitch Perfect 2 might be the most stunning omission Actually AND San Andreas not being there And I have no idea what Aloha is EDIT - Okay - now I remember what Aloha is. But still of the two movies opening that day - I would have picked San Andreas As per our discussion, I think that Ant-Man will be my most stunning omission. I have no idea how AoU hype / backlash will help or hinder the box office take. Except Ant-Man is on the list CHECK YOUR EYES OLD MAN!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I mean I won't include it on my list because I have no idea how it will fuck things up for me. YOU ARE SO JUDGMENTAL~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Box Office 1. Avengers:Age of Ultron 2. Jurassic World 3. Minions 4. Inside Out 5. Tomorrowland 6. Pixels 7. Mad Max Fury Road 8. Fantastic Four 9. Magic Mike XXL 10. Man From U.N.C.L.E. 11. Straight Outta Compton 12. Aloha 13. Hot Pursuit 14. Trainwreck 15. Entourage (tiebreaker $56.5 million) Rotten Tomatoes 1. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2. Inside Out 3. Aloha 4. Minions 5. Ant Man 6. Tomorrowland 7. Mission IImpossible: Rogue Nation 8. Straight Outta Compton 9. Man From U.N.C.L.E. 10. Trainwreck 11. Ted 2 12. Magic Mike XXL 13. Pixels 14. Entourage 15. Spy Thanks for doing this again SKOS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Ok, now that I've had the chance to put these into a spreadsheet, we have some issues: Ligerbusa's RT list only has 14 movies (it's numbered 1-15 but there is no #6) ivpvideos' RT list has 16 movies Natural's box office and RT lists both only have 14 movies. Everyone else is good. I'll PM the relevant parties. Will also post about my brilliant reasons for leaving out Pitch Perfect 2 and San Andreas later tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 Also why isn't Pitch Perfect 2 on the list? and can I write it in for my list? For the second question, no, sorry. If I let people write in movies, it'd be possible for people to make things very easy for themselves by picking movies that are going to be terrible. Yeah - Pitch Perfect 2 might be the most stunning omission Actually AND San Andreas not being there And I have no idea what Aloha is EDIT - Okay - now I remember what Aloha is. But still of the two movies opening that day - I would have picked San Andreas We all know I've been wrong before about what gets into the pool, but here's what I was thinking. Pitch Perfect 2 was on the list in the planning stages (due to Rippa posting on here that he was going to see it) but got swapped out for Hot Pursuit. It was mostly because I don't see PP2 beating Avengers 2 or Mad Max in box office on its opening weekend, which means it'll be third at best, and it's not a shoo-in to get a higher RT score than those two movies either. It just doesn't seem like it's going to be a heavy hitter to me. San Andreas was never on the list. It's like, I saw Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous still gets brought up enough on here to make me think Crowe's name still carries some weight) directing this movie with Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, John Krasinski - a very deep cast. Then I look at San Andreas and it's just the Rock and no other names of note. Aloha sounded way more interesting to me. There was a time where San Andreas would have been an automatic inclusion just for starring a wrestler, but... has Rock delivered anything really memorable when he has to carry a movie on his own? In retrospect, if I'd left out Hercules last year, I doubt anyone really would have cared. Granted it's almost certainly going to make more money than Aloha, but I also think some people are going to be like "I just saw the Rock in an action movie, I'm not interested in another one so soon." Also, no one is going to call me on this, but I had a personal rule that I'd never put another Adam Sandler movie in the pool. But Pan, which was opening opposite Pixels, got moved to October, and I couldn't bring myself to put Southpaw on the list. I have a sneaking suspicion that Southpaw's going to get moved to the fall, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I think the only way Southpaw gets moved to the fall is if Fuqua's fliming of the Magnificient Seven remake runs longer than expected, which is certainly possible. It's suppose to end right around the time Southpaw is coming out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Ok, now that I've had the chance to put these into a spreadsheet, we have some issues: Ligerbusa's RT list only has 14 movies (it's numbered 1-15 but there is no #6) ivpvideos' RT list has 16 movies Natural's box office and RT lists both only have 14 movies. Everyone else is good. I'll PM the relevant parties. Will also post about my brilliant reasons for leaving out Pitch Perfect 2 and San Andreas later tonight. Sorry 'bout that. Done that and made a few changes. Won't be touched again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Box Office: 1. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2. Jurassic World 3. Minions 4. Inside Out 5. Mad Max: Fury Road 6. Ted 2 7. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 8. Magic Mike XXL 9. Entourage 10. Straight Outta Compton 11. Hot Pursuit 12. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 13. Spy 14. Trainwreck 15. Aloha RT: 1. Inside Out 2. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 3. Mad Max: Fury Road 4. Tomorrowland 5. Minions 6. Straight Outta Compton 7. Avengers: Age of Ultron 8. Trainwreck 9. Spy 10. Entourage 11. Pixels 12. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 13. Magic Mike XXL 14. Terminator: Genisys 15. Hot Pursuit Tie Breaker: Avengers ($575 million) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I think PP2 will probably beat Mad Maxx since Mad Max is R and PP2 will have all the house moms and teenage girls and me going to it. The Rock movies are always fun just because they are total list busters. Not having to decide on San Andreas is fine with me. That being said - I think a Cameron Crowe movie doesn't mean as much as it used to. God - I still have to put together my fucking list. Man we could almost do a NIT type contest with all the leftover movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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