Nerd Pride Radio

Rules: Guess the Friday through Sunday domestic gross (as reported in the actuals from Box Office Mojo) for the number one movie for the weekend of October 19, 2018. You get points based on the difference between your guess and the actual opening (whether its higher or lower). You don't have to guess a particular movie, just a dollar amount. You can not guess an amount that has already been guessed by someone for this week. Once you've made a guess, you can't change it. Guesses have to be submitted by midnight the Wednesday before the opening. Guesses must be rounded to the nearest million dollars.

Results will be cumulative week to week for the current season for everyone that continues to play. If you miss a week, you can still play, but your score is 125% of the worst actual score awarded on the week you missed. If you miss two weeks in a row, you're out of the metagame, but still welcome to play the weekly game. There are three seasons per calendar year: (1) January 1 - the weekend before Memorial Day; (2) Memorial Day weekend - Labor Day weekend; and (3) the weekend after Labor Day weekend - December 31.

Please feel free to discuss prospects and speculation- this is highly encouraged. But once you post up a guess, it cannot be changed.

I'll normally post this up on the Monday before the opening weekend, and will update the cumulative scores when the actuals are released (usually Tuesday afternoon).

Past Winners:
Summer 2018: Mike
Spring 2018: buckett
Winter 2017: Zombie
Summer 2017: poorpete

Wide release movies opening this week include:
Halloween
The Hate U Give
The Old Man and the Gun

Season 18:3 Scores (UPDATED):
Kyle- 49
buckett- 51
Zombie- 52
Zen- 59
Mike- 65
poorpete- 68

Guesses (in millions):
Mike- 52
Zen- 60
Zombie- 62
bucket- 64
poorpete- 67
Kyle- 68

$68 million

$60 Mil

52

62

64

67

My gut has been entirely wrong all season, so definitely go high on this one. But the last Halloween restart was in 2007 and earned 32 mil in today's money. Jamie Lee Curtis has been in multiple sequels and relaunches before, the only difference now being that she's a 60-year-old protagonist. Sure, this one is well-reviewed, but do we think that's going to bring in enough people on opening weekend to double the best previous outing?

I don't know. This just feels very feels very surreal to me. And I've been wrong on everything else, so let's watch this one venture into Venom territory to be the 2nd biggest October opening ever.

Mike- will you the top grossers post on Monday’s for their couple of weeks? Given what’s going on with my house, I’m not going to remember or have the time.

Yes.

80+!?

There's no justice!

Actual: 76 ($76,221,545)

Metascores updated.