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 March 22, 2019. 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
Winter 2018: Kyle

Wide release movies opening this week include:
Us

Season 19:1 Scores (UPDATED):
Zombie- 67
buckett- 69
Mike-77
Kyle- 78
poorpete- 92
Zen- 129

Guesses (in millions):
Mike- 46
Zen- 48
buckett- 49
Kyle- 50
Zombie- 52
poorpete- 75

$50 million

46

$48 Mil

49

This is where I start to get desperate...
$75

Pete! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

See I can't play the game like that. Even if I know I have to to win the season, I still want to see how close I can get this week.

Same.

Even my massive failure the other week was based on projections on some websites...

I don’t want it to sound like I’m shitting on Pete. I wish I could play the game like that.

I don't think my guess is crazy, btw. That would be about a quarter of what Get Out took in it's total run (a useful metric), it's getting great reviews, and it's still much lower than what "It" made in it's opening. It could do gangbusters. Also horror films' box offices are notoriously hard to predict. Ok maybe still a little crazy.

Metascores updated.

52

Alright Zombie, on my side of the median

You are all fools, except Pete.

Okay- but even deadline admits no one could have predicted that result. The breakdown of the demographics is the most fascinating part.

God damnit