Top Grossers: 2/16/18

[Kyle]

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 February 16-18. 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.

Lifetime scores will be tracked as long as there are two people that have not been eliminated (by missing two weeks in a row). In the even that only one person remains in the lifetime scores, that person will be deemed King of Movie Mountain, and the lifetime scores will reset beginning with the next week. The King of Movie Mountain's reign lasts until a new King of Movie Mountain is named through the application of these rules.

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).

Wide release movies opening this week include:
Black Panther
Early Man
Sampson

Season 18:1 Scores (UPDATED):
poorpete- 24
Kyle- 26
buckett- 33
Mike- 34
Zen- 36
Zombie- 36

Lifetime Scores (UPDATED):
Zombie: 301
poorpete: 304
Kyle: 314
buckett: 349
Zen: 378

Guesses (in millions):
poorpete- 133
Kyle- 136
Zen- 140
Mike- 148
Zombie- 149
Jon- 158

[Kyle]

$136 million.

[Zen]

$140 mil

[buckett]

158

[Kyle]

Metascores updated.

[Zombie]

149

[Mike]

148

[poorpete]

It's anyone's game!

$133

[Zombie]

Jon's beating us thoroughly. Tracking for 175+ over 3 days.

[poorpete]

Looks more like "It's anyone's but my game!" given the Thursday successes. I'm happy if it does that well.

[Kyle]

I'm with you pete. I knew I was taking a chance, but I'm glad to see the movie do this well.

[Mike]

I'm number two! I'm number two!

[buckett]

I knew this was gonna go bonkers when it was on the cover of fucking Time magazine.

[Zen]

Foley hucking chips! Yeah... over 192k from what I can see. It's a grand scale slaughter, but bigger for some than others. (This is why some of us can't have nice things... like positions near the top... And, hey... I contributed to my own demise...)

[Kyle]

Weekend actuals for Black Panther: $202,003,951

Results:
buckett- 44
Zombie- 53
Mike- 54
Zen- 62
Kyle- 66
poorpete- 69 (heh heh)