Top Grossers: 7/13/18

[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 July 13, 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.

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).

Past Winners:
Spring 2018: buckett
Winter 2017: Zombie

Wide release movies opening this week include:
Hotel Transylvania 3
Skyscraper

Season 18:2 Scores (UPDATED):
buckett- 106
Mike- 109
Zombie- 112
Zen- 132
Kyle- 139
poorpete- 159

Guesses (in millions):
Zen- 40
dan- 42
Kyle- 43
Mike- 44
buckett- 45
Zombie- 47
poorpete- 55

[Kyle]

$43 million

[Zen]

$40 mil

[Mike]

44

[buckett]

45

[poorpete]

55

[Zombie]

47

[Kyle]

Metascores updated.

[dan]

42

[Kyle]

Current projection is 42.

[Zen]

Once again, I'm thinking that should go just a bit lower... (I also like the juxtaposition of Kyle's post and Dan's prediction post right above it with Dan's "Patrick Swayze" avatar. It just screams, "Yeah, I got this...")

[Kyle]

Weekend actuals: $44,076,225

Results:
Mike-0
Kyle- 1
buckett-1
dan- 2
Zombie- 3
Zen- 4
poorpete- 11