Top Grossers: 2/15/19

[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 15, 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:
Happy Death Day 2U (Wed. Open)
Isn't It Romantic (Wed. Open)
Alita: Battle Angel (Thurs Open)

Season 19:1 Scores (UPDATED):
poorpete- 37
Zombie- 37
buckett- 43
Kyle- 45
Mike-48
Zen- 57

Guesses (in millions):
Zen- 20
buckett- 21
Mike- 22 (for the Lego Movie only)
Zombie- 23
Kyle- 24
poorpete- DNP

[Kyle]

$24 million

[Zen]

$20 Mil

[Mike]

You left out creepy-ass Alita: Battle Angel in 3700 theaters.

[Kyle]

[Zen]

[Mike]

22 for Lego Movie.

[buckett]

21

[Kyle]

Metascores updated. This just became a competition!

[Zombie]

23

[poorpete]

DOH. ah well, thanks everyone for keeping it close, congrats Zombie on taking first place next week

[Zombie]

I barely made the deadline.

[Mike]

If you had to miss a week, this is a good one to miss. It'll probably fall within the range of our guesses which means you maybe lose 1-3 mil over what you would have anyway. No big deal. I mean, you lose 1st place, but you're still in the running.

[Kyle]

[Mike]

Seriously? I can't fairly judge that movie. The whole uncanny-valley-ness of it creeps me out. And I'm not normally bothered by uncanny valley stuff.

[Mike]

Maybe I'm not reading it right, but Deadline is calling for a hopeful $40 mil for Thursday thru Monday. Drop the 8.7 mil for Thursday, and Monday is usually a straight 25% of the Presidents Day 4-day, which leaves Alita at something around $24 for the 3-day. But again, maybe I'm not reading it right.

[Kyle]

[Kyle]

Weekend actuals for Alita- $28,525,613

Results:
Kyle- 5
Zombie- 6
Mike- 7
buckett- 8
Zen- 9
poorpete- 11