Top Grossers: 8/23/19

[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 August 23, 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 weekend; (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
Spring 2019: Mike

Wide release movies opening this week include:
Ready or Not (Wed. open)
Angel Has Fallen
Overcomer

Season 19:2 Scores (UPDATED):
Kyle- 156
Zen- 160
poorpete- 165
bucket- 167
Mike- 180

Guesses (in millions):
Zen- 10
Tahlvin-13
Kyle- 15
buckett- 19
poorpete- 26
Mike- 40 (or -10)

[Kyle]

This is the last week of this season, and it's a nailbiter.

I'll admit I'm playing the game here instead of giving my guess, for the first time this season:

$15 million

[Zen]

*cough* [8/23/19] *cough*

What to do... what to do... Since I will be one closer than Kyle to this week's total, regardless of the official numbers, barring a massive drop from the estimates, the difference will be 4 mil, so I need to be 5 away in order to have a chance at winning... and Kyle has hit the mark on the projections for the most likely winner for the week... so... do I bet optimistic or pessimistic... Who am I kidding? Pessimism always wins out!

$10 mil

[Kyle]

[Mike]

What to do... what to do... Since I will be 3 closer than Kyle to this week's total, regardless of the official numbers, barring a massive drop from the estimates, the difference will be 24 mil, so I need to be 25 away in order to have a chance at winning... and Kyle has hit the mark on the projections for the most likely winner for the week... so... do I bet optimistic or pessimistic... Who am I kidding? Optimism always wins out!

$40 mil

[Zen]

Since negative numbers are guaranteed not to happen...

[Mike]

[poorpete]

Going to break my rule too. Was going to go 1, but Zen had that side covered
26

[Kyle]

Metascores updated.

[Tahlvin]

13

[buckett]

19

[Kyle]

Tahlvin's going to take the week.

[Zen]

Looks like I chose the wrong direction...

[Kyle]

Yeah- I already put me down as the season winner. But this was a bummer week to end on because there just wasn't that much disparity.

[Kyle]

Weekend Actuals for Angel has Fallen: $21,380,987

Results:
buckett- 2
poorpete- 5
Kyle- 6
Tahlvin- 8
Zen- 11
Mike- 19