Top Grossers: 7/19/19

[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 July 19, 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:
The Lion King

Season 19:2 Scores (UPDATED):
Kyle- 95
Zen- 101
buckett- 101
poorpete- 106
Mike- 146

Guesses (in millions):
Zen- 150
buckett- 180
poorpete- 184
Kyle- 186
Tahlvin- 188
Mike- 197

[Kyle]

$186 million

[poorpete]

$184

[Tahlvin]

$188

If the idea is to guess +/- $2 mill of Kyle, and Pete always guesses in the wrong direction, I'll nail this on my first try, right?

[Kyle]

[Mike]

197

[Zen]

$150 Mil [You guys are drinking the Disney Koolaid!]

[Kyle]

Metascores updated.

[buckett]

180

[Zombie]

Reviews and negative reactions to the CGI doesn't seem to be stopping it. 186+ with most thinking it will pass 200.

[Mike]

Did you know Kool-Aid was invented in Nebraska? Official state soft drink.

Yum!

[poorpete]

Good. Two years in a row of producing a film set in Africa with a pop music icon assembling a knock-out soundtrack, making gobs of money, and effectively burning the people-dont-go-to-minority-led-films CW. I think all that overwhelms the meh reviews and the Disney recycling and the Disney is turning into a public-chosen monopoly. Overall public good is positive.

[Zen]

[Kyle]

[Mike]

You are my hero, Kyle.

[Kyle]

Weekend actuals for The Lion King: $191,770,759

Results:
Tahlvin- 4
Mike- 5
Kyle- 6
poorpete- 8
buckett- 12
Zen- 42

[poorpete]

[Kyle]

I thought that when I posted the results too. Thank god he's not eligible for the season yet.