Thursday, June 18, 2009

Box Office Predictions

Wow, it's been awhile around here, hasn't it? I decided to dust off the ol' dust and finally post something again. After promising to do predictions, like, a month ago, I finally decided to get off my butt and do them. It will be a work in progress as I decide how exactly I want to tackle this.

Let's start this off with a very RopeofSilicon-ish header.

#1 Movie Correctly Predicted 0 Weeks in a Row

#1 -- The Proposal
Ok, I admit, I have no idea what I'm doing. Laremy at Rope, which RopeofSilicon will hereby be known as, says stuff like, "Dollars per theatre." Sounds easy enough, right? So, He's Just not that into You opened at $8,751 per theatre, which would put this movie at $26.7 million, which seems like alot of money for a movie like this. So, my number is a bit lower.
$24.5 million

#2 -- UP
I absolutely LOVE this movie! I've seen it four times in theatres (bye-bye $32, $43 if you include drink and popcorn). I'm really hoping that this can overtake Nemo as Pixars #1 movie, but their quality movies aren't too high on their list anyway (Wall-e, Ratatouille and Up are 6-8, respectively). Anywho, this will probably fall 25%-ish.
$23.2 million

#3 -- The Hangover
Everyone I talk to says that this movie is the second coming of Jesus Christ. I mean, apparently, this movie is SO FUCKING FUNNY! I need to see it but I doubt it is as good as people are saying. I mean, these are the people who think Wedding Crashers, The 40-Year Old Virgin and any Will Farrell movie are funny. But people are idiots today and they will probably come out to see this movie once again.
$23 million

#4 -- Year One
I wonder if people think I am guessing with random numbers or if I actually put thought into this. It's a little bit of both. Like 99/1 guessing to thinking. Umm, I guessed here and put this at $6000 per theatre.
$18.1 million

#5 -- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
So, Box Office Mojo is a Godsend. I'm thinking this will drop just like the other similar movies did (this includes Deja Vu, Inside Man, The Manchurian Candidate, Man on Fire, and John Q). I'm putting it at a 46% drop and calling it a day.
$13.1 million

OK. For popping my cherry, I am calling it a day. Five times is enough. How about any of our 0 readers? Do you have any predictions? No? Nothing? Fine.... Come back Monday when I review my picks.

2 comments:

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  2. Also, you know what's annoying? You set up TheLQProductions account from the pmsinthemorning account. This means I have to switch accounts any time I want to do anything. Good work, Saint Wonderful.

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