7/8: Box Office Showdown

[SFjohnny]

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NOTE: In order to win, you must beat all Shakefire.com members guessing.

Again, two big things have changed:

1. In order to get results to you faster, we will now be basing the percentages on the estimates released on Sundays.

2. Guesses will now be due no later than 5:00PM on Thursdays.

To submit your guesses, you must reply to this thread with your estimates of this coming weekend's Top 10 U.S. box office draw from July 8-10, 2005. Guesses will not be accepted via email.

THIS WEEK'S CONTEST:
Nothing this week, last week's prize bankrupted us.

To help you out, the upcoming movies, theatre counts and last week's theatrical totals are now on our front page on the right side near the bottom:

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To see last week's top guessers, see this post (http://www.shakefire.com/boards/showthread.php?p=15729#post15729).

All guesses must be submitted by replying to this post by Thursday July 7, 2005 at 5:00PM ET. In order to win prizing, there must be a minimum of 5 guesses submitted other than Shakefire.com staff members. Copying other posts or websites in full will not be permitted. Referencing is ok. For full list of rules, please go to http://www.shakefire.com/contestrules.html

GOOD LUCK!!

[rocksca]

Fantastic 4 55
War Of The Worlds 30
Dark Water 18.6
Batman 16.3
Bewitched 11.2
Mr & Mrs Smith 8.8
Herbie 7.9
Madagascar 5.3
Star Wars 3 3.9
Rebound 3

[DeaconBlade]

okay so here's my first guess :)

fantastic 4 - $35 mil
war of the worlds - $19
dark water - $16
batman begins - $14
mr and mrs smith - $10
madagascar - $5
star wars sith - $4
herbie fully loaded - $3
bewitched - $2.5
rebound - $2

[SFjohnny]

okay so here's my first guess :)

fantastic 4 - $35 mil
war of the worlds - $19
dark water - $16
batman begins - $14
mr and mrs smith - $10
madagascar - $5
star wars sith - $4
herbie fully loaded - $3
bewitched - $2.5
rebound - $2

welcome to the showdown..... :rocks:

[Hakeem]

1 Fantastic Four $39.5
2 WotW $34.5
3 Dark Water $13
4 Batman Begins $9
5 Mr. and Mrs. Smith $6.1
6 Herbie: FL $5.9
7 Bewitched $4.5
8 Madagascar $3.5
9 SW3 $2.6
10 Rebound $2.4

[Littleghost]

I was planning on retiring after I won the prize. Oh well back to the drawing board

1. Franstic 4 41 mil
2. War of the Wolds 34 mil
3. Dark Water 13.6 mil
4. Batman 9.2 mil
5. Mr and Mrs Smith 5.5 mil
6. Herbie Fully Loaded 5.2 mil
7. Bewitched 4.1 mil
8. Madagascra 3.5 mil
9. Rebound 2.5 mil
10. Star Wars 2.1 mil

[moviemaven]

I better post now before I forget and miss the deadline again. Welcome to the BOS rookies!

1. Fantastic 4 $40 m
2. War Of The Worlds $31.6m
3. Dark Water $12.75m
4. Batman Begins $9.275m
5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith $6.0 m
6. Herbie: Fully Loaded $5.4m
7. Bewitched $4.36m
8. Madagascar $3.45m
9. Star Wars III $2.55 m
10. Rebound $2.38m

[primo1]

Ok lets try this week...

1 Fantastic Four $43.5
2 War of the Worlds $39.2
3 Dark Water $14.2
4 Batman Begins $14
5 Mr. and Mrs. Smith $10.1
6 Bewitched $8.5
7 Herbie: Fully Loaded $8
8 Rebound $4
9 Madagascar $3.75
10 Star Wars III $3

Good luck everyone...

[Peter Oberth]

1. Fantastic Four - $45,089,184
2. War of the Worlds - $33,477,422
3. Dark Water - $18,515,497
4. Batman Begins - $8,522,862
5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith - $6,005,241
6. Herbie: Fully Loaded - $5,229,107
7. Bewitched - $4,202,870
8. Madagascar - $3,358,540
9. Star Wars - $2,196,276
10. Rebound - $2,073,945

[Nicsmall]

Wow, seems like forever since I played last:

1-Fan 4-40.1
2-War-36.4
3-Dark-14.9
4-Batman-10.5
5-Mr & Mrs-8.2
6-Bewitched-5.4
7-Herbie-5.1
8-Madagascar-4.0
9-Rebound-3.2
10-Star Wars-2.6

[SFjohnny]

not so long, June 3 :) You've missed 4 weeks. 5 absences and you get detention so watch yourself :mad:

[spacebarshift]

Spacebarshift
1. War Of The Worlds $25.4
2. Fantastic Four $21.1
3. Dark Water $17.9
4. Batman Begins $16.7
5. Star Wars Episode Iii Revenge Of The Sith $14.3
6. Murderball $10.0
7. Herbie: Fully Loaded $8.9
8. Mrs. And Mrs. Smith $6.8
9. Bewitched $6.4
10. Rebound $4.6

[rocksca]

spacebarshift your guesses don't even count since there after the deadline of thursday at 5:00

[moviemaven]

According to box office estimates Sunday, Fanastic Four led the industry out of it's slump to the first gain over 2004 in 20 weeks! The top 10 BO take was $137M vs. $131.9 last year.

1. Fantastic 4 $56m
2. War Of The Worlds $31.3m
3. Batman Begins $10.2m
4. Dark Water $10.1m
5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith $7.9m
6. Herbie: Fully Loaded $6.3m
7. Bewitched $5.5m
8. Madagascar $4.3 m
9. Rebound $2.9m
10. Star Wars III $2.6m

[SFjohnny]

as was said, we finally had a non-losing year-to-year weekend, even with Dark Water flopping. Here are this week's numbers:

1. nicsmall - 87.2%
2. Hakeem - 84.6%
3. moviemaven - 84.4%
4. littleghost - 80.7%
5. SFpeter - 78.3%
6. rocksca - 77.3%
7. Primo1 - 76.8%
8. Daylon-XGP - 65.2%

Congrats Nicsmall, let's see if you can make it two in a row. And, Daylon, don't worry, most people start off their BOS career with a lower number. You'll get better :)

[Nicsmall]

Woo Hoo, although I sure could have used that penny from last week~I just dropped over a thousand dollars on my car this weekend!

[DeaconBlade]

hey that's cool...i didn't expect that high so i'm happy :)

[spacebarshift]

spacebarshift

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $27.7
2. Wedding Crashers $24.6
3. Fantastic Four $21.9
4. War of the Worlds $19.7
5. Batman Begins $12.8
6. Bewitched $10.2
7. Mr. and Mrs. Smith $7.8
8. Herbie: Fully Loaded $6.6
9. Dark Water $5.9
10. Rebound $4.5

[rocksca]

Put your guess on the 7/15 bos not the 7/8 bos for this weeks guesses ok.