9/2: Box Office Showdown

[SFjohnny]

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All BOX OFFICE SHOWDOWN rules can now be found in the Board FAQ or by CLICKING HERE (http://www.shakefire.com/boards/faq.php?faq=vb_board_usage#faq_bos_faq_item). For an explanation of how we calculate the totals, CLICK HERE (http://www.shakefire.com/boards/showpost.php?p=17478&postcount=21).

To submit your guesses, you must reply to this thread with your estimates of this coming weekend's Top 10 North American box office draw from September 1-3, 2005. Guesses will not be accepted via email.

THIS WEEK'S CONTEST:
still nothing...at all....seriously.

To help you out, the upcoming movies, theatre counts and last week's theatrical totals are now on our main MOVIES page:

http://www.shakefire.com/movies/index.html#boxoffice

To see last week's top guessers, see this post (http://www.shakefire.com/boards/showthread.php?p=20135#post20135).

All guesses must be submitted by replying to this post by Thursday September 1, 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]

transporter 2 12
Brothers Grimm 10.6
40 Year Old Virgin 8.6
Constant Gardener 7
Sound Of Thunder 6.3
Underclassman 5.9
Red Eye 5.3
Cave 4.5
Four Brothers 4
Wedding Crashers 2.7

[Hakeem]

for Frodo.... I mean, for Nothing... :p

1 Transporter 2 $18
2 The 40-Year Old Virgin $14
3 The Brothers Grimm $8
4 Red Eye $7.5
5 The Constant Gardener $6.5
6 Four Brothers $5.6
7 Wedding Crashers $5.4
8 Underclassman $4.6
9 March of the Penguins $4.4
10 The Skeleton Key $3

[Terri218]

1 Transporter 2 $17,000,000
2 The Brothers Grimm $16,000,000
3 The 40-Year Old Virgin $15,000,000
4 Red Eye $10,000,000
5 Four Brothers $9,000,000
6 The Constant Gardener $7,000,000
7 Wedding Crashers $6,000,000
8 Underclassman $5,000,000
9 March of the Penguins $4,000,000
10 The Skeleton Key $3,000,000

[green_ninja_mackdaddy]

1) Transporter 2 $17.8
2) 40 Year Old Virgin $14.4
3) Brothers Grimm $9.2
4) Red Eye $6.6
5) Constant Gardener $5.9
6) Four Brothers $5.3
7) Wedding Crashers $4.6
8) Underclassman $3.3
9) March of the Penguins $2.9
10) Skeleton Key $1.1

The Ninja :war:

[Pinckney4]

Here are my uneducated guesses:

1. Transporter 2 15
2. The 40 Year Old Virgin 14
3. The Brothers Grimm 12
4. Red Eye 8
5. The Constant Gardner 6
6. Underclassmen 5
7. Four Brothers 4.5
8. Wedding Crashers 4
9. The Cave 3.5
10. Sound of Thunder 3

[slangdon]

1) Transporter 2 $14
2) The 40-Year Old Virgin $12
3) The Constant Gardner $8
4) Underclassmen $7
5) The Brothers Grimm $6.5
6) Red Eye $5.7
7) Wedding Crashers $5.6
8) Four Brothers $4.6
9) March of the Penguins $4.0
10) Sound of Thunder $3.2

[Nicsmall]

This is a yucky week, I feel like I am horribly wrong on one of these, but I don't know which one...

1-Transporter-14.4
2-40 year old-14.2
3-Brothers Grim-8.0
4-Red Eye-7.9
5-Constant Gardener-7.1
6-4 Bros.-5.8
7-Underclassman-5.7
8-Sound of Thunder-5.1
9-Wedding -4.1
10-March-3.9

[primo1]

1) Transporter 2 $17.2
2) 40 Year Old Virgin $14.7
3) Brothers Grimm $13.2
4) Red Eye $8.5
5) Constant Gardener $6.3
6) Four Brothers $6
7) Wedding Crashers $4.5
8) The Cave $4
9) March of the Penguins $3.25
10) Skeleton Key $2.8

Good Luck

FRODO LIVES!!!!

[moviemaven]

1 Transporter 2 $15.1 m
2 The 40-Year Old Virgin $14.6m
3 The Brothers Grimm $8.2m
4 Red Eye $7.1m
5 The Constant Gardener $5.9m
6 Four Brothers $5.46m
7 Wedding Crashers $4.9m
8 Underclassman $4.4m
9 March of the Penguins $3.85m
10 A Sound of Thunder $3.1m

I'll try again at BOS, I remembered to submit this week!
Hope everyone has a safe & fun Holiday weekend!

[Fanana]

I remembered to submit this week!

But I didn't. I had to go to the doctor for a test where I couldn't eat anything for 12 hours. :grumpy: :drama: When I got home I ate until I was full and fell asleep. I woke up at 5:00 PM.....How much does that suck? Not to mention they took two tubes of blood so now I can't even bend my arm. Just one generally bad/sucky day. :(

[spacebarshift]

spacebarshift
1. TRANSPORTER 2 $21
2. 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN $17.8
3. RED EYE $12.3
4. BROTHERS GRIMM $10.2
5. UNDERCLASSMEN $7.8
6. THE CONSTANT GARDENER $6.5
7. FOUR BROTHERS $5.9
8. SKELETON KEY $5.3
9. THE CAVE $3.9
10. A SOUND OF THUNDER $2.7

[Maxi]

I forgot to submit this week! :duh: :banghead: I can't believe it, I had been doing so good remembering to at least enter over the last few weeks even if they were just quick guesses. Oh well, I'll just have to wait till next week and try again.

[SFjohnny]

wow, tough week. only PRIMO1 has all the correct 10 movies in her top 10:

1. Primo1 - 81.5%
2. Hakeem - 80.8%
3. slangdon - 71.1%
4. Nicsmall - 71.0%
5. green_ninja_mackdaddy - 70.8%
6. Terri218 - 68.3%
7. Pinckney4 - 66.7%
8. rocksca - 55.8%

Congrats Primo1!!

[Hakeem]

only she got the top 10 correctly and I still almost beat her? mine must've been all super close to the actual numbers :)

Congrats Primo :)

[primo1]

Killer.... this has been a good weekend.. first I put out a brush fire, ride on a fire truck and now I win BOS.... yeah.. and no I am not a firefighter just a good person who whould have hated to see two stupid kids burn down a good park...

Thanks Hakeem.... :)

[moviemaven]

wow, tough week. only PRIMO1 has all the correct 10 movies in her top 10:

1. Primo1 - 81.5%
2. Hakeem - 80.8%
3. slangdon - 71.1%
4. Nicsmall - 71.0%
5. green_ninja_mackdaddy - 70.8%
6. Terri218 - 68.3%
7. Pinckney4 - 66.7%
8. rocksca - 55.8%

Congrats Primo1!!

SFJohnny, I know I didn't win, but do I get included in the rankings? :confused: I submitted on time.