With Avengers: Endgame coming out in less than 2 weeks the 2019 Summer Movie season will officially begin (ignore the part where it is still spring). This means that the Summer Box Office Wager will soon be upon us! Courtesy of /Film, the Totally Rad Show, and Time Travel Reviews the Summer Box Office Wager is a contest where the players rank the top ten highest DOMESTIC grossing movies of the summer.
Last year kswiston , BiggestGeekEver , hodayathink and I ended up in the top 3%. If Solo had not been a bomb I would have been in the top 10 (No I'm not still bitter about that). This year I am again inviting ERA to join with me.
INTRODUCTION/RULES
The object is to pick the films that you think will be the top-ten grossing films of the summer, in order of box-office performance. That means only films released from April 24th 2019 to the Labor Day weekend (including Monday), counting only the money those films make domestically (US and Canada) in that period (04/24/2019-09/02/2019).
In other words films from March or Early April might still be making money after May 1st, but they don't count; films released from May on could start racking up foreign B.O., but that doesn't count; films released from May on could still be making money into late September, but that doesn't count either.
So what you will be doing is figuring out what 10 films will make the most money, and putting them in order of what you think they will gross at the box office. BUT, in addition to your top 10, you get to pick 3 "Dark Horses"- films you think *might* make it, but that you are not confident enough about to put into the top 10 proper.
SCORING
The scoring of your list of 10 movies and your 3 dark horses goes like this:
DEADLINE
April 24th at 12 PDT is the deadline for entry.
LINK TO ENTER
https://thesummermoviewager.com/playalong.php?year=2019
Leave the name you used to enter here so that we can keep track of everyone!
Last year kswiston , BiggestGeekEver , hodayathink and I ended up in the top 3%. If Solo had not been a bomb I would have been in the top 10 (No I'm not still bitter about that). This year I am again inviting ERA to join with me.
INTRODUCTION/RULES
The object is to pick the films that you think will be the top-ten grossing films of the summer, in order of box-office performance. That means only films released from April 24th 2019 to the Labor Day weekend (including Monday), counting only the money those films make domestically (US and Canada) in that period (04/24/2019-09/02/2019).
In other words films from March or Early April might still be making money after May 1st, but they don't count; films released from May on could start racking up foreign B.O., but that doesn't count; films released from May on could still be making money into late September, but that doesn't count either.
So what you will be doing is figuring out what 10 films will make the most money, and putting them in order of what you think they will gross at the box office. BUT, in addition to your top 10, you get to pick 3 "Dark Horses"- films you think *might* make it, but that you are not confident enough about to put into the top 10 proper.
SCORING
The scoring of your list of 10 movies and your 3 dark horses goes like this:
- Getting number 1 or number 10 dead-on gets you 13 points (each).
- 10 points for numbers 2-9 dead-on
- 7 points if your pick was only one spot away from where it ended up
- 5 points if it was two spots away
- 3 points if your pick is anywhere in the Top 10
- 1 point for each dark horse that makes it into the Top 10
DEADLINE
April 24th at 12 PDT is the deadline for entry.
LINK TO ENTER
https://thesummermoviewager.com/playalong.php?year=2019
Leave the name you used to enter here so that we can keep track of everyone!
