 Weekend Box Office Predictions Game: Avatar, Stallone, Demons and TakersAugust 25, 2010 This latest round of the Weekend Box Office Prophet Game marks one year since it first debuted late last summer. Since then I've seen the number of players on average tick up to over 50 per week. To you all I say thanks for playing and here's to another year of predicting movie grosses.
James Cameron's Avatar returns this round to score some more green with a new special edition release. But a limited engagement will make it tough for the Na'vi and friends to compete for the top spot. Expected to take on The Expendables for the weekend box office throne are The Last Exorcism (produced by Eli Roth) and Takers with Chris Brown and Hayden Christensen. To round out the field of five I tossed in Piranha 3D over Lottery Ticket due to the former scoring a quick sequel. The goal of the game is to predict what each of these films will make at the box office between Friday, August 27 and Sunday, August 29. Your predictions will be averaged in with the other players to go up against The Prophet predictions. Should the average player differences between the actual box office gross and predicted grosses beat the Prophet for 3 or more of the 5 films, the top player will win Date Night and The Diplomat on Blu-ray as holdovers from past rounds, as well as a special anniversary prize NCIS Los Angeles: The Complete First Season on DVD. If the Prophet comes out on top then these prizes will roll into the next round and be joined by a fourth. We will still award a small DVD prize to the top player finisher should this occur (overall game leaderboard). Once you are successfully logged in, the average player scores will update in real time below as new predictions are entered. The entry period will close at 9pm PST Thursday, August 26, with this round's results being published sometime Monday in our box office actuals report. Now get predicting!
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