Weekend Box Office Predictions Game: Expendables Targets Eat Pray Love
August 11, 2010
It's the battle of the sexes this weekend at the box office as Sylvester Stallone and his pumped up companions take aim at Julia Roberts and her army of estrogen charged women. Hoping to slide past the gender-specific new offerings is the pop culture fueled Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and last weekend's champ The Other Guys with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.
These four films and Christopher Nolan's Inception are eligible this new round of our Weekend Box Office Prophet Game for you to predict their upcoming weekend ticket sales at the domestic box office from from Friday, August 13 through Sunday, August 15. Your predictions are then averaged in with all the players to go up against the Prophet predictons.
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 on Blu-ray. If the Prophet comes out on top then this prize will roll into the next round and be joined by another. We will still award a small DVD prize to the top place finisher should this happen (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 5, with this round's results being published Monday evening in our box office actuals report. You only have a 24-hour period to make your predictions this round so get busy!
| There are currently 63 players up against the Prophet The entry period for August 13 - 15 has already ended. Follow the weekly results at the Weekend Box Office Prophet main page.
Eat Pray LoveA younger Julia Roberts has proven she can carry a film. But does she still possess her box office pull? Eat Pray Love will draw the large crowd who know the book, an Oprah pick, by heart. The two-hour plus run time might eating into ticket sales at the 2,800 screens its debuting on. All: $26.1 Me: n/a Prophet: $21.0 Actual: $23.1
The ExpendablesSylvester Stallone collects all his big muscled buddies to combat the estrogen of Eat Pray Love with a keg full of pure testosterone. It's man versus woman this weekend with the early advantage going to the guys thanks to The Expendables nearly 3,300 screen count. All: $31.6 Me: n/a Prophet: $31.2 Actual: $34.8
Scott Pilgrim vs. The WorldScott Pilgrim and the ex-boyfriends he battles are pop culture and comic legend. The big question for Edgar Wright's first film away from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is whether it can reach beyond the niche audience that piled into Kick-Ass and into the mainstream. The pressure is on Michael Cera. Opens on 2,600 screens. All: $18.9 Me: n/a Prophet: $17.3 Actual: $10.6
The Other GuysThe Other Guys were the top guys last weekend with a huge $35.5 million opening weekend. Working to The Other Guys' advantage is that none of the three newcomers are direct competition per-se. The odds of it finishing first again are slim, but stranger things have happened. All: $19.4 Me: n/a Prophet: $18.5 Actual: $17.4
InceptionThis is Inception's last call in our game and what a run it has been. Last weekend it dropped a mere 37.2% from $27.5 million to $18.5 million. Even with the new competition, the strength of Inception could - and should - lead to another similar drop without coming too close to a 50% trim. All: $12.1 Me: n/a Prophet: $11.9 Actual: $11.3 |
