Weekend Box Office Predictions Game: Scrooge is Visited by 2012

2012 comes to theaters this upcoming weekend with the only new competition being Pirate Radio on 1/3 the screens. The Robert Zemeckis 3D animated A Christmas Carol is the film's strongest competition but its lackluster opening last weekend puts 2012 in the drivers seat to determine its own fate.

Also eligible to predict in this latest round are The Men Who Stare at Goats and Michael Jackson's This Is It.

The objective of the Weekend Box Office game is twofold. You will predict the weekend box office gross for five films and try to be the closest of everyone playing. If you are, then you are hoping the cumulative score of all the players is better on 3 or more movies than the Prophet. If so, a DVD or Blu-ray Disc prize will be awarded. Weekly and cumulative scoring charts are available on the main game page.

The entry period for this round will close the evening of Thursday, November 12. The average player scores will update in real time below as new predictions are entered. Good luck!

There are currently 43 players up against the Prophet The entry period for November 13 - 15 has already ended. Follow the weekly results at the Weekend Box Office Prophet main page. 2012 Roland Emmerich's next flick is being called his crowning achievement, a potpourri of CGI destruction unlike anything put to film to date. As the previews show, the plot and characters are as thin as paper and a 2 hour 38 minute run time might negate some of the 3,000+ screens it will open on. All: $36.2   Me: n/a   Prophet: $28.6   Actual: $65.2 Pirate Radio The British comedy Pirate Radio will set sail on 900 screens as an alternative to those who do not wish their new movie this weekend to destroy the planet. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy headline a solid cast for the little film that made over $28 million in its earlier foreign release. All: $9.7   Me: n/a   Prophet: $4.6   Actual: $2.9 A Christmas Carol 3D (2009) 3D and lots of Jim Carrey propelled A Christmas Carol to a less than expected $30.1 million opening. On one hand you could argue the lackluster weekend signals a big drop coming up. On the other, this is a holiday film and every weekend inches closes towards the holiday. All: $20.2   Me: n/a   Prophet: $19.3   Actual: $22.3 The Men Who Stare at Goats The small comedy with George Clooney and Ewan McGregor has a powerful ally in its corner: word of mouth. A solid marketing effort drove it into third place last weekend for its debut with an impressive $12.7 debut that bested The Box and The Fourth Kind. A smaller than expected drop in weekend two is not out of the question. All: $8.4   Me: n/a   Prophet: $8.6   Actual: $5.9 Michael Jackson's This Is It This Is It for Michael Jackson in our game as he enters his third weekend having scored a second place finish last weekend with $13.2 million. The drop between weekends was 43.4% and the arrival of 2012 might push that percentage even higher after this upcoming weekend. All: $7.8   Me: n/a   Prophet: $7.8   Actual: $5.1