The Slashfilm/Totally Rad Show Summer Movie Game
By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2010 9:40 pm EST
The game is to decide what will be the highest grossing films of the Summer. But it isn’t just that easy — not only do the participants need to predict what 10 films will be the highest grossing films domestically, but we need to place them in order. I actually appeared on this week’s TRS to announce my choices along with the TRS gang (embedded after the jump).
If there is a tie, we will choose one of winning entries based on their reasonings for the film placings and award that person with the prize. Each person is allowed one (and only one entry). You can enter by leaving your entry in the comments below along with your full name and city/town, state of residence. Entries will only be accepted until Friday, May 14th 2010 at midnight. The full rules must be followed in order to win.
The Rules
The rules for the game come from TimeTravelReview’s Summer Movie Pool:
The Scoring:
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. As I’ve said, that means only films released from May 7th 2010 to the Labor Day weekend, counting only the money those films make domestically (US and Canada) in that period. In other words films from March or 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 September, but that doesn’t count either. Box Office numbers are generally available late Monday or Tuesday after the weekend closes. For the last seven or so years, I have been using box office numbers from Yahoo Box Office which gets their numbers in turn from Box Office Mojo. 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.
The rest of the scoring goes like this:
The scoring is tabulated so that you get the SINGLE HIGHEST point value for each pick- that is, if you get number ten right, you don’t get 13+3, you only get 13.
/Film:Peter Sciretta’s List:
Iron Man 2
Toy Story 3
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Sex and the City 2
Shrek Forever After
Inception
Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time
The Last Airbender
The Karate Kid
Despicable Me
Dark Horses
David Chen’s List:
Shrek Forever After
The Last Airbender
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Toy Story 3
Sex and the City 2
Knight and Day
The A-Team
Dark Horses:
Russ Fischer’s List:
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Toy Story 3
Sex and the City 2
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Knight and Day
Inception
The Other Guys
Eat Pray Love
Totally Rad Show:Alex Albrecht’s List
Shrek Forever After
Prince of Persia
MacGruber
Iron Man 2
Twilight: Eclipse
Toy Story 3
Robin Hood
Inception
Jeff Cannata’s List
Toy Story 3
Twilight: Eclipse
Shrek Forever After
The Last Airbender
Knight & Day
Prince of Persia
Sex and the City 2
Robin Hood
10 Despicable Me
Dan Trachtenberg’s List
Toy Story 3
Prince of Persia
Twilight: Eclipse
The Last Airbender
The A-Team
Knight & Day
Letters to Julia
List of Summer Movies:May 7
Iron Man 2
May 14
Just Wright
Letters to Juliet
Robin Hood
May 21
MacGruber
Shrek Forever After
May 27
Sex and the City 2
May 28
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Micmacs (Limited)
Survival of the Dead (Limited)
June 4
Get Him to the Greek
Killers
Marmaduke
Splice
June 11
The A-Team
The Karate Kid
June 18
Jonah Hex
Toy Story 3
June 25
Grown Ups
Knight & Day
June 30
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
July 2
The Last Airbender
July 7
The Kids Are All Right (Limited)
July 9
Despicable Me
Predators
Cyrus (Limited)
[Rec] 2 (Limited)
July 16
Inception
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
July 23
Dinner for Schmucks
Ramona and Beezus
Salt
July 30
Beastly
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Charlie St. Cloud
August 6
Middle Men
Step Up 3D
August 13
Eat, Pray, Love
The Expendables
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
August 20
The Switch
Lottery Ticket
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Takers
August 27
Going the Distance
The Last Exorcism
Piranha 3-D
Centurion (Limited)
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