Box Office Blitz Week 7!

Last week's results actually brought up a policy change to be instituted.  When I look up the box office results on Sunday afternoon those are just studio estimates.  Which I'm sure most of the time doesn't make a difference.  Last week it actually did make a slight difference as Sunday afternoon Kick-Ass 2 was listed as being tied for third place, though it was listed fourth.  I didn't give anyone points for it and history shows this was the correct decision as once the actual results came in on Monday afternoon, Kick-Ass 2 dropped to fifth place behind Planes.  We have had a tie between movies before back in March at least and back then I credited people with points.

But from now on if there's a tie then I will suspend calculating the totals until late on Monday when the actual totals come in.  That way people don't get points they don't deserve or don't lose points when they shouldn't.

Meanwhile, last week all but one of the four new movies tanked.  Will we have better luck this week?


Here's the list from my local megaplex:

• Blue Jasmine*
• 2 Guns
• Despicable Me 2
• Elysium
• Grown Ups 2
• Jobs
• Kick-Ass 2
• Lee Daniels' The Butler
• Mortal Instruments:  City of Bones* 
• Pacific Rim
• Paranoia
• Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
• Planes
• RIPD
• Red 2
• Stuck in Love*
• The Conjuring
• The Heat
• The Smurfs 2
• The Way, Way Back
• The Wolverine
• The World's End*
• We're the Millers
• World War Z
• You're Next*

I guess I'll have to go back to making my own picks this week.  I'll pick:

1. Mortal Instruments $30M
2. You're Next $25M
3. The Butler $18M

Though really I'd like World's End to do better because I loved Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and am glad they finally got the band back together to make another movie.  It'll probably do better in the UK than here as clearly we don't know shit about good movies.