Box Office Blitz Week 16

Slightly updated Stacey!

The good thing is this is the last movie weekend of "spring."  Next week "summer" movie season begins!  According to reports Iron Man 3 has already raked in $195M overseas, so keep that in mind next week.  In the meantime, it looks like my reign at the top was short-lived as Tom Cruise's Oblivion is quickly headed to oblivion.  And congrats to Michael Bay for hitting #1 with a movie not featuring CGI robots--just flesh ones, ie Marky Mark.

And if you want to know the real story behind the movie, visit this link Maurice Mitchell posted.  It's a real eye-opener!
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/pain-and-gain.php


 The top three movies were:

1. Pain & Gain $20M
2. Oblivion $17.4M
3. 42 $10.7M

My crappy guesses were:

1. Oblivion $25M
2. Pain & Gain $20M
3. 42 $10M

That's 50 Oblivion, 50 for Pain & Gain, and 100 for 42 for 200 total.

Offutt guessed:
1 Pain & Gain 30 M
2 Oblivion 15 M
3 42 9.5 million

That's a trifecta!  300 plus 100 for taking my survey.

Pagel guessed:
1. Oblivion $20 mil.
2. Pain & Gain $19 mil.
3. Mud $15 million.

That's 50 for the first two, 0 for the last or 100 total plus another 100 for the survey.

Leon guessed:
1. Oblivion -- $20m
2. Pain & Gain -- $18m
3. 42 -- $15m

200 for him plus 100 for the survey.

Rusty guessed:

Oblivion - $22 mil
Pain and Gain - $20 mil
42 - $13 mil

That's 200 for him as well and 100 for the survey'

Hayes guessed:
#1 Oblivion $19 mil.
#2 42 $$13 mil.
#3 Pain and Gain $12 mil.

That's 50 for each or 150 plus 100 for the survey

Laplume guessed:
1. Pain & Gain ($22 mil)
2. Oblivion ($20 mil)
3. 42 ($12 mil)

That's a trifecta for him.  Plus 100 for the survey.

But the winner this week is Maurice Mitchell!
1. Pain and Gain - $21
2. Oblivion $20M
3. 42 $12M

His $21M guess for Pain and Gain was closest to actual retail price.  He gets 300 for the trifecta and the 500 bonus.  But he did not answer the survey.  That may hurt him later on, eh?

As for the bonus question, I asked whether the #5 movie would make MORE or LESS than last week's at $5.76M.  Everyone guessed LESS but The Croods came in 5th with $6.6M so the answer was MORE.  Andrew Leon did (I presume jokingly) change his to MORE and since he got screwed a couple weeks ago on the week when two movies were tied, I'll allow him to have the bonus this week.  Huzzah!

Here are the updated standings:

	Box Office Blitz
	Scoreboard
		16	Total
1	Tony Laplume	400	6900
2	Andrew Leon	400	5350
3	PT Dilloway	200	4450
4	Rusty Carl	300	3850
5	Maurice Mitchell	800	3100
6	Michael Offutt	400	2700
7	Briane Pagel	200	2650
8	Stephen Hayes	250	1050
9	Cindy Borgne	0	200
10	David P King	0	200
11	Donna Hole	0	200
		2950	30650