Box Office Blitz Season 2, Week 2 Results Show!

As I Tweeted last night, when am I going to learn to always bet against Ryan Reynolds?  Dude had two new movies this week and they both tanked.  It's about time Hollywood wises up and realizes he's box office poison.  Meanwhile while this year has been disappointing for a lot of "stars," sci-fi movies that aren't based on known properties, and action movies it's been a good year for low budget horror movies.  Though someone I know on Facebook who published a ghost story last year confirmed that "The Conjuring" is not scary and pretty much just a bunch of cliches strung together.  I was much happier to spend my money on "Pacific Rim" in the 3D fake IMAX.  It was the first 3D movie I've seen in the post-Avatar era.  It was OK except the subtitles were kind of hard to read but then that's probably what happens when you wear glasses over glasses.

Anyway, here were the totals this week:
The Conjuring $41.5M
Despicable Me 2 $25.1M
Turbo $21.5M

My lousy picks were

1. Turbo $50M
2. RIPD $40M
3. The Conjuring $30M

 That's 100 for Turbo and 100 for Conjuring.  Argh.  Fuck you, Ryan Reynolds.  Also people who cast Ryan Reynolds.

Chris Dilloway picked:
Turbo 45
Conjuring 40
Despicable Me 2 28

That's 100 for each for 300 total.

Briane Pagel picked:
1. Turbo: $45 million.
2. The Conjuring $35 million
3. RIPD $30 million.

That's 100 for Turbo and 100 for Conjuring.

Briane's wife Sweetie picked:
1. The Conjuring, $35 million.
2. Turbo $20 mil
3. Red 2: $11 mil.

That's 100 for Conjuring and 100 for Turbo plus 100 bonus on Conjuring at #1 for 300 total.

Michael Offutt picked:

Turbo $31 million
The Conjuring $27 million
Red 2 $25 million

That's 100 for Turbo and 100 for Conjuring for 200 total.

Andrew Leon picked:
1. The Conjuring: $30m
2. RED 2: $25m
3. Despicable Me 2: $24m

That's 100 for Conjuring and 100 for DM2 plus 100 bonus on Conjuring for 300 total.

David Walton picked
1-The Conjuring $37M
2-Turbo $30M
3-Red 2 $24M

That's 300 as well

Maurice Mitchell picked:
1. Turbo $55
2. RIPD $45M
3. Pacific Rim $30M

That's 100 for Turbo.

But the winner this week is Rusty Carl who somehow, perhaps using some kind of supernatural intervention, guessed the trifecta this week.

The Conjuring - $35 mil
Despicable Me 2 - $30 mil
Turbo - $29 mil

That's 100 for each, plus 100 bonus on #1, 200 bonus on #2, and 300 bonus on #3.  And to top it off, a 300 bonus for winning the round.  By my math that's 1200 points!!!

And here's the updated scoreboard:

	Box Office Blitz
	Scoreboard
		2	Total
1	Rusty Carl	1200	1500
2	Briane Pagel	200	1000
3	Andrew Leon	300	700
4	Chris Dilloway	300	700
5	PT Dilloway	200	600
6	David Walton	300	600
7	Sweetie Pagel	300	300
8	Michael Offutt	200	200
9	Maurice Mitchell	100	100
		3100	5700

BTW, the recordkeeping for next week will be a little messy since I will be on vacation in the wilds of northern Michigan