{"id":838,"date":"2011-07-18T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/?p=838"},"modified":"2012-06-11T22:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T06:05:32","slug":"summer-movie-fantasy-league-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/screencuisine\/movies\/summer-movie-fantasy-league-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Movie Fantasy League Update 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, well. Just a quick update to our summer movie fantasy league, to capture the record-breaking weekend ‘Arry Potta’ An’ The ‘Eathly ‘Allows<\/em> just had. Box Office Mojo<\/a> is reporting that Potter took in $168,550,000 over the weekend, destroying not just my top-grossing pick Transformers: Look Robots Cars Tits Explosions Robots<\/em>, but officially taking the all-time domestic weekend opening record from The Dark Knight<\/em>, which made $158 million back in whatever weekend of whatever year that was.<\/p>\n

Potter took in $92 million just on Friday, which included $42 million from those midnight showings (I checked our local theater, and they had the movie starting roughly every five minutes). It also featured the biggest Friday-to-Saturday attendance drop-off in history, but even that wasn’t enough to stop it from crushing everything else ever.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Meanwhile, Kris’ questionable fifth pick Winnie the Pooh<\/em> took in just an estimated $8 million. Still, the combination of Potter & Pooh bring Kris’ summer totals up to $240 million, where my take stands at $248 million (though P & P are both estimates, so those numbers will probably get adjusted slightly later in the day). We’ve got an $8 million difference, which is ridiculously close, and we each have one more movie opening this summer to decide who is the winner (me) and who is not the loser (me).<\/p>\n

Pros and cons of our final movies? I’ve got Captain America<\/em>, opening July 22nd.<\/p>\n

Pros:<\/p>\n

1) It’s a known property with a built-in audience
\n2) Many Marvel films (Spider-Man 1 & 2, Iron Man) have been quite good and made bank
\n3) It’s got America in the title, and Americans love America (except for liberal scum like myself)
\n4) Everyone likes seeing Nazis get beat up<\/p>\n

Cons:<\/p>\n

1) It looks dumb. But what doesn’t?
\n2) Many Marvel films (Spider-Man 3, Iron Man 2) have been awful (but still made bank)
\n3) Chris Evans is about the most boring movie star I can think of
\n4) It opens opposite Friends With Benefits<\/em>, which may suck some couples away<\/p>\n

Kris, meanwhile, has Cowboys & Aliens<\/em> opening July 29th.<\/p>\n

Pros:<\/p>\n

1) It’s called Cowboys & Aliens.
\n2) Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, and Sam Rockwell are all great.
\n3) Harrison Ford kinda sucks these days, but now he’s a cowboy, and that’s appealing.
\n4) Everyone likes seeing Aliens get beat up.<\/p>\n

Cons:<\/p>\n

1) It’s an unknown property
\n2) It looks dumb. But what doesn’t?
\n3) Getting it made into a movie was basically a scam<\/a>, though an interesting one.
\n4) It opens opposite Crazy, Stupid, Love<\/em> which may suck some couples away<\/p>\n

So, that’s it. I’ve got an $8 million<\/del> $7.6 million lead, but this thing could easily go either way. But it’ll probably go my way. Probably.<\/p>\n

I updated the spreadsheet below with reported numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Opening Weekend<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kris<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nChris<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harry Potter<\/td>\n$169,189,427<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\nTransformers<\/td>\n$97,500,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Super 8<\/td>\n$35,451,168<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCars 2<\/td>\n$66,135,507<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cowboys & Aliens<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCaptain America<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Horrible Bosses<\/td>\n$28,302,165<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGreen Lantern<\/td>\n$53,185,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winnie The Pooh<\/td>\n$7,857,076<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\nBad Teacher<\/td>\n$31,603,106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kris Total<\/td>\n$240,799,836<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\nChris Total<\/td>\n$248,423,613<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, well. Just a quick update to our summer movie fantasy league, to capture the record-breaking weekend ‘Arry Potta’ An’ The ‘Eathly ‘Allows just had. Box Office Mojo is reporting that Potter took in $168,550,000 over the weekend, destroying not just my top-grossing pick Transformers: Look Robots Cars Tits Explosions Robots, but officially taking the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[658,659,657,656],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","tag-captain-america","tag-cowboys-aliens","tag-harry-potter","tag-i-am-going-to-win","section-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}