Summer Movie Game 2010

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Feel free to play if you're interested on your own LJ, and if you're in the U.S. until May 14th you can even enter your picks to win a $100 Amazon gift card.

The game is to decide what will be the highest grossing films of the Summer.

THE RULES

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 SCORING

Getting number 1 or number 10 dead-on gets you 13 points (each).
The rest of the scoring goes like this:
10 points for numbers 2-9 dead-on
7 points if your pick was only one spot away from where it ended up
5 points if it was two spots away
3 points if your pick is anywhere in the Top 10
1 point for each dark horse that makes it into the Top 10
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.

THE SUMMER FILMS

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, 
The Other Guys
, 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)

MY PICKS
1) Toy Story 3
2) Shrek Forever After
3) Iron Man 2
4) Eclipse
5) Sex in the City 2
6) Prince of Persia
7) Knight and Day
8) The Last Airbender
9) Sorcerer's Apprentice
10) Inception

DARK HORSES
Despicable Me
Robin Hood
A-Team