Each week Jacob recaps the weekend box office and the winners and losers in the Midnight Warrior Fantasy Movie League.
WEEK 08 BOX OFFICE BREAKDOWN
When will we ever have a normal week? Really, I think the main problem this world faces is Global Weirding, and now it’s spreading into FML.
The Perfect Cineplex this week is, if you can believe it, 2 screens of an M. Night Shyamalan movie, 3 screens of a Nickelodeon-produced live action Transformers knockoff, one screen of a Jamie Foxx movie with 14% fresh on Rotten tomatoes, and two blank screens. What the heck is even going on? How am I supposed to make predictions when we live in this world?
Split did just insane monster numbers. I don’t mean The Village wolf costume monster numbers, I mean Cloverfield monster numbers (almost literally). Right above $40 million dollars in a single weekend. Monster Trucks was closer to $7 million, but that’s still a great value for the bux. Sleepless pulled in about $3.5 million, proving that sometimes reviews don’t matter at all.
Coming Up Roses Cineplex picks for Week 8 on Fantasy Movie League
As for the Midnight Warrior league, we are back to normal with O PC Where Art Thou back in her rightful spot on top of the league. Pulling out to over $802 million on the season, she rode the 2x Split combo for all that it’s worth, plus one Monster Trucks and 5x Underworld. This put her still far off from a PC, but enough to best School of Rock and your’s truly who tied for second.
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Condolences to the brave Scruffy-looking Nerfherder who was smart enough to pick the 2x Split, but unfortunately trusted 6x 20th Century Women. In another universe where that film had a wider release, we’d be talking about the brains on this one. Instead, he’s just the lowest performing cineplex in our league who was smart enough to see the 2x Split.
WEEK 09 PREDICTIONS
As I said up top, I have no clue what will happen this week. I was ready to write off A Dog’s Purpose just on premise alone, but that $161 price tag is just so appealing. If only they hadn’t tried to drown a German Shepard on camera. So let’s write that one off complet–oh wait. What’s this? That was taken out of context and they weren’t cruel to animals? Does that cancel out the bad press, or motivate PETA haters to get out and see this? I think if you’re banking on PETA haters to see your dog-reincarnation movie, maybe it’s not the best bet.
In my opinion, you have to think the 14 Oscar Nominations for La La Land is going to give it a California-sized bump. That seems like the no-brainer anchor. Let’s max it out at 7x, and try to figure out what to play with it. There are 9 options, and you’re just trying to find the one with the highest gross. Even though McConaughey looks gross with that bald head, I don’t think he’ll strike box office Gold. I don’t think Monster Trucks has enough gas to pass up Sing. The only real competition is if the expansion and sing-along releases for zombie film Moana can pass it up. This prediction thinks it’s dead in the water.
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