The Slashfilm/Totally Rad Show Summer Movie Game
Our friends at theTotally Rad Showhave thrown down the gauntlet, and challenged /Film to compete against them in their annual Summer Movie Game.David Chen, Russ Fischerand I (Peter Sciretta) will compete against TRS’sDan Trachtenberg, Alex Albrecht, andJeff Cannata.
The game is to decide what will be the highest grossing films of the Summer. But it isn’t just that easy — not only do the participants need to predict what 10 films will be the highest grossing films domestically, but we need to place them in order. I actually appearedon this week’s TRS to announce my choices along with the TRS gang(embedded after the jump).
You can WIN too!We thought it would be a fun idea to invite you guys to play along with us. After the jump you can find a full listing of the Summer movies, a complete set of rules, and all of the predictions made my TRS and /Film. Leave your top ten list and three dark horses with your explanations of why and how in the comments below, and I will send the U.S.-based /Film reader with the highest score a $100 Amazon Gift Card.
If there is a tie, we will choose one of winning entries based on their reasonings for the film placings and award that person with the prize. Each person is allowed one (and only one entry). You can enter by leaving your entry in the comments below along with your full name and city/town, state of residence. Entries will only be accepted until Friday, May 14th 2010 at midnight. The full rules must be followed in order to win.
The rules for the game come fromTimeTravelReview’s Summer Movie Pool:
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:
The rest of the scoring goes like this:
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.
/Film:Peter Sciretta’s List:
1. Iron Man 2
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
- Sex and the City 2
5. Shrek Forever After
6. Inception
7. Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time
8. The Last Airbender
9. The Karate Kid
10. Despicable Me
Dark Horses
David Chen’s List:
2. Shrek Forever After
3. The Last Airbender
4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
5. Toy Story 3
Sex and the City 2
Knight and Day
10. The A-Team
Dark Horses:
Russ Fischer’s List:
2. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
4. Toy Story 3
- Sex and the City 2
6. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
- Knight and Day
8. Inception
The Other Guys
Eat Pray Love
Totally Rad Show:Alex Albrecht’s List
1. Shrek Forever After
Prince of Persia
MacGruber
4. Iron Man 2
5. Twilight: Eclipse
6. Toy Story 3
7. Robin Hood
9. Inception
Jeff Cannata’s List
1. Toy Story 3
2. Twilight: Eclipse
3. Shrek Forever After
5. The Last Airbender
6. Knight & Day
Prince of Persia
Sex and the City 2
9. Robin Hood
10 Despicable Me
Dan Trachtenberg’s List
3. Toy Story 3
- Prince of Persia
6. Twilight: Eclipse
7. The Last Airbender
8. The A-Team
9. Knight & Day
- Letters to Julia
List of Summer Movies:May 7
Iron Man 2
Just Wright
Letters to Juliet
Robin Hood
Shrek Forever After
Sex and the City 2
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Micmacs (Limited)
Survival of the Dead (Limited)
Get Him to the Greek
The A-Team
The Karate Kid
Toy Story 3
Knight & Day
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Last Airbender
The Kids Are All Right (Limited)
Despicable Me
Cyrus (Limited)
[Rec] 2 (Limited)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Dinner for Schmucks
Ramona and Beezus
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Charlie St. Cloud
Middle Men
Step Up 3D
Eat, Pray, Love
The Expendables
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Switch
Lottery Ticket
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
