KJ's Winter Box Office Contest 2011

Time for the late fall/winter portion of the box office game that truly shows who among us has the best foresight in box office! It will cover movies released from October 28th through December 31st, 2011. The winner will receive a $25 gift card.

There are 20 box office questions asking various box office questions covering which movie released in December will be the biggest to what will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee of the holiday season. Once again, these questions cover movies released between October 28th through December 31st, 2011.

Next, you will predict what will be the top 5 grossing movies of the winter holiday season. Not one person has got them top 5 movies in the correct order for the past two box office games. Each rank is worth 1 points with a bonus of 15 points if you get all 5 correct in the right order.

And FINALLY, is the true test. You will predict 25 late fall/winter films' total grosses. For each movie, the five closest predictors will get 3 points a piece.

The 20 Box Office Questions
(Questions refer to any movie released between October 28th & December 31st, 2011.)

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million?
#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million?
#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends?
#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend?
#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend?
#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin?
#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend?
#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December?
#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)?
#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross?
#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other?
#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?
#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve?
#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million?
#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million?
#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million?
#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million?


Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1
#2
#3
#4
#5


Predict the Following Film's Total Gross


The Adventures of Tintin
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Anonymous
Arthur Christmas
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Happy Feet Two
Hugo
Immortals
In Time
J. Edgar
Jack and Jill
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The Muppets
New Year’s Eve
Puss in Boots
The Rum Diary
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
The Sitter
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tower Heist
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
War Horse
We Bought a Zoo
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

Prediction can be posted in this thread or sent in a PM to me. All predictions are due at 11:59 PM on Thursday, October 27th.

Gooooooood luck!!

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Hugo
J. Edgar
We Bought a Zoo
OTHER: The Descendants

Will Shame, a possible Oscar contender, but also expected to be slapped with an NC-17 by the MPAA, gross $5 million?

What will be #1 on the Dec 23-25 weekend?

Highest grossing Animated film of November? Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas

Will Happy Feet 2 total make more or less then Breaking Dawns Opening weekend.

Which will have the bigger weekend Harold and Kumar 3 or Piranha 3DD?

Will Jack and Jill total be more or Less then Breaking Dawns Opening Day

Highest grossing film in December? (almost always an interesting/unpredictable race in the past few years)

Which will be bigger: Sherlock Holmes+Chipmunks 2009 OW or Sherlock Holmes+Chipmunks 2011 OW?

Highest grossing BP nominee of the Holidays?

Seconded. Another question would be if My Week With Marilyn and The Artist together will make more or less than The Iron Lady. All 3 are Weinstein Oscar hopefuls.

My Week With Marilyn (Come on people, I think this would be one of the most interesting to predict. It could possibly breakout.)
J. Edgar
Piranha 3DD
Harold & Kumar
OTHER: The Descendants

Well with Puss in Boots move a week forward, I decided to move the time frame a week up as well. Kinda works out as The Rum Diary and Johnny English Reborn will be fun ones to predict!

Anyways, the game is up and you guys are free to start the predicting!

All predictions are due at 11:59 pm on Thursday, October 27th.

Question #10... How do you define "holiday season?" Is this more or less asking whether War Horse, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, or Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close will gross more?

Pretty much. Nominations are never guaranteed though (while those are as close to locks as you can get), and there's always room for surprises like The King's Speech (even though True Grit ended up grossing more).

Oh and the late fall/holiday season any of the box office questions are referring to is October 28th through December 31st.

I find Immortals difficult to predict. It has a "flop" vibe to me, yet the advertising campaign has been very loud, and there is an audience for this type of material. Just not sure if this is more 300 or more Conan the Barbarian.

Hugo is also a big question-mark.

I'm going to low ball We Bought a Zoo. I guess it could do well, but...I don't know. Not sure what audience it's going to connect with. Seems too childish and storybook-earnest for the usual adult audience one associates with Cameron Crowe, yet not fun or zany or comic enough to distract children from all the other options.

Don't you mean October?

That's embarrassing. Thank you.

Those are some really nice questions Casey. I will need to go through all the trailers, cause I think this year already has had a lot of surprises in terms of breakouts and flops. This could lead to a boring October and specially November (where outside of Twilight there is nothing that looks interesting yet).

Wow, Johnny English Reborn moved a week now. Can't believe there's so many last-minute release date changes. Going to switch out Johnny English for Anonymous.

I guess I'll be first out of the gate this time around...

20 Box Office Questions

1. How many films will gross over $150 million?
- 8

2. How many films will gross over $200 million?
- 4

3. Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends?
- Puss in Boots

4. What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend?
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

5. What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend?
- War Horse

6. What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin?
- Puss and Boots

7. Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend?
- More than

8. Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
- Sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

9. What will be the highest grossing film of December?
- War Horse

10. What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)?
- War Horse

11. Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

12. Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross?
-The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day

13. Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other?
- No

14. What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

15. Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
- The Sitter

16. Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve?
- Tower Heist

17. Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million?
- No

18. How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million?
-10

19. Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million?
- Yes

20. How many films will gross over $100 million?
- 9

Top 5 Grossing Movies

1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
2. War Horse
3. Puss in Boots
4. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
5. The Adventures of Tintin

Total Grosses

The Adventures of Tintin - $172
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $155
Anonymous - $42
Arthur Christmas - $33
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - $81
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $88
Happy Feet Two - $167
Hugo - $111
Immortals - $54
In Time - $48
J. Edgar - $83
Jack and Jill - $72
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - $151
The Muppets - $44
New Year’s Eve - $76
Puss in Boots - $222
The Rum Diary - $45
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $211
The Sitter - $66
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - $79
Tower Heist - $93
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - $288
War Horse - $244
We Bought a Zoo - $62
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - $51

And to add to the first horse pun found at the beginning of this post, I feel War Horse is going to have amazing legs and end up being a huge hit overall. I honestly wouldn't be entirely surprised if it became an Oscar front-runner and out-grossed Twilight.

The 20 Box Office Questions

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million?
Five (Puss in Boots, Sherlock Holmes, Breaking Dawn, wildcard, wildcard)

#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million?
Three (Sherlock Holmes, Breaking Dawn, wildcard)

#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends?
Puss in Boot's opening weekend

#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend?
Sherlock Holmes 2

#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend?
The Adventures of Tintin

#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin?
Puss in Boots

#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend?
Less

#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
Sherlock Holmes 2

#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December?
Sherlock Holmes 2

#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)?
War Horse

#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
Mission Impossible

#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross?
Breaking Dawn's opening day

#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other?
No

#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?
Breaking Dawn

#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
The Sitter

#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve?
Tower Heist

#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million?
Yes

#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million?
Nine (Puss in Boots, Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, Happy Feet Two, Breaking Dawn, New Year's Eve, Chipmunks, Sherlock Holmes, wildcard)

#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million?
Yes

#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million?
12 (Tintin, Chipmunks, Happy Feet, M:I4, Puss in Boots, Jack & Jill, Sherlock Holmes, Breaking Dawn, War Horse, wildcard, wildcard)

Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
#2: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
#3: Puss in Boots
#4: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
#5: The Adventures of Tintin

Predict the Following Film's Total Gross

The Adventures of Tintin - $135 million
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $145 million
Anonymous - $21.5 million
Arthur Christmas - $76 million
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - $85 million
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $84 million
Happy Feet Two - $122 million
Hugo - $48 million
Immortals - $74 million
In Time - $51 million
J. Edgar - $70 million
Jack and Jill - $102 million
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - $105 million
The Muppets - $68 million
New Year’s Eve - $80 million
Puss in Boots - $195 million
The Rum Diary - $29.5 million
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $255 million
The Sitter - $60 million
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - $68 million
Tower Heist - $95 million
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - $322 million
War Horse - $120 million
We Bought a Zoo - $75 milliion
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - $43 million

Edited 10/27/11

The 20 Box Office Questions
(Questions refer to any movie released between October 28th & December 31st, 2011.)

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million? 7
#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million? 2
#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends? Puss In Boots
#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend? Alvin and the Chipmunks 3
#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend? Alvin and the Chipmunks 3
#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin? Puss in Boots
#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend? Less
#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? Sum
#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December? Alvin 3
#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)? The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? Ghost Protocol
#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross? New Years Eve
#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other? No
#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn? Ghost Protocol
#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas? In Time
#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve? The Muppets
#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million? Yes
#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million? 9
#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million? No
#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million? 13


Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1 Twilight: Breaking Dawn
#2 Alvin and the Chipmunks 3
#3 The Muppets
#4 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
#5 Puss In Boots


Predict the Following Film's Total Gross


The Adventures of Tintin $125M
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked $220M
Anonymous $14M
Arthur Christmas $116M
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close $58M
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo $150M
Happy Feet Two $133M
Hugo $50M
Immortals $64M
In Time $55M
J. Edgar $54M
Jack and Jill $108M
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - $173M
The Muppets - $188M
New Year’s Eve - $84M
Puss in Boots - $156M
The Rum Diary - $33M
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $151M
The Sitter - $52M
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - $63M
Tower Heist- $85M
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - $300M
War Horse - $87M
We Bought a Zoo - $40M
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - $45M

10/19/11 - edit 1
10/24/11 - edit 2
10/27/11 - edit 3

20 Box Office Questions

1. How many films will gross over $150 million?
- 9

2. How many films will gross over $200 million?
- 5

3. Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends?
- Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’

4. What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend?
- Tintin

5. What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend?
- Tintin

6. What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin?
- The Adventures of Tintin

7. Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend?
- More than

8. Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
- Sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

9. What will be the highest grossing film of December?
- Tintin

10. What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)?
- War Horse

11. Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

12. Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross?
-The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day

13. Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other?
- No

14. What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

15. Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
- A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?

16. Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve?
- Jack and Jill

17. Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million?
- No

18. How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million?
-10

19. Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million?
- Yes

20. How many films will gross over $100 million?
- 15

Top 5 Grossing Movies

1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
2. Tintin
3. War Horse
4. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
5. Chipwrecked

Total Grosses

The Adventures of Tintin - $250
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $205
Anonymous - $55
Arthur Christmas - $83
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - $71
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $108
Happy Feet Two - $187
Hugo - $121
Immortals - $74
In Time - $51
J. Edgar - $88
Jack and Jill - $152
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - $168
The Muppets - $64
New Year’s Eve - $86
Puss in Boots - $165
The Rum Diary - $35
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $225
The Sitter - $76
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - $66
Tower Heist - $105
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - $315
War Horse - $234
We Bought a Zoo - $52
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - $81

The 20 Box Office Questions
(Questions refer to any movie released between October 28th & December 31st, 2011.)

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million? Seven
#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million? Three
#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends? The sum of...
#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend? Mission: Impossible
#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend? Tintin
#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin? Happy Feet Two
#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend? Less
#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? The sum of...
#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December? Alvin 3
#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)? War Horse
#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? Mission: Impossible
#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross? New Year's Eve
#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other? Yes
#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn? Mission: Impossible
#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas? Harold & Kumar
#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve? The Muppets
#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million? Yes
#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million? Thirteen
#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million? Yes
#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million? Fifteen


Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1 Breaking Dawn Part 1
#2 Alvin and the Chipmunks 3
#3 Sherlock Holmes 2
#4 The Muppets
#5 Happy Feet 2


Predict the Following Film's Total Gross


The Adventures of Tintin - 120
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - 215
Anonymous - 30
Arthur Christmas - 115
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 110
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 125
Happy Feet Two - 160
Hugo - 80
Immortals - 65
In Time - 45
J. Edgar - 75
Jack and Jill - 100
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - 150
The Muppets - 170
New Year’s Eve - 85
Puss in Boots - 145
The Rum Diary - 20
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 190
The Sitter - 40
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - 80
Tower Heist - 130
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - 300
War Horse - 140
We Bought a Zoo - 55
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - 60

I'm liking the wildly varying Top 5 Movies predictions.

And remember, the due date is this Thursday at 11:59 PM!!

The 20 Box Office Questions
(Questions refer to any movie released between October 28th & December 31st, 2011.)

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million? 6
#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million? 3
#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends? Puss In Boots OW
#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend? Tintin
#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend? Tintin
#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin? Tintin
#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend? - Less
#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? Sherlock Holmes 2
#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December? - Tintin
#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)? - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? - TGWTDT
#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross? - Twilight's OD
#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other? - Yes.
#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn? - Breaking Dawn
#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas? - In Time
#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve? Tower Heist
#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million? Yes
#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million? 8
#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million? Yes
#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million? 12


Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1 Breaking Dawn Pt.1
#2 Tintin
#3 Sherlock Holmes 2
#4 Puss In Boots
#5 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


Predict the Following Film's Total Gross


The Adventures of Tintin - 225m
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - 160m
Anonymous - 35m
Arthur Christmas - 90m
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 165m
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 125m
Happy Feet Two - 140m
Hugo - 60m
Immortals - 50m
In Time - 55m
J. Edgar - 90m
Jack and Jill - 100m
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - 120m
The Muppets - 80m
New Year’s Eve - 75m
Puss in Boots - 180m
The Rum Diary - 38m
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 185m
The Sitter - 45m
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - 75m
Tower Heist - 105m
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - 315m
War Horse - 95m
We Bought a Zoo - 50m
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - 60m

The 20 Box Office Questions
(Questions refer to any movie released between October 28th & December 31st, 2011.)

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million? 7
#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million? 3
#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends? Puss in Boots
#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend? Sherlock Holmes 2
#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend? tintin
#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin? Puss in boots
#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend? Less
#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? Sherlock Holmes
#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December? Sherlock Holmes
#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)? War Horse
#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross? Twilight
#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other? No
#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn? Twilight
#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas? The Sitter
#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve? Tower Heist
#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million? yes
#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million? 8
#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million? yes
#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million? 13


Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
#2: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
#3: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
#4: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
#5: Puss in Boots


Predict the Following Film's Total Gross


The Adventures of Tintin- $156
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked- $198
Anonymous- $45
Arthur Christmas- $123
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close- $62
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- $215
Happy Feet Two- $165
Hugo- $61
Immortals- $32
In Time- $58
J. Edgar- $98
Jack and Jill- $111
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $131
The Muppets- $36
New Year’s Eve- $92
Puss in Boots- $172
The Rum Diary- $85
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows- $215
The Sitter- $128
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy- $43
Tower Heist- $76
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn- $311
War Horse- $14
We Bought a Zoo- $126
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas- $39

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million?10
#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million?3
#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends?
#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend?Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend?The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin?
#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend?
#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December?Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross?
#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other?yes
#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?
#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve?
#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million?yes
#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million?9
#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million?no
#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million?14


Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
#2Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
#3Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
#4Happy Feet Two
#5Puss in Boots


Predict the Following Film's Total Gross


The Adventures of Tintin136
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked203
Anonymous13
Arthur Christmas96
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close86
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo144
Happy Feet Two181
Hugo86
Immortals75
In Time53
J. Edgar24
Jack and Jill113
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol149
The Muppets138
New Year’s Eve91
Puss in Boots161
The Rum Diary38
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows238
The Sitter79
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy19
Tower Heist110
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn309
War Horse101
We Bought a Zoo102
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas55

#1 - How many films will gross over $150 million?
10

#2 - How many films will gross over $200 million?
4

#3 - Which will be bigger – Puss in Boot’s opening weekend or the sum of Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ opening weekends?
Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

#4 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 23rd – 25th weekend?
Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol

#5 - What film will be #1 on the Dec 30th – Jan 1st weekend?
War Horse

#6 - What will be the highest grossing animated film of the holiday season – Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, Arthur Christmas, or The Adventures of Tintin?
Puss in Boots

#7 - Will Happy Feet Two’s total be more or less than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening weekend?
Less

#8 - Which will gross more – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or the sum of Immortals and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
Immortals and Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol

#9 - What will be the highest grossing film of December?
Sherlock Holmes 2

#10 - What will be the highest grossing Best Picture nominee released during the holiday season (Oct. 28th - Dec 31st)?
War Horse

#11 - Which will gross more in total – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
Mission Impossible

#12 - Which will gross more – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’s opening day or New Year Eve’s total gross?
New Years Eve's

#13 - Will Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ total grosses be within $25 million of each other?
Yes

#14 - What sequel will have the best retention of its previous films total: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Puss in Boots, or The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?
Breaking Dawn

#15 - Which will gross more – The Darkest Hour, In Time, Anonymous, Piranha 3DD, The Sitter, or A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

#16 - Which comedy will gross more – Tower Heist, Jack and Jill, The Muppets, or New Year’s Eve?
The Muppets

#17 - Which The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn have a 3-day opening weekend over $151 million?
Yes

#18 - How many movies will have a 3-day opening weekend (Fri-Sun) over $30 million?
10

#19 - Will the sum of J. Edgar, We Bought a Zoo, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’s total gross be over $200 million?
Yes

#20 - How many films will gross over $100 million?
14

Predict the Top 5 Grossing Movies of the 2011 Late Fall/Winter Season

#1: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
#2: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
#3: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
#4: War Horse
#5: Puss In Boots

Predict the Following Film's Total Gross

The Adventures of Tintin - $145 million
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $215 million
Anonymous - $25 million
Arthur Christmas - $110 million
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - $60 million
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $110 million
Happy Feet Two - $165 million
Hugo - $85 million
Immortals - $80 million
In Time - $45 million
J. Edgar - $50 million
Jack and Jill - $128 million
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - $180 million
The Muppets - $160 million
New Year’s Eve - $100 million
Puss in Boots - $205 million
The Rum Diary - $20 million
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $240 million
The Sitter - $40 million
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - $70 million
Tower Heist - $135 million
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - $310 million
War Horse - $208 million
We Bought a Zoo - $80 milliion
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - $65 million