Mostly because of me forgetting to post it, and a little bit because of the server issues, this is a bit late. So while I'm posting all the films, Insidious and Joy Ride are optional, if you don't predict in time for them (by first numbers Friday morning), you can still do an entry before Mission Impossible your predictions for those two movies will just be the average of everyone else's. Unless there is substantially low amount of predictions or the server goes on the fritz again, at which point I'll just throw them both out.

The films are:

Insidious: The Red Door
Joy Ride
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Haunted Mansion
Talk To Me
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Meg 2: The Trench
Gran Turismo
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Blue Beetle
Strays
Retribution
White Bird

Previous winners:

2021

September: Magic Mike
October: zwackerm
November: Keyser Soze
December: publicenemy#1

2022

January/February: zwackerm
March/April: Jonathan
May: rftapeout
June/July: Algren
August/September: Magic Mike
October: Rev
November/December: Magic Mike

2023

January/February: Magic Mike
March: Keyser Soze
April/May: stuffp
June: Keyser Soze

Insidious: The Red Door 22.4m
Joy Ride 10.2m
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One 66m
Barbie 95m
Oppenheimer 45m
Haunted Mansion 28m
Talk To Me 3.5m
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 40m
The Meg 2: The Trench 20m
Gran Turismo 12m
The Last Voyage of the Demeter 10m
Blue Beetle 25m
Strays 20m
Retribution 5m
White Bird 5m

Insidious: The Red Door 22
Joy Ride 12
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One 95
Barbie 125
Oppenheimer 62
Haunted Mansion 30
Talk To Me 1.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 35
The Meg 2: The Trench 25
Gran Turismo 17
The Last Voyage of the Demeter 8
Blue Beetle 24
Strays 19
Retribution 5
White Bird 8

Insidious: The Red Door $24.5m
Joy Ride $12m
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One $89.5m
Barbie $92m
Oppenheimer $58.5m
Haunted Mansion $26m
Talk To Me $2.5m
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem $29m
The Meg 2: The Trench $47m
Gran Turismo $19.5m
The Last Voyage of the Demeter $7.5m
Blue Beetle $36m
Strays $15.5m
Retribution $22.5m
White Bird $5.5m

Insidious: The Red Door $31m
Joy Ride $12m
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One $76m
Barbie $60m
Oppenheimer $38m
Haunted Mansion $26m
Talk To Me $2m
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem $24m
The Meg 2: The Trench $20m
Gran Turismo $10m
The Last Voyage of the Demeter $11m
Blue Beetle $18m
Strays $15m
Retribution $7.5m
White Bird $8m

Insidious: The Red Door 24m
Joy Ride 10.5m
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One 90m
Barbie 93m
Oppenheimer 52m
Haunted Mansion 32m
Talk To Me 4.5m
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 30m
The Meg 2: The Trench 36m
Gran Turismo 24m
The Last Voyage of the Demeter 8.5m
Blue Beetle 28.5m
Strays 14.5m
Retribution 4.5m
White Bird 5m

Insidious: The Red Door - 21 mil
Joy Ride - 10 mil
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - 45 mil
Barbie - 85 mil
Oppenheimer - 50 mil
Haunted Mansion - 20 mil
Talk To Me - 1 mil
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 48 mil
The Meg 2: The Trench - 25
Gran Turismo - 10 mil
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - 8 mil
Blue Beetle - 15 mil
Strays - 25 mil
Retribution - 10 mil
White Bird - 8 mil

Insidious: The Red Door - 21.2
Joy Ride - 10.3
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - 68 (3-day)
Barbie - 123
Oppenheimer - 50.5
Haunted Mansion - 40
Talk To Me - 6
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 34
The Meg 2: The Trench - 24.5
Gran Turismo - 9
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - 6
Blue Beetle - 25.5
Strays - 14.5
Retribution - 4.5
White Bird - 8.5

After coming in last in June I should probably change my strategy .. but fuck it .. I'd rather eventually win one going with my gut predictions rather than win quicker by getting all analytical about it.

Insidious: The Red Door - $23M
Joy Ride - $7M
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - $71M
Barbie - $99M
Oppenheimer - $55M
Haunted Mansion - $21M
Talk To Me - $1M
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - $27M
The Meg 2: The Trench - $20M
Gran Turismo - $9M
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - $7M
Blue Beetle - $23M
Strays - $20M
Retribution - $5M
White Bird - $3M

Insidious: The Red Door - $30 million
Joy Ride - $8.8 million
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - $67.5 million (3-day)
Barbie - $110 million
Oppenheimer - $49 million
Haunted Mansion - $17 million
Talk To Me - $4.1 million
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - $36 million (3-day)
The Meg 2: The Trench - $32 million
Gran Turismo - $13 million
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - $10.5 million
Blue Beetle - $19 million
Strays - $16 million
Retribution - $7.5 million
White Bird - $9 million

I’ll put mine in shortly.

Insidious: The Red Door - 30
Joy Ride - 7.5
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - 65
Barbie - 115
Oppenheimer - 45
Haunted Mansion - 18
Talk To Me - 5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 35
The Meg 2: The Trench - 25
Gran Turismo - 17
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - 8
Blue Beetle - 17
Strays - 25
Retribution - 4
White Bird - 3

Insidious: The Red Door - 28
Joy Ride - 8
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - 70
Barbie - 110
Oppenheimer - 52
Haunted Mansion - 28
Talk To Me - 7
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 33
The Meg 2: The Trench - 38
Gran Turismo - 17
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - 15
Blue Beetle - 20
Strays - 28
Retribution - 5
White Bird - 4

I haven't put in my predictions yet. Hopefully they will be in before midnight pacific time.

I have to skip this time as I am traveling and cannot do this on a phone.

Only breakout for sure is Barbie opening 100m+. Oppenheimer should open around 50m. Insidious walk ups are great from BOT tracking. Thinking high 20s.

Insidious: The Red Door - $32M
Joy Ride - $11M
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - $76M
Barbie - $118M
Oppenheimer - $59M
Haunted Mansion - $19M
Talk To Me - $6M
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - $41M
The Meg 2: The Trench - $38M
Gran Turismo - $17M
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - $10M
Blue Beetle - $23M
Strays - $24M
Retribution - $11M
White Bird - $9M

Insidious: The Red Door $29.1 million
Joy Ride $8.7 million
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One $59.5 million (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Barbie $109.6 million
Oppenheimer $44.8 million
Haunted Mansion $27 million
Talk To Me $3 million
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem $39 million (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
The Meg 2: The Trench $24.2 million
Gran Turismo $26.2 million
The Last Voyage of the Demeter $12.8 million
Blue Beetle $26.9 million
Strays $16.8 million
Retribution $8.9 million
White Bird $6 million

The Mission Impossible movie and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie premiere on a Wednesday. That makes it tricky to predict the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday box office for those 2 movies. But it's a challenge.

Terrible Insidious prediction, but I did go lowest on Joy Ride .... though even that's a loss since we need comedies to be overperforming right now.

I feel good about my MI call that it was going to do its usual 60s if it opened 3 day, in this case getting bled out a bit by the extra long previews week, takes it down a notch from there. However not being on Barbie WTF opening bandwagon may kill me, like Top Gun 2 I just can't believe it until it happens.

I could see MI 3 day go below 50m at this point. Wed/Fri presales are really meh at this point. I am seeing single digit wednesday at this point. Not sure if that is sufficient for 50m 3 day as we are in heart of summer.

Insidious/Joy Ride update

Magic Mike 4.7
Jonathan 6
O 6.2
rftapeout 6.8
MadGez 7.2
Algren 8.2
Flava'd vs the World 11.2
stuffp 13.7
Corpse 14.7
Rev 15
Shack 16.2
publicenemy#1 16.3
zwackerm 17.2

Another one week opener

rftapeout 4.8
Shack 9.7
Magic Mike 10.3
Rev 11.3
Jonathan 12.8
publicenemy#1 13.3
MadGez 15.3
Flava'd vs the World 16.3
Algren 21.3
O 21.3
Corpse 34.8
stuffp 35.3
zwackerm 40.3

Wish I nailed it a bit more since I feel like I read the anticipation for this perfectly, but slightly misjudged how much Wednesday/Thursday would take off it, plus they cheated a little bit putting the preview numbers in the weekend. Probably had no chance overall due to Barbie anyway though.

zwack could make a comeback as he went high on Barbieheimer.

Highest to lowest Barbieheimer predictions since they look likely to both go over

zwackerm 187
O 177
publicenemy#1 173.5
MadGez 162
Magic Mike 160
Jonathan 159
rftapeout 154.4
Flava'd vs the World 154
Corpse 150.5
stuffp 145
Rev 140
Shack 135
Algren 98

Despite how we could see the momentum coming a few weeks ago the average predictions for Barbie and Oppenheimer was 102.7 and 50.8. For competitiveness it was a good cycle for Keyser to take off as he would've destroyed us.

Barbieheimer update

zwackerm 57.5
O 67.5
publicenemy#1 71
MadGez 82.5
Magic Mike 84.5
Jonathan 85.5
rftapeout 90.1
Flava'd vs the World 90.5
Corpse 94
stuffp 99.5
Rev 104.5
Shack 109.5
Algren 146.5

Total

O 95
Magic Mike 99.5
publicenemy#1 100.6
rftapeout 101.7
Jonathan 104.3
MadGez 105
zwackerm 115
Flava'd vs the World 118
Rev 130.8
Shack 135.4
Corpse 143.5
stuffp 148.5
Algren 176