SUMMER MOVIE WAGER

Alright we're pretty far into the summer so I decided to tally up some midpoints. Even though this is the last week Guardians 2 is going to be #1, so next week most of these numbers will have changed by quite a bit.

The current scores (not yet counting international dark horses because those take more work to dig up, and also on a quick glance I don't think anyone has any international dark horse points yet):
1. Shinan, 55 points
2. kory_toombs, 53 points
3. kentona, 48 points
4. oddRABBIT, 45 points
5. pianotm, 36 points
6. Cap_H, 13 points
6. Sooz, 13 points

(Current top 10 is 1. Guardians of the Galaxy 2, 2. Wonder Woman, 3. Spider-man: Homecoming, 4. Despicable Me 3, 5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 6. Cars 3, 7. Transformers: The Last Knight, 8. The Mummy, 9. Alien: Covenant, 10 Baby Driver)

Things that will make the standings change: How well War for the Planet of the Apes and Dunkirk do. Dunkirk opens next week and Apes opened this weekend and is probably looking at a 5-7 place in the list.


And since this is the summer movie thread anyway. What summer movies have you caught up with? What did you think? And all that yada yada.

Dunkirk has come out and did very well (why oh why didn't I put it on my list?) so I thought it time to do an update as we are closing in on the end of the summer.

1. kentona, 50 points
1. Shinan, 50 points
3. kory_toombs, 44 points
4. oddRABBIT, 41 points
5. pianotm, 32 points
6. Cap_H, 19 points
7. Sooz, 7 points

This time I added the international dark horses points, since the Mummy is in the international top ten but has dropped out of the North American one, giving kentona and oddRABBIT a point. (and because kentona's one international dark horse point makes it a tie for first place!)

I did a bit of update on my document, but I won't post the update here until next weekend because apparently Dunkirk is going to take another place (cracking the top 5) and that is likely going to be the final positions. (The whole thing ends the first weekend of September)

I also did a look at the international top10. My hope for Valerian is this weekend as it opens in China. With a 100m opening it'll get into the international top10 (which is entirely possible). Beating out War for the Planet of the Apes at 10th place. But Apes hasn't opened in China yet but will do so at some point in September, so while it'll likely beat Valerian it might not do so in time.

The largest grossing international summer film by the way is Wolf Warrior 2, which has made 770 million in China alone. (And around 5 million in the rest of the world, so you're excused if you haven't heard of it, just like how you're excused if you're not from North America and have never heard of Captain Underpants, which made 75% of its money from North America, the second highest in the top 15 of NA films, the highest being Girls Trip which has made 90% of its money in NA so far.)


Yes. I'm bored at work and staring at numbers.