SHINAN'S PROFILE

Angry Birds 1 only made it to like 12th or 13th place the year it came out though, so I assume it'll stay under the top 10 this time also. Especially considering that stiff animation competition it is facing. Secret Life of Pets 2 and Uglydolls (I assume Uglydolls will do similar to Angry Birds 2)

Angry Birds 1 also came out in May already and had all the time in the world to get its top10 placement.

Boom. Tuukka Rask can do anything. And Boston won't underestimate Columbus and win that series too and soon Boston will win the whole thing!

Alright I sat down and formulated a list.

1. Toy Story 4
2. The Lion King
3. Spider-Man: Far From Home
4. Hobbs & Shaw
5. Secret Life of Pets 2
6. Aladdin
7. Godzilla
8. Detective Pikachu
9. Men In Black International
10. Dark Phoenix

Dark Horses:
John Wick 3
Rocketman
Shaft

I feel good about this list. Though it all depends on how hard Aladdin and/or Dark Phoenix bombs. And what that unknown comedy movie that makes all the money is. Cap suggested Stuber might be it. I wonder if Yesterday could do it (though I didn't believe in Yesterday enough to put it in my dark horses over Rocketman...)

hockey is bullshit

It's that time of year.

Soon anyway.

The time of the movie wager. This is now the fourth year of movie wagering and also the first year that I searched for the old topics and got confused! It was a win.
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I will quote the rules from last year:

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The rules from last year's topic:

So you make a top 10 list of movies you think are going to do well this summer (and three dark horses, and possibly three more dark horses, see below*)

The rules from last year's topic:

Summer Movie Wager Scoring:

• Getting number 1 or number 10 dead-on gets you 13 points (each).

The rest of the scoring goes like this:

• 10 points for numbers 2-9 dead-on
• 7 points if your pick was only one spot away from where it ended up
• 5 points if it was two spots away
• 3 points if your pick is anywhere in the Top 10
• 1 point for each dark horse that makes it into the Top 10

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.

Changes this year is that I'll drop the international dark horses. They don't really have any effect even though it's fun to see the differences between North America and the rest of the world the differences are usually only in the placement of movies rather than which movies make it to the top10, so the International Dark Horses don't really do anything. (and most participants didn't list any anyway)

Another change this year is that last year it started a "week early" with the release of Avengers: Infinity War. This year I won't give a shit about no Avengers and start at the beginning of May as it is supposed to be. This means Avengers: Endgame is NOT eligible for the summer list, summer starts the weekend after Endgame.

Because let's face it. Endgame is going to make all the money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_film#April%E2%80%93June
There's a helpful link. The wager goes from May 3rd to September 2nd.

Personally I haven't dug too deep into these lists yet. But I'll be sure to have one done eventually. But some questions to ponder. How will Detective Pikachu do? Aladdin AND The Lion King remakes in the same summer, which will take the top spot? John Wick 3 and a new Tarantino movie, could either of them break the top10?

Speculate and list away!

EDIT: Also the prize is like a reasonably priced game from steam, epic, uplay, gog or humble or something, we'll figure it out.