Opening 5/31/13 (2nd Week)

Early chatter from critics and fans does not look promising for either Now You See Me or After Earth.

SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR ROTTEN TOMATOES CRITICS PERCENTAGE AS WELL AS OPENING WEEKEND BOX OFFICE NUMBERS IN THE FORM BELOW BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON 5/30/13 OTHERWISE YOUR PREDICTIONS WONT COUNT! IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE FINAL RATINGS FOR EACH MOVIE, I WILL WAIT UNTIL SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT (END OF OPENING WEEKEND) TO TALLY ROTTEN TOMATOES RATINGS AND BOX OFFICE NUMBERS! RESULTS WILL BE POSTED BY MONDAY NIGHT ON THE RESULTS PAGE!
(Rotten Tomatoes is a website that takes reviews from film critics and calculates an overall average of how well the film performed from the critics, giving the movie a fresh rating (60% or higher), rotten rating (59% or lower) or certified fresh rating (around and above 75%.))

After Earth

Similar Films

MIB 3 (2012)  70%

      OW: $54,592,779

Super 8 (2011) 82% (CF)

      OW: $35,451,168

After Earth will most likely win this weekend at the box office, but the question is by how much and how good will the duo of Jaden and Will Smith be. The premise and trailer looks promising, so I would not be surprised if this film has solid reviews, but I have not seen that much advertising. All of these question will be answered in just a few short days anyways, just drop your predictions below.

My Prediction: 55%/$31.5M

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Now You See Me

The Presige (2006) 76% (CF)

    OW: $14,801,808

Inception (2010) 86% (CF)
    OW: $62,785,337



Although this film is on my most anticipated list, Now You See Me fails to receive any attention throughout the massive summer box office schedule. It will be interesting to see how well this movie does in terms of ratings. I do not expect this film to beat out After Earth, but I hope to see some solid ratings. 

My Prediction: 62%/$25.5M

   

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Results for 5/24-5/26 (1st Round)

Points are awarded for each category, 1 point for winner of closest Rotten Tomatoes percentage as well as 1 point for winner closest to the actual box office weekend dollar amount. 

PLACE	NAME	Critics %	Box Office $	TOTAL SCORE
1	Caleb	1	2	3
2	Laurisa	1	1	2
3	Tori	0	1	1
3	Kyle	1	0	1
5	Cara	0	0	0

Doug Martin was disqualified due to late submission

-Tie for Hangover Part III box office numbers (Tori & Laurisa), terrible box office for HO

Individual results below

Opening 5/24/13 BIG MEMORIAL WEEKEND

SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR ROTTEN TOMATOES CRITICS PERCENTAGE AS WELL AS OPENING WEEKEND BOX OFFICE NUMBERS IN THE FORM BELOW BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON 5/22/13 OTHERWISE YOUR PREDICTIONS WONT COUNT! IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE FINAL RATINGS FOR EACH MOVIE, I WILL WAIT UNTIL SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT (END OF OPENING WEEKEND) TO TALLY ROTTEN TOMATOES RATINGS AND BOX OFFICE NUMBERS! RESULTS WILL BE POSTED BY MONDAY NIGHT ON THE RESULTS PAGE!
(Rotten Tomatoes is a website that takes reviews from film critics and calculates an overall average of how well the film performed from the critics, giving the movie a fresh rating (60% or higher), rotten rating (59% or lower) or certified fresh rating (around and above 75%.))

Rotten Tomatoes Website

(CF)=Certified Fresh

The Hangover Part III (5/23/13)

            The Hangover (2009)   79%  (CF)  OW: $44,979,319

The Hangover Part II (2011)   34%             OW: $85,946,294

Obviously many critics expect this movie to fail, yet millions of people will toss their money away to see this film. The original Hangover was an instant classic, but Part II failed to capitalize for critics but did manage to succeed financially. However, Part III is supposedly the last so maybe the writers and producers poured their best. I would be very surprised if this film manages to top 45%. I do see this movie bringing home a lot of cash for Warner Bros, but the top spot will mostly belong to F&F6. This movie also opens a day before the other two main contenders.

My Prediction: 38%/$89.3M

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                                                                                                                       Fast & Furious 6 (5/24/13)   

The Fast and the Furious (2001)    52%

              OW: $40,089,015

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)                 36%

                 OW: $50,472,480

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) 35%

                 OW: $23,973,840

Fast & Furious (2009)                  27%

                 OW: $70,950,500

Fast Five (2011)                           78% (CF)

                 OW: $86,198,765

Currently fresh at 80%, Fast & Furious 6 aims to please critics, which critics in the past have failed to label the series worthwhile. However, with the recent success of Fast Five, it will be interesting to see if the fresh rating can hold. I would not be surprised if the film did manage to break 100 million, but with Hangover also taking a huge chunk of money the race to the top is going to be interesting. 

My Prediction: 67%/$98.3M

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Epic (5/24/13)

Ice Age (2002)  77% (CF)
          OW: $46,312,454

Rio (2011)         72%  

          OW: $39,225,962

Epic is a film that I am actually very interested to see and am expecting critics to enjoy. If this animated movie is anything like the above movies, we are going to be in for a treat and a sleeper that most people have probably never heard of or cared about because of, Monsters U. or Iron Man 3. Epic should provide some solid box office numbers because of the memorial weekend and the fact that a  family film has not been released in a few months. All in all next week should be a nice battle for the top spot at the box office along with some impressive Rotten Tomatoes ratings


My Prediction: 70%/$35.5M

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