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For a full list of rules, click here: 2013 Oscar Season Box Office Predictions Game Rules.

Submit Your Predictions for This Week

  1. Top Ten Films at the U.S. Box Office of the week in order from most money to least.
  2. Individual monetary predictions for each film.
  3. Final box office tally for all new wide releases.
  4. # of Weeks each new wide release will spend at #1.
  5. # of Weeks each new wide release will spend in the top 10.

This Week’s New Wide Releases

Baggage Claim (1,800 screens)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (3,800 screens)
Don Jon (2,200 screens)
Rush (2,200 screens)

Box Office Prediction Increments

  1. $50 million or higher – $5 million increments
  2. $25 million to $49 million – $1 million increments
  3. $5 million to $24.5 million – $500,000 increments
  4. $4.9 million or lower – $100,000 increments

Last Week’s Results

Kidnapping drama Prisoners met expectations with a $20 million-plus opening handily beating the second week of Insidious: Chapter 2. The Family finished third while Instructions Not Included continued to impress with a strong holdover and a fourth-place finish. 84 years after it was first on the big screen, The Wizard of Oz cracked the Top Ten at number nine with its 85th-anniversary IMAX re-release in 3D.

Top 10 Films

  1. Prisoners, $20,817,053
  2. Insidious: Chapter 2, $13,801,818
  3. The Family, $7,000,722
  4. Instructions Not Included, $5,396,688
  5. Battle of the Year, $4,603,177
  6. We’re the Millers, $4,558,271
  7. Lee Daniels’ The Butler, $4,193,123
  8. Riddick, $3,656,620
  9. The Wizard of Oz 3D, $3,093,998
  10. Planes, $2,709,736

Key:
W=Wesley | M=Mike | Z=Zach
@ Total : Correct Prediction
o : Correct Prediction Individual
= : Correct Placement
= : Correct Placement within Increment

Division 1

Prisoners (W | M | Zo+) @ $20.8 M

Division 2

Prisoners (W= | M= | Zo+) @ $20.8 M
Insidious: Chapter 2 (W= | M= | Zo+) @ $13.8 M
The Family (Wo+ | M=+ | Z) @ $7.0 M
Instructions Not Included (W | Mo | Z) @ $5.4 M
Battle of the Year (W | Mo | Z) @ $4.6 M
We’re the Millers (W | M= | Zo) @ $4.6 M
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (W | Mo | Z) @ $4.2 M
Riddick (W | Mo | Z) @ $3.7 M
The Wizard of Oz 3D (W | Zo) @ $3.1 M
Planes (Wo | M | Z) @ $2.7 M

Current Standings

Division 1

  1. 5 Points – Zach
  2. 4 Points – Wesley
  3. 4 Points – Mike

Division 2

  1. 57 Points – Zach
  2. 56 Points – Mike
  3. 53 Points – Wesley

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