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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

Captain Phillips (3,000 screens)
Machete Kills (2,300 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

By a staggering margin, Gravity trumped everything else at the box office making just slightly more than the rest of the top ten combined. With a $55.7 million opening, this ranks as the top October opening ever. Meanwhile, the weekend’s other new release didn’t even come close to making $10 million, missing projections by a large margin.

Top 10 Films

  1. Gravity, $55,785,112
  2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, $20,950,192
  3. Runner Runner, $7,706,712
  4. Prisoners, $5,748,464
  5. Rush, $4,477,525
  6. Don Jon, $4,155,261
  7. Baggage Claim, $4,075,011
  8. Indisious: Chapter 2, $3,899,566
  9. Pulling Strings, $2,467,168
  10. Enough Said, $2,192,642

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

Division 1

Gravity (W | Mo | Z) @ $55.8 M

Division 2

Gravity (Mo= | Z) @ $55.8 M
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (W= | M= | Zo+) @ $21.0 M
Runner Runner (Wo= | M= | Z) @ $7.7 M
Prisoners (Wo+ | M= | Z+) @ $5.7 M
Rush (W | M= | Zo) @ $4.5 M
Don Jon (W | M= | Zo) @ $4.2 M
Baggage Claim (W | Mo= | Z) @ $4.1 M
Insidious: Chapter 2 (Wo | M | Z) @ $3.9 M
Pulling Strings (No one) @ $2.5 M
Enough Said (W | Mo=+ | Z) @ $2.2 M

Current Standings

Division 1

  1. 8 Points – Mike
  2. 7 Points – Zach
  3. 6 Points – Wesley

Division 2

  1. 101 Points – Mike
  2. 94 Points – Zach
  3. 84 Points – Wesley

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