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For a full list of rules, click here: 2014 Summer 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

Planes: Fire and Rescue (3,600 screens)
The Purge: Anarchy (2,800 screens)
Sex Tape (3,000 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

The sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes debuted atop the box office chart this week with a slightly above-expected total. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes‘ performance suggests that this reboot has much more mileage left in it than the slowly-fading franchise that built out of the original Planet of the Apes.

Top 10 Films

  1. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, $72,611,427
  2. Transformers: Age of Extinction, $16,302,415
  3. Tammy, $12,555,151
  4. 22 Jump Street, $6,501,558
  5. How to Train Your Dragon 2, $6,073,372
  6. Earth to Echo, $5,488,277
  7. Deliver Us from Evil, $4,750,289
  8. Maleficent, $4,180,586
  9. Begin Again, $2,820,839
  10. Jersey Boys, $2,517,430

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

Division 1

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (W+ | Mo+) @ $72.6 M

Division 2

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (W=+ | Mo=+) @ $72.6 M
Transformers: Age of Extinction (W= | Mo=) @ $16.3 M
Tammy (Wo=+ | M=) @ $12.6 M
22 Jump Street (W= | Mo=) @ $6.5 M
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (W | Mo=) @ $6.1 M
Earth to Echo (W | Mo) @ $5.5 M
Deliver Us from Evil (Wo+ | M) @ $4.8 M
Maleficent (W= | Mo=) @ $4.2 M
Begin Again (Wo=) @ $2.8 M
Jersey Boys (Wo=+ | M) @ $2.5 M

Current Standings

Division 1 Points (This Week):
Wesley – 2 Total Points (1 position / 0 money / 1 money increments)
Mike – 3 Total Points (1 position / 1 money / 1 money increments)
Zach – 0 Total Points (0 position / 0 money / 0 money increments)
Division 1 Points (Overall):
Wesley – 15 Total Points (10 position / 3 money / 2 money increments)
Mike – 20 Total Points (10 position / 6 money / 4 money increments)
Zach – 8 Total Points (5 position / 2 money / 1 money increments)

Division 2 Points (This Week):
Wesley – 25 Total Points (10 position / 7 correct slot / 4 money / 4 money increments)
Mike – 22 Total Points (9 position / 6 correct slot / 6 money / 1 money increments)
Zach – 0 Total Points (0 position / 0 correct slot / 0 money / 0 money increments)
Division 2 Points (Overall):
Wesley – 214 Total Points (102 position / 57 correct slot / 35 money / 20 money increments)
Mike – 252 Total Points (102 position / 68 correct slot / 61 money / 21 money increments)
Zach – 101 Total Points (46 position / 35 correct slot / 13 money / 7 money increments)

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