SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 3/4/11

[Buscemi]

I was only expecting $13 million due to poor early word. However, the reception over the ending is not good.

Here, the showing of Rango I went to was packed to the gills (I ended up sitting next to a really annoying ten year old who said some really stupid things and wasn't being watched by her parents because they were in another row) and a showing of Beastly sold out.

[Shrykespeare]

Friday Estimates:

Rango, $9.75M
Adjustment Bureau, $6.67M
Beastly, $3.54M
Hall Pass, $2.71M
Just Go With It, $1.92M
Unknown, $1.86M
The King's Speech, $1.64M
I Am Number Four, $1.61M
Gnomeo and Juliet, $1.51M
Take Me Home Tonight, $1.25M

Expect G&J to rebound on Sat/Sun.

[Shrykespeare]

Sunday Estimates

Top 5:
5 points - Rango, $38M
4 points - The Adjustment Bureau, $20.9M
3 points - Beastly, $10.1M
2 points - Hall Pass, $9M
1 point - Gnomeo and Juliet, $6.9M
#11. Take Me Home Tonight, $3.5M

PTA:
5 points - Happythankyoumoreplease
4 points - Rango
3 points - The Adjustment Bureau
2 points - Of Gods and Men
1 point - Beastly

This PTA is probably going to change, since there were a lot of films not reported in the estimates. The new film I Saw the Devil was not reported. I can tell you that The Last Lions is no longer in the Top 5 PTA. I'm hoping that I Saw the Devil grabs some PTA, since I have it in a few Ultimate leagues.


User Ratings:

Rango - 7.8
The Adjustment Bureau - 7.4
Beastly - 5.8
Take Me Home Tonight - 7.0
Happythankyoumoreplease - 7.0
I Saw the Devil - 8.0

[W]

PTA:

5-Happythankyoumoreplease $17,532
4-Rango $9,722
3-The Adjustment Bureau $7,450
2-Of Gods and Men $6,857
1 (2 in MAR leagues)-I Saw the Devil $6,784
(1 in MAR leagues)-Beastly $5,047

Hopefully Happy... keeps it up.

[Shrykespeare]

The PTA goes like this:

Jan/Feb leagues:
5 points - Happythankyoumoreplease
4 points - Rango
3 points - The Adjustment Bureau
2 points - Of Gods and Men
1 point - I Saw the Devil

March leagues:
5 points - Happythankyoumoreplease
4 points - Rango
3 points - The Adjustment Bureau
2 points - I Saw the Devil
1 point - Beastly

Trying to steal my job, W?

[Geezer]

He did it better, Shryke. His counts are right, yours are backward...

[W]

"Haw, Haw!" as Nelson would say.

[Shrykespeare]

Grumble, grumble.... meddling kids...

[Chienfantome]

How come you put "Of Gods and Men" in front of "I saw the Devil" for Jan/Feb Leagues, and then "Of Gods and Men" isn't in your count for March Leagues Shryke ?

[numbersix]

Because PTA points only include the films that come out during the league's season. So from MAr-May leagues only films released in that period can get PTA points. Of Gods and Men came out in Feb, so is only eligible for points in the Feb-April leagues (as well as Jan-Mar and Dec-Feb leagues).

Which means that there's a bit of a flaw in the system because if 5 movies get released on the first weekend of the month, they are all guaranteed PTA points (even if the films from the previous, inelligible months have a higher PTA that week). Does that make sense?

[Chienfantome]

I forgot it had been released last week, I thought it was a new release, oops !