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Eat Puke Lurve

Haven't seen anything in a while... DVD queue is filling up.

Last update:
OCT 08   Hey, long overdue update in. Some movement. The Other Guys inched ahead of Salt and Eat Puke Lurve climbed over both The A-Team and Knight and Day. The rankings haven't changed much, Z still holds the lead.

Also, a couple (hard, if not obvious) lessons I learned this year: 1) Don't bet against Adam Sandler, and 2) Don't ignore CGI movies. (Probably shouldn't ignore Will Ferrell either.)

Previous 3 updates:
SEP 16   Fixed ranking with updated box office for The Other Guys which leap-frogged Robin Hood. As for the rankings, Z still holds the lead but CJ moved to 2nd with Ryan Sochol at 3rd.
SEP 15   The Expendables climbs up another 2 places. Eat Pray Love enters the top 20. Z holds the lead over Ryan Sochol among prognosticators.
AUG 31   The Other Guys continue to climb. The Expendables climbs up 3 places. The Sorcerer's Apprentice scoots up a spot. And, OHH! Upset! Z takes the lead over Ryan Sochol by ONE point! And, we're all in for movies.
 
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Inception
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Top 20 Summer Movie Predictions of 2010
Welcome to the tenth annual SUMMER MOVIE PREDICTIONS. On this page I (will) detail the box office predictions made by all the contestants for this summer's crop of blockbusters, hopefuls, and worthless crap.

All eligible contestants will have submitted their predictions to me by the due date of May 4th.

All of the predictions are for movies released from MAY 1ST through AUGUST 31ST. Predictions will not be tampered with once the challenge begins, even if they make the participants look really stupid (see last year).

See also: Top 20 lists and Deviation Scores and FAQ

FYI: The short URL to this page is: http://bit.ly/esp2010

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The Contestants
W Woodge DF Doug French B Beck P Pook G Gritz K Knoxville
SS Sean Smylie H Holls J Jet A Alkerton PG Prianka SC Scott Chew
RS Ryan Sochol JM J Murph S Schmoo PB P Baker ZD Zach D K2 Kevin Sinclair
F Fang CJ CJ X Xealot AM Aaron McMahon V Valaina BR Bunny
AO Awesome-O JJ Juff Juff AS Ace of Spades FW Frank Wiese LN Lessthannate DK Doki
Z Z BC Basket Case FR Frank R KK King Kane C Cliggs OZ Ozzy

MOVIE RELEASE DATE RANK | BOX
  OFFICE TOTAL 		W DF B P G K SS H J A PG SC RS JM S PB ZD K2 F CJ X AM V BR AO JJ AS FW LN DK Z BC FR KK C OZ
Toy Story 3 jun 18  1 411.4 mil 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 3 6 1 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 4 1 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 4 2 2
Iron Man 2 may 7  2 312.1 mil 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 2 5 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 4
Twilight Saga: Eclipse jun 30  3 300.4 mil 4 3 1 3 3 3 3 1 10 3 1 3 3 4 3 4 4 4 5 3 4 3 3 4 3 3 4 3 4 4 3 1 4 2 3 3
Inception jul 16  4 288.4 mil 5 11 7 5 6 9 5 9 4 8 17 5 5 5 8 6 5 4 5 5 5 12 7 7 13 13 9 5 19 6 11 6 5 7
Despicable Me jul 9  5 246.1 mil 5 5 16 15 5 17 10 18 6 10 8 15 12 12 15 7 15 11 7 10 5 10 5 7 8 16 8 19 7 15 9 9
Shrek Forever After may 21  6 238.1 mil 2 8 6 4 4 4 4 4 3 5 5 6 4 3 4 5 3 3 3 4 3 4 8 3 4 4 3 4 3 2 4 4 3 8 1
The Karate Kid jun 11  7 176.5 mil 10 16 19 8 20 17 16 18 15 18 19 13 15 16 5 17 20 8 16
Grown Ups jun 25  8 161.6 mil 10 12 12 11 9 16 14 8 12 16 17 9 13 10 10 15 13 12 15 8 14 19 12 10 7 14 16 11 13
The Last Airbender jul 2  9 131.4 mil 12 13 12 7 17 10 11 10 13 16 18 13 14 20 14 9 13 20 13 13 13 13 13 9 18 6
The Other Guys aug 6 10 117.7 mil 15 17 19 12 14 14 19 11 19 15 11 14 11 16 17 16 13 17 9 14 16 11 5 15 11 14 13 11
Salt jul 23 11 117.6 mil 16 20 14 17 11 10 16 19 15 19 13 17 12 11 20 17 14 11 17 10 15 19 12 19 11 11 9 5 15 11 19 9
Robin Hood may 14 12 105.2 mil 11 7 9 7 9 10 13 6 4 9 20 4 6 16 6 11 5 11 10 12 19 19 11 15 11 14 9 5 10 12 7 5 5 4
The Expendables aug 13 13 102.5 mil 19 18 15 10 19 16 12 18 19 17 19 17 17 18 16 19
Sex And the City 2 may 27 14 95.3 mil 7 4 11 8 8 7 7 5 17 7 3 12 9 7 7 3 10 6 9 8 8 8 6 9 9 6 10 6 11 9 10 6 9 3 10 5
Prince of Persia may 28 15 90.7 mil 9 12 4 6 14 6 8 17 2 10 7 5 11 14 8 7 8 8 6 7 6 11 13 6 9 8 7 6 17 5 8 13 7
Eat, Pray, Love aug 13 16 79.7 mil 13 17 18 15 16 15 13 13 12 14 18 15 19 18 13 15 7 18
The A-Team jun 11 17 77.2 mil 6 6 16 10 5 8 6 11 1 12 9 8 7 9 10 6 9 7 15 6 7 9 2 10 5 15 6 15 7 6 5 13 11 6 14
Knight And Day jun 23 18 76.3 mil 8 9 10 9 7 12 11 12 9 8 7 12 10 9 9 7 10 11 9 12 6 18 8 8 7 12 14 7 9 17 10 14 8 10
Dinner for Schmucks jul 30 19 72.8 mil 15 14 15 20 15 14 20 17 17 14 19 18 19 14 18 11 17 10 16 20 15 19 18 16 16 17
The Sorcerer's Apprentice jul 14 20 62.9 mil 14 13 11 16 13 15 13 7 13 14 13 6 10 14 13 8 17 16 12 6 14 16 18 8 12 11 12 12
Get Him To The Greek jun 4 60.9 mil 8 16 20 19 6 14 16 16 17 12 10 20 19
Takers aug 27 56.2 mil 15
Letters To Juliet may 14 53.0 mil 18 12 20 12
Predators jul 9 52.0 mil 18 14 13 14 20 13 9 19 20 20 20 18 16 14 6 14 20
Killers jun 4 47.0 mil 17 16 18 17 15 18 18 14 14 18
Cats And Dogs jul 30 43.4 mil 20 18 7 18 15
Step Up 3D aug 6 41.8 mil 20 20 15 19 18 20 20
The Last Exorcism aug 27 41.0 mil
Marmaduke jun 4 33.6 mil 17 20 18 17 20 14 11 20 12 19 16 20 17 16 12 8
Charlie St. Cloud jul 30 31.1 mil 19
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World aug 13 31.5 mil 13 18 18 20 20 20 20 10 20
Nanny McPhee 2 aug 20 28.5 mil 15 10
Ramona and Beezus jul 23 25.5 mil 15 20 16 19
Piranha 3D aug 20 24.9 mil 19
Just Wright may 14 21.5 mil 12 20
Lottery Ticket aug 20 17.3 mil
Splice jun 4 17.0 mil 19 8 17 18
Jonah Hex jun 18 10.5 mil 18 18 11 19 19 20 14 18 12 20 17 17 15
MacGruber may 21 8.5 mil 18 13 16 18 19 8
DELAYED
Going The Distance sep 3 ? ?mil 16
The Adjustment Bureau sep 17 ? ?mil 17
Beastly mar 18 ? ?mil
Who's winning? See the Deviation Score and FAQ page.

other notes:
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What happened last summer?
Last summer the top two picks weren't a surprise to many: Transformers 2 and Harry Potter finished 1st and 2nd, Up finished 3rd and the big surprise was The Hangover which finished fourth. As for the predictors: Alkerton came out on top (his 2nd first place finish). And we added several new names to the roster of prognosticators. [See details: here and here.]