2015 Box Office Challenge Round I

Not very confident of these but:

Taken 3
Insurgent
Jupiter Ascending
Focus
Fifty Shades of Grey

It is the next in the franchise.

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Welcome Soho Driver! Glad we have some new participants.

After HK gets his picks done we can begin bombing. If we get a few more to join, all the better.

For those of you that are new. Bombing is simple. Just pick a movie from the list that you think will perform badly and give it to another contestant who has not received one yet.

OK, here's my picks then.

Taken 3
The Woman In Black 2
Fifty Shades Of Grey
Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Paranormal Activity

I might regret it, as the new PA seems to be a comedy horror, which is what threw me. That's not what the last few have been, is it?

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I haven't seen any but I don't think so. Now you have me worried too. Oh well, what's done is done.

Happy bombing everyone. I will do mine tonight and get us updated in the first post.

If anyone else decides to join, you are welcome. Wish Yoda would get back in, but I think I was too disorganized the first round.

Don't worry, sean. It appears there's a comedy horror/spoof coming out as well as Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. I didn't know The Ghost Dimension was the subtitle. They're different films.

I'll bomb teeter with Jupiter Ascending. Make or break, honey.

No, but nothing I can find about Ghost Dimension looks like it's going to be comic in tone either.

Never done this before and will prob be rubbish at it but here goes:
50 Shades of Grey ( released on Valentine's Day. Some poor sods are going to be treated to that )
Chappie
In The Heart of the Sea
Spongebob
Cinderella

I'm banking on the international market for 50 Shades Of Grey. I can see it opening OK in N.America but not doing much after that.

Happy to have you join Christine. Feel free to give HK your best shot with a bomb pick.

Hmmm. HK I'm going to give you Mortdecai. Despite Johnny Depp, I think it's going to bomb

I'll give SoHoDriver Seventh Son.

I'm just guessing on the bomb. Lots of it looks bombish to me, but I've learned that means nothing.

I give JayDee Hot Tub Machine 2.

How did they even get a green light for a sequel?

HK it does look awful tho, you must agree

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aW_sfxUnbZA

Why are people picking bombs already? I thought that was supposed to happen after everyone got their first set of picks in, which according to page 1 of this thread won't be until Dec 24th.

I thought Sean said to? Oh well I don't think it matters does it? Doesn't affect the gameplay as far as I can see

No, it probably doesn't matter. I was just curious as to what happened. I thought maybe I missed the deadline, but when I checked the first page, it listed Dec 24th.

My picks:

Taken 3
The Wedding Ringer
Kingsman: Secret Service
Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension
Mortdecai

And I don't plan on watching a single one of them.

I will bomb on Christmas Eve.

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As I said, his films still do decent business internationally. It all depends on the budget for this. I'm probably done for, though, I agree. A budget over around $100m will do for this, IMO and, looking at that trailer, this will easily pass that.

The other worry is that I quite liked the look of that, well, until it went Stateside anyway. Not a good sign for a mainstream film.