Movie Pick 'Ems: A Hard Knock Life v. Ben Stiller

[Kingdom]

Let's be honest, The Hobbit's final film is going to destroy all competition, so I am not including it. But I am going to have a bonus this week (read at the end).

In old school fashion, this week you are picking between movies. We have the remake of Annie, featuring the likes of Jamie Foxx, Cam'Ron Diaz, some kids, and it's produced by Jay-Z and Will Smith. It's a family oriented film, sure. But it's going against another family oriented film in the third Night at the Museum film.

Night at the Museum returns most of the core cast in Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais, as well as one of Robin Williams' final films. Seems like you'd be wondering how there's 3 of these things now? The second film brought in over 400 million, the original over 570 million. It's a downward trend, however, even if it makes 300 million, that's about double it's budget. In other words, that's still making a lot of money for a fairly meh franchise.



Bonus baby: Since The Hobbit also debuts in the US this week, predict how much it will make (U.S. gross only).

If you're within:

25 million- 5 points

10 million- 10 points

Less than a million- 25 points


There can obviously be multiple winners. Poll will close Saturday at some point. Don't forget to vote and list a bonus. Good luck!

[LJMets1989]

Hobbit gross guess: $79 million

[Providence A's]

Black Annie is supposed to be a "modern" version...shouldn't she be Hispanic or Latina Annie then? Also, it was part of the Sony hack and d/led over 300,000 times. Crowds will be small for that reason and the fact that it's ridiculous.

[HollywoodLeo]

I'm going to go with 76 mil for the Hobbit

[Hammer]

the hobbit 145 mil

[HollywoodLeo]

There should be extra bonus points for whoever is the closest on the bonus.

[Kingdom]

Everyone but leo gets a bonus is the new bonus, y'all.

[Witlon]

Is the bonus for Wednesday - Sunday or Friday - Sunday?

[Kingdom]

Wedsneday to Subday

[Kingdom]

Or Sunday

[Kingdom]

And Wednesday. Wow what the hell

[Kingdom]

Thanks to stupid people of the world, there won't be consecutive weeks of old school movie pick 'ems. Excuse me while I go watch Team America to smite the stupid people.

[Kingdom]

94 mill for me

[Witlon]

Didn't get to this due to Christmas festivities early, but I would've went 90MM for the Hobbit, and obviously Night at the Museum.

Oh well.

[Kingdom]

Wow. Annie was close despite far fewer theatres.