The Slashfilm/Totally Rad Show Summer Movie Game

Our friends at the Totally Rad Show have thrown down the gauntlet, and challenged /Film to compete against them in their annual Summer Movie Game. David Chen, Russ Fischer and I (Peter Sciretta) will compete against TRS's Dan Trachtenberg, Alex Albrecht, and Jeff Cannata.

The game is to decide what will be the highest grossing films of the Summer. But it isn't just that easy — not only do the participants need to predict what 10 films will be the highest grossing films domestically, but we need to place them in order. I actually appeared on this week's TRS to announce my choices along with the TRS gang (embedded after the jump).

You can WIN too! We thought it would be a fun idea to invite you guys to play along with us. After the jump you can find a full listing of the Summer movies, a complete set of rules, and all of the predictions made my TRS and /Film. Leave your top ten list and three dark horses with your explanations of why and how in the comments below, and I will send the U.S.-based /Film reader with the highest score a $100 Amazon Gift Card.

If there is a tie, we will choose one of winning entries based on their reasonings for the film placings and award that person with the prize. Each person is allowed one (and only one entry). You can enter by leaving your entry in the comments below along with your full name and city/town, state of residence. Entries will only be accepted until Friday, May 14th 2010 at midnight. The full rules must be followed in order to win.

The Rules

The rules for the game come from TimeTravelReview's Summer Movie Pool:

The object is to pick the films that you think will be the top-ten grossing films of the summer, in order of box-office performance. As I've said, that means only films released from May 7th 2010 to the Labor Day weekend, counting only the money those films make domestically (US and Canada) in that period. In other words films from March or April might still be making money after May 1st, but they don't count; films released from May on could start racking up foreign B.O., but that doesn't count; films released from May on could still be making money into September, but that doesn't count either. Box Office numbers are generally available late Monday or Tuesday after the weekend closes. For the last seven or so years, I have been using box office numbers from Yahoo Box Office which gets their numbers in turn from Box Office Mojo. So what you will be doing is figuring out what 10 films will make the most money, and putting them in order of what you think they will gross at the box office. BUT, in addition to your top 10, you get to pick 3 "Dark Horses"- films you think *might* make it, but that you are not confident enough about to put into the top 10 proper.

The Scoring:

  • Getting number 1 or number 10 dead-on gets you 13 points (each).
  • The rest of the scoring goes like this:

  • 10 points for numbers 2-9 dead-on
  • 7 points if your pick was only one spot away from where it ended up
  • 5 points if it was two spots away
  • 3 points if your pick is anywhere in the Top 10
  • 1 point for each dark horse that makes it into the Top 10
  • The scoring is tabulated so that you get the SINGLE HIGHEST point value for each pick- that is, if you get number ten right, you don't get 13+3, you only get 13.

    /Film:Peter Sciretta's List:

    1. Iron Man 2

    2. Toy Story 3

    3. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

    4. Sex and the City 2

    5. Shrek Forever After

    6. Inception

    7. Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time

    8. The Last Airbender

    9. The Karate Kid

    10. Despicable Me

    Dark Horses

  • The A-Team
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Knight & Day
  • David Chen's List:

    1. Iron Man 2

    2. Shrek Forever After

    3. The Last Airbender

    4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

    5. Toy Story 3

    6. Inception

    7. Sex and the City 2

    8. Knight and Day

    9. The Karate Kid

    10. The A-Team

    Dark Horses:

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Robin Hood
  • Predators
  • Russ Fischer's List:

    1. Iron Man 2

    2. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

    3. The Last Airbender

    4. Toy Story 3

    5. Sex and the City 2

    6. The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    7. Knight and Day

    8. Inception

    9. The Karate Kid

    10. The A-Team

    Dark Horses:
  • Scott Pilgrim
  • The Other Guys

    Eat Pray Love

    Totally Rad Show:Alex Albrecht's List

    1. Shrek Forever After

    2. Prince of Persia

    3. MacGruber

    4. Iron Man 2

    5. Twilight: Eclipse

    6. Toy Story 3

    7. Robin Hood

    8. The Last Airbender

    9. Inception

    10. The A-Team

    Dark Horses

  • Knight & Day
  • Get Him to the Greek
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Jeff Cannata's List

    1. Toy Story 3

    2. Twilight: Eclipse

    3. Shrek Forever After

    4. Iron Man 2

    5. The Last Airbender

    6. Knight & Day

    7. Prince of Persia

    8. Sex and the City 2

    9. Robin Hood

    10 Despicable Me

    Dark Horses

  • Karate Kid
  • Predators
  • Inception
  • Dan Trachtenberg's List

    1. Iron Man 2

    2. Shrek Forever After

    3. Toy Story 3

    4. Prince of Persia

    5. Sex and the City 2

    6. Twilight: Eclipse

    7. The Last Airbender

    8. The A-Team

    9. Knight & Day

    10. Letters to Julia

    Dark Horses

  • Inception
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • The Other Guys
  • List of Summer Movies:May 7

    Iron Man 2

    May 14

    Just Wright

    Letters to Juliet

    Robin Hood

    May 21

    MacGruber

    Shrek Forever After

    May 27

    Sex and the City 2

    May 28

    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

    Micmacs (Limited)

    Survival of the Dead (Limited)

    June 4

    Get Him to the Greek

    Killers

    Marmaduke

    Splice

    June 11

    The A-Team

    The Karate Kid

    June 18

    Jonah Hex

    Toy Story 3

    June 25

    Grown Ups

    Knight & Day

    June 30

    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

    July 2

    The Last Airbender

    July 7

    The Kids Are All Right (Limited)

    July 9

    Despicable Me

    Predators

    Cyrus (Limited)

    [Rec] 2 (Limited)

    July 16

    Inception

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    July 23

    Dinner for Schmucks

    Ramona and Beezus

    Salt

    July 30

    Beastly

    Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

    Charlie St. Cloud

    August 6

    Middle Men

    The Other Guys

    Step Up 3D

    August 13

    Eat, Pray, Love

    The Expendables

    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    August 20

    The Switch

    Lottery Ticket

    Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

    Takers

    August 27

    Going the Distance

    The Last Exorcism

    Piranha 3-D

    Centurion (Limited)

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