Ep. 791 - The 2024 Summer Movie Wager Results
Added 2024-09-17 16:00:12 +0000 UTCIt’s time once again for box office judgment day! Our friends BJ Colangelo, Germain Lussier, and Peter Sciretta return to the podcast along with the Filmcast crew to discuss this year’s summer box office. Who will prevail to victory? Who will feel the agony of defeat? Listen to the show to find out!
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The Summer Movie Wager is a box office game which is played each summer. You can find the history and play along at thesummermoviewager.com (thanks to Dennis for maintaining the site!) The general goal of this game is to predict the highest grossing films of the summer in terms of domestic box office, IN THE CORRECT ORDER. The closer you get to the final ranked order, the more points you get. This year, the summer movie wager began on May 2, 2024 (with the release of The Fall Guy) and lasted through September 2, 2024, Labor Day, as usual.
Each of your 13 picks (10 movies and 3 dark horses) gets a single score assigned to it by using the following rules:
If your picked movie for #1 OR #10 is correct, you score 13 points for it.
If your picked movie for 2-9 is correct, you score 10 points for it.
If your picked movie is only 1 spot away from its actual placement, you score 7 points for it.
If your picked movie is only 2 spots away from its actual placement, you score 5 points for it.
If your picked movie is placed inside the Top 10, you score 3 points for it.
If your picked movie is not placed inside the Top 10, you score 0 points for it.
For each of your picked dark horses placed inside the Top 10, you score 1 point. If two or more rules apply to a single pick, only that single rule will be applied which assigns the highest point value to that pick. For example: If your pick for #1 is correct, you don't get 16 points for it because it is #1 and because it placed inside the Top 10; instead you only get 13 points for it.
The Actual Top 10 Movies
1. Inside Out 2
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
3. Despicable Me 4
4. Twisters
5. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
6. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
7. A Quiet Place: Day One
8. It Ends with Us
9. IF
10. The Fall Guy
Germain’s Top 10
1. Inside Out 2
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
3. Despicable Me 4
4. Twisters
5. The Fall Guy
6. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
7. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. A Quiet Place: Day One
10. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Dark horses:
The Garfield Movie
IF
Fly Me To The Moon
BJ’s Top 10
1. Inside Out 2
2. Despicable Me 4
3. Deadpool & Wolverine
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. A Quiet Place: Day 1
6. Twisters
7. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
8. The Fall Guy
9. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
10. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Dark horses:
The Garfield Movie
Alien: Romulus
Trap
Peter’s Top 10
1. Inside Out 2
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
3. Despicable Me 4
4. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
5. The Garfield Movie
6. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
7. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
8. IF
9. Twisters
10. A Quiet Place: Day One
Dark horses:
The Fall Guy
Alien: Romulus
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Devindra’s Top 10
1. Deadpool & Wolverine
2. Inside Out 2
3. Despicable Me 4
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. The Fall Guy
6. Twisters
7. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
8. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
9. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
10. A Quiet Place: Day One
Dark horses:
MaXXXine
Fly Me To the Moon
The Garfield Movie
Jeff’s Top 10
1. Despicable Me 4
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
3. Inside Out 2
4. The Fall Guy
5. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
6. Twisters
7. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. A Quiet Place: Day One
10. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Dark horses:
The Garfield Movie
IF
Alien: Romulus
Dave’s Top 10
1. Deadpool & Wolverine
2. Despicable Me 4
3. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
4. Inside Out 2
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. A Quiet Place: Day One
7. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
8. The Fall Guy
9. IF
10. Twisters
Dark horses:
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Alien: Romulus
Trap
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Comments
I have a love for Chen. 😁
Wayne Edwards
2024-09-25 19:59:13 +0000 UTCI root for Chen because I would love to hear him be insufferable. Also Devendra is right about a lot of the shows he recommends.
Wil Johnson
2024-09-25 18:15:32 +0000 UTCI would prefer they go back to the normal squad. Too many people this year IMO
Wil Johnson
2024-09-25 18:13:59 +0000 UTCAs a 23 year old woman who grew up with disney channel movies, I am beyond excited to hear your takes on Lemonade Mouth. Thank you Germain.
I S
2024-09-25 07:45:27 +0000 UTCTotally cool to disagree but here are my full thoughts on spoiler culture in case you're interested. I also recognize that I'm in the minority with my stance but I certainly don't think it's "nonsense." :) https://www.slashfilm.com/718926/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-spoilers-thanks-to-wrestling/
This Ends at Prom
2024-09-22 02:09:03 +0000 UTCWhile I agree about the end of the summer, Memorial Day is one of the biggest weekends for the box office. Over 10 films have opened to over 100 million that weekend. Also, Fall Guy was released 4 weekends before Memorial Day.
Andrew Weber
2024-09-19 09:08:12 +0000 UTCInteresting that there are people out there who didn’t think A Quiet Place Day One sucked.
Brian Deaton
2024-09-19 03:29:50 +0000 UTCI agree with the exception of the unbelievably bad take on spoilers. That section was nonsense and I could tell Jeff was almost apoplectic.
Mike Gorman
2024-09-18 21:30:02 +0000 UTCI think one area you guys are missing in your assessment of the summer (and especially around Fall Guy) is release date on the calendar. A lot of families take vacations right after school lets out after Memorial Day - the same time Fall Guy was released. It also explains the so-so box office at the end of Summer when families are trying to squeeze in a last vacation before school starts. Animation movies always fair better for n Summertime as kids camps will often use a “day at the movies” as one of their camp adventures. There are some significant summertime events that drive families to or keep them away from theaters. I never hear this addressed when it comes to the Summer Movie Wager.
AF
2024-09-18 21:28:47 +0000 UTCDavid has implied a number of times that the success of "inside out 2" is being driven by parents who saw "inside out" when they were 'young'. The logic goes that now those parents are taking their kids to see "inside out 2". However, "inside out" came out in 2015, and to me it's not quite the generational audience transition he is claiming it to be.
Shampoo Man
2024-09-18 21:24:56 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed hearing BJ’s perspective as part of the wager this year!
Carole Mariani
2024-09-18 17:53:04 +0000 UTCI always root against Dave and Devindra, simply because Dave is insufferable when he wins, and because I don't want Devindra to feel like he's "educating" everyone with his "superior tastes in movies" with whatever his winning recommendation would be. He's already so exasperated that the other hosts don't just watch the myriad things he insists they must see, and they already end up having to watch and review a bunch of movies only he is interested in as it is. I was rooting for BJ or Jeff to win, but there's always next year.
Stranger2Reality
2024-09-18 10:17:17 +0000 UTCHere's the thing with Horizon: it's perfectly fine, but it's maybe the most incomplete movie ever made, because it really is just like the first couple episodes of a TV show. I couldn't in good conscience recommend it to anyone, even huge Costner or Western fans, just cause it just randomly ends with like 6 different storylines all nowhere near any kind of conclusion. I would tell people wait until the entire four movie series is completed and then just binge those like you would a season or two of a TV show. If they never make all four movies, then just skip it entirely, as it would be like only ever being able to see half a season of a show that was abruptly canceled halfway through with no resolution whatsoever. I won't watch any more of these until they've all been released.
Stranger2Reality
2024-09-18 10:11:56 +0000 UTCI'm rooting for him every year and I'm not ashamed! 😂
Mountain of Conflict
2024-09-18 06:26:13 +0000 UTCJust as Costner’s hat sabotaged Horizon, I firmly believe that the sight of Hemsworth’s prosthetic nose in the trailer sank Furiosa. Speaking of Horizon, I have zero interest in three 3-hour movies, but if it had been released as a 10 episode season of tv I would have totally watched it.
Brian Deaton
2024-09-18 00:28:46 +0000 UTCMy favorite episode of every year! Another goose egg you didn’t mention was 2017’s Girls Trip. Would love to see more women and women of color participate in the wager!
Angie Wu
2024-09-17 20:35:24 +0000 UTCLove love love. Lemonade Mouth!!! Watched it with my daughter and we reference it all the time!!
Anthony Schumacher
2024-09-17 18:56:28 +0000 UTCTerrible box office summer and I still got more points than any of the hosts 😂 Twister$, I told you people!
Mountain of Conflict
2024-09-17 18:20:45 +0000 UTCIt. Is. Time! The Downfall Of Chen!! I hope. 😂
Wayne Edwards
2024-09-17 17:57:51 +0000 UTCBeen waiting all week for this thank you
AJ Karim
2024-09-17 16:11:50 +0000 UTCBeen refreshing the page all morning waiting for this!
Danny C
2024-09-17 16:10:14 +0000 UTCHell yeahhhhhhhhh! Thank youuuuuuuuuuu gentleman for all the hard work and amazing fun times.
Reynaldo K. Cruz
2024-09-17 16:03:45 +0000 UTC
