Jon's 2016 Summer Movie Wager

Hey everyone! Here's my 2016 Summer Movie Wager- which applies to DBO numbers for all films released between May 1st and Aug 31st.

I am going to bet that these films make the best Domestic Box Office numbers in this order!

1. Captain America Civil War

2. The Secret Life of Pets

3. Finding Dory

4. Suicide Squad

5. X-Men Apocalypse

6. Angry Birds

7. TMNT 2

8. Conjuring 2 

9. Ghostbusters

10. Independence Day Resurgence

Dark Horses:

1. Warcraft

2. The BFG

3. Ben-Hur

Here’s how they score the wager:

• 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.

Last year, I got this terrible score… 33 points.

I got…

7 points each for Avengers Age of Ultron and for Mission Impossible (1 place away)=14 points.

5 points each for Jurassic World and for Minions (2 places away)=10 points.

3 points each for Inside Out, Ant-Man, and Mad Max: Fury Road (on the list)=9 points.

14+10+9=33 points. This is HALF the score I made last year. Ha ha ha! ;)

Hopefully I’ll do much better this year, even though the season is PACKED with blockbuster fare. Every week has a new different 4-corner spectacle film or genre film. A decade ago we couldn’t do that. We have so much content that instead of wagering on a top 10 we’re gonna have to start wagering on a top 20! LOL.

What films are on YOUR list?