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hey, what about those of us still in all the leagues we entered, even if it's only Ultimate instead of BO??

ok so what does everyone really think about geez?? if you write in small like this, he'll never get it - WINK!!

numbersix_99 wrote:

Oh, Roodey, the half year leagues are not for our kind.

I'll have to adjust my strategy for the next batch. I tend to devise a slate and then apply the same one to all leagues. My half-year slates need to be far more aggressive. My full year slates are designed to just keep me in the game and moving from round to round. That doesn't cut it in half year. I need to be far more aggressive and play more dangerous choices. Live and learn, eh Six?

Join me in a Guiness this evening. Weeping and wailing about our premature exits optional!

I won? I won? I WON! I WON! I WON! (Well, April-June, anyways.) This is the first league that I have won, and in the Super Leagues! Well, I won't win in all in the Box Office Half Year, but at least I made it into the last round.

And I may win the BO 2nd Half Year Round 1, but it looks to be a tie. What happens if there is a tie? I wanna win. But thats awesome, I should get an IM there.

Haha, geezer. What a guy.

Well done J.I, but I would be a little apprehensive regarding BO 2nd Half Yr, Round 1. We have both had great starts to the season, but with Hancock just getting going, and TDK, The Mummy, Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder still to come, I think we will just have to hold on tight and ride out the storm.

SUNDAY UPDATE (7/6)

According to BOM, the Top 5 and PTA are this:

Top 5
1. Hancock (UR: 6.9)
2. Wall-E (UR: now 8.9)
3. Wanted (UR: now 7.5)
4. Get Smart (UR: now 7.4)
5. Kung Fu Panda

PTA
1. The Wackness (UR: 6.5)
2. Hancock
3. Wall-E
4. Wanted
5. Mongol (AGAIN!)

So, based on that, here are some preliminary updates for the 1st-Half Half-Year tournaments.

ULTIMATE

ashkul is still in 1st place, only now he is TIED with Chienfantome. Only difference is, ash still has Henry Poole to come out, whereas Chien is out.

At this point, it's tough to see just who is still in contention, given that only one person has TDK and four have Hellboy II, and they're all in the bottom half. Seven have X-Files 2's OW, and three have Henry Poole, but will that be enough? It seems to be ash's to lose at this point.

BOX OFFICE

Chien is still the leader, but this will probably be the last week. Kompressr is only $7M behind with HB2 coming next week. Looking down the rest of the list, it would seem that the two top candidates for victory are:

Kompressr - $1.053B, with Indy, Zohan, Hulk, Wanted and HB2
geezer - $890M, with Indy, Zohan, Hulk, HB2 and Dark Knight

This should be a great finish!

In the Ultimate FY, it looks like binkley, ash and Thomassi87 are going to hang onto their spots in the GZ for another week.

In the Box Office FY, Kompressr widens his lead, now amassing over $1.05B with HB2 still to come! I'm guessing the GZ will be he (finally, an IM!) as well as synestro (yes, again), who is at $960M with TDK coming.

As for who's in danger, it's impossible to say. Everyone in the RZs have either HB2 or TDK. As Narnia victims, however, I'd say that lainiediamond and rsabin are in the most danger.

Finally, a potential IM! It's about time! As far as the final of the Half Year goes, I really hope I take it home, but TDK is looking so huge now. Ahh.

Shryke, my maaan, and everyone else who still has the film on one of their May/July slates...
HENRY POOLE IS HERE is not going to be released on July 25th but on August 15th.
Just wanted to let you know. Box Office Mojo still has not changed the date, and thus nor did FM, but all the other sites on th web list Aug. 15 as the release date.

NO!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be kidding!! I will NOT lose this league on a default!! NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO!!!!

oh my GOD!! you're serious!! oh wow, i could cry right now....'Henry Poole' was my UR booster, with a 7.3 and rising!! and that's the only category i need shoring up in!! curse you Monsieur DeFrance!!

ashkul88 wrote:

NO!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be kidding!! I will NOT lose this league on a default!! NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO!!!!

Everyones been saying it for about a month now man..

it doesn't help!! i didn't see it here, and i look to BOM for my release dates....so there was no way i could expect it....and it was the perfect movie to end off my slate - the only category i was kinda weak in was UR, and it would have fixed that with its 7.3!! and now instead i have to settle for "Chimps"....well, at least i can thank my stars there actually was another $2 movie i could pick eh??

I agree with Shryke that it really comes down to Kompressr and myself for the BO HY crown. I am so glad I went with HellBoy 2 and The Dark Knight over WALL-E and The X-Files. Even though I have Wanted on all of my round 6 BO slates, I am so glad to see the nose dive because it was really worrying me being on your slate and not on mine. TDK needs to make up whatever lead you have on me going into its opening weekend. If it can make anything over 210 in 10 days, I believe I have it. If not, I think its yours. Keep in mind, this would only be my second league win, but I guess I would make it count

Ah yes, I was really depending on Wanted to put some much needed distance between us until TDK came along but it seems that's not really going to happen. Hopefully, it will be just enough seeing as the Super Leagues was my big intro into the FM league playing and would be nice that my first win comes against the best competitors.

Ash - Uh yeah, tell me about it. I had $4 left on my slates, for which I was planning on Longshots and Henry Poole. Now, there is nothing left to take so I have to have Space Chimps and a blank slot (still debating whether or not the blank slot will outperform Space Chimps...). This site keeping Henry Poole at July 25th really screwed me good, as I could've just taken Kitt Kittredge had I known. I wish they would just let me have Henry's user rating, that's all I ask for... Oh well.

Well, I guess this is just another risk of taking those two monster blockbusters and relying on a bunch of 2 dollar fillers. They get moved quite often. Good luck with those space monkeys!

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