Top Billing

Top Billing is a small daily film game by Jared Silver, dressed as an old movie palace marquee with red curtains and film tickets. It began in August 2026, and each day is a numbered night with its own theme: the movies of 2024, the class of 1999, and so on. Every player gets the same five films.

Themes change from night to night: a year, a decade, a director, a star, a franchise or a subject such as martial arts movies, with a Halloween movies night on 31 October. The figures come from Wikidata and TMDB.

The night runs in two rounds. In the first, the box office round, you drag the five film tickets (or move them with arrow buttons) into order by how much they took worldwide, then lock in your ranking to see how close you were. In the second you rank the same five again, this time by their critic scores. A film can be a hit and a flop with critics at once, which is the point.

After both rounds the recap sets the two orders side by side, so you can see which films the public and the critics disagreed on, and share your result. Past nights stay playable.

It takes a couple of minutes and suits anyone who likes the box office side of film trivia, and players of the Box Office Game who want a ranking puzzle instead of a guessing one.