That puts the third film of the Iron Man franchise as the second biggest performance of all time, behind its Marvel stablemate The Avengers. Will the studio force Tony Stark to retrieve his electromagnetic heart from the ocean for a fourth outing?
The list includes everything from classics like Goldfinger to the perhaps not-so-classic Big Daddy. And it's all thanks to new film service Warner Archive Instant.
The E.T. director will be chairing the judges, while Roman Polanski, the Coen Brothers, Nicolas Winding Refn, Steven Soderbergh, and Alexander Payne all have films in competition.
Brainstorming isn't stupid, you just have to know how to be blockbuster good at it, as this pre-Indy spitballing session between George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg reveals. Bullwhips also help.