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What's next to open?timmer wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 3:24 pm Our first update!
Iron Dwarf leads the game with an opening box office total of $3,282,610 (or what the new Avengers movie made in 32 seconds!)
DharmaHelper and JaggedJimmyJay each claim a half of that amount, with their actors earning $1,641,305.
The rest of us, I'm sorry to say, are technically up for elimination.
(Always check the spreadsheet for errors!)
Yeah, chinese films would be the death of us all lol!timmer wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 7:23 pm It would definitely add an interesting element to the game... once the contest is fully finished and discussions starts for a potential season 2, let's see where we are at at that time...
Just looking at the current numbers, there would be a crazy layer of scheming involved... a movie like Operation Red Sea has made only $1.5 million in the USA, but $579 million total worldwide...
timmer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:40 am An important point to mention re: actors. An actor must be listed in the credits of a film to count towards it. This might seem obvious, however there are occasional quickie cameos that actors choose to not make official that will not count.
The example of this that I can point to was from last year because it caused a ripple in my other league. If you watch the end credits of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, one of the floating heads that pops up is none other than Jeff Goldblum, in his Grandmaster get-up, before Thor: Ragnarok actually showed who that character was. So, the Goldblum owner in that league demanded a chunk of the GOTG2 box office since Goldblum "appeared" in the film. However, our bible is imdb, and imdb clearly shows him as "uncredited". Thus... no box office in that case.
So remember that, in case it shows up again in this league. An actor must be in the credits, to count towards box office.
I understand the criticism, and I also understand that obviously me wanting to keep the credit/cash is biased, but IMO Terry fits the bill of a points eligible actor. He's credited in the film, he has a speaking role and a name. The length and nature of his appearance in the film is less relevant to the rules (That he be credited in the film as having a role).Ricochet wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 2:10 pm Fully aware of that. For one, it's not that kind of a cameo as the Goldblum example and also not the kind I was bringing up.
For two, for all intents and purposes, Crews is credited (see him on IMDb), so he'll probably fly, but I just felt this movie (tongue-in-cheek-to-the-bone as it is) presented its own exception. The "use" or "appearance" of this actor was a complete joke - an engineered one. A cameo in anything but name masquerading instead as a secondary role. Again, this being Deadpool after all, he might as well have just shouted his Old Spice line and it would have been the exact same thing. If we're on board to roll with this, then enjoy your 40 mil, by all means.
Now you lost me.Ricochet wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 2:36 pm He's playing a part that was designed so that he doesn't play any real part. And presented by pre-movie marketing as a real deal (trailer shots afterwards non-existent etc.), which in my view includes him showing up in the credit list and all. That's all I'm saying and where I stand on.
To put it another way, I regard Slingshot from Suicide Squad to be have been a properly cast actor, regardless of the nature in which his plotline turned to dud, compared to which with Crews I see nothing but a highbrow bait and switch.
I mean, the reason it's completely predictable is the same as when you steal something and the judge says 'why did you steal it' and you say 'because it only cost 5 cents so it's not really stealing anyway' and then you get convicted for 17 years manual labour.
I'm confused who's stealing what or doing the stealing here. If anything, Dharma is likely snatching a third of the actor loot from both of us for a cameo-that's-really-just-a-cameo-except-it-wasn't-marketed-as-a-cameo-because-it-had-to-not-be-marketed-as-such-in-order-for-the-gimmick-to-work. But that's not really on him either, it's just how the movie played out.Golden wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 3:38 pmI mean, the reason it's completely predictable is the same as when you steal something and the judge says 'why did you steal it' and you say 'because it only cost 5 cents so it's not really stealing anyway' and then you get convicted for 17 years manual labour.
I think your rule would be subjective to apply, but even if it was able to be expressed objectively it wasn't a rule at the time the draft occurred, so it would be wholly unreasonable to change the rules on someone now. And I say this as someone whose box office take is being directly affected.
Very amusing, considering that what I just pointed out about Brad Pitt + timmer's "IMDb is bible" rule now combine to earn him part of the pot.
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