The Syndicate

timmer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:03 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 3:28 pm so some movies in 2018 have already been released. If my actor wins an award for one of those movies, what happens to me?

Only movies opening after May 1 matter. An award for a film from earlier is useless to you.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:26 am I suppose I'll finally go with a wildcard myself, since someone stole my queens.

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:55 pm

timmer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:51 pm Everyone is now making their final movie picks... just a reminder, your films lock permanently onto your roster the day that their preview screenings debut. So if a film opens on a Friday but has Thursday night screenings, it locks THURSDAY morning, using North American time zones. However, until your film opens, you may dump it and replace it with any unclaimed other film that has also not yet opened.

There will be ten rounds available for actors. I say available because you may choose to leave a few spots blank and forego your later picks, if you choose. Remember, the instant one of your actors opens in ANY film after May 1st, they are locked onto your roster even if that BIG movie later in the year that you drafted them for gets pushed to 2019. So leaving a few spots blank until later may be safer than trying to fill them all and accidentally having someone lock due to a nothing film you didn't think of.

And a reminder about box office. If a film opens and only one of us has drafted an actor from it, that actor earns a box office total equal to half of the film's box office. If two of us have actors from the film, they both get the equivalent of half of the film's box office. If three of us have actors from the film, they each earn a THIRD of the box office total. f is a quarter, 5 a fifth, etc etc. So just picking someone from Jurassic World or Solo won't guarantee you a ton of box office if others also grab a bunch of actors from the film. Last year on the other site, so many people took actresses from Wonder Woman that even Gal Gadot herself only paid her studio a return of about $30 million.

Also, once the draft switches to actors, the film side of the league is officially post-draft and people can begin dropping and adding films whenever they choose. No need to wait for the actors draft to finish first. I will open a separate thread to keep track of adds and drops. I will also be making an official spreadsheet to keep track of box office returns etc. at a later date.

"Only" 30 million.

Also, not to sound like an idiot but why target anyone in Wonder Woman apart from Chris Pine and Gal Gadot in the first place? Not like Remus Lupin is up to much these days.