The Syndicate

If Jay wins after I mentioned the BAFTAs we should declare the whole thing null and void lol. Would I have beaten Rico in the guilds?

Oh great I mention the baftas and now I’ll go out fifth instead of fourth lol!

Hey timmer, did we cut the baftas round somewhere along the way?

And advancing because I had both people in a tie was my strategy all along, just saying.

I beat DH and to be honest there is a kind of sweet joy in that but I don’t even know why because I am also sad for DH. I really thought you had second tied up man!

I’m in trouble in round four. I somehow need jay and dunya to go out in round 3 and try to stay ahead of Rico...

Pretty happy with my performance even if I bow out here though. I do think anyone who plays again should get to keep one actor/actress from their current roster.

Looks like I picked the wrong young Kiwi. Thomasin McKenzie is who I should have picked.

I don’t really see how there can be points for actors that aren’t for acting.

timmer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:55 am Spreadsheet is updated.

Congrats to Golden for crossing $1 billion!

Some thoughts post-TIFF... Golden has probably got 3 of the eventual Best Lead Actress nominees on his roster. DH has the favorite to win Best Picture, and Supporting Actor. Dunya has a potential Best Pic spoiler and a lot of possible nominees...

I could have more than three.

Can’t say I didn’t go in with a strategy huh!

dunya wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:00 am Read amazing things about GaGa's performance. Who had her?

Me.

timmer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:32 pm For whatever it's worth, Mary Queen of Scots have apparently opted to skip all of the fall festivals... that doesn't bode well. I'll update the spreadsheet tonight

Meh. I still bet it gets technical noms these kind of movies tend to. But I’m wavering...

timmer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:19 pm Spreadsheet updated! No movement in the rankings this week...

Glenn Close has earned RAVE reviews for The Wife, so kudos to Golden... he could have the Best Actress Oscar winner on his hands...

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:19 pm I'm 95% sure it is for this year's Oscars

I'm 95% sure you're correct.

Odds are now 99.75% overall

Although it probably wouldn't have helped me.

Damn, I was hoping it would kick in now lol.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:03 pm Let's be transparent then. It was your last chance at getting rid of me; you don't care about I_D

Well, let's not get too hasty with 'last' chance

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:56 pm
Golden wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:17 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:50 am the best thing is, no one has any MI actors except me. muahahaha.
If Iron Dwarf had turned up I would have advised him to grab an MI actor quick. It was his last hope I think.
Payback for me rooting for daisy to win the genius?

I'm all for eliminating a threat!

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:50 am the best thing is, no one has any MI actors except me. muahahaha.

If Iron Dwarf had turned up I would have advised him to grab an MI actor quick. It was his last hope I think.

Hey, what happened, I didn't make $150m this week? Lame.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:34 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:28 pm This is dope we gotta do this shit next year
Gotta give everyone a chance to thwart my title defense.

#ihavejustsmacktalkedyou

It's at moments like this that I prefer to imagine Jay is actually a robot.

Not that I really need the box office at all lol.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:13 pm
timmer wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:59 pm Mary Poppins Returns is moving from Dec. 25 to Dec. 19... may not sound significant but it puts it directly in the way of Aquaman and shows increasing confidence in the film.
A couple more days for BO money to get in there. *And* I've got Lin-Manuel so "Supporting Actor in a Comedy/Musical" is like...mine.

That latter part is probably true.

But I have Mary Poppins, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Lady Gaga so I'm feeling fairly decent about my chances in the Comedy/Musical categories too.

One more week of the box office there is pretty significant for me. Now if they could just move it forward another week again... or two.

I’m just calling in the win now.

Forget the awards stuff.

timmer wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:54 pm The job isn't to have lots of money. Its to be one step away from elimination because you have so many oscar films on your roster!

I’m feeling decent about making it past the globes

As Jurassic Park is not a flop I'm now very confident that I will not be losing in the first round.

Very pleased at how few people picked up actors from the incredibles.

I wanted that as my film, but getting those actor bucks is pretty good.

I’m feeling good about round 1.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:12 pm How many people are being eliminated this round, timmer?

Only one

I'm waiting for the weekend after, to see how Jurassic World does.

If it doesn't flop, I think I'll be feeling pretty secure about the first round. If it does flop... I could be screwed.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:36 am
dunya wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:20 am I wasnt expecting Lady Gaga to pull the audience tbh. She's no Reece Witherspoon.

After seeing the trailer I kind of regret it tho.
It got a load of buzz at CinemaCon so I had to take a shot on it. TBH I probably wont see it myself, but it looks like it'll be a useful awards round grab.

It will probably see you sail through the Globes at least.

Gaga might though

I don’t see Cooper winning either.

Who doesn’t like hook!

Like literally fan reactions to Star Wars make zero sense to me. Rogue One is the worst of the four and the Last Jedi the best, both my a mile, in my opinion. Both in terms of artistic merit and Star Wars merit.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 3:35 pm I thought Solo was close to awful, and I’d consider it a valid candidate for being the worst Star Wars movie.

Spoiler: show

I mean, you aren’t the one writing the sensationalist headlines! But I have to say if it’s underperforming, in terms of this draft I’m all for that!

I do not understand how this is grim - it's probably on track to $700-800m, not at all bad. If it was a Marvel movie or a Pixar movie this would hardly be called grim.

For my part though, I thought Solo was a massive improvement over Rogue One. It actually made me believe in stand alone movies, and I want another one based on the ending. However, I'm still more interested in time periods far removed from the existing saga.

I guess Timmer gets a share of the take then.

I can't even understand how this is a debate. The rules are what the rules are. Terry Crews was clearly credited in the cast before the movie came out, so DH made an informed decision based on that.

Timmer's 'cameo' rule obviously came about to prevent people unexpectedly nicking off with part of a pot that wasn't anticipated. It's about allowing for transparency. DH wouldn't have picked Crews if he wasn't on the imdb page for Deadpool 2, most likely. Why should he be punished for that?

Ricochet wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 3:11 pm Anyway, I'm done and will just await that predictable verdict favorable to Crews' inclusion. Didn't even plan to post in here as it is, but I suppose this thing got to me, after seeing the movie today. : )

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 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.

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...

Yeah, chinese films would be the death of us all lol!

But I have to say that it would make British films a lot more viable and it would even the playing field for those of us who have, our entire lives, lived by the global metric not the US metric. Which frankly should be the much more relevant metric anyway...

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!)

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