The Syndicate

ill pick up Allison Janney

i'll pick up adam sandler pls since i have room in my roster and uncut gems isnt too shabby looking

Pickup Foxx

i guess i should have treated this like fantasy football and really checked for films and stuff almost daily to snatch them up. i snooze, i lose.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:29 am

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:36 am does anyone know why green book doesn't have a US opening listed? or am i just not seeing it? some potential picks in there for me if it had one.

drop georgetown (for no release date in sight yet) pick up peterloo

sorry timmer, pls don't hate me. i just really really wanna get beyond golden globes and i've been studying up

No idea about Green Book.

I almost took Peterloo myself, but I couldn't find a movie I had that I wanted to dump.

oh greenbook, you were my pick, i swear.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 5:28 pm Ah fuck it lol

Drop Bohemian Rhapsody

Add Destroyer.

Holy poop. Who would drop Mary, Queen of Scots

drop what they had, pick up beautiful boy

drop vera farmiga, pick up Emily Blunt

drop peterloo pick up the front runner

no i'm sure i looked everywhere, it didn't have oine. see my post from july 30:

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:36 am does anyone know why green book doesn't have a US opening listed? or am i just not seeing it? some potential picks in there for me if it had one.

i'm so mad at myself. lucky timmer

wtf Green Book has a US release now? FUCK

if carell / chalamet hit home with beautiful boy and on the basis of sex lives up to expectations, i could go places.

does anyone know why green book doesn't have a US opening listed? or am i just not seeing it? some potential picks in there for me if it had one.

drop georgetown (for no release date in sight yet) pick up peterloo

sorry timmer, pls don't hate me. i just really really wanna get beyond golden globes and i've been studying up

boy erased looks really good, but nicole kidman's role looks a bit week compared to Crowe's supporting act. not sure i'm gonna score any noms from her there so might be dropping her..

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 6:51 pmNerds.

look who's talking.

i'm a little pooped i didn't have the good foresight to pick up Leave No Trace. seems like award clickbait.

i know for sure MP and Iron Dwarf won't win. it's anyone else's game...just higher chances for some people than others.

i'd laugh if rico won.

i was a little silly before, i thought the phases were connected, i didn't know you just had to ensure you werent the very bottom of the box office earnings to earn a spot at award season. next year my strategy would be different, but i'm happy with most actors i have i guess.

looking at his roster, i wouldn't bet on Golden winning, tbh. but that's just me.

i wanted her for georgetown, but that is unclear when it's set to be released probably 2019 as well with my luck.

but for now, drop where'd you go bernadette pick up georgetown

oh sorry, i didn't see him for mission impossible. it's fine.

drop annette benning pick up Vera Farmiga

drop maura tierney pick up cynthia erivo

drop alec baldwin pick up Vera Farmiga

drop robert de niro, pick up Maura Tierney

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:28 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:40 am

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:03 am

dunya wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:00 am @DharmaHelper wanna trade? something for Can You Ever Forgive Me? *puppy eyes*

I can't do it. I almost mode the mistake of dumping Forgive Me. Too much awards punch in there, sorry.

I know I missed my fucking chance. Yuck. If my 2 open on time I don't have a problem but I'm sceptical at this point for Where'd You Go Bernadette.

You don't look in bad shape to me

well where'd you go bernadette has a hard release of march 2019 now. gotta find something to replace it with.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:03 am

dunya wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:00 am @DharmaHelper wanna trade? something for Can You Ever Forgive Me? *puppy eyes*

I can't do it. I almost mode the mistake of dumping Forgive Me. Too much awards punch in there, sorry.

I know I missed my fucking chance. Yuck. If my 2 open on time I don't have a problem but I'm sceptical at this point for Where'd You Go Bernadette.

[mention]DharmaHelper[/mention] wanna trade? something for Can You Ever Forgive Me? *puppy eyes*

drop The Predator pick up What They Had

drop smallfoot pick up Roma

drop bruce dern, pick up emma stona

jays subscribed to this topic isnt he? he isn't giving any one else a chance. ffs.

One can hope.

Drop Slender Man and pick up Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Lame. It's not showing anywhere near me this weekend (And by near I went out 120km)

We also learned that Jay is ruthless.

I don't think it's coming out though. That's the second push on its release date.

[mention]JaggedJimmyJay [/mention] I demand to take it back if it ends up being released this year.

I'll drop Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and pick up Tag please, [mention]timmer[/mention]

blegh, I need a new movie I guess.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 4:03 pm I'm just thankful Infinity War got bumped out of contention.

I haven't watched it yet made 650mil. def will beat solo.

it's cool DH. you didn't upset me or make me uncomfortable. People have different opinions and no one is wrong or right. I could be biased because I want Bening, after all.

you hit 15k posts, Golden. woop woop.

regardless of what we all think anyway, timmer made that specific rule clear in the very first signup thread post (I quoted it) and everyone should have read it... so not much to discuss in fairness--he's not making exceptions now; it's a rule, it's part of the game.

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 1:25 pm

Ricochet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:29 am It was my understanding that actors/actresses are locked once their first movie of the May-December season rolls, meaning both locked in one's draft, if chosen beforehand, and ineligible to be picked any longer, if not.

Let the record reflect this was my understanding as well, and that I don't know how fair I find it. For example:


Lets say actor Dharma Helper stars in 3 films coming out within the window of the league (May-December) and Film #1 comes out and people are like "wow actually Dharma Helper is pretty good. Nobody expected Film #1 to do that great, and it did real good. Film #2 and Film #3 are must watch now, and I bet Dharma Helper will get nominated for some awards"


IMO, If no one in the league had the foresight to pick Dharma Helper before his films hit theaters then he should be locked out. Otherwise you're looking at a scenario where actors that previously had little or no awards buzz and now do based on the performance of their films (which we DID NOT have access to during the draft) can get snaked up.

IDK. I see the frustration.

Let the record show that Rico didn't drop out because of this rule. However, I find your example a little weird tbh.

Why play with examples; let's use real names. Rico picked up The Seagull. Annette Bening was not picked up. I needed an actress. I saw Annette Bening was available (indeed, no one even dropped Annette, no one had even considered her!). I picked Annette Bening up. I won't earn any points for The Seagull. What is the issue here?

If you're seriously arguing that if 1 actor did well in 1 movie then all the other movies must be great....nah. In fact, I'll say history shows that if 1 movie is outstanding then the actor will get very little recognition for other movies that same year. The Seagull made half a mil in US. It's not exactly outstanding material that I based my pick of Annette Bening on. I don't care about The Seagull at all. I have no claim to The Seagull. The Seagull did not play any role in my choice of Annette Bening. Indeed, I thought it was released before May and had no idea Rico had chosen it before. I picked her entirely based on the probability of Georgetown being released this year (which is still unconfirmed)--I like the story and the supporting cast (Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave) and directed by Waltz. I feel like it could earn her awards.

I know, I was just messing with Rico's temperature. I picked Bening for another movie; I knew the rule before I did.

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:22 am

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:07 am

Ricochet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:29 am It was my understanding that actors/actresses are locked once their first movie of the May-December season rolls, meaning both locked in one's draft, if chosen beforehand, and ineligible to be picked any longer, if not.

no. actors and actresses are locked into YOUR roster if you have picked them and their first movie of the May-December season rolls in. meaning you can't drop them if they didn't score well (same with movies). I don't believe they are ineligible to be chosen, only that I can't claim points for any movie that was released before I picked them.

Wow, would be rough if annette bening won an award for the Seagull, huh.

I had thought it was the same way as Rico, good to know.

I wonder if I can claim awards since award season hasn't started...just not box office revenue. I better not push it though, or Rico will have a seizure.

here's the rule, [mention]Ricochet[/mention]

timmer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:21 am You are also free to drop actors and replace them, as long as they have not had a film open while on your roster... replacement actors may have had a film open already, but since no one owned them yet it is okay.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:29 am It was my understanding that actors/actresses are locked once their first movie of the May-December season rolls, meaning both locked in one's draft, if chosen beforehand, and ineligible to be picked any longer, if not.

no. actors and actresses are locked into YOUR roster if you have picked them and their first movie of the May-December season rolls in. meaning you can't drop them if they didn't score well (same with movies). I don't believe they are ineligible to be chosen, only that I can't claim points for any movie that was released before I picked them.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 2:01 am dunia's Annette Bening pick, weeks after The Seagull had opened.

I didn't pick Annette Bening for The Seagull, I picked her for Georgetown.

I would like to drop Olivia Wilde and pick up Annette Bening (aka [mention]juliets[/mention] )

timmer wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 12:11 am

dunya wrote: ↑Tue May 22, 2018 5:03 am since I dropped Javier, I'd like to take Alec Baldwin in his place.

Someone studied the spreadsheet...

ya'll underestimate me. i'm gonna do some serious fucking damage.