ILX Fantasy Movie League

Who's in?

http://fantasymovieleague.com/group/1950

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[q]Fantasy Movie League is a fantasy sports-style weekend movie box office game, where players use their knowledge and skill to pick which group of films will generate the highest gross revenue.

1. The game is broken down into four seasons. For the purposes of this game, we will start with:
Fall - Sep 4 to Nov 29 (13 weeks)
Awards - Dec 4 to Feb 28 (13 weeks)
Spring - Mar 4 to May 22 (12 weeks)

2. Each week, players select up to eight films to feature on the screens of their own Fantasy Cineplex. Each movie available for selection has an associated FML Bux cost and all players must stay within a fixed spending limit of $1,000 FML Bux.

3. Players can feature a movie on as many screens as their budget allows. They will earn the movie's Box Office total for each screen of their Fantasy Cineplex that features the movie.

4. Players do not have to select movies for all eight of their Fantasy Cineplex screens and may strategically choose not to do so. However, a $2MM penalty will be assessed for each unused screen and the total sum of all penalties will be deducted from the players box office total at the end of the week.

5. The actual box office earnings of the movie featured on each screen in the players Fantasy Cineplex are added together to form a total score for that week. The total of all weeks during a Season is accumulated for ranking purposes, but does not carryover from one Season to another.

6. The box office totals used are the Weekend earnings, as reported by BoxOffice.com. Typically, Weekend earnings are calculated as Friday through Sunday except for Holiday Weekends (Memorial Day, Labor Day, MLK Day), where the totals carry through until Monday. Additionally, any movie opening on Friday but offering "sneak peek" or "previews" on Thursday will have the latter included in their total as well. If a movie opens on a Wednesday, the Wednesday and Thursday numbers are NOT included in the Weekend total.

7. New game weeks begin at 5:00:00PM PT each Monday, except for Holiday Weekends, where the new week does not start until 5:00:00PM PT on Tuesday. Regardless of the start day, all players must finalize their Fantasy Cineplex selections by 9:00:00 AM PT each Friday.

8. Players may add and remove movies as often as they would like prior to the Friday deadline. Movies that have been selected may be removed from Fantasy Cineplex screens and new movies added, so long as the player's budget never exceeds the $1,000 FML Bux limit.

11. For every $1MM in total box office earned by a player's Fantasy Cineplex they will receive one Golden Ticket.

12. Players will earn a bonus $2MM in Box Office total and the associated two Golden Tickets for each screen showing the weekly Best Performer, which is the movie with the highest Box Office per FML Buck.

13. All Golden Tickets earned during a game week are entered into a weekly prize drawing, where one randomly selected Ticket will earn the owner a $25 Fandango gift card. For more information on prizes please read the Contest Rules.

14. All Golden Tickets earned during a Season are entered into a second prize drawing, where two randomly selected Tickets will each earn their owner a $100 Fandango gift card. For more information on prizes please read the Contest Rules.

15. Players can also earn extra Golden Tickets by being a Weekly League Winner (50 Golden Tickets) or a Season League Winner (1000 Golden Tickets).

16. Golden Tickets do not carryover from one Season to another.[/q

Sure, what the hell. I can't promise I won't totally flake though... I have very bad focus when it comes to these fantasy things. But I'll give it a shot!

i've thought about starting a box office fantasy thing here, into it

more people do this

c'mon ya bums, we need more

deadline is at 12pm EST

they should probably close them sooner when there are wednesday releases

i wish this thing had more worksafe-sounding title

lol forgot :/

thought it was weird you didn't have any of the new openers

those slated to be #1 options always seem overpriced

the $3m bonus is kind of ridiculous

forks....

yeah, i kinda lost track of this.

whoa, close week. damn you Sicario!

pretty good showing from Will for his first week, too

missed this one tho :/ back on the wagon!

Bump

FORKS

i keep thinking this thread will be arguments about legend and the thief of bagdad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0--b6DLqQ

...

Surprised about WOODLAWN btw, haven't heard anything about it

Final week of the season. They're doing some weird stuff with Hunger Games, you have to pick which day you want

Also a good time for new people to get on board, since they reset the standings next Monday.

i think this is the second to last week

Oh whoops, you're right, there's a week 13. My bad

goddammit

i need to remember to always fill every spot even if i'm just playing around with the numbers

lol you're currently leading with 4 Creeds and 6 blanks

Congrats qualx for winning Fall 2015

New season starts tomorrow, get on board fools

i forgot again but i didn't forget to leave a full slate up at least (it's a horrible slate)

sorry i missed this, i assumed "starts tomorrow" means "you can't do anything until tomorrow" which is the opposite of waht was true. i should set up a calendar alert for this or something, when is the optimal time to enter picks?

Thursday nights, slots lock Friday morning

2 sundays vs 1 friday is a thing to ponder

i guess saturday is a day as well

Would've gone for the Friday by default, but damn, $803.. not sure now. Or maybe do Sat+Sun and a bunch of junk filler.

Week 4: Just squeezed into #1. Picked the Sunday TFA so I could fit in Sisters.
LOL at Daddy's Home being the bonus pick.

Damnit forgot to set it this week.
What the hell is The Forest?

first horror movie in a while

Hmm. They locked it an hour early. Fff.

Don't be a Michael McDonald

waited too long for a reminider didn't i

don't forget to set your theatres y'all

also i say this, full well knowing that i am a hypocrite given my propensity to go deep on fantasy baseball, but OMGGGGGG those FML forums are nerdy as FUCK

heh

those people are gross and make the whole thing less enjoyable whenever i read them

apparently this was featured in the view and then a million the view viewers signed up so that's just been great for everyone

I was the only one who slotted Deadpool? Ye of little faith

i ate shit on zoolander last week

btw pick your movies

lol whoops bump

New season starts on Monday, good time to join.

looooool. this week's winner does $10m more than deadpool did. horrible job everyone! i've never even seen an ad for "triple 9"

did not even know of its existence until making this week's picks in fact

it's gotten lots of TV ads this month!

Wish I could fit more than one Zootopia.

How could you guys not bet on Bats/Supes

hey now there's always a possibility my 4 miracle in heavens wins

sigh can't get through a season without forgetting a week

Kind of a junky weekend for all of us, since nobody went for The Boss. Hardcore Henry is bombing

Bump. Not betting on Jungle Book.

Bump. After doing poorly last week I'm just gonna gonna play it safe and go with the FMLnerd recommendation.

bump

Thx, totally forgot. Green Room is great, btw.

DO IT

That's what I get for hedging with Zootopia... Mother's Day and Cap Day 1 were too obvious

BUMP

Mother's Day again? Gimme a break, USA!

iPhone app:
http://fantasymovieleague.com/chatter/topiccomments?boardId=leaders&topicId=67915
Might make it easier to remember...

bump

Damn, should've gone with my gut and went Angry Birds...

New season time! Any lurkers encouraged to join.
http://fantasymovieleague.com/group/1950

Bump. 30 min to get your picks in

ah fuck

Hmm, current FML estimates are a little low, or not taking in account Monday projections.

bump

last minute bump

bnmup

Going with FMLNerd and betting the farm on THE SHALLOWS

Looks like I shall be rewarded for believing in the power of Blake Lively's butt

Goddamit. Forgot again.

Should've bought into the hype train for The Secret Life of Pets...

Bump

Yeah, at this point I always put in a random full slate on Monday in the case that'll I'll forget on Thurs/Friday. Happened again today, thanks to the heat wave frying my brain

lol i forgot to set mine and somehow still came 2m from winning?

anyway this season is gonna be it for me, this is more of a chore than a fun thing

:(

Not proud that I went over the top for the season with the FMLNerd pick, but hey, a win's a win

New season time

join us, imaginary lurkers!

Ok you talked me into it

crap, I dumbly didn't realize it began this morning! All right, well I'm in from week 2 then...

Not a believer in Sully, so I'm going with a pretty conservative slate with seven Don't Breathes and The Wild Life over Suicide Squad for the filler spot

Ha, my one filler pick of Kubo might get me the week win between all of our bad luck.

Yellow Kid, why aren't you using the full $1000?