The Syndicate

timmer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:56 pm Spreadsheet updated. The only change in the standings is Golden passing DH for 3rd place, thanks to the Ocean's 8 premiere.

This Friday will be a big one with Incredibles 2 opening, and to a much lesser extent, Tag.

timmer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:25 pm Now that Cate Blanchett is locked for oceans 8 I can mention that where'd you go Bernadette has been pulled and moved to march 2019...

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.

timmer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:10 pm Winning, no. Nominated? Almost guaranteed especially since he directed it and that will be a plus.

timmer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:22 pm Guys, in terms of the rules... first, it was posted at the very start. Second, it was mentioned after that at least once. I can't be held responsible if some of you missed it. Third, it's a key rule! It's strategy. If someone has a stinker of a film opening early, and is expected to have an awards contender open late, you have to ask yourself... do I grab them early, and suck up the box office of the stinker film, knowing that if their late-opening awards hopeful film gets bumped to 2019, I'm screwed? Or do I let them sit there, available, and wait for the stinker film to open and disappear from contention? That way, I can grab them after the turd opens and now if their awards film gets bumped, I'm not out anything, but... if I wait too long to grab them, someone else may take them, and I lose out...

It's a great risk/reward rule!

And of COURSE we have to be able to grab actors and films late in the year... it's free agency. It would not make any sense, if a film that right now NO ONE has on their radar, suddenly gets big at a festival... for us to say sorry, its sudden best actor hopeful is simply not a part of our league because 2 weeks ago, he was in some indie film...

So hopefully we can move on and continue the league as is. I'll just let Rico's team remain as a ghost.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:40 am Who doesn’t like hook!

insertnamehere wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:43 pm Not gonna lie, I'm quite hyped for Suspiria. Have any of you seen the original?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 12:17 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 1:15 am 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.

I'd rank the Disney four as follows: The Last Jedi > The Force Awakens > Rogue One > Solo

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 10:25 am

dunya wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 9:11 am DH is just jelly he didn't pick it. I can smell the bitterness from here.

Pfffff, I'll take my not-going-to-bomb Disney film over the definitely-was-going-to-bomb Disney film any day of the week and twice on Memorial Day.

dunya wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 9:11 am DH is just jelly he didn't pick it. I can smell the bitterness from here.

Golden wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2018 10:46 pm 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.

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.

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.

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.

Ricochet wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 11:09 am So is Dharma getting a full third of the dead pool (see what I did thar) with Terry Crews? Because bullshit.

timmer wrote: ↑Mon May 14, 2018 5:56 pm Just an FYI, BlacKkKlansman getting VERY solid reviews from the international press at Cannes today!