The Syndicate

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:12 am**

Fuck it I think I've got the box office push to try for an oddball pick.

Bad Times at the El Royale

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:13 am**

[mention]dunya[/mention] you're up

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:51 am**

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:07 am
Widows's is openeing against Fantastic Beasts, so I hope you make enough box office for it to count in the Awards Rounds. Assuming it gets any.

Speaketh the one whose latest pick is the least money-grabbing pick out of four movies set to open in its respective week.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:59 am**

For whoever wants it, here is a list of everyone's "Studio" so far. Might help you get a better grasp of the competition, what your team needs, etc.

Spoiler: show

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:02 am**

Ricochet wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:51 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:07 am
Widows's is openeing against Fantastic Beasts, so I hope you make enough box office for it to count in the Awards Rounds. Assuming it gets any.
Speaketh the one whose latest pick is the least money-grabbing pick out of four movies set to open in its respective week.

A noir-thriller with Gerard Butler, Jeff Bridges, That Girl From 50 Shades, Jon Hamm, and the director of Cabin in The Woods.

Versus "Not Spider-Man, The Other One", "Bradley Cooper's Sing Along Time" and "Remember Unbroken? Here's another one of those that people def. want to watch."

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:08 am**

Timmer went with X-Men Dark Phoenix so he's already at least 100 million dollars in the hole once he scraps that and picks up whatever dregs are left over. I feel like I could definitely *not get last place* looking at a couple Studio's rosters. With the exception of Ant-Man and the Wasp I feel my picks have box-office punch *and* awards potential for a number of categories.

I'm not faster than the bear, but I'm fast enough not to get eaten.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:16 am**

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:02 am
Ricochet wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:51 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:07 am
Widows's is openeing against Fantastic Beasts, so I hope you make enough box office for it to count in the Awards Rounds. Assuming it gets any.
Speaketh the one whose latest pick is the least money-grabbing pick out of four movies set to open in its respective week.
A noir-thriller with Gerard Butler, Jeff Bridges, That Girl From 50 Shades, Jon Hamm, and the director of Cabin in The Woods.

Versus "Not Spider-Man, The Other One", "Bradley Cooper's Sing Along Time" and "Remember Unbroken? Here's another one of those that people def. want to watch."

My apologies. By latest I meant the second to latest. Flip of the page, stuff.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:20 am**

Ricochet wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:16 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:02 am
Ricochet wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:51 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:07 am
Widows's is openeing against Fantastic Beasts, so I hope you make enough box office for it to count in the Awards Rounds. Assuming it gets any.
Speaketh the one whose latest pick is the least money-grabbing pick out of four movies set to open in its respective week.
A noir-thriller with Gerard Butler, Jeff Bridges, That Girl From 50 Shades, Jon Hamm, and the director of Cabin in The Woods.

Versus "Not Spider-Man, The Other One", "Bradley Cooper's Sing Along Time" and "Remember Unbroken? Here's another one of those that people def. want to watch."
My apologies. By latest I meant the second to latest. Flip of the page, stuff.

OK yes then I will admit Can You Ever Forgive Me is a pick I made exclusively for its awards potential :P

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:49 pm**

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:02 am
Ricochet wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:51 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:07 am
Widows's is openeing against Fantastic Beasts, so I hope you make enough box office for it to count in the Awards Rounds. Assuming it gets any.
Speaketh the one whose latest pick is the least money-grabbing pick out of four movies set to open in its respective week.
A noir-thriller with Gerard Butler, Jeff Bridges, That Girl From 50 Shades, Jon Hamm, and the director of Cabin in The Woods.

Versus "Not Spider-Man, The Other One", "Bradley Cooper's Sing Along Time" and "Remember Unbroken? Here's another one of those that people def. want to watch."

I do wonder about A Star is Born... could be a major unexpected success or a complete disaster.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:03 pm**

timmer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:49 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:02 am
Ricochet wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:51 am
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:07 am
Widows's is openeing against Fantastic Beasts, so I hope you make enough box office for it to count in the Awards Rounds. Assuming it gets any.
Speaketh the one whose latest pick is the least money-grabbing pick out of four movies set to open in its respective week.
A noir-thriller with Gerard Butler, Jeff Bridges, That Girl From 50 Shades, Jon Hamm, and the director of Cabin in The Woods.

Versus "Not Spider-Man, The Other One", "Bradley Cooper's Sing Along Time" and "Remember Unbroken? Here's another one of those that people def. want to watch."
I do wonder about A Star is Born... could be a major unexpected success or a complete disaster.

I only pick winners and I wouldn't go near it tbh

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:12 pm**

This is getting harder.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:18 pm**

how risky is it to pick a movie without a release date?

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:19 pm**

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:18 pm how risky is it to pick a movie without a release date?

Only as risky as you want it to be.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:21 pm**

what the hell, On the Basis of Sex. let's go.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:22 pm**

[mention]Iron_Dwarf[/mention] is up!

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:39 pm**

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:18 pm how risky is it to pick a movie without a release date?

I also am wondering about that.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:59 pm**

Golden wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:39 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:18 pm how risky is it to pick a movie without a release date?
I also am wondering about that.

If you do it you better do it with a film you think is going to win awards like mad, and you better have the box office built up from your other films/actors. But other than that IDK. Worth a shot in the dark

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:05 pm**

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:59 pm
Golden wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:39 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:18 pm how risky is it to pick a movie without a release date?
I also am wondering about that.
If you do it you better do it with a film you think is going to win awards like mad, and you better have the box office built up from your other films/actors. But other than that IDK. Worth a shot in the dark

Frankly unless I've missed something I'm not really expecting to swing box office with the last two picks. I'm gambling on Ocean's 8 not bombing.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:11 pm**

Part of me would rather lose than let myself touch some retched box office splash anyway.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:13 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:11 pm Part of me would rather lose than let myself touch some retched box office splash anyway.

You should lean into that part

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:37 pm**

Re: no release date... The nice thing about it is that if you get into summer and then the fall festival lineups start bring published and your film looks like it is doa, you can easily replace it. And with only 9 of us three will be films galore left over to grab.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:34 pm**

Yeah, Mimi Leder is a close friend of mine and she told me she's too busy playing Dominion to wrap up On the Basis of Sex by the end of the year.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:22 pm**

I may be biased cuz so far I've picked films that have set dates, and I'm just slightly worried you buffs out here are going to clean up with awards.

But we'll see.

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:35 pm**

I would never kid myself with being able to predict awards, because:

a) no real fun or value in guessing what a cohort of geezers at some academy or association, most of which have been long revealed to have little idea or care what they actually select, will consider, not to mention which films would get shoved for one week in some theater in LA just to be eligible for awards

b) no real fun or value hyping award movies out of which 80% of them will surely suck

Posted: **Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:20 pm**

I think the fun of this is it's pretty much a turkey shoot. An educated turkey shoot, sure... but a turkey shoot none the less.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:26 am**

12 hours have been and gone so I’m picking.

Mary queen of scots

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[mention]@JaggedJimmyJay[/mention]

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:29 am**

If dunya is picking a movie with unconfirmed release date, I will too. The Beach Bum.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:29 am**

timmer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 3:21 pm
Iron_Dwarf wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 3:00 pm Gonna pick The Seagull.
Nice pick and @dunya is on the clock!

Picked purely because of Saoirse Ronan as I just watched Lady Bird.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:46 am**

Can I just say that if we were all legitimately heads of movie studios and buying up the rights to make these films I'd see at least one from each.

Also, MP being the Disney-Franchise-Machine studio is somehow infuriating and at the same time completely logical.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:22 pm**

Iron_Dwarf wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:29 am If dunya is picking a movie with unconfirmed release date, I will too. The Beach Bum.

risk taker buddy

we're gonna be leaders in this game, trust me. top two spots between us fo' sho'

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:40 pm**

In the Upside Down, maybe.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:45 pm**

Nobody is jumping me, so no need to get your hopes up

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:56 pm**

I pick The Women of Marwen.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:13 pm**

Ricochet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:40 pm In the Upside Down, maybe.

shut up sellout

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:33 pm**

On that account, Mowgli.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:34 pm**

[mention]insertnamehere[/mention]

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:44 pm**

First Reformed

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:48 pm**

paul schrader's due for a comeback, dammit

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:54 pm**

Ricochet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:33 pm On that account, Mowgli.

>Solo
>Mowgli

WHO ARE YOU

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:56 pm**

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:54 pm
Ricochet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:33 pm On that account, Mowgli.
>Solo
>Mowgli

WHO ARE YOU

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:58 pm**

insertnamehere wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:44 pm First Reformed

tbh I have trouble with 2017 movies yet to be released in the US in 2018 because a) how the heck am I supposed to know and b) who will care about these anymore

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 2:01 pm**

I'd consider throwing in a Rico Award and Bonus Points (let's say 10) for whoever would guess & pick what this year's movie to be shoved in Globes' Comedy category for no earthly logical reason will be.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 2:07 pm**

Ricochet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 2:01 pm I'd consider throwing in a Rico Award and Bonus Points (let's say 10) for whoever would guess & pick what this year's movie to be shoved in Globes' Comedy category for no earthly logical reason will be.

A Quiet Place

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 2:55 pm**

[mention]M Plus 7[/mention] is up!

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 5:11 pm**

In other words, we're taking another 24 hour break?

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:26 pm**

Probs... it worries me, we've got a lot of actor rounds to get through, still!

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:33 pm**

timmer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:26 pm Probs... it worries me, we've got a lot of actor rounds to get through, still!

The Fantasy Football player in me says "Cut the time limit to like 6-8 hours and if you don't pick you don't pick" But I tried to be courteous in the first few rounds

Not like we didn't have ample time/heads up

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:35 pm**

Patience goofballs. It's not like 63 different actors/actresses even exist anyway.

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:36 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:35 pm Patience goofballs. It's not like 63 different actors/actresses even exist anyway.

Hey I get the #2 seed on Actors/Actresses I'm perfectly fine waiting :P

Posted: **Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:39 pm**

It starts from 1 to 10 again, Mister 9.

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