Movie studio DRAFT THREAD
Feb 2, 2009 16:21:14 GMT -5
Post by ALL CAPS on Feb 2, 2009 16:21:14 GMT -5
GENERAL RULES:
You are creating your own movie studio. You have a yearly budget of $750,000,000 (U.S.). With this budget you will "make" 24 films to fill out your studio year. To "make" each film, you will "greenlight" it by selecting it in the draft. There will be two films released from your studio per month, one in the early (E) part of the month, and one in the late (L). Once all of your films have been selected or "made", you will arrange them in your schedule and each studio will compete for "dollars" in a bimonthly vote. The studio with the most money at the end of the year wins!
DRAFT:
The draft will be 24 rounds with a snaking draft order. There will be a 12 hour clock between picks. When you make your pick, please list BOTH the title of the film AND the budget of the film highlighted in bold in your pick. You're encouraged to include a pic of the film as well. If there are multiple versions of the movie, please list the year of release along with your pick.
We're using IMDb's budget listings to determine the cost of the films. No films will be off limits as long as IMDb has a listing for their budget (estimated or not), and they were released IN THEATERS, foreign or domestic. All foreign budgets should be adjusted first to U.S. dollars. If your studio wants to "make" a movie that IMDb doesn't list the budget for, you can find an alternate source and pending approval, you can use their numbers. If you can't locate that data or you find it on a site that doesn't seem legit, your movie simply won't get "greenlit" and you'll have to choose another movie.
To find budget information at imdb.com, you need to go to whichever movie's page and the budget will be listed in the left column under "Other Info" and then "Box Office/business". (thanks, Solly)
IMDb will ALWAYS be the default source. If you find two sources that have differing amounts, the IMDb source will stand. We'll round to the nearest million... so a movie that cost $123,950,000 to make will count as $124 mil. Also, there's a $1 million minimum for a budget, so any films with a budget UNDER $1 million will be counted as $1 million. If you run out of money, you run out of movies and will play with an incomplete schedule. If you think you can win that way, good luck to ya.
Any and all sequels are fair game regardless of their release date or relation to any other films already chosen by other players. Just because you already picked one movie, it doesn't entitle you to any sequels, prequels, remakes, reimaginings or spin-offs.
We will only be using movies released up through the end of the 2008 calendar year.
If you miss a pick for whatever reason, you are skipped until a time when you can make your pick. If you can, whenever possible, leave picks with someone if you think you're going to miss your turn.
You can trade picks and movies if you like, but please be fair. Announce the trades and get the person you're trading with to publicly confirm the trade BEFORE you make any picks associated with the trade. If you end up with fewer than 24 picks at the end of the draft because you got trade-crazy, you can make them up at the end of the draft according to the established draft order. You assume the budgetary cap-hit for any movies you receive in trade.
You should be keeping track of your own budget, but I'm sure I or Lucky, or someone equally as retarded as either of us will be keeping track of it for the whole draft. Speaking of which, the red figure to the right of your pick will give you how much moola you have left.
NO INFLATION. Sorry, Jeff.
POST-DRAFT STUDIO SCHEDULE COMPETITION:
After your 24 movies are all "made", place them into your yearly schedule by date. For example:
Jan(E) - Movie 1
Jan(L) - Movie 2
Feb(E) - Movie 3
Feb(L) - Movie 4
etc.
Once everyone's schedules are complete we will run showdowns by bimonthly section. So all movies in early March will be competing with each other for votes or "dollars". Each vote for a film counts as $10 million. Any films not receiving votes in any given match-up get a "gimmie" of $1 million out of pity for drafting such a retarded movie. Everyone will get 4 votes per showdown to spread out to whichever films they want. The studio with the most votes, or "money" at the end of the "year" wins!
"quotes!"
RANDOM DRAFT ORDER:
I used that online thing that Solly suggested, so here it is:
1. Courtney
2. The Dead
3. GatorBait
4. Angstboy
5. gohabsgo
6. TarheelMike
7. Jobber
8. Solly
9. stubrock
10. Metallikid
11. Byrne
12. Ziggy
13. Creepy
14. DevSop
15. Jeff
16. Eric
17. sportsguy
18. Amnesiac
19. Lucky
20. Sal
Full disclosure: I ran the randomizer twice because the first time I did it I came up with the first pick and that seemed cheesy as hell, even to me.
You are creating your own movie studio. You have a yearly budget of $750,000,000 (U.S.). With this budget you will "make" 24 films to fill out your studio year. To "make" each film, you will "greenlight" it by selecting it in the draft. There will be two films released from your studio per month, one in the early (E) part of the month, and one in the late (L). Once all of your films have been selected or "made", you will arrange them in your schedule and each studio will compete for "dollars" in a bimonthly vote. The studio with the most money at the end of the year wins!
DRAFT:
The draft will be 24 rounds with a snaking draft order. There will be a 12 hour clock between picks. When you make your pick, please list BOTH the title of the film AND the budget of the film highlighted in bold in your pick. You're encouraged to include a pic of the film as well. If there are multiple versions of the movie, please list the year of release along with your pick.
We're using IMDb's budget listings to determine the cost of the films. No films will be off limits as long as IMDb has a listing for their budget (estimated or not), and they were released IN THEATERS, foreign or domestic. All foreign budgets should be adjusted first to U.S. dollars. If your studio wants to "make" a movie that IMDb doesn't list the budget for, you can find an alternate source and pending approval, you can use their numbers. If you can't locate that data or you find it on a site that doesn't seem legit, your movie simply won't get "greenlit" and you'll have to choose another movie.
To find budget information at imdb.com, you need to go to whichever movie's page and the budget will be listed in the left column under "Other Info" and then "Box Office/business". (thanks, Solly)
IMDb will ALWAYS be the default source. If you find two sources that have differing amounts, the IMDb source will stand. We'll round to the nearest million... so a movie that cost $123,950,000 to make will count as $124 mil. Also, there's a $1 million minimum for a budget, so any films with a budget UNDER $1 million will be counted as $1 million. If you run out of money, you run out of movies and will play with an incomplete schedule. If you think you can win that way, good luck to ya.
Any and all sequels are fair game regardless of their release date or relation to any other films already chosen by other players. Just because you already picked one movie, it doesn't entitle you to any sequels, prequels, remakes, reimaginings or spin-offs.
We will only be using movies released up through the end of the 2008 calendar year.
If you miss a pick for whatever reason, you are skipped until a time when you can make your pick. If you can, whenever possible, leave picks with someone if you think you're going to miss your turn.
You can trade picks and movies if you like, but please be fair. Announce the trades and get the person you're trading with to publicly confirm the trade BEFORE you make any picks associated with the trade. If you end up with fewer than 24 picks at the end of the draft because you got trade-crazy, you can make them up at the end of the draft according to the established draft order. You assume the budgetary cap-hit for any movies you receive in trade.
You should be keeping track of your own budget, but I'm sure I or Lucky, or someone equally as retarded as either of us will be keeping track of it for the whole draft. Speaking of which, the red figure to the right of your pick will give you how much moola you have left.
NO INFLATION. Sorry, Jeff.
POST-DRAFT STUDIO SCHEDULE COMPETITION:
After your 24 movies are all "made", place them into your yearly schedule by date. For example:
Jan(E) - Movie 1
Jan(L) - Movie 2
Feb(E) - Movie 3
Feb(L) - Movie 4
etc.
Once everyone's schedules are complete we will run showdowns by bimonthly section. So all movies in early March will be competing with each other for votes or "dollars". Each vote for a film counts as $10 million. Any films not receiving votes in any given match-up get a "gimmie" of $1 million out of pity for drafting such a retarded movie. Everyone will get 4 votes per showdown to spread out to whichever films they want. The studio with the most votes, or "money" at the end of the "year" wins!
"quotes!"
RANDOM DRAFT ORDER:
I used that online thing that Solly suggested, so here it is:
1. Courtney
2. The Dead
3. GatorBait
4. Angstboy
5. gohabsgo
6. TarheelMike
7. Jobber
8. Solly
9. stubrock
10. Metallikid
11. Byrne
12. Ziggy
13. Creepy
14. DevSop
15. Jeff
16. Eric
17. sportsguy
18. Amnesiac
19. Lucky
20. Sal
Full disclosure: I ran the randomizer twice because the first time I did it I came up with the first pick and that seemed cheesy as hell, even to me.