Ultimate League Jan-Mar 2022

[Shrykespeare]

Please email me your lineups in Ultimate and/or Box Office at shrykespeare42@gmail.com, or you can PM them to me here (though I prefer email). Or, you can just post it here.

The usual rules apply... you get $100 to spend, and no more than eight films on your final roster.

If a film (usually a limited-release film) fails to report its income, it will be removed from the game. If that film is on your lineup, you will be notified so you can replace it.


1/7
The 355, $11
See For Me, $3

1/14
Scream, $15
The Pink Cloud, $3
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, $3

1/21
The King's Daughter, $9
Cyrano, $6

1/28
Compartment Number 6, $4 (Wed.)
Clean, $3

2/4
Jackass Forever, $17
Moonfall, $15
The Wolf and the Lion, $3
Breaking Bread, $2
The Worst Person in the World, $2

2/11
Death on the Nile, $18
Marry Me, $17
Blacklight, $6
What About Love, $3
Catch the Fair One, $3

2/18
Uncharted, $24
Dog, $8
A Banquet, $3

25-Feb
The Devil's Light, $10
The Outfit, $5
Mothering Sunday, $3
Let Me Be Me, $2

3/4
The Batman, $45
Huda's Salon, $3

3/11
Turning Red, $22
Untitled Universal Musical Event, $13

3/18
Downton Abbey: A New Era, $13
The Unbreakable Boy, $8
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre, $5
The Torch, $3
Alice, $3

3/25
Lost City of D, $6
Everything, Everywhere All at Once, $3
The Duke, $2

[Buscemi2]

Cyrano $6
The Worst Person in the World $2
Uncharted $24
Mothering Sunday $3
The Batman $45
Downton Abbey $13
Alice $3
Everything Everywhere All at Once $3

$99

[numbersix]

Has Sesame Street been moved?

[Buscemi2]

It never began production so I have to imagine it has more than likely been made TBA 2022.

[Walleye413]

Batman and the seven dwarves this round for everyone.

Scream - 15
Cyrano - 6
Marry Me - 17
Batman - 45
Catch the Fair one - 3
The Outfit - 5
The Lost City of D - 6
Everything, Everywhere - 3

[transformers2]

1/14 Scream $15
2/4 Jackass Forever $17
2/4 The Worst Person in the World $2
2/18 Dog $8
3/4 The Batman $45
3/4 Huda's Salon $3
3/25 The Lost City $6
3/25 Everything Everywhere All at Once $3

[numbersix]

Scream
Who We Are
Cyrano
The Worst Person in the World
The Devil's Light
The Batman
Downton 2
Lost City

[Shrykespeare]

Screen's Picks:

Scream
Cyrano
The Worst Person In The World
Dog
The Batman
Downton Abbey: A New Era
The Lost City
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

[Shrykespeare]

Looks like Turning Red is bypassing theaters entirely.

https://deadline.com/2022/01/turning-re ... AwMe0t5fJA

[numbersix]

Dropping Downtown 2 for... Dog?

[Buscemi2]

I'll drop Downton Abbey for The Lost City, even though I'm sure that film is a dog.

[numbersix]

Haha, I see what you did there.

What an awful releaase schedule. I guess distro's are still worried about COVID, but surely Spidey has proven that people willl still go to the right thing. So many weeks without a wide release now, or one or two dumps.

Hopefully by May it'll be a bit better and we can start drafting again.

[Buscemi2]

In addition, you see distributors making puzzling decisions with what's going to play theatrically and what's going to premiere on streaming. Why is Disney dumping Turning Red but releasing The Bob's Burgers Movie theatrically? Bob's Burgers' success was almost entirely on streaming when Netflix got the rights years ago. Turning Red feels way more like a theatrical film but seeing the trend with Disney and Pixar titles, I have to wonder if there are some studio politics between them. Luca was dumped onto Disney+ even though trailers played in theatres but Encanto was a theatrical exclusive for the first few weeks. Might Disney be forcing a merger between Disney Animation and Pixar in an attempt to include Pixar characters into the official Disney Animated Canon?

And there's Warner Bros. making Batgirl and Father of the Bride HBO Max titles even though both titles would be decent theatrical performers. Meanwhile, Legion of Superpets feels like something you've randomly watch on HBO Max and instantly forget about. I mean, who actually cares about Krypto and does anyone want to see him in a Secret Life of Pets ripoff?

[numbersix]

Agreed. As poor as it was The Matrix 4 should have been a theatrical exclusive and let fan debate drive demand.

[Ron Burgundy]

Ill take:

Catch the fair one
Uncharted
Cyrano
Blacklight
Batman
The outfit
Ruse de guse
lost city