2023-24 YEARLONG BOX-OFFICE DRAFT LEAGUE

[Walleye413]

Book Club 2

[Spectre]

I'll take Asteroid City. That trailer is as Wes Anderson-y as a Wes Anderson movie gets but hopefully it does well in Cannes and springboards from there. I'm curious to see how this one does at the box office with Focus distributing.

[Buscemi2]

This one should bring in the angry white guys who want everything to appeal solely to them.

The Expendables 4

[Ron Burgundy]

They Listen and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

[Buscemi2]

The choices are really beginning to get slim.

Challengers

[Spectre]

Yeah... we're already scraping the bottom of the barrel. These last rounds are going to be nasty.

I guess I'll take the Untitled Please Don't Destroy Project. Hopefully this isn't another SNL bomb like Popstar but after having to solve for 5 or so openings on my slate last year, I just want something on the calendar that I think makes its date.

[Buscemi2]

It would be hilarious if Universal went the Big George Foreman route and gave it the full title of Please Don't Destroy Starring Please Don't Destroy and Written by Please Don't Destroy.

[Walleye413]

I'll take a swing at Juror #2. No idea if it'll be done in time, but stranger things have happened from Clint.

[Chienfantome]

Good move, Walleye. Eastwood shoots fast, it could very well be released on time. I had it on my list.

[Screen203]

I will choose The Untitled M. Night Shymamalan Thriller.

[Chienfantome]

The September gay comedy from 2022 didn't fare well for me last year, but I'm not superstitious, I'll take the September lesbian comedy of 2023, Drive Away Dolls.

[numbersix]

Poor Things

[transformers2]

Next Goal Wins

[Walleye413]

I'm hoping that one does well. I know we've seen similar movies before but the premise of this version cracks me up.

[Buscemi2]

I have no idea why it's not going direct to streaming. The audience seems very limited and it's another "based on a true story" movie told from the perspective of a character who's there solely to appeal to an American audience instead of those that really were the story. This kind of format almost never works for a movie.