Box Office Draft 2024 Thread

The First Omen
The Watchers

Alto Knights

Arthur the King

The Bikeriders

My Ex-Friend's Wedding

ok, let me see what movies are still available

oh this is the last one and we are done; I was looking for 2

I'll take Death of a Unicorn

filming wrapped and it's expected 2024 but no release date yet

This got bumped to January 2025. Guess I need to replace it.

Moana 2 got announced. That feels kinda dirty, but that’s what the low cap is for right?

yeah; I was *this* close to taking "untitled disney release" that I saw on the calendar for November but I couldn't find hard info on it so decided not to; oops

Eh, don't think you can really draft movies if you don't even know what they are. That was probably just a placeholder for whatever Disney decided to dump in that spot at the time we did the draft anyway.

It was Moana 2

And we take “untitled paramount movie” or whatever multiple times this draft

It could have been taken

Moana 2 was not even supposed to be a movie. It was a gonna be a tv series and it was a shock when it was announced as being changed into a movie a couple of weeks ago.

And no, we don't (or at least shouldn't) take untitled movies unless we know what they actually are. "Untitled [director/actor] movie" is a lot different from "untitled [studio] movie", which could really be anything, and are often just placeholders. Dates shift all the time, so unless you can produce an imdb page for the movie you're taking, it shouldn't be draftable.

Here is one

Another

Untitled Disney animated film was on release calendars like upcomingmovies.net with a date, just no title

It was draftable but was a risk since “experts” said they doubted it would be happening

Thanks for proving what I just said. Those movies both had imdb pages, so it was known what they were.

Moana 2 was not even announced as a movie at the time we did this draft, so it shouldn't be draftable. I might as well be able to draft "upcoming december release not on calendar yet".

Again, it was on the calendar, just kept under wraps what it was

I think the rule should be that if a movie is on the calendar then it’s draftable, regardless of title or no title

If not on the calendar (for a date or for tbd year of draft) then it’s not draftable

Again, Moana 2 was never supposed to even be a movie. They bumped what they originally had for that date and replaced it with that. This happens all the time.

You can't draft movies that you don't even know what they are. Untitled is fine, but you have to at least know what it will be once it has a title. Have a look at all the untitled Disney movies in 2025 and tell me how you think they are draftable.

Anything with an imdb page is fair game, the rest aren't. This isn't hard.

Civil War got great reviews at SxSW

Maybe it can move some tickets

It did indeed move some tickets

The Amateur and Death of Unicorn aren’t coming out this year

I’ll take

Babygirl
The Fire Inside

As replacements

I guess I'll replace Wolfs with A Complete Unknown. Might be able to add an extra $10m or so lol.

Some spectacular bombs this year. Joker 2 not even making $60m has to be an all-timer.