Welcome back, friends and fools, to year FIVE of the Vulture Movies Fantasy League. We are now entering a fall movie season that is packed with box-office behemoths, visionary auteurs bringing their latest films into the bosom of awards season, and a whole lotta questions about whether a vampire movie about race in America can play the long game all the way to Oscar gold.
If you’ve played the Movies Fantasy League before, the game hasn’t changed much; if you’re new, welcome to the circus. You can check out the rules for how to play on our MFL hub, but here is the nutshell summary: You select a roster of exactly eight films within a budget of 100 imaginary dollars. Once the scoring phase of the game begins, the films you’ve drafted will accumulate points for achieving milestones in box-office take, precursor awards/nominations, critical approval, and more. The movies we expect to do best will cost more, so your first task will be to manage your budget wisely.
In order to help you make wise choices, we have assembled the following draft guide. Below, you will find a listing for every movie that currently is (or at one point was) eligible to draft in the MFL this year. You can see how much they cost, the talent behind them, what film festivals they’ve played, and when they will debut to the public, either in theaters or on streaming (if they haven’t already).
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If you’re reading this guide now, it means you’ve missed the early draft window during which all the movies in this guide were eligible to be drafted onto rosters. The good news is: Starting this year, we’re allowing latecomers to join the fun. And the catch? Anyone who signs up on or after September 26, the day that points begin accumulating, will be limited to unreleased movies that haven’t been nominated for any awards; in other words, movies that haven’t earned any points yet. As such, we’ve struck out movies that are no longer draft eligible to avoid any confusion and disappointment.
It’s going to be an exciting few months, so why waste any more time — get that research done and draft your team!
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