Welcome back, friends and fools, to year FIVE of the Vulture Movies Fantasy League. We are now entering a fall movie season packed with box-office behemoths, visionary auteurs bringing their latest films into the bosom of awards season, and a whole lot of questions—like 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 a 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 or 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. To help you make savvy choices, we have assembled the following draft guide.
Below, you’ll find a listing of every movie currently eligible for box-office points based on its release date.
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### Box-Office Potential
– Anaconda — $5 🍿
– Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie — $5 🍿
– Now You See Me: Now You Don’t — $5 🍿
– The Housemaid — $5 🍿
– Zero A. D. — $5 🍿
– Dust Bunny — $3 🍿
– Regretting You — $3 🍿
– Sisu 2 — $3 🍿
– Soul on Fire — $3 🍿
– Eternity — $2 🍿
– Good Fortune — $2 🍿
– Trap House — $2 🍿
### Horror Movies That Could Draw an Audience
– Black Phone 2 — $5 🍿
– Keeper — $5 🍿
– The Strangers Chapter 2 — $5 🍿
– Bone Lake — $2 🍿
– Shelby Oaks — $2 🍿
– Silent Night, Deadly Night — $1 🍿
### Oscar Contenders If Things Go Well
– Anemone — $5 🍿
– A Private Life — $5 🍿
– Eleanor the Great — $5 🍿
– Father, Mother, Sister, Brother — $5 🍿
– Hedda — $5 🍿
– No Other Choice — $5 🍿
– Peter Hujar’s Day — $5 🍿
– The Lost Bus — $5
– The Mastermind — $5 🍿
– The Secret Agent — $5 🍿
– The Testament of Ann Lee — $5 🍿
– Christy — $5 🍿
### Could Show Up at Indie Awards
– A Big Bold Beautiful Journey — $5
– Black Bag — $5
– Eddington — $5
– Highest 2 Lowest — $5
– Materialists — $5
– Nouvelle Vague — $5 🍿
– Pillion — $5 🍿
– The History of Sound — $5
– The Life of Chuck — $5
– Caught Stealing — $3
– Friendship — $3
– Misericordia — $3
– Sorry, Baby — $3
– Steve — $3 🍿
– Dead Man’s Wire — $3 🍿
– Cloud — $2
– Eephus — $2
– Pavements — $2
– Splitsville — $2
– On Swift Horses — $1
– Preparation for the Next Life — $1
– Sacramento — $1
– The Friend — $1
### Notable Movies From the First Half of the Year
– Captain America: Brave New World — $3
– The Monkey — $3
– Honey Don’t! — $3
– One of Them Days — $2
– The Naked Gun — $3
– The Phoenician Scheme — $3
– Weapons — $3
– Drop — $2
– Presence — $2
– The Old Guard 2 — $2
### Gunning for Craft-Category Nominations at Best
– 28 Years Later — $5
– A Minecraft Movie — $5
– Him — $5
– How to Train Your Dragon — $5
– Lilo & Stitch — $5
– Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning — $5
– Superman — $5
– Mickey 17 — $3
– Warfare — $3
– Thunderbolts — $3
– The Fantastic Four: First Steps — $3
– Jurassic World Rebirth — $3
– The Long Walk — $3
– 100 Nights of Hero — $2 🍿
### Documentaries That Could Contend
– Predators — $5
– Come See Me in the Good Light — $3 🍿
– Cover-Up — $2 🍿
– Sally — $3
– 2000 Meters to Andriivka — $2
– Diane Warren: Relentless — $2
– Prime Minister — $2
– Selena Y Los Dinos — $2 🍿
– The Alabama Solution — $2 🍿
– The Perfect Neighbor — $2 🍿
– Apocalypse in the Tropics — $1
– Deaf President Now! — $1
– Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore — $1
– Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 — $1 🍿
– The Voice of Hind Rajab — $1 🍿
– Zodiac Killer Project — $1 🍿
– Architecton — $1
### Animated Features
– Elio — $5
– The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants — $5 🍿
– Arco — $3 🍿
– Ne Zha II — $3
– Scarlet — $3 🍿
– A Magnificent Life — $2 🍿
– Dog Man — $2
– In Your Dreams — $2 🍿
– Smurfs — $2
– The Bad Guys 2 — $2
– The Twits — $2 🍿
– Pets on a Train — $1 🍿
### International Features That Could Contend
– Caught by the Tides — $3
– Sound of Falling — $3 🍿
– Sirāt — $3 🍿
– Parthenope — $2
– On Becoming a Guinea Fowl — $2
– The President’s Cake — $2 🍿
– Left-Handed Girl — $2 🍿
### Smaller Festival Stuff
– Couture — $2 🍿
– In the Hand of Dante — $2 🍿
– Last Days — $2 🍿
– Late Fame — $2 🍿
– Rebuilding — $2 🍿
– Atropia — $1 🍿
– Love Me — $1
– Lurker — $1
– Plainclothes — $1
– Poetic License — $1 🍿
– Relay — $1
– Rose of Nevada — $1 🍿
– Sacrifice — $1 🍿
– The Captive — $1 🍿
– The Christophers — $1 🍿
– The Thing With Feathers — $1 🍿
– Tuner — $1 🍿
– Pure Wild Cards
### Pure Wild Cards
– Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale — $3
– Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie — $3
– The Ballad of Wallis Island — $3
– The Man With the Bag — $3 🍿
– The Roses — $3
– Ballerina — $2
– Hurry Up Tomorrow — $2
– Snow White — $2
– The Accountant 2 — $2
– The Legend of Ochi — $2
– The Wedding Banquet — $2
– Alto Knights — $1
– Bring Her Back — $1
– Companion — $1
– Death of a Unicorn — $1
– Echo Valley — $1
– Fountain of Youth — $1
– Freakier Friday — $1
– Havoc — $1
– I Know What You Did Last Summer — $1
– I Wish You All The Best — $1 🍿
– Magic Farm — $1
– M3GAN 2.0 — $1
– Nobody 2 — $1
– Novocaine — $1
– Opus — $1
– Sarah’s Oil — $1 🍿
– Spinal Tap II: The End Continues — $1
– Straw — $1
– The Assessment — $1
– The Conjuring: Last Rites — $1
– The Electric State — $1
– The Surfer — $1
– The Thursday Murder Club — $1
– Wolf Man — $1
– The Woman in the Yard — $1
### Streaming Long Shots
*(Details forthcoming)*
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Good luck drafting your fantasy movie lineup this season! Manage your budget carefully, choose wisely, and may the best films win!
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