We're actually planning to relaunch the game and Web site in April, heading into the summer blockbuster season. That will include a new logo, cleaner UI and some changes to make the game easier for people to play (e.g., we're getting rid of the draft as the way movies are selected, and it'll be more like a "salary cap"-style game, where everyone in your league gets a crack at the entire movie pool). You may not love every change we're making but, trust me, it will look better, be easier to use and will give us a base to launch even more cool games from over the next six months.

We'll be posting more details on the new game and rules over the next few days.

That also brings us to the "no pain, no gain" part of the process: We're launching a first wave of back end stuff in the next few days. These changes will mostly be transparent, except that there will be a major change to the message boards. As in, the current boards will go away and be replaced with a new, fresh, start-from-scratch set of boards.

To reiterate: The current message boards will be shutting down and we're launching new message boards in the next couple of days.

I know this may be super annoying, especially for those of you who have been leading such lively conversations on the boards. I am so sorry that we have to do this right now -- we love, love, love the energy and sense of community that you guys have brought to the site and the boards have been the heartbeat for a lot of that.

It's hard work to create such a lively space for discussion from scratch, so, pretty please, if you have a moment in the next couple days to start a thread, or add a comment, or otherwise get things going on our new boards ... we'd really appreciate that. We'll post the URL for the new boards as soon as it's ready, probably Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

Thanks for your patience! Please feel free to send me any other thoughts, comments, questions -- and please bear with us. I promise it will all be worthwhile once we've got the new platform up in mid-April, headed into the summer blockbuster season.

Brenda, aka "moviebabe"

(P.S. We're closing off registration for new drafts for the next few weeks while we prepare to move to the new game platform, but no drafts will be cancelled. Any drafts that have already been scheduled will go as planned. More to come.)