HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR: A Week's Worth of Awesome Extra Content Especially for Our Players
by Indie Jones
James Bond is coming. So are Edward and Bella. So is that humongous spaceship with a peaceable alien being who looks exactly like Keanu Reeves (sweet, we just saved a pile of cash on special effects), as well as that flick where Brad Pitt is born a geezer and ages backward through time (crap, we just spent a pile of cash on age regression makeup) and that mysterious magical essence that makes a regular ol' handyman confront the actual situations in the crazy made-up stories he tells to his niece and nephew before bed (wait, what did Adam Sandler do with our pile of cash?).
It's a great time to be a Fantasy Moguls player, and a time that reminds all of us here at Moguls Central that movies rule and this is heck of a way to make a living. If you've been playing since the first Moguls leagues hit the Web, then we're happy (and honored) to still have you aboard. Thanks for liking us. (If we were Julia Roberts or Sally Field, we'd keep right up on babbling until Gil Cates opened the trapdoor behind the podium.) If you're new to The Game (almost as cool as the one that ate up Michael Douglas), then we're pleased to meet you. Either way, we hope you'll enjoy a week's worth of special contributions from our regular Swamis of the Cinema.
Some of our Extra Special Content is already out there. Here's a look at what's in store (as well as what's already available):
EARLY TRACKING (Nov. 3)
How does the holiday season begin? With a bang. Make that a BANG, if the numbers are giving us any kind of accurate picture. Steve Mason has surveyed the early field and says that Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is poised to rumble into theaters after huge business in Mother Russia and Ukraine. Not only that, but James Bond is already blowing up at the British box office and Quantum of Solace could get to $100 million in just 10 days. And the blockbusters are lined up for weeks after that: Bolt and Twilight face off on Nov. 21, and we'll also be hearing from Dirty Harry (sort of), Australia (the movie, not the land down under), Tom Cruise (as the world's first movie Nazi with an American accent) and "Tricky Dick" Nixon (from beyond the grave, no less), to name just a few.
BARD'S EYE VIEW SPECIAL EDITION (Nov. 4)
The Poet of the 'Plex peers ahead into the mists of time, all the way to the end of January, and tells you which films are the best bets to be each weekend's Box Office Champ and PTA King. That's 13 weekends of winners, folks. Not even telephone sports betting services have this much chutzpah! Guaranteed accuracy, or your money ba — er, well, he's pretty good, anyway. Come on, where else are you going to find someone willing to stick his neck out this far, and sound this erudite doing it? Don't pick your flicks until you see which flicks he's picked.
DANCES WITH THE ARTHOUSE SPECIAL EDITION (Nov. 5)
What's playing at the nation's specialty theaters? What will be playing there? Indie Jones knows. Cracking his quip and fleeing from the giant blockbuster boulders of the box office, our intrepid cinematic adventurer looks under every marquee and sprints through the jungle of limited releases to find the 15 "biggest" indie films of the November-January Fantasy Moguls season. As a special bonus, he'll tell you which five of those films could be crossover surprises — arthouse delights that have "Juno potential."
TIP OF THE WEEK SPECIAL EDITION (Nov. 6)
It takes super powers to find super bargains. Mister Informative uses his enormous brain to tear through the November-January Fantasy Moguls season and sniff out the best films that money can buy. The best films that not very much money can buy, that is. Our Superhero of the Cinema soars over the bottom of the barrel to find movies costing $5 or less that could make a difference for your Ultimate Movie Moguls or Box Office Moguls studio. Will it be (shudder) Delgo that snatches your box-office bacon out of the fire?


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