From the Agency Mailroom: A Slow Week
by Thomas Donnelly
Everybody must be busy laughing at our favorite Khazak reporter, only a couple questions in this week's mailbag. Let's get to them:
Everybody must be busy laughing at our favorite Khazak reporter, only a couple questions in this week's mailbag. Let's get to them:
Big weekend coming up! Three films with a lot of weight behind them. The game is heating up quickly. Let's get to the questions:
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There is nothing like opening weekend. This is it. The first weekend of the Holiday season! The first chance to see how your picks stack up against your competitors. Are you arranging premiere parties? Are you inviting your friends to your "screenings?" Are you buying a ticket for a film you own at the mutiplex, and then sneaking into your competitor's film?
Then you, my friend, are a Fantasy Moguls player!
We only have a few questions, so let's get to them, then get to the movies...
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Well, little by little the mail is trickling in. Just a few emails to respond to this week so I will keep it short. Keep the questions coming and I will promise to answer as much of my mail as I can.
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Well, this is it, the first mailbag column for Fantasy Moguls, which is a very strange thing. Strange because you don't know we have a mailbag column and so therefore we don't have any significant mail yet.
And so I will begin by inviting you all to write me with your questions, your thoughts, your theories, and I will do my best to give you some insights that will give your studio a leg up on your competitors.
The famed screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride) once wrote about Hollywood, "Nobody knows anything."
Truer words never spoken.
On the surface, the game seems simple enough. Pick the best films, win the game. But how, oh how are we supposed to figure out which films will be the best, Tom?