Not based on the oddly addictive PC game, but generally a game of chance.
Basically, each person starts off with a million dollars, they can use this to cast certain actors in their films (I will list) and make a movie altogether. These can range from low-budget (Minimum $1,000), via. standard budget ($10 Million), to Big budget (ie. blockbusters, epics, generally around upwards of $50 Million).
Don't keep a minimum budget on, the more money you spend, the more likely you are to gain money at the box office.
You can only make a new film when I have evaluated your last movie.
Yes, I will be evaluating films.
I will give an example of a movie review, a star rating, how much money has been earnt/lost, and will mention any awards/nominations given.
Once you have been evaluated, you can make your next film.
Please remember, the foremost thing to aim for is that you are aiming for awards!
As you see above, a list of actors is instated. Their price ranges vary, and with each movie they do, their asking price may rise or fall.
Every now and then, I will make a post with new actors to choose from.
The more you pay the actors, the better performance they give, and the better the movie.
REMEMBER: More money spent, the better the film.
Now to making a movie.
In each post, this form should be employed:
Title-
Lead Actor-
Lead Actress-
Supporting Actor- (OPTIONAL, but gives better quality value.)
Supporting Actress- (See above.)
Genre- (Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, Arthouse, War, Western. No other genre, pick only those.)
Plot- (Give an explanation that is decent enough. The better the explanation of the plot, including referring to which actor is which character, and what the gist of the story is, the more likely your movie will succeed.)
Location- (Location filmed in, whether it be UK, US, etc.)
Budget- (Incl. Actors bought, overall money spent.)
So copy and paste (without the brackets) and make a film from what you understand.
You can't make anything above low budget for now, so your plot must not have any form of large-scale shenanigans in it, if it does, my evaluation will determine your film as an immediate bomb, a mess of a film, and the only awards you'll hope of getting will be Razzies.
Not to mention you'll lose every cent of the money you spent, as no one will want to see it.
So basically, after the evaluation, you can get going.
Try to make a low budget hit first. Like "Crash". If it costs very little, yet it manages to get a boom at the box office, you could earn upwards of $100 Million.
It all depends on how convincing your film comes across, the plot is probably the most important factor, and remember that I am fate at its harshest, so try to convince me.
Now remember that certain factors might not rub off. For example, at random points, certain factors like set collapse or media buzz will stunt your intake.
Without further ado, you may begin to make movies.
Added information and guidelines will be posted as time goes on. Actors/Actresses will be added.
Advice: Kevin Bacon is a quality actor, but as you see, easy to buy. I'd recommend purchasing him for your film at a reasonable price.
NOTE: You MUST have a lead, if you have a Lead Actor, a Lead Actress becomes optional. If you have a Lead Actress, a Lead Actor becomes optional.
If you have no other supporting characters named, any other characters mentioned in the plot will be considered bit parts, and will have next to no influence on how well the movie goes.
You can only have one Lead Actor and/or Actress in a single movie, but the number of Supports you have will be countless.
Awards given will vary, for Supporting Actors/Actresses, the awards will be entirely random.
Remember to give your film as much detail as humanly possible. This will give us a better image of the film and perhaps affect whether it gets any awards or critical attention or not.
Adaptations, musicals, animations, foreign films, etc. are all allowed, so long as you specify what genre they are, WHAT KIND OF FILM they are, and then all the necessary information thereafter.
Title- The Yellow Tree
Lead Actor- Ralph Fiennes ($50,000)
Lead Actress- Juliette Binoche ($50,000)
Supporting Actor- Kevin Bacon ($30,000)
Supporting Actress- Hilary Swank ($30,000)
Genre- Drama
Plot- Hungarian Jew Itzhak Franz (Ralph Fiennes) and his wife Katherine Franz (Juliette Binoche) enter a tough period as a 40-something couple struggling with their marriage. But a family tree, known only as "The Yellow Tree", becomes a figure of inspiration, as Itzhak takes up painting abstract forms of the natural feature in their back yard. Katherine isn't quite as impressed, as she grows a premature form of dementia from the lack of attention given by Itzhak. A couple of similar age, Josef and Valerie Yunpest (Bacon and Swank), take care of Katherine as Itzhak is drawn into ignorance by what has become an omen. They try to drag Itzhak out of a worse madness than his wife's. Takes place in the one courtyard
Duration- 2 hours 25 minutes
Composer- Alberto Iglesias
Location- Hungary
Language- English
Budget- $800,000 (Low-Budget) ($160,000+$640,000)
Nominations-
=Independent Spirit Awards=
Best Film
Best Lead Actor (Ralph Fiennes)
Best Supporting Actress (Hilary Swank)
Best Original Score
=Academy Awards=
Best Original Score
=Golden Globes=
Best Picture - Drama
Best Director
Best Lead Actress - Drama (Juliette Binoche)
Best Supporting Actress (Hilary Swank)
Awards Won-
=Independent Spirit Awards=
Best Supporting Actor (Kevin Bacon)
=Academy Awards=
Best Supporting Actor (Kevin Bacon)
=Golden Globes=
Best Supporting Actor (Kevin Bacon)
NOTE: This is just an EXAMPLE. I will not make any films.
Title- Vacation In Hell
Lead Actor- Philip Seymour Hoffman ($75,000)
Lead Actress- Rachael Weisz ($75,000)
Supporting Actor- Johnny Depp ($150,000)
Supporting Actress- Hilary Swank ($50,000)
Genre- Action/Thriller
Plot- Four business friends go on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on the company trip to enjoy swimming, tanning, and some relaxation amongst some business meetings. However, when Andy (Johnny Depp) returns from a scuba trip badly injured, it appears like a common shark attack. However, when Andy awakens from their coma in the hospital, the friends learn it's anything but a shark attack. In a search for the truth, and a fight for life, Daniel (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Alex (Rachael Weisz), Olivia (Hilary Swank), and Andy fight for their lives and uncover secrets involving murder, blackmail, corruption, and sabotage.
Location- U.S/Mexico
Budget- $950,000 (Low-budget) ($350,000+$700,000)
Review:
"... with some interesting originality, Hoffman's tongue-in-cheek nervousness that accompanies him in one of his lesser roles unfortunately leads him to be drowned out by Depp's superior peformance. The story is interesting enough, but very cliched, yet not much more can be expected for a low-budget of this kind, but it'll still put you on the edge of your seat..."
Box Office Intake- $10 Million
Overview- Lacking any advertising, poor reviews lead it down, but Oscar winners Hoffman and Swank manage to bring enough into the box office success. After two abysmal opening weeks, a final intake of ten million was enough to wet Director Riddlemaster's whistle.
Profit for Riddlemaster- $9,000,050
Current Budget for Riddlemaster- $10,000,050
Nominations (not yet awarded)-
=Razzies=
Worst Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
=Independent Spirit=
Best Debut Feature
Riddlemaster, with ten million to spend, you can start your next feature.
Title- Rockin' the Cradle
Lead Actor- Dennis Quaid ($85,000)
Lead Actress- Hilary Swank ($90,000)
Supporting Actor- Johnny Depp ($100,000)
Supporting Actress- Juliette Binoche ($50,000)
Genre- Drama
Plot- An aging rock star of the late 80s (Quaid) hooks up with a much younger fan (Swank) after a show in London. With a sinking career and a failing marriage to his wife (Binoche), he takes the fling to the next level and begins spending more and more time with the groupie during his tour in Europe. As time goes by, she one day becomes enchanted by an opening act (Depp) and the girl ends up leaving Quaid for Depp. When Quaid returns home to his wife, he finds out months later that he's been infected with HIV and has also given it to his wife. Chance encounters and heated exchanges give way to an exciting ending that you won't believe until you see it.
Location- UK/US (English spoken)
Budget- $950,000 (Low-Budget) ($325,000 acting +625,000)
Review:
"Depp shows some unusually solid resilience as the stand-out performer, where Dennis Quaid doesn't fail to charm. The low-budget seems to be forgotten when it becomes more and more obvious that less of the big scale locations are needed, and the relevance overpowers it all, Binoche gives her best emotional performance yet."
Box Office Intake- $53 Million
Overview- Hitting the cinemas with a bang, assisted with a number of great reviews and investor-funded advertisements, the relevance found in the film has assisted in a hefty intake, leaving Director Drewbacca with a profit many men dream of attaining.
Profit for Drewbacca- $52,000,050
Current Budget for Drewbacca- $53,000,050
Nominations (not yet awarded)-
=Oscars=
Best Supporting Actor (Depp)
Best Supporting Actress (Binoche)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Director
Best Picture
=Golden Globes=
Best Picture - Drama
Best Director
Best Supporting Actor (Depp)
Best Supporting Actress (Binoch
Title- The Long Run
Lead Actor- Ralph Fiennes ($900,000)
Supporting Actor- Donald Sutherland ($900,000)
Supporting Actor- Robert De Niro ($850,000)
Supporting Actress- Laura Linney ($850,000)
Genre- Drama
Plot- When Adam Dunn (Sutherland) is landed in the hospital for a heart transplant, he fears that his time is at hand. After calling his only son Mike (Fiennes) and his wife Anna (Linney) to visit, Adam gives him a diary of his journeys during the Vietnam War. Shortly after reading the diary, Mike discovers that his father fell in love with one of his fellow comrades (De Niro). Mike urges his father to let this mystery man come and visit, only to learn that out of fear, he faked his death to escape the war. Fearful that his father may not survive the operation, Mike believes that the only way for his father to live and maybe die in peace, is to make peace with the man that let him go.
Location- US
Budget- $5,000,000 (Low-budget). ($3,500,000+$1,500,000)
Review:
"Stepping up from his mildly disappointing debut feature 'Vacation In Hell', a decent profit allowed him to fund his next feature for only five million. Fiennes and Sutherland explode, providing on-screen effectiveness with one another that could only be matched by their other collaboration, 'Land Of The Blind'. De Niro is in slightly exhausted form and Linney takes the midway mark. This is the Gay love story that Brokeback Mountain wasn't. Best film of the year."
Box Office Intake- $200 Million
Overview- With enough to advertise quite frequently, as well as all-round critical raves, The Long Run surged to the top of the box-office, and with a funded extended run, managed to pull in a whopping two hundred million. The Catholic community revolted... of course.
Profit for Riddlemaster- $195,000,000
Current Budget for Riddlemaster- $205,000,050
=Oscars=
Best Picture
Best Director (Riddlemaster)
Best Lead Actor (Ralph Fiennes)
Best Supporting Actor (Donald Sutherland)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Score (Epic music for it)
Best Cinematography (For War-depictions)
Best Make-Up (For Donald Sutherland wasting away, and dying troops in war)
Best Editing (Difficulty in swapping between flashbacks and normal scenes)
Best Sound
Best Sound Editing
=Golden Globes=
Best Picture - Drama
Best Lead Actor - Drama (Ralph Fiennes)
Best Supporting Actor (Donald Sutherland)
Best Director
Best Original Score
Best Original Screenplay
=Cannes Film Festival=
Golden Palm
Best Actor (Donald Sutherland)
Best Screenplay
Best Director
Final Overview: A film that takes the best bits of The English Patient, The Constant Gardener, and Brokeback Mountain manages to sweep the Academy for nominations, and looks set to beat out Drewbacca's picture for Best Film.
I like to think it is. Alas, it is the Greatest Actor Ever™ Ralph Fiennes posing with long hair back when he portrayed Hamlet in 1995 (and, ironically, was the first man out of over a dozen who played Hamlet on Broadway to win the Tony Award for Best Lead Actor). That same year, of course, he did "Strange Days".
Review:
"Sometimes you get pretentious films that try to create sympathy in the viewer. This is one of them. It's disgusting how Ryder dropped into Indie films the way she has, there's been some admirable success, but here she fits the occupation of 'stereotypical crackwhore' just fine. And Keira Knightley? Still pouting like the slut she is. The music is annoying, the editing horrible on a deplorable level, and the overall premise recycled and annoying."
Box Office Intake- $500 Thousand
Overview- Horrible reviews circulating from the start, the film opened in thirty theatres across America for about two weeks before plummeting to just twelve due to lack of intake. A stretched cinema run in some of the more run down arthouse cinemas pulled in five hundred thousand.
Loss for Wolfsbane- $100,000
Current Budget for Wolfsbane- $900,000
Nominations (not yet awarded)-
=Razzies=
Worst Film
Worst Director
Worst Actress (Knightley)
Worst Supporting Actress (Ryder)
