Congratulations to the winners of /r/movies Fantasy Movie League Fall 2017! The new season starts Friday morning, come set your lineup or learn to play and join the fun!

Another season gone by, another many regrets in how I played. This game seems to get tougher as the years go by. Playnig big releases Friday night is no longer a no brainer, budget no longer correlates to box office intake, and you can't even count on kids movies like you used to. Anyways, enough about my troubles. Here are the winners of Fall 2017 Season!

Place	Theater Name	Total Box Office Earned
1st	Exxdee's No Bonus Plex: They're Alive, Damnit	$1,274,943,366
2nd	Bad Vision Quest Pictures (JECTS)	$1,273,611,835
3rd	Kino Mattsson	$1,268,584,080
4th	" KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEY!"	$1,266,482,956
5th	'Star'killer Cineplex(R)	$1,265,732,702
6th	Cineplex Lessons	$1,260,576,905
7th	Snoop D-O-Double G	$1,260,185,525
8th	Guardians of the Galaplex ("T")	$1,258,815,335
9th	Billion Dollar Cineplex	$1,258,550,094
10th	bighen1516's Megaplex (KotRT)	$1,255,556,393

Pretty impressive numbers all around! Interestingly, first place was the only one to not play the best possible play in the last week missing out on all Murder on the Orient Express bonuses. They almost lost their lead but managed to stay in the number one spot, very impressive! As always, PM me with a screenshot of your FML home page and I'll get you some sweet /r/movies flair if you're in our top ten!

This was a pretty interesting season, not without its fair share of flops and surprises! While the season started off slow with Annabelle: Creation being the best play but with a measly 65mil best cinema, IT really spiced things up in week two smashing expectations and giving perfect cinemas upwards of 130mil to kick off the season. IT, Home Again, and American Assassin were popular and profitable plays for several weeks in the first half of the season while Lego: Ninjago proved not even kids movies were safe from franchise fatigue.

Geostorm was a surprisingly good play for a couple of weeks, which is no surprise to me as it's probably going to be in my top 10 of the year considering how much it made me laugh, Suburbicon ended mine and several others season's by being one of the worst Paramount releases of all time. That week those like me who went all in on it scraped together a pathetic 20ish million. Easily the worst week I've ever seen possible by using most your money and filling all your screens.

Thor: Ragnarok didn't disappoint in week 10, and anyone who was playing FML two years ago when Daddy's Home came out knew to play it in week 11 to great effect since it was best earner once again. In week 12, however, Justice League surprised by being nowhere near a top play. Instead the real winner was Wonder which debuted at 25million and scored cineplexes that went all in on it a cool 200+mil for the weekend.

Finally, although Coco was the winner of Thanksgiving weekend, the real FML winners were those who went in on Murder on the Orient Express. With impressive legs and the kind of movie we just don't see much of anymore it managed to be best earner as Thor and JL audiences started to thin and Coco's lack of marketing and slow US release caused it to not be a viable play last weekend. Coco came out earlier that week and since it was a holiday much of the crowd had seen the movie come the weekend.

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And that's all she wrote! Clean off those slates and set your lineups! Awards Season 2017 should be fun with a lot of awards front runners already having been released and weirdly a lot of Christmas movies have already been out for weeks (Bad Mom's Christmas and Daddy's Home 2). We will see what the season brings!

Interested in playing with us? Create a free account on FantasyMovieLeague.com and join the /r/movies league with this link. The password is reddit. It's totally free, easy to play, and takes only a couple of minutes a week to update. The deadline to join and set your lineup is this Friday at 11AM EST.

How to play: Each week you have eight screens to fill with currently playing movies in your fake theater. You can play the same movie multiple times or leave screens blank. You have $1000 to spend on movies and they are priced according to what they are projected to make. Playing the movie that gets you the best box office per price will grant you a 2mil bonus every time you play it that week. Leaving screens blank costs you 2mil in penalties. There are also bonuses for having the perfect cinema. Each week your score is added to your previous weeks and at the end of the 13 week season the highest total wins! Get in our top 10 to get some flair for the sub!

Submitted November 30, 2017 at 04:18AM by LiteraryBoner http://ift.tt/2BmpiPZ