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The Phantom Menace: BAttack of the Clones: B-Revenge of the Sith: B+A New Hope: A+Empire Strikes Back: A (It's My favorite though)Return of the Jedi: A-

Especially when it looks like Harry is about to get it on with Snape!

Star WarsHis Harry Potter theme, I really liked.

Looks like mindless fun.

How to Play CAYOM: The Ultimate Playing Guide CAYOM stands for Create-a-Year-of-Movie. It's a rather simple, yet complex, game in which a player gets to create a movie. The player gets to cast the movie with their own cast, director, and any other crew member the player choses to specify. After that, there's predictions on how a movie (along with reviews, some which are soft, others which are honest) will do followed by the official Box Office being released by a player. Finally, the Oscar season will come and your movie may get an Oscar nomination, or the even rarer Oscar Best Picture Win. This is how to play the game. Part I. Create the Movie Every year, there will be a week or two of time in which Part One is open. During this time period is when you turn in any film you may have written using the following format: Where you post the film is in the Part I thread. In the opening post, you'll notice a schedule of dates. There will be movie names in some of those dates-that means those movies are to be released on that date. Chose a date, whether an empty one or one which already has competition in it. There is no real limit to how many films can be released on one date, but the unofficial limit is 4 films. Except for a couple of weekends, like the post-Thanksgiving weekend, every date needs to have a film before Part I is over. Questions: [*]Is there a word limit, or a word minimum? There is no official word limit, nor is there a word minimum. Your plot can be as short as a couple of sentences, to 10,000 words. Most films tend to be around 2,000-3,000 words long. It should be noted that if you're going for an Oscar, a paragraph-long film won't stand a chance. What is a filler? A filler is a short, paragraph long film that is usually generic. These are meant to fill some dates that have no serious films, or to ensure that a lot of the dates have at least 2 films. Can I describe the musical score, and attach a composer? Yes. Describe the score right under where you name the composer, which should be right above the plot. You can also write the song titles, along with a description of the song (or write the song if you feel it'll be better), and attach it to musicals along key areas of the plot. Some players have also integrated actual music into their film, telling you when to play the music as you read. Can I make a trailer/poster? Sure. There's a whole separate thread to post a trailer or a poster. Posters are usually done on paint or photoshop. Trailers are usually written as scripts, though actual Youtube trailers are not unheard of (but extremely rare). The trailers/posters will have no impact on the box office, usually only meant to make the CAYOM universe fill more real. Is there a limit on which actor/actress I can use? Sort of. If an actor/actress has too many films in one year, then you'll be asked to pick a different cast member. The same goes to the director/crew. How is aging handled? The actors are however old they are in real life, regardless of which CAYOM year it is. Consider it a magical world where aging has considerably slowed down. Can I use my own made up actors/actresses and Directors? Yes. How much money do I have to make my film? Unlimited money. The budget is how much money got put into the film. If a film fails to make it's budget, and it's part of a series, you lose no money yourself. For realism purposes, most flops don't really get sequels. The budget must also be realistic. What is the FYC thread? The FYC (For Your Consideration) thread is where you post your movies and which Oscars you want it considered for. Part II. Predictions and Reviews Predictions You can predict how each movie (or the big blockbuster ones only) will do at the box office! This is usually where the official Box Office of the year's numbers are based, though a film may totally surprise by flopping or being a hit. If a film always did as predicted, it would get boring. The only place to put predictions is on the official Part II thread. Some people go week by week (some even with write-ups!), other people month-by-month, and more by only predicting the big blockbuster films or the serious Oscar contenders. Reviews You'll also be able to state your opinion in your review thread! For every year, you can create ONE review thread, where you can post your reviews. Some people just do a top 25 lists, and other people go week-by-week (usually followed by a top 25). It's your choice on how to write reviews, and even consider doing something original if you want. Be as honest or as harsh as you want to be. Reviews will rarely affect a film's opening weekend (but they can), but they will affect a film's legs. The Critical Consensus Every review thread who ends up doing a top 25 gets put in the Critical Consensus, which is like our version of Rotten Tomatoes. Anyways, every film that is on a top 25 list will be on this list. Based on the ranking of the film on all the lists will determine the spot of the critical consensus. It is rare for a film to get all number one rankings. The Critical Consensus can really help with legs, and may be served as a basis to predict who will actually be participating in the Oscars. Part III. Box Office This is the part where you simply sit back and relax, unless you're doing the official Box Office of the year (or as we call it, Actuals). Here, you will see weekend-by-weekend how every film in the top 10 has done domestically in the box office. These are the official numbers, and are rarely disputable. The Box Office is done as realistically as possible. After the Part is over, the person who did Actuals will also reveal Total Domestic gross and Overseas numbers. Part IV. The Oscars The Oscars! The Big award! In this game, Best Picture is the ultimate award as it is in real life. But there's other Oscars to win. Nomination Phase First is the phase where every player gets to turn in nominations, in public. Five films per category (unless otherwise specified), the order you put them in doesn't matter. The films with the most nominations are officially nominated for an Oscar! There is a required of 2 nominations to be considered unless otherwise specified. Tie-breaker Every now, there's enough films who have gotten the same number of nominations, enough to be nominated, but not enough spots. If that's the case, there's a tie-breaker in which you rank the films to break the tie. Whichever one is overall better ranked wins the tie-breaker. The Voting Phase Now is the time to vote for Oscars. Unlike the first two phases, this phase is done by PM to whoever is doing the award ceremony. You send the person a ranking of each nomination, putting your preferable choice as number one and your least preferable choice as number five. Based on the ranking average, the vote is then tallied. The Award Phase The Award phase is where you see the Oscar ceremony! Good luck if your nominated! After the ceremony, there's a couple of days of waiting before it all begins again. Insert any questions here.

I don't like the CMAs because that meant no Suburgatory or The Middle or Revenge tonight. Oddly, I don't really miss Modern Family all that much.

When you click to reply, you see all those buttons giving you options? Click the top left button, the one that looks like a light switch, then paste, then click it again.It should copy normally that way.(Also you can just CTRL-A and select the font you want)Or just look at my guide:http://boxofficetheory.com/forums/index.php?/forum-21/announcement-8-how-to-tables-and-simple-paste/

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HTML has to be on.

No. A 3.5 is that 3.5% of all 18-49 viewers who had a TV on were watching New Girl. NCIS: LA has a lot of OLDER viewers watching it than New Girl.

Updated with Tuesday numbers.

No, I hate the show.BAZINGA!

Not really.

Airplane

6/10

Maybe Ry can do the Year one calendar and start Part 1 for us?He started CAYOM 1.0. It's only right he should start CAYOM 2.0.

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Post trailers for your films here.

You know what this is. Use it to discuss your upcoming films.

Movie Name Year Planned Blockbuster Hopeful (BH) or OC Hopeful (OH)? Status Gossip Girl Movie Year 6 or 7 Neither Pre-Production Alanna: The First Adventure Year 6 BH Pre-Production Breakdown Year 6 OC Pre-Production The American Revolution Year 6 BH Pre-Production The Magicians Year 7 BH Pre-Production Goosebumps TBA BH Planning 24 TBA BH Planning

I mean we can't keep the ratings. So you won't be able to find what the shows did beyond a day or two.

Here's a place to pin your future release plan. Please, one post per member. Simply edit yours whenever you have an update.

I was wondering the same thing.

SilverShark, this is a completely fresh start. It doesn't matter if they remember, this is going to be all brand new as if the old CAYOM hadn't happened.Which is depressing yet exciting at the same time.(You can hold franchise rights to both, StarCraft and Spellforce).