Movie Fantasy League 2024

For our first non-review post, the ZEJ team will be revealing our entries for Vulture.com’s Movie Fantasy League (MFL). Shoutout to our friend Ariel for sharing the very existence of the MFL with E, as being huge fantasy football junkies and cinephiles, it could not be more up our alley. Here’s how it works (explainer taken directly from Vulture.com):

• Draft a team of eight movies that were or will be released in 2024 before the draft deadline on October 3, 2024. (Movies are assigned a dollar value based on how likely they are to perform well. You have a $100 budget to use to draft your team.)

• Starting on October 4, you’ll accrue points based on the box-office performance, awards haul, and critical reception of those movies.

• The teams that earn the most points when the game ends after the 2025 Oscars will win one or more of the great prizes below.

Below are our respective entries, but if you would like join our league, make your entry using the following link and make sure you enter “ZEJ Reviews” as the league name: https://moviegame.vulture.com/

J’s Team:

• Anora ($25)

• Emilia Perez ($25)

• Wicked ($20)

• The Room Next Door ($8)

• Here ($8)

• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl ($5)

• Juror #2 ($5)

• Piece by Piece ($3)

E’s Team:

• Wicked ($20)

• Joker: Folie a Deux ($20)

• A Complete Unknown ($15)

• The Wild Robot ($15)

• September 5 ($10)

• Babygirl ($10)

• Will & Harper ($5)

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ($5)

Z’s Team:

• Dune: Part Two ($35)

• Sing Sing ($25)

• Blitz ($20)

• A Real Pain ($10)

• Oh Canada ($3)

• Love Lies Bleeding ($3)

• No Other Land ($3)

• Kneecap ($1)

We all did this not knowing who picked what, and amazingly the only duplicate movie appears to be Wicked! If it bombs, that will be a huge boost for Z, but if it cleans up, that’s gonna be tough.

We’ll post periodic updates of how our teams are doing throughout the season, and if you are joining us at the link above, prepare to be wrecked!