Let's Make A Movie

Season

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Clients

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Strike Tracker

Box Office Poison

After round 4, the season wraps: a Box Office Poison card flips, then each producer draws the season movie's budget (one card from the unused half of their deck per client token on that season's reel, at least one card even for a blank movie; marketing and awards don't count), then post-production runs smallest budget first (Campaign, Market, Recast, Fire, Bargain, Reshoots; every action but Campaign and Fire costs a freshly flipped Agent card; Fire instead draws one card from your own deck as cash). There is no bank: you pay in whole bills, there's no change, and any overpayment is gone. Agent prices are blind: the card flips after you choose an action, and that locks you in. The Agent's Strike card is never a price: when it flips, the strike tracker moves up and the Agent flips again. Post-production can touch any of your movies. A fired token goes back in the bag. Fall is playable: drag each bill in your hand to Bid or Bank (or use the buttons on a phone), lock in, then pick a client token and click one of your reels to place it. The player decks use your real distribution. The bag holds your 120 film tokens (30 designs × 4). The Agent deck is your real 50-card deck, with 1 Intern ($0) and 1 Strike card. Bots bid just enough to beat the Agent's quote, keeping their small bills. Tied bids and checks go to a tie flip: each tied producer flips the top card of their own deck and adds it (still tied, flip again); the flipped card is spent with the bid, or goes on your debt with a Summer check. In Spring the Intern ($0) comes out of the Agent deck and is the free bottom bill of every ladder, with the Agent flipping the rest above it; after Spring it goes to the Agent's discards. Reel multipliers use the draft rulebook scoring. Your tickets show what each would add to each movie right now; you assign one ticket per movie at the end of the game. A token that matches a revealed Box Office Poison card scores −1 and stops counting toward majority genre and unique symbols. Secret campaigns fund the Best Picture awards, and only the most-funded award is handed out: whoever has the most of its tokens wins it, and ties are friendly (every tied producer wins one). Anything is negotiable, any time: producers can buy tokens off each other, pay each other to take actions, or make any other deal they can think of. Whatever changes hands on the spot is binding; promises about the future are not.