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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 3h

SPOILERS: Threequels Draft

This chart shows how the 7 films drafted compared to the originals & sequels in their series in terms of Box Office (Box Office Mojo).

2/7 were the lowest grossing of their series (when they came out, at least).

5/7 were the highest.

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 1d

Only 1/27 (3.70%) 13-Pick Mini-Mega Drafts saw 1 veto deployed. All others had 2 or more.

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 2d

Following the 2000's Horror Mini-Mega Draft, there are now 8 release years that have 50 unique films drafted.

The most recent year to reach this threshold is 2002.

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 79. Keaton has appeared in 6 films drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social so far.

5/6 (83.33%) have titles that start with F or G.

Titles that start with these 2 letters represent just 7.70% of all unique titles drafted.

RIP!

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 4d

Nice clear day!

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 4d

3 directors with films drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social were born or died on October 11th:

Director: Year / Unique Films Drafted / Best Pick
Jerome Robbins: 👶1918 / 1 / 1
Justin Lin:👶1971 / 3 / 1
David Hand: 🪦1986 / 6 / 2

screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 5d

3 films vetoed at Pick 6 on @screendrafts.bsky.social to date have titles starting with the 6th letter of the English alphabet, F.

From Russia with Love (1963)
Funny Games (1997)
Find Me Guilty (2006)

screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 6d

So far, 2 directors with films drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social were born in Thailand, representing 0.14% of Screen Drafts directors with birth information online.

Both directors have had just 1 film get drafted.

Both drafted films landed at Pick 7 in their respective drafts!

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 7d

89 drafters on @screendrafts.bsky.social have used the same amount of vetoes as others have used against them.

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 8d

4 of the 7 directors added to the list of @screendrafts.bsky.social directors as a result of the Criterion World Cinema Project died in the 1990's.

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 9d

SPOILERS: Halloween Movies and 1970's Horror Mega Drafts

The only director with 'scare' in their name to also have a film drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social is Don Coscarelli (born 2/17/1954).

Don actually has 2 films drafted, Kenny & Company (1976) and Phantasm (1979).

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 10d

124 films have been drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social with titles starting with the letter P.

Of the 100 that have Worldwide Box Office totals on Box Office Mojo, the total Box Office is $7,843,725,478.

The average release year of all 124 is 1994.22.

Alan J. Pakula directed 3 (2.42%)!

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 10d

4 Drafts on @screendrafts.bsky.social have an average release year between 1975.00 and 1975.99:

➡️Retail Hell
➡️Giallo
➡️1970's Horror Mega
➡️Mothers & Daughters

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 11d

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 12d

Neve Campbell is 52 today! She has appeared in 5 films drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social thus far:

The Craft (1996)
Scream (1996)
Wild Things (1998)
Scream 3 (2000)
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 13d

The government is shut down (release the files!), and 6 films drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social have the words 'Shut' or 'Down' in the title.

Down Titles: 4
Shut Titles: 2
Combined Running Time: 725 Mins
Total Box Office: $670,941,783
Average Release Year: 1991.50
Total Title Words: 15

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 14d

17 films have been drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social that have 'Blood' somewhere in the title. Happy Scream Drafts!!!

🩸: 8
🩸y: 3
🩸line(s): 3
🩸s: 1
🩸shed: 1
🩸sport: 1

screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 15d

Lacey Chabert turns 43 today! She has appeared in 4 films drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social to date:

Anastasia (1997)
Lost in Space (1998)
Mean Girls (2004)
Black Christmas (2006)

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 16d

The @billyraybrewton.bsky.social and @grahamskipper.bsky.social have competitively-collaborated together 8 times on @screendrafts.bsky.social.

Billy Ray has vetoed Graham 8 times so far (at Picks 1, 1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 11, 16).

Graham has vetoed Billy Ray times 6 so far (at Picks 6, 6, 9, 9, 10, 16).

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 17d

69 directors with films drafted on @screendrafts.bsky.social have first names starting with the letter T.

The 127 unique films they have directed have been drafted 171 total times.

17/171 (9.94%) were at Pick 1 in a draft.

26/171 (15.20%) were at Pick 2.

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 17d

It's just sad that in this country the default reaction to an older person still working is sadness because clearly they must need to work to survive, and not, good for them for finding something they enjoy enough to do it so long!

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations to @darrenfranich.bsky.social, the 5th drafter to reach 100 @screendrafts.bsky.social picks!

He did so in 26 drafts (3.85 picks per draft).

1st Pick: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
50th: Bone Tomahawk (2015)
100th: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 19d

6 @screendrafts.bsky.social Drafts are tied at 96th when sorting for the shortest Release Year Range at 21 Years:

📈Teen Horror: Millennial Edition (1993-2018)
📈Con Artist
📈21st Century Best Actress Winning Films
📈X-Men Super
📈21st Century Female Action
📈Rock vs Diesel Mini-Mega

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 20d

It's the 5th anniversary of Screen Drafts Stats!

There have been 420 5th Picks on @screendrafts.bsky.social including those removed due to veto or commish override.

5/420 (1.19%) 5ths were commish overridden.

75/420 (17.86%) 5th Picks were vetoed. 2/75 (2.67%) were saved by veto override!

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screendstats.bsky.social @screendstats.bsky.social · 21d

6 Drafts hit the main feed in March 2021 with a total running time of 1370 minutes.

The earliest and most recent films drafted during that month were King Kong (1933) and Shin Godzilla (2016), which happened to be drafted back to back at Overall Picks 1243 and 1244!

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