Tentpole

Tentpole

@tentpolegame.com

Spin the reel, land on a real film, and draft one piece of it into yours: a director, a star, a genre. Fill eight slots and greenlight it. Give it a spin: tentpolegame.com

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Shoutout to the player who made this Rated R kids' true-crime picture, which reunites Haley Joel Osment and M. Night Shyamalan. This might be one of my favorite fake movies in Tentpole history, and yes, there is a signature Shyamalan twist at the end.

Shoutout to the player who made the worst-reviewed movie of the past 24 hours, this G-rated raunchy/aviation picture. Big yikes from me.

Shoutout to the player who made the biggest bomb of the past 24 hours, this G-rated surreal dystopian picture. I've never seen the game pick this font before!

Shoutout to the player who made this $1B+, 100/100 film. I can't say I expected to see a monster/buddy movie perform this well, but that's what happen when you reunite three Dark Knight principals and add Denzel and James Earl Jones to the mix.

Shoutout to the player who made this PG erotic family comedy. Only Peter Jackson could make $200M with this stinker.

Shoutout to the player who made this insane mashup, which includes this statement, "... a fear made flesh (Larry the Cable Guy) hunts him through the corridors of sleep..."

Is this serial killer superhero movie the lowest critic score of the past 24 hours? Yes it is. Does the premise sound kinda good? Also yes.

Shoutout to the player who made this 5/100 PG raunchy/aliens picture, staring Ashley Tisdale, Katie Couric(!), Hugh Grant, and John Cena.

Shoutout to the player who made this Christopher Nolan best picture winner. Banger cast too -- I actually had to check the scoring breakdown to make sure the box office wasn't an error. It's not. It's tough to gross with R and it turns out Pitt is less of a draw than you might expect.

Shoutout to the player who made this $16 million bomb. "A parish stages a murder-mystery pageant, unaware a real killer has joined the cast." Would watch!

Shoutout to the player who made this raunchy PG thriller directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Lady Gaga. Great title.

Shoutout to the player who made the highest grossing movie of the past 24 hours, this superhero siege movie, which reunites key MCU members and adds George Clooney to the mix.

Shoutout to the player who made the worst movie of the past 24 hours, and it is a doozie. A Sidney Sweeney religious zombie movie, directed by Michael Bay. James Marsden does not deserve this! Would watch.

Shoutout to the player who made this Rated R kids/drugs movie. You had me at, "A vending-machine magnate (Richard Pryor)..."

Shoutout to the player who reunited Brando and Pacino for this supernatural superhero picture directed by Steven Spielberg. Darn near $2 billion with a 89 critic score.

Shoutout to the player who made this Rated R Kids/Costume Drama nightmare staring Kevin James. There is a King of Queens joke here somewhere.

Shoutout to the player who made this Michael Mann zombie/heist movie. OK, full disclosure, I made this one, but too good not to share!

Shoutout to the player who made the lowest critic score over the past 24 hours, this 4/100 PG raunchy/adultery film. Waterpark scene sounds interesting.

Shoutout to the player who made this kids/serial-killer genre mash-up, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Would watch, 100%.

Shoutout to the player who made the highest grossing movie over the past 24 hours. That's what happens when you get four MCU actors and add James Cameron to the mix. Not bad for the seventh(!) movie in the franchise.

Shoutout to the player who made this 100/100 James Cameron political drama about a the writing of an undersea constitution. Must-read acceptance speech here.

Shoutout to the player who made this notorious flop. A zombie musical wherein Tommy Chong is in charge of the fog machine...

Shoutout to the player who won Best Picture and crossed the billion dollar mark with an animated PG movie. Nolan plus three Oscar winners and Cranston will do that.

Just pushed the biggest update to Tentpole since launch -- Versus mode. Create a room for you and your friends, where you each build a movie from the same group of films. Once you make a pick, it blocks anyone else from taking it later. It's a lot of fun. I can't wait for people to try it out!

Shoutout to the player who made this Lindsay Lohan, Ludacris, Ice Cube, Stavros Halkias Rated R psychological kids movie. My mind is blown.

Shoutout to the player who made this PG serial-killer musical, wherein Jon Favreau is a small town tap dance instructor.

Shoutout to the player who made this 100/100 James Cameron swashbuckling movie. Mark Hamill finally gets the prestige picture we all know he deserves.

Shoutout to the lowest critic score of the past 24 hours; this raunchy serial-killer picture starring Ray Romano, Ralph Macchio, Tim McGraw, and LL Cool J.

Shoutout to the user who made this serial-killer musical. You had me at, "A fading Vegas crooner (Arnold Schwarzenegger)..."

Shoutout to the highest grossing movie from the last 24 hours, this Tom Holland/Steven Spielberg undercover superhero picture. Love the popcorn bucket on this one.

Shoutout to the lowest box office score in the past 24 hours, this NC-17(!), animated(!), raunchy(!) picture directed by… Prince!!! Would. Watch.

Shoutout to the player who made this Christopher Nolan rated R faith/kids movie. Sounds kinda good honestly?

Shoutout to the player who made this Greta Gerwig serial killer musical. Hear me out -- if this wasn't rated PG this would be a banger.

Shoutout to the worst movie made in the past 24 hours, "Body & Blood" a PG religious/erotic thriller. I'd watch it, but the critics are a tough bunch.

Pushed an update around the way scoring is described. The scoring engine is not changed, but the descriptions were written too harshly for what it was trying to communicate. Thread here:

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You can put Jason Statham in a musical and you get his base-level points. He will earn bonus points if you put him in an action movie (or comedy, "Spy" is underrated!). He will earn bonus points if you pair him with frequent collaborators.

There are a lot of nuances from there (i.e. animation is handled differently, high-variance actors get bonuses when working with good directors), but wanted to give a high-level reason why the red minuses went away. Cheers.

Pushed an update around the way scoring is described. The scoring engine is not changed, but the descriptions were written too harshly for what it was trying to communicate. Thread here:

The way scoring works, an actor or director is never penalized, only bonused. The descriptions were overstating things with big red minus symbols, which is a design fail, not a scoring engine fail.

Bonuses are based on the types of genres they have been in (in both number and popularity, weighted by call sheet order) and a distance calculation to related genres ("Crime" and "Cop" give similar bonuses to, say, Clint Eastwood).

Shoutout to the player who made this Spielberg/RDJ/Rock superhero buddy cop picture. Would absolutely watch and eat from the chest cavity of the popcorn bucket.

Shoutout to the player who tied the lowest-ever critic score with a 4/100 superhero/body-horror sequel with a decent cast. Molt 1 was better though.

Shoutout to the player who made this Nancy Meyers body horror musical, which somehow includes a Daniel Craig ballad to his intestine.

I know I mostly post bad and/or weird movies, but shoutout to the user who made the highest-grossing movie over the past few days. An original superhero premise that I'd 100% watch.