e196. The 2022 Box Office Draft! - a podcast by Vox Populorum

It’s that time of year again. Every year the hosts of Voxpopcast play a fantasy box office game! Even though it’s only the second week of the year, we are going to review every movie expected to come out in 2022. Then each host will draft 15 movies and compete to see who can have the highest combination of box office returns in the American domestic box office (as reported by BoxOfficeMojo) and Rotten Tomatoes score. The game has been very tricky these last couple of years because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but we’re still at it. So join Mav, Wayne, Katya, Hannah, and Monica, as well as box office fantasy commissioner Stephanie Siler to discuss the results of last year’s game and fantasy box office draft choices for the new year. Follow along and let us know if you agree with our draft picks and let us know yours in the comments below.







2021 Final Results







Last year’s box office draft occurred on episode 145. After the whole year, the final results showed Mav winning, with Hannah coming in second. Katya barely edged out Wayne for third place. A graph of thing results is shown below.















2022 Picks







Monica







* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)* Don’t Worry Darling* Top Gun: Maverick* Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore* Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom* Downton Abbey: A New Era* Untitled David O’Russell Film* Creed 3* The Fabelmans* Secret Headquarters* The 355* I Wanna Dance With Somebody* Jackass Forever* Italian Studies* Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris







Mav







* Thor: Love and Thunder* The Flash* Mission Impossible 7* Avatar 2* Elvis* Sonic the Hedgehog 2* The Bad Guys* Beast* 65* The Woman King* Puss’n’Boots: The Last Wish* Ambulance* Super Mario Bros* She Said* Clerks 3







Katya







* Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* Lightyear* Morbius* Uncharted* Minions: The Rise of Gru* Scream* The Outfit* Salem’s Lot* Moonfall* Everything, Everywhere, All at Once* Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild* Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile* Ticket to Paradise* Thirteen Lives* White Bird: A Wonder Story







Wayne







* Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness* Nope* Turning Red* Where the Crawdads Sing* Death on the Nile* Cyrano* Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent* Babylon* The Northman* Black Phone* Till* Bob’s Burgers* Untitled BeeGee’s movie* Under the Boardwalk* Texas Chainsaw Massacre







Hannah







* Jurassic World Dominion* The Batman* Black Adam* Strange World* Halloween Ends* The Lost City* DC: League of Super-Pets* The Man From Toronto* Bullet Train* Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre* Marry Me* Samaritan* Distant* Memory* Shotgun Wedding







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