Atomic Moguls has reportedly raised nearly $1 million in first-round funding from VC firm Second Avenue Partners and Amazon.com. Atomic Moguls has launched FantasyMoguls.com, which is essentially a fantasy league for movies. You can draft movies and earn points based on how well they do at the box office, number of weeks in the top 5, per-theater average, and their IMDb review score (IMDb is Amazon.com owned). Traditional fantasy sports leagues allow you to draft players and earn points for how well they perform in games.
Fantasy sports leagues have about 15 million participants and the Fantasy Sports Trade Association predicted more than $1 billion is spent annually on publications, league fees and other services. Many companies are trying to get in on the fantasy league dollars — PicksPal has a fantasy league for sports betting (you use the lines on the games and pick your winners; earn points). FleaFlicker is your traditional fantasy sports league website, but is free and relies on advertising revenues.
Atomic Moguls has spoken of likely expansion into other entertainment areas such as music, television shows, and celebrities. Fafarazzi has already established a fantasy league for celebrities that awards points to users based on how many times a celebrity’s name is used in popular entertainment blogs, websites, and articles. There’s even a fantasy league for fashion.
Fantasy Moguls should breathe some new life into IMDb (make it more social). I’d also like to see some widgets that I could embed into my blog or MySpace page (this type of functionality appears to be lacking — and would be great for inviting people to join a league, or for posting standings to a blog / MySpace page).
Editor’s Note: This post was written by guest contributor Steve Poland, whose blog Techquila Shots brainstorms web start-up ideas.
Sites not loading for me…anyone else?
Never mind…just noticed the link is wrong when you click on the image. Once you get the right URL it loads just fine.
Hi - Todd from Fafarazzi.com here.
Well, it’s not a full review - but its a link from TechCrunch, we’ll take it!
The review from Mashable is a touch outdated - back from August when we launched. I encourage you to check out the site now as we’ve come a long way since then. Also, in response to the comment about widgets - Fafarazzi offers up widgets for people to display their celebrity team roster including scoring totals for each celeb - as well as some other widgets.
Thanks,
Todd
Fafarazzi.com
check out http://www.the-numbers.com/ its been around for a long time and has fantasy games for box office numbers and celebrities
Its a movie/celebrity stock market
These fantasy leagues are a waste of time. Don’t believe me? Check
this out http://www.techcrunchme.com
What? I thought movies were for the most part fantasies! Ok…just some weekend humor. Fantasy games are a great idea.
Is it just me or does this site look at lot like Netflix? I suppose you go with what works.
The site feels like an offshoot of the old Hollywood Stock Exchange (hsx.com), where I once worked. And subsequently watched implode after early success. But that’s another story.
What about fantasy congress and fantasy senate?! There’s a start-up that has already developed a game called Fantasy Congress, where the people play politics. The game founding fathers were all graduates of Claremont McKenna College in California.
I think the first of these was http://www.hsx.com It’s been lingering in and out of bankruptcy for quite some time, but they have a pretty detailed system that can be fun if you spend the time on it.
You missed the the best one of them
http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq
probably the biggest celeb fantasy league out there
This is totally waste of time, money, and unless game. Do you get to win anything? I’m talking about “REAL PRIZES” not some cheezy fake photo prize claims.
- I don’t like company say… oh you will get your prize torromow… you need sign this and that.
- Next day you get tons of telemarket calls.
- No prize claims.
Hmmm…I would do this if it paid if I did well.
Hollywood Stock Exchange has been doing this for a while ().
That site seems like a waste of time! sites pop up everyday with no real reason for their existence.
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