Found while perusing Melanie Haupt's delicate flower blog:
Chucklehound's Box Office Oracle
Pick a genre, director, writer, and cast and see how much your movie will gross and what its chances for an Oscar are.
After I couldn't get my Justice League vs. the Banana Splits movie to score a projected gross of more than $115 million, I decided to submit to my baser desires:
Knight of the Living Dead (R)
(Historical Epic/Talking Animal/Horror)
Starring William Shatner and Jennifer Love Hewitt
Also Featuring Sisqo, Bill Paxton, and Pam Grier
Directed by David Mamet
Screenplay by Dan Schneider
Projected Budget Range: $1-10 Million
Planned Release Date: February
Projected Box Office Receipts:
$10.97 million (Opening Weekend)
$46.62 million (Total Domestic Gross)
Chance of getting Oscar Nomination: 3%
Chance of winning at least one Oscar: 1%
Critic Most Likely to Praise: Ron Wells, Film Threat
Critic Most Likely to Skewer: Rita Kempley, Washington Post
(Dan Schneider, as you well know, wrote the screenplay for the 1997 political thriller "Good Burger")
Obviously, there are some kinks in the program. For example, I wish it were possible to specify roles for your cast (Paxton as King Arthur, Shatner as the zombie Uther Pendragon). Still, it's funny that Ron Wells' name came up.
Besides, there's no way a zombie holocaust movie set in Arthurian Britain with talking animals only makes $46 million.
UPDATE: If Chucklehound is taking too long for you, you could always Write Your Own Mel Gibson Movie.
Thanks (I think) to Michael Croft.
I wrote "American McGee's Mel Gibson"
And I could include a link to the Penny Arcade Parody "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake", but I'm not going to.