Were you a Memento Fan? If so you’ll love Inception
Memento was one of the best mentally stimulating / through provoking movies of all time. The director of Memento, Christopher Nolan, is directing Inception. A star studded cast including Leo DeCaprio, the movie is about a group if freelance dream theives who steal people’s ideas for corporate gain by inserting themselves into strangers’ subsconsious while they are sleeping. Thinkg “Dream Stealers” for the good of greed.
Inception does a great job of bouncing betwen dream states and reality. Dreams has always been a fascinating concept to the human mind. Bringing this topic to life in a high budget well written (actually well guarded script) will sure to be a home run. Check out the Inception Movie Trailer
Who can say no to Kevin James Chris Rock and Adam Sandler in Grownups
This summer has some great movies lined up to hit the box office. One comedy that looks like a home run. When you have the likes of Kevin James Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, its virtually impossible to not burst out laughing every minute! The movie is basically about a bunch of childhood friends that get together for a summer trip. Apparently, this cast was such a trip that they had the cameras running for an additional 45 minutes in adlibs. The movie is called Grown Ups, view the trailer. It’s slated for June 25
Hollywood Movie Futures – A Whole New Level to Legal Betting
Two new future markets will be brought in front of regulators for approval shortly. The purpose of these new future markets is allow individuals to financial benefit from a success or failure of a new movie release. The Cantor Exchange will be for individuals, while the Trend Exchange will be for institutional investors. These new hollywood movie futures brings an extra level of excitement for movies that the market will hopefully embrace fully.
Here is a scenario.
Toy Story 3 comes out this summer. A future contract is valued at $1 per million dollars in gross that movie is expected to produce in its opening 4 weeks. Lets assume that Toy Story 3 is expected to bring in 125million in its first 4 weeks at the box office. On the Cantor Exchange, the Toy Story 3 futures contract will be valued at $125. After 4 weeks, if Toy Story 3 grosses 150 million at the box office, the futures contract will be valued at $150. You profit $25 on that contract. The inverse of could hold true.
As you can imagine the Movie Picture Association (MPAA) hates this idea. Their fear is the multiple levels of manipulation that could. You know what though, it will be a fraction of what is going in the equities future market these days! Lets say marketing directors of major budgets movies can make friends and enemies real fast!
