Analysis Of The Movie ' Arundel Partners '

Separate but equal. A phrase that kept many African American citizens separated from white Americans for an extensive amount of time. While the phrase may sound like it could potentially be a good thing for African Americans separate was never equal. In the movie Separate but Equal, what originally started out as a request to the school board in South Carolina from one of the African American schools turned into one of the biggest court cases in the United States history known as Brown V. the Board of Education. This court case eventually led to the fair treatment of all African Americans over ruling the previous court case Plessey V. Ferguson which established the grounds of segregation under Separate but equal.

The “Sunny Randall” series follows main character Sunny Randall, who is a female detective. She was created by Parker so that Helen Hunt would play her in a movie, but it never happened. He kept the series going because his publisher asked him to. Both Randall and Spenser (another Boston detective that was created by Parker) have things in common, but also things that make them unique. There are six novels to the series.

Competition is intense in this industry, with a handful of major producers whom have great capital resources owning 70% of the market. Lionsgate doesn’t have the resources that most of their competitors have and thus have

The maximum per-film price for the sequel rights that Arundel Partners should pay is $5.12M.

In this case, a movie industry analyst is asked to evaluate a proposed venture in which a group of partners would purchase the sequel rights to movies produced by the major studios. Your objective is to 1) discuss and evaluate the basic concept; 2) determine the value of the sequel rights on a per-movie basis; 3) evaluate the possible upside and potential drawbacks to the proposed plan. As you will see, the ideas here incorporate elements of capital budgeting coupled with a “real options” analysis.

Ever fantasize about your dream home? Better Homes and Gardens magazine has been the go-to magazine for homeowners, since it was first published in 1923 (Reuss). This magazine was in the song “Somewhere that’s Green," sang by the character Audrey, in the film Little Shop of Horrors (Adespotosify). During the song in the film, she is describing her picture perfect home, which she envisions to be featured in the magazine. This goes to show you, it wasn’t out of the ordinary for a female homeowner to reach for this magazine for inspiration regarding their home.

1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them?

Arundel should make an offer to buy sequel rights as the average NPV (on a per film basis ) is $5.51 mn (this is the value calculated using real options method).

From the article about the flop of Justice League, I learned an interesting trend regarding the movie industry. Despite financial successes of widely negatively criticized films from DC Comics such as Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad, it is clear that the reputation of a superhero film despite it being action-packed matters largely. This is evident from the worldwide success of Wonder Woman. This exhaustively repeated strategy of capitalizing on the popularity of a sequel name is starting to bore the fans. The quality of the directing and storytelling matters more than spending all-in just to get the entire crew of famous superheroes. So hopefully, the planned expensive remakes and "sequels" of the big names for 2018 would be the last,

The author concluds that if the the producer will pay million dollars to Tobin Good will increase the profit. Although the amount of money is bigger than any other person involved in the movie. Forthermore, Robin revevied similer amount of money in many films that he work and attained financially successful.This claim is weak for these reason.

The short story "Flowers for Algernon" and the movie "Charly" have many similarities and many differences. First of all, they are both about the character Charlie Gordon and follow the same story line. Charlie, a mentally challenged man, has an operashen to make him more intelligent. The operation works, but eventually his intelligence decreeses and he returns to the same man he was before. Charlie has a love interest, his teacher, Miss Kinnian. In the movie, however, Miss Kinnian has a fiance, but falls in love with Charlie. The movie focuses on this relationship much more than the short story. Also, and the short story puts a lot of emphasis on the relationship between Charlie and the mouse, Algernon And the movie does not focus much

“Good afternoon Miss Allen, how may I be of assistance?” Barry heard Gideon, her personal interactive artificial consciousness ask her as she walked into the small private room.

Risk of a less successful movie release – DreamWorks faces the risk of producing a move that is not well received. In the 10-k form, the company states; "We cannot predict the economic success of any of our motion pictures because the revenue derived from the distribution of a motion picture (which does not necessarily directly correlate with the production or distribution costs incurred) depends primarily upon its acceptance by the public, which cannot be accurately predicted. The economic success of a motion picture also depends upon the public's acceptance of competing films, the availability of alternative forms of entertainment and leisure-time activities, general economic conditions and other tangible and intangible factors, all of which can change and cannot be predicted with certainty."(DreamWorks, 2015)

About five years ago in an Indian village, three girls would be married at sundown. Their names, Radha, Gora and Rajani. This marriage like so many others like them is illegal, see Radha and Gora are 15 and 13, but Rajani is 5. Cynthia Gorney a reporter for the National Geographic reported the events of the day stating the two older ones where able to understand that they would be wed within hours but sweet little Rajani was to young to fully understand. Later she describes the impulse to save the children from this tragic night and runs the scenarios of her rescue in her head. Sadly this story is not surprising or shocking many women because this story holds traits of their wedding day (Gorney). According to Girls Not Brides, ”Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. That is 28 girls every minute”(About).

Sequels are doing incredibly good at the box office this year and are expected to continue raking in money over the next few years as the Star Trek franchise as well as Marvel and DC and others continue cranking out movies over the next couple years. There will even finally be a long-awaited sequel to “Independence Day,” that 1996 movie that did well at the box office, coming out next year. Sequels are known commodities for studios and involve lower risk in terms of having an established fan base for a movie to increase the chance of them at least making some money. They can also turn into a blockbuster as “Jurassic World” has proven after it has taken the top spot at theaters for a third week in a row.