discussed the financial and business situation of an investment group‚ Arundel Partners. Arundel partners focused its investments on the sequel rights of that ‘associated with firms produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios’. As owner of the rights‚ Arundel could continue or reject the production of sequel. Business The proposal was innovative but at the same time‚ very risky. According to the case report‚ ‘Arundel would purchase the sequel rights before the first film were even made.
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Why This is an Attractive Project The Arundel Partners’ believe that they can make money on this project as it allows them to capitalize on the idiosyncratic risk of the motion picture business. Producing and distributing motion picture films is a risky business due to the uncertainty of moviegoers’ tastes and a studio never knows if they have a blockbuster on their hands until after the movie has started production or even later after it has been released. The financial resources of even the largest
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Guidelines for the Arundel Partners Case Assignment This is a group project and only one case-report should be submitted FIN 6425 – “Arundel Case” Guidelines Nimalendran 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
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel project 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? • The principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights because they can use unpredictability of a movie’s success to their advantage. This can be done by exercising the right if the movie is a success
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1.1 Assuming that Arundel Partners is a purely financial company with no experience in the movie industry whatsoever‚ one reason for them to buy the rights to create sequels would be to exploit a possible arbitrage in between the price they would pay for an option to sequels and its real value. Therefore valuing the said option correctly is of the most importance. 1.2 We believe that portfolio negotiation rather than on a film-by-film basis will level the playing field. Since the partners do not
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----------------------------------- spootyhead Apr 17‚ 2007 Arundel Partners Case Analysis ----------------------------------- Arundel Partners Case Analysis Executive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for
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Value 7 2. Capture Value of Options 7 Disadvantages 7 1. Assumptions Made 7 2. Tax Effect 7 3. Historical Data 8 4. Selection Bias 8 Further Assistance/Data Required 8 Question 4 9 Problems/Disagreement 9 Contractual Terms and Provisions 9 Appendix A – Per Film Value Using Financial Projections 11 Introduction In 1992‚ Paul Kagan Associates‚ Inc. came out with a new business idea. The idea was to create an investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ to purchase the sequel rights
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business idea. The proposal was to create a new investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ that would exist solely for the purpose of purchasing sequel rights to motion pictures produced by major U.S. movie studios. The proposal was unusual in that studios rarely sold rights to sequels prior to 1992‚ and interesting in the sense that it did not target specific movies or negotiate prices based on performance of the first movie. Instead‚ Arundel wanted to create a portfolio of options to produce all sequels
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[Type the company name] | Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project | Advanced Corporate Finance Case Analysis I | ZUBOV‚Vasily 1072582 LI‚Xinyuan 05403613 WU‚Yun 08426959 LU‚Yuan 08426975 9/21/2009 | Executive summary In 1992‚ an unusual business idea came into the eye of David A. Davis‚ a movie industry analyst in Los Angeles. The idea
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project Case Talking points Submitted by: Marc Brands‚ Hajime Tamachi‚ Rani Vainateya‚ Nobuyasu Sugimoto‚ Kunihiro Takahashi‚ Yasuhisa Tsurumi Our group performed a Monte Carlo simulation (attached spreadsheet). We have taken into consideration the data of all studios provided in Exhibit 7. We have assumed that the sequel production and success of the sequel is spread evenly across all the studios. We assume that the past data reflects the future probabilities
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