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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Rainsford headed home to his family‚ but ever since the “Man Hunt” he has been a different man. He acted differently ever since he came back home. He kept himself; he always was in his study‚ and just sits there. All his meals got sent to his study. He lost his job because he never came in. The family was running low on food‚ and they needed someone to go out hunting. Rainsford wife went out hunting for food. Sooner or later Rainsford wife divorced him‚ because he did nothing around the house but
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The River is the sequel to the novel‚ Hatchet. In this book‚ Brian Robeson returns to the wild‚ but this time he goes to a new location with Derek‚ a psychologist who works with the government to teach people to survive in situations like the one Brian experienced after a plane crash left him stranded. This trip seems too easy to Brian until a freak lightning storm makes an easy situation ten times harder. Derek Holtzer and two men from the government come to Brian Robeson’s house to ask him to go
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anElyse Anderson Chapter 13 Sequel After a few minutes of sobbing‚ the boys got themselves together and began looking at each other. Everyone was silent until the naval officer came back to where the barbaric boys were standing. “Chief Ralph‚” said the officer‚ “Tell everyone to come abroad.” Before‚ Ralph could turn around to tell them‚ a huge wave crashed on to the beach. The tide was fairly high that particular day. Once the tide went back out‚ two small figures lay washed up in the sand
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Honesty is Not Always the Best Policy Lying is wrong. Or so we’ve been told. In the young adult novel Crooked Kingdom‚ the sequel to Six of Crows‚ by Leigh Bardugo‚ lying is anything but uncommon. The novel starts off in the dark‚ filthy alleys of the Barrel‚ the lowliest part of the largest port town of their fantasy world‚ Ketterdam. In this city‚ merchs become rich beyond imagining through slyly manipulating trade; inherently‚ they’re involved with a lot of gambling‚ risks‚ and lying- things
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Sequels‚ reboots‚ and remakes are slowly ruining Hollywood. The increased flow of such films is caused by high overall monetary earnings‚ success in foreign countries‚ and a lack of new and creative ideas. The fact that sometimes remakes are successful is clearly shown with the remake of the Karate Kid in 2010. According to MTV News‚ during Karate Kid´s opening weekend‚ ¨(the movie) kicked its way to a first-place trophy worth $56 million‚ surpassing the movie’s production budget by more than $15
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The idea was to create an investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ to purchase the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios. As owner the rights‚ Arundel would wait to see if a movie was successful‚ and then decide whether or not to produce a second film based on the story or characters of the first. One of the unique features of the new idea was that Arundel would purchase sequel rights before the first films were even made and released. Another feature was
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The Sequel Project 1. Executive Summary “Nobody knows anything”. This famous line coined by William Goldman‚ a well known Hollywood screenwriter‚ simply but honestly sums up the movie industry. Numerous academic studies have tried to gauge the determinants of movie success but have yet failed to deliver a satisfying answer. Ravid A. (1999) for example finds that neither stars nor big budgets contribute to profitability of a movie. This case study investigates the case of buying sequel rights
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Sequels to a movie are usually said to be bad by the critics. But this time the sequel blows the original out of the water. There were many differences in both‚ but some aspects were still the same. My friend told me that the first "Saw" was quite horrible‚ but I decided to see it for myself anyways. The plot to "Saw" was about a young man named Adam‚ played by Leigh Whannell‚ who wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a dirty utility room. Chained to the opposite side of the room
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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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