Auction off the right to be bankrolled If I'm the caretaker of five billion dollars I damn well better be getting a f*ing mansion out of it, not a pair of tickets to see the movie of my dreams.https://twitter.com/bmoviesd/status/1139668211933339648 …
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Replying to @random_eddie
also, VCs don't put $300M into one bet - they put $1M into 300 seed bets, and $10M into A round bets, and $50M into B round bets. Wonder if we could structure movies / TV / intellectual properties in this way? Pay for 1,000 new comic books & novels. Then turn 100 into movies.
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Replying to @MorlockP
I assume something very much like this already happens.
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Replying to @random_eddie
indeed, but the steps are diversified over multiple corporations, each specializing in their own area thus the comic book part is delegate to comic book publishers ... pound include "theory of the firm"
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Replying to @MorlockP
I likewise assume that every publisher knows they're making an implicit bet on licensing. Small case is action figures, best case is movie deals. Most don't pay off, but everyone hopes.
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Replying to @random_eddie
Related: two nights ago Neal Stephenson mentioned that Seveneves was in development as a TV series ...but that this was the Nth time his work had been optioned / developed, and nothing had hit the screen in the last 35 years, so "shrug"
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Replying to @MorlockP
You hear constantly about movies being released. Now and then you hear about movies being greenlit. Very occasionally you hear about something being optioned. But that's actually backwards. I bet there's several greenlights for every release, and dozens (hundreds?) of options.
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