Everybody is looking for the next game changer -- something radically new that is pretty obvious and doesn't necessarily alter anything, but that is still a clear indicator of future developments and concisely changes the whole structure of the industry while not exactly changing anything....
Who exactly goes to movies these days? It's an important question, and the current answer is a tad murky. It is especially murky when you are trying to pinpoint the modern representative model for the movie audience. More than fifty years ago the answer seemed pretty...
Sylvain Raynes comments in Bloomberg on the French plan for Greece and the meaning of default. http://bloom.bg/k91gN3...
Rudyard Kipling never worked in Hollywood. That's why no one is paying much attention to his old advice. China is now the new market that everyone wants to own. Odd thing, the Chinese seem to view China as being their own turf, and the current...
"The real question throughout the subprime crisis was whether the collateral manager's role was legit, or whether these firms lent their names and the appearance of objectivity to facilitate the sale of securities that were defective," said Ann Rutledge, principal of structured-finance consulting firm R&R...
Stop the press! Paramount Pictures has just crossed the billion dollar threshold, and the summer has barely begun. Oh whee! They are rolling in it and everything is beautiful (at least along their legendary gates on Melrose Avenue). Hollywood loves the smell of success, and Paramount's...
There's a lot of co-evolution going on. Changes in one thing produce corresponding changes in many other things. The term is most commonly used in biology, but it is also applicable to the current state of film and media. It's more than applicable. It is...
David Webb’s 14 June 2011 blog, Nine Dragons spotlights SFC regulation of CRAs, raises a legitimate and important question about the timing of credit rating agency press releases, but his analysis misses the mark. http://bit.ly/mCSS8C Mr. Webb, former investment banker, small-cap investor and self-proclaimed advocate of...
On May 18, 2011, Ann Rutledge testified to the Senate Sub-committee on Securities, Insurance and Investments on the State of the Securitization Markets: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/annrutledge On January 10, her testimony was picked up on Mortgage Orb.com as Correcting the Flaw in the Rating System. http://bit.ly/jUyhm0 Check it out!...
In the old days, publicists were often ex-reporters who mainly switched jobs so they could deduct the booze as a business expense. This was back in the mythic heydays when promoting a movie was viewed as an art rather than a science, and a well-oiled,...