How the Failure of the Hollywood Stock Exchange Exposed the Movie Industry's Worst Fear The first time the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald realized it could make money by turning armchair speculation about weekly movie grosses into an actual futures-trading market was nine years ago. The company had just bought Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX.com), an Internet game that had, in the late nineties, become a kind of rotisserie league for movie buffs who fancied themselves experts in predicting weekend hits and flops. HSX was (and is) simple Sign up, and you’re promptly given $2 million in fake money to bet on any movie’s performance in its first four weeks in U.S. theaters. As I write, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: Part One is trading at $154.51 a share, which means HSX players expect it to gross $155 million in its first month—not bad for a movie that doesn’t exist.
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Brain Pickings The Perfect Plan: Storyboard and Shot List Creation Script creation is a task that requires lots of time, work and planning. In fact, planning is probably the heart and soul of the production. The proper planning and legwork must be accomplished or even the best script will fall flat on its face. There are many aspects to pre-production planning, but we're just going to focus on two of them here: the storyboard and the shot list. If you're working on a small production, then you might get to do everything yourself! If you have much of a budget, then some of this planning can be done in conjunction with other members of your crew.
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