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In 2008 you had to live under a rock to miss noticing that the world seems to love comic book movies like a fat kid loves cake. As 2009 ramps up, all the major studios have major comic book adaptations in the works. It seems that they’re going to keep making these films, especially those [...]
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Economic Hardship = hidden gem boom?
3 Sep 2008In today’s Wall Street Journal, just below the fold, lives a story about the state of the market for movies. The gist: too many movies, too few distributors. 600 feature films were released last year, up from 466 in 2002. Yet economic woes make investing in a motion picture quite unattractive, and hence demand outstripping [...]
Value of recommendation engines
In: Algorithms| Market
31 Jul 2008MIT technology review, which apparently has been published since 1899 according to the cover, in May 2008 published an article by Michael Schrage, “Recommendation Nation”. The last few paragraphs:
For all my excitement about the future of recommendation services, I can’t help feeling the way I felt about search in 2001. Existing recommendation engines have a [...]
What the impending The Dark Knight / Godfather War tells us about the IMDb Top 250
In: Algorithms| Market
29 Jul 2008Movie lovers are a pretty intense bunch. And we should know – we’re rather insane movie lovers ourselves. But it seems that two classes of film lovers are poised for an all-out war. A recent /film blog post reports that The Dark Knight has overtaken The Godfather on the IMDb Top 250 list:
The Godfather has [...]
A few of us went down to Los Angeles this past weekend to speak with some film industry experts and immerse ourselves in Hollywood culture. On Friday we met with Kevin Chang who works for Kevin Misher, a big producer for Paramount that has worked on Rudy, Donnie Brasco, Fast and the Furious, Meet the [...]
I saw an article on TechCrunch today about an interested start-up called Snooth. It essentially a very comprehensive Web 2.0 database of wines. While I cannot claim myself to be a wine connoisseur, I admit that I stuck around for a while just browsing the selections and seeing what I can do. It turns out [...]
Macroeconomics 101
In: Market
16 Nov 2007Steven and I had an interesting conversation late Wednesday night (by the way, we’re roommates)–we were talking about the sub-prime lending meltdown and how it’s affecting the rest of the economy. Earlier that day, I was listening to some guest on NPR’s Fresh Air argue how an American recession is inevitable due to: weakened [...]
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