The movie industry has been around long enough, and is diverse enough, that I’d be very surprised if there were million-dollar bills lying around waiting to be picked up like this.
Prediction markets for box office results are more than a million dollar bill, I think, and yet reduce the power of the people who decide whether or not they get used.
Also, speaking of people caring about accuracy, it reminds me of the story Neil deGrasse Tyson tells about confronting James Cameron about the lazy fake sky in Titanic, and he responded with
Last I checked, Titanic has grossed a billion dollars worldwide. Imagine how much more it would have grossed had I gotten the sky correct.
It wouldn’t shock me if a firm of smart rational-fic writers could do this sort of ‘script doctoring’ cheaply enough to be worth it to filmmakers, and the main problem is that the buyers don’t know what to ask for and the sellers don’t know how to find the buyers.
Prediction markets for box office results are more than a million dollar bill, I think, and yet reduce the power of the people who decide whether or not they get used.
Also, speaking of people caring about accuracy, it reminds me of the story Neil deGrasse Tyson tells about confronting James Cameron about the lazy fake sky in Titanic, and he responded with
But the ending of the story is that later they hire him to make an accurate sky for their director’s cut, and he made a company that provides that service now.
It wouldn’t shock me if a firm of smart rational-fic writers could do this sort of ‘script doctoring’ cheaply enough to be worth it to filmmakers, and the main problem is that the buyers don’t know what to ask for and the sellers don’t know how to find the buyers.
Fair enough. I definitely think it’s worth a shot.