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    Arundel Partners: The Sequel project 1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them? • The principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights because they can use unpredictability of a movie’s success to their advantage. This can be done by exercising the right if the movie is a success

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    Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project Case Talking points Submitted by: Marc Brands‚ Hajime Tamachi‚ Rani Vainateya‚ Nobuyasu Sugimoto‚ Kunihiro Takahashi‚ Yasuhisa Tsurumi Our group performed a Monte Carlo simulation (attached spreadsheet). We have taken into consideration the data of all studios provided in Exhibit 7. We have assumed that the sequel production and success of the sequel is spread evenly across all the studios. We assume that the past data reflects the future probabilities

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    [Type the company name] | Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project | Advanced Corporate Finance Case Analysis I | ZUBOV‚Vasily 1072582 LI‚Xinyuan 05403613 WU‚Yun 08426959 LU‚Yuan 08426975 9/21/2009 | Executive summary In 1992‚ an unusual business idea came into the eye of David A. Davis‚ a movie industry analyst in Los Angeles. The idea

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    new business idea. The idea was to create an investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ to purchase the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios. As owner the rights‚ Arundel would wait to see if a movie was successful‚ and then decide whether or not to produce a second film based on the story or characters of the first. One of the unique features of the new idea was that Arundel would purchase sequel rights before the first films were even made and released. Another

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    Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Executive Summary “Nobody knows anything”. This famous line coined by William Goldman‚ a well known Hollywood screenwriter‚ simply but honestly sums up the movie industry. Numerous academic studies have tried to gauge the determinants of movie success but have yet failed to deliver a satisfying answer. Ravid A. (1999) for example finds that neither stars nor big budgets contribute to profitability of a movie. This case study investigates the case of buying

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    Case 1. Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them? The principals at Arundel Partners believe that there is value that is not captured in a discounted cash flow when analyzing the launching of a film. They believe that by launching a new film‚ there is immediately an option to launch a sequel

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    Write-Up: Arundel Partners 15.415 Finance Theory Section B‚ Oysters Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project With the purchase of sequel rights‚ what Arundel is achieving is to have a call option on the revenue that each movie brings. This helps to remove the uncertainty and risks associated with producing a movie‚ especially with regard to moviegoers’ taste. With the sequel right‚ Arundel will only exercise this option to produce a sequel if the first movie proved to be popular and the sequel is

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    Submitted by‚ Anil Anjum Nisar Ahmed Murtaza Naqvi Omer Akif Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project If the first movie was a success they would exercise their right and make the sequel or sell it to the highest bidder. Otherwise they would just write it off their investment schedule. The chances of making a profitable business would largely depend on a good estimate of the rights present value at the contract date. To less would not tempt the studios (inquiries indicated not less than USD 2 million

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    INTRODUCTION In 1992‚ Arundel Partners was looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights were to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wanted to determine if this innovative business strategy is viable by estimating the value of the sequel rights. 2. OBJECTIVE Our report aims to investigate the viability of the implementation of Arundel’s strategy in purchasing sequel rights to produce potential

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    Summary Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project They would be interested in purchasing the sequel rights for one or more studiosˇ entire production over an extended period of not less than a year. If a particular film was a hit‚ and Arundel thought a sequel would be profitable‚ it would exercise its rights by producing the sequel. Alternatively‚ they can sell the rights to the highest bidder. Inevitably‚ the performance of the original films would not justify sequels‚ and for them the sequel rights

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