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The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two-billion-dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary. It was broadcast in Britain on 8 November 1976. [1]
Film finance is a subset of project finance, meaning the film project's generated cash flows rather than external sources are used to repay investors. The main factors determining the commercial success of a film include public taste, artistic merit, competition from other films released at the same time, the quality of the script, the quality of the cast, the quality of the director and other ...
Rediscover the iconic movies that defined the Boomer generation, from 'Star Wars' to 'The Graduate'. 21 Norm-Smashing Movies From the '60s and '70s That Rotten Tomatoes Absolutely Loves Skip to ...
The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his 1960 play of the same title.Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate at their party's national convention.
The Equity Release Council is the UK's equity release industry body that sets standards to protect consumers. Its members commit to following a set of five product standards: fixed or capped interest rates (for lifetime mortgages), the right to remain in the property, the right to move to another property, the ‘no negative equity guarantee ...
Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre. August 10 – Filming of West Side Story begins. October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo , one of the Hollywood Ten , receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and ...
The super-violent and brutal death matches between enslaved men are hard to watch, but DiCaprio’s smooth and sinister plantation owner Calvin J. Candie is an over-the-top baddie to savor. 6 ...
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...