Re: [Avid-L2] OT: SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Or focusing on another nice cash business, they could open a chain of
8000 state-of-the-art IMAX 3D theaters,...

ON THE MOON!!

;-)

Philip Hodgetts wrote:

>
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 5:36 PM, RT wrote:
>
> >
> > And they now have close to $42 BILLION in the piggybank. That's
> > untapped potential. Meanwhile, Avid drained around 27% of their cash
> > reserves in 2009.
>
> To keep this in perspective, Apple now have enough money on hand to:
>
> Produce about 700 "average price" (ie $60m) movies up from $35 million
> a decade ago - and yet the movies aren't twice as entertaining!)
>
> Compared with about 400 movies coming from the major studios a year
> now. Apple alone could out-finance the entirety of "Hollywood's"
> production.
>
> or if we assume an hour of quality scripted production is around $2
> million an episode (down from an average of $3 a while back) then
> that's 21,000 TV episodes (or more since many shows do not cost $2m an
> episode). 21,000 episodes equates to 1050 20 episode series. Way more
> than are currently being produced in this budget space.
>
> If I were a studio or network I wouldn't be pushing Apple too hard on
> terms and conditions as they could simply be replaced. After all the
> network and studio are not creative, just the middle men that could
> easily be replaced by another middleman.
>
> I'm not saying this would be a good idea for Apple, just that it's an
> interesting way to think about it.
>
> Numbers are out of date a little (u[daed above) but I expanded on the
> idea last December
> http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/12/10/what-if-apple-or-google-simply-bypassed-networks-and-studios/
> <http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/12/10/what-if-apple-or-google-simply-bypassed-networks-and-studios/>
>
> Philip
>
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