Hollywood Goes Crypto? Coppola Family Leads Project To Decentralize Film Fina...
Crypto adoption seems to be quickly expanding to the mainstream, and the film and entertainment sectors are taking notice. Per a report by IndieWire, the famous film family Coppola is leading a project that could change the way movie projects received funding. Created as a nonprofit organization, Decentralized Pictures was co-founded by Roman Coppola, Leo […]
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The arrest of Mark Karpeles and the Mt. Gox incident has become a national scandal of Japan over the last few months. This week, the rights to the Rolling Stone's story on Karpeles, and his journey from being an odd geek to a bitcoin mogul whom later becomes responsible for the loss of about half a billion US dollars is in the process of being acquired by a Hollywood film maker and agency CAA (Cretive Artists Agency). The film on Karpeles and the closure of Mt. Gox could be the next big bitcoin related movie to be released in Hollywood, following the story on Silk Road, which its rights....
Hollywood wants to do a movie about the infamous Mark Karpeles and the now-defunct Mt. Gox exchange. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that a script of the scandalous incident is finding its way around film circles. The Gox story recently told in Rolling Stone is being sold to the highest bidder in the Hollywood market by the Creative Artists Agency. The....
With inspiration from past decentralized success, other industries are following suit — and the film industry should be next. The greatest empires over the course of history have come and gone — the Romans, Greeks, Babylonians, Mongols, Persians, Egyptians, Ottomans and, most recently, the British. Much in the same way that history has recycled the powers of the world, so do cultural and economic institutions around us fall to the same fate. Like these empires that governed their corners of the world, Hollywood dominated its own — the film industry. Audiences have enjoyed the fruits of....
The story of the rise and fall of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox and its CEO Mark Karpeles could soon find its way to the silver screen. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a film version of David Kushner's recent Rolling Stone piece on Mark Karpeles and Mt Gox is being shopped around by Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies known for representing a wide array of A-listers. If optioned, the story would be the second involving bitcoin to enter the Hollywood pipeline, following 2013 news that the saga of online black market Silk Road had been picked up by 20th Century....
A major Hollywood studio has won the rights to turn the r/Wallstreetbets saga into a movie — less than a week after the GameStop short squeeze. The r/Wallstreetbets saga which saw a group of Redditors join forces to extract billions from Wall Street hedge funds is set to be turned into a movie. As reported by Deadline on Jan. 31, a newly proposed book by The Social Network author, Ben Mezrich, was subject to a bidding war between major Hollywood studios, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer winning out in the end. The project will reunite Mezrich with MGM producer Michael DeLuca, who also produced the....