Kavanaugh Considering IPO For Relativity

COMMENTS (18)

• Sounds like a great stock….to short.

  Comment by colinsmith — Monday July 26, 2010 @ 4:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • RML has one financial investor – Elliott – which is regarded as one of the smartest investors on Wall Street. Twenty year track record / top quartile returns / trusted by top institutional investors. Based on their track records, they know what they are doing.

    Comment by Andrew — Saturday August 7, 2010 @ 5:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• An IPO sounds like a great idea. Because as an investor, I love putting my money into entertainment companies that use accounting methods not found in any business school textbook.

  Comment by Madoff With Your Money — Monday July 26, 2010 @ 5:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No surprises here. The guy is a forward thinker. That doesn’t mean he’s always going to win but you can rest assured he’s damn sure gonna try.

  Comment by Curtis Scoon — Monday July 26, 2010 @ 6:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This will be big…but Ryan still has to take chances with being specific.
  Computer picks and all.

  MARK11

  Comment by MARK11 — Monday July 26, 2010 @ 7:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Could this be the first sign of trouble lurking? “It was all part of the plan…”

  Comment by Yep — Monday July 26, 2010 @ 7:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I agree with Yep. This is the sign that the Monte Carlo simulation finally ran out of steam – now it is time to pawn this one off onto the poor shlubs.

    Comment by paul — Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 11:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• this guy is the real deal and i hope he helps to shake the shit skared minon posers into thier own perfect place and onto thier heads in this industry. it’s clear everyone is waiting for the golden boy to fall. but save your freudenschade post-party becusae i don’t think ryan’s going anywhere anytime too soon. we’ve seen a lot of the also ran big money hollywood cash injectors, but that doesn’t really apply to ryan. the guys stand up, comes from good family stock and cares about those with a lot less than him (that’s a big number)

  Comment by Ione — Monday July 26, 2010 @ 11:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Hard to take you seriously when you don’t know that it’s “schadenfreude.”

    Comment by Dame Edna — Sunday August 22, 2010 @ 2:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• That’s probably why he brought in Michael Joe from Universal, a publicly traded company, above Andrew Marcus. Now is this IPO that going to be with or without Marcus on board? MJ and Andrew had a notoriously contempt relationship before he left us at Universal.

  Comment by Sarah — Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 3:30am PDT  Reply to this post

  • clarification – universal isn’t publicly traded. GE is. there’s a big difference there. universal’s profit/loss isn’t a even drop in the bucket to GE, just a method of diversification for a large multinational conglomerate. if you don’t believe me, check out GE’s 10-k (if you know what that is). there is very little about universal pictures in there, as they are a very minor portion of GE’s overall business.

    Comment by not true — Wednesday July 28, 2010 @ 3:54am PDT  Reply to this post

• Can anyone say Chapter 11?

  Comment by yonderman — Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 9:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree with yonderman, Chapter 11? What movie has relativity put out there in the past year that’s made a lot of money?

  The silence is deafening

  Comment by Studioasst — Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 10:33am PDT  Reply to this post

• i would not want to be anywhere near a studio ipo company. can you imagine the games those guys will play with their numbers !! esp someone like relativity…just looks at the mess at lionsgate and it tells us what is to come

  Comment by hawkersiddley — Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 11:20am PDT  Reply to this post

• I love skeptics…you all sound the same.
  You all regurgitate the same so called concerns and data….you make it seem like bad business practices are exclusive to HWood financing…last I recall it was the brick and mortar shops who brought this country to its knees. Stop hating on this guy. Ryan, has accomplished more in the business in 10 years than David O. Selznick did in two-three decades! No, I do not work for him or with him. But would gladly include his stock into my current holdings.

  Comment by ARK — Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 1:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • David O Selznick financed the most successful independent film of all time, idiot. It was called GONE WITH THE WIND. Maybe you’ve heard of it….

    MGM was just the distributor.

    Comment by David O Turning Over In His Grave — Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 12:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• How many times have we seen this scenario play out in Hollywood? Someone is branded as the “brilliant new mogul” by claiming to finally have the formula down which, of course, must remain top secret like it’s the mixture for Coca-Cola. The lazy fawning Hollywood press corps supplies ample journalistic fellatio. Mogul gets full of himself and starts believing his own press until it turns out that the emperor doesn’t even have a stitch of clothing to his name. So call it Monte Carlo….Four legged stools…whatever… It’s all bullshit. You can either pick movies or you can’t. If you have a studio or a big hedge fund backstopping you, you have some margin for error and can afford to make a few mistakes. But if you are on your own relying on other people’s money, the clock is fast ticking away toward midnight.

  Comment by HereWeGoAgain — Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 11:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Netflix largest pay tv deal ever signed, you think that you know more about relativity then a multi billion dollar public company who has agreed to pay them significant sums for their entire future output?

  Comment by Johan — Saturday August 7, 2010 @ 5:54pm PDT  Reply to this post