Post by annabelleleigh on Oct 22, 2008 16:21:17 GMT -5
A similar article mentioning the mothership is expected to run in the October 27th issue of Fortune.
Boldface mine.
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Hollywood Casts Wall Street as Villain to Tap Anger at Crisis
By Meg Tirrell
Bloomberg.com
October 21, 2008
Excerpt:
"Hollywood has found its next bad guy. Welcome back, Gordon Gekko.
Film and television studios are rushing to tap America's fixation with the financial crisis and anger at the Wall Street executives blamed for it.
News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox is making a sequel to ``Wall Street,'' where Michael Douglas's Gekko proclaimed, ``Greed is good.'' NBC's ``Law & Order'' is building episodes around financial themes. The General Electric Co. unit also is developing a one-hour series called ``Outrageous Behavior,'' a battle of the sexes set in Wall Street...
...The crisis has renewed interest in Fox's original movie. As of Oct. 14, demand for the two-decade-old film at Netflix Inc., the largest U.S. mail-order movie service, had increased 11 percent since Sept. 1, according to Steve Swasey, a company spokesman.
The original ``Wall Street'' ends with police collecting evidence on Gekko for securities violations. The sequel follows the character after he emerges from prison, according to the trade magazine Variety. Douglas may reprise his role as Gekko, the magazine reported."
Read the whole story at
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aXC9cjVgQOtY&refer=us#
To contact the reporter on this story: Meg Tirrell in New York at mtirrell@bloomberg.net.
Boldface mine.
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Hollywood Casts Wall Street as Villain to Tap Anger at Crisis
By Meg Tirrell
Bloomberg.com
October 21, 2008
Excerpt:
"Hollywood has found its next bad guy. Welcome back, Gordon Gekko.
Film and television studios are rushing to tap America's fixation with the financial crisis and anger at the Wall Street executives blamed for it.
News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox is making a sequel to ``Wall Street,'' where Michael Douglas's Gekko proclaimed, ``Greed is good.'' NBC's ``Law & Order'' is building episodes around financial themes. The General Electric Co. unit also is developing a one-hour series called ``Outrageous Behavior,'' a battle of the sexes set in Wall Street...
...The crisis has renewed interest in Fox's original movie. As of Oct. 14, demand for the two-decade-old film at Netflix Inc., the largest U.S. mail-order movie service, had increased 11 percent since Sept. 1, according to Steve Swasey, a company spokesman.
The original ``Wall Street'' ends with police collecting evidence on Gekko for securities violations. The sequel follows the character after he emerges from prison, according to the trade magazine Variety. Douglas may reprise his role as Gekko, the magazine reported."
Read the whole story at
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aXC9cjVgQOtY&refer=us#
To contact the reporter on this story: Meg Tirrell in New York at mtirrell@bloomberg.net.