Kagan Associates, Inc. FROM: Yixin Liu SUBJECT: Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. As you had assigned me the task of investigating a possibility of investing in the sequel rights in the US movie industry, I have made some analyses and recommendations as well. 2. The US film industry is on an upward growth after successful first films, thanks to creativity and growing thriftiness in the movie business. 3. Major studios finance film projects, which may or may not be successful in the US and
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Finance and Banking Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project The East Wind Amol Marathe 140843 Linglan Tan 140838 Xiangyu Zhou 140912 Date: 20/11/2014 Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project The East Wind Executive Summary: Arundel group is looking into the project of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios in United States. Arundel believes that they can calculate a value for the rights to produce these sequels and take a position by
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project Question 1: Arundel Partners thinks they can make money by buying the rights to sequels because of the possible arbitrage opportunity between the price they would pay for an option to sequels and the sequels’ real value. Therefore, valuing the option correctly takes great importance. The partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating film-by-film to buy them because it is of critical importance to Arundel that
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make profits buying movie sequel rights? They would be interested in purchasing the sequel rights for one or more studios¡¦ entire production over an extended period of not less than a year. If a particular film was a hit, and Arundel thought a sequel would be profitable, it would exercise its rights by producing the sequel. Alternatively, they can sell the rights to the highest bidder. Inevitably
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Arundel Partners – The Sequels Project After evaluation of the proposed acquisition of the movie sequel rights, we recommend to offer movie studios as a per-movie price to purchase the sequel rights for their entire portfolio of movies the studios are going to produce over the next year. Arundel should make an offer to buy sequel rights as the average NPV (on a per film basis ) is $5.51 mn (this is the value calculated using real options method). Hence, we should pay a price below $5.51mn
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9-292-140 op y June 12, 1992 Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project tC In April 1992 Mr. David A. Davis, a movie industry analyst at Paul Kagan Associates, Inc. in Los Angeles, was asked to look at and comment on an unusual business idea. The idea was to create an investment group, Arundel Partners, which would purchase the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios. As owner of the rights, Arundel would wait to see if a movie was successful
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Case 5: Arundel Partners Prepare a memo addressing the following questions: 1. Explain why Arundel Partners is interested in purchasing the rights to make sequels of all of the studios movies, rather than just some. Why do they believe this venture is profitable? 2. Suppose that you are a movie executive. You are considering a movie version of the life of President Garfield in the months leading up to his assassination by Charles Guiteau in a Washington DC railroad station in 1881. Your analysts
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McDonald: “Real Options” 3. Read and study CH33 from Hull: “Real Options” 4. Case: Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project Answer the following questions: a. What makes Arundel think it can make money by buying a package of sequel rights? Is the profit opportunity, if it exists, likely to be sustainable? Arundel can make money selling the rights to a higher bid. Another option to make money is by producing the sequel exercising its rights but this will depend on if the net present value of the production
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Benjamin C. Esty American Chemical Corp.by William E. Fruhan, John P. Goldsberry American Home Products Corp.by David W. Mullins AQR’s Momentum Funds by Daniel B. Bergstresser, Lauren H. Cohen, Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Malloy Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project by Timothy A. Luehrman AXA MONY by Andre F. Perold, Lucy White Beta Management Co. by Michael E. Edleson Butler Lumber Co. by Thomas R. Piper Cartwright Lumber Co.by Thomas R. Piper Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory
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This version: 7/16/2015 College of Business Administration Loyola Marymount University MBAF 614: Financial Analysis & Strategy Fall 2015 Instructor: Dr. David Offenberg Office: Hilton 313 Phone: (310) 338-2903 E-mail: doffenberg@lmu.edu Office Hours: Tuesday, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. (or by appointment) Class time: Tuesday, 7:15 - 10:00 p.m. (HIL 023) Course Overview: The purpose of this course is to study the impact of corporate financial strategy on shareholder wealth. In essence
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