Kevin Tarr wrote:
> What I'm wondering, I hear JMS complaining about the direction the new > shows he tried to make were forced to go, too much sex* or other reasons. I > know he can't finance 22 episodes of a series, but couldn't he have gotten > enough backers that would let him do whatever he wanted? Heck, if he'd had > a stock sale, I'd have bought in. Let's see: 22 episodes, 5 mil an episode > is 110 mil. 100 dollars per stock, well that's still 1.1 million shares, > but I'd have bought one.
Brokers prefer to work with bigger blocks. $5 per stock share, you'd still end up with a number of takers happy to buy 100 shares each, and $100 would get you 20 shares, which would probably make the broker happier than just 1 share. (That would bring it to 22 million shares total.) (I don't know that you can buy much stock without a broker getting involved, but there are fairly cheap discount brokers around these days that don't add much to the cost of buying & selling stocks.)
Julia
who would have been happy to put $500 into a B5 spinoff
http://www.walkersmanual.com/inactive.htm
Hershey Creamery, not to be confused with plain Hershey the chocolate company, trades at $2500 a share. Not saying that as a comeuppance, just some local history.
Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong term. Would a bond be a more reasonable vehicle? I'm saying: I would want money back if the show sold well, but it would become an accounting nightmare if they had to cut a five cent check every time an episode was shown. (I know it can be added per year, a total value thing.)
Kevin T. - VRWC Bleah, I'm going outside to enjoy the overcast, windy 60 degree weather.
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