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Originally Posted by raymor
Nah, it's in Kelsey Grammer's safe. The bank Mallick owns loaned money to the production
company Mallick owns to make the movie "Middle Men". They spent about $20 million making
the movie, and sold $700 thousand in tickets, thereby losing $19.3 million. Without selling
any tickets, they couldn't pay back the loan, thereby making the bank go broke and unable to
pay out on deposits. Their only major depositor was ePassporte.
I think Chris Mallick would pay out if he could. All the money is gone now, though, having been
spent making the movie. He just didn't figure that it was possible to spend $20 million making
a movie and not have ANYONE watch the damn thing. Who ever heard of a movie grossing
less and a million?
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Excellent analysis. Thumbs up, as the kids say.