In this week’s New York, Mark Harris explains why Hollywood’s fear of transparency led them to oppose the futures market that would’ve let you bet on box-office results: “It doesn’t take much of a mental leap to envision an army of Wilshire Boulevard Bialystocks and Blooms overseeing scams in which one could intentionally produce a bad movie with bankable stars and noisy marketing, short it, and make a mint when it underperforms. (Although then we’d have an explanation for Knight and Day.)” [NYM]
