Have you ever had a client that wanted to invest in movie futures? It’s an idea that’s had a lot of appeal to a number of investors. Cantor Fitzgerald’s Cantor Exchange and Media Derivatives’ Trend Exchange had been working for years to create an online trading for Hollywood films. However it was strongly opposed by the Motion Pictures Association of America and the six major studios it represents. Now the U.S. Senate has put an end to the idea once and for all.
When the U.S. Senate approved financial reform on Thursday with a vote of 60-39, it included a ban on treating the Hollywood box office as a commodity market with a futures market. The legislation, proposed by the Obama administration, will tighten controls on financial markets. The measure was approved by the House of Representatives last month. The legislation comes after calls for action to regulate markets following the 2008 financial crisis.
The vote, in effect, kills the efforts by It also signals a huge win for the MPAA (and the six major studios it represents), who claimed that the approval of movie futures trading would severely damage the movie industry.
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