Buy shares of your favorite actors and their new movies. Watch their values rise or fall based on their success. Prices soar with a blockbuster opening at the box office and plummet with a bomb no one went to see.
Hollywood Stock ExchangeI always forget about this site. Until I see a movie preview that I "bought" stock in. It's like trading regular stocks: buy low, sell high.
I first signed up and put all my money into an unknown movie called the
Blair Witch Project which I had heard of, and it seemed a good gamble. They give you $2mil to start off with, and I maxed out my 50k shares at $3 a share. Then I forgot about about the site.
The movie was a success. A huge success. About 6 months after the movie peaked, I remembered the site and logged in to see how my stock had done. It was pathetic. I went from $3 to $150 a share, and watched it drop back down to nothing. I forget to sell when it peaked. Bummer.
Now I log in occasionally just to see if my "movie intuition" still works. I'm holding on to some good picks right now:
Saw ($24 > $60) and
National Treasure ($34 > $82), although NT is is dropping fast. I also bought a bunch of StarBonds (goofy description) in Ryan Reynolds
pic (from Two Guys and a Girl fame), because he looks like me, and he's going to kick serious ass in Blade Trilogy.
Speaking of... I rank Blade Trilogy #2 on my list of "things that make me giddy as a schoolboy", behind Halo 2.