The bankability of the leading man has always been both predictable and capricious.
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James Ulmer, an entertainment analyst, has compiled an index which rates Hollywood actors on their "bankability".
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And all of them are still working today, which is a testament to their talent and bankability.
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With 13 Reasons Why, Netflix showed the wide appeal and bankability of immensely talented and racially diverse cast.
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As far as the studios are concerned, white men still have more value — more "bankability" — than everyone else.
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From his movie roles to his TV dominance and brand bankability, his influence on popular culture is clear.
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Unfortunately, in Hollywood, it all comes down to bankability, which is what Kidman was alluding to in her speech.
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The more likely driver of Joker's success is the overall bankability of a movie exploring the origin of Batman's arch-nemesis.
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Less than a decade later, Scandal and HTGAWM both proved the bankability and critical acclaim that could come with stories centered around Black women.
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She has a couple of Oscars now (The Aviator, Blue Jasmine), which, along with her persistent beauty, bolster her haute-art credentials with old-fashioned bankability.
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Using data from the Ulmer Scale, an index which rates Hollywood actors on their "bankability", we found that having a big movie star boosted income tremendously.
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Rochefort's popularity and international bankability was such that in 2000, director Terry Gilliam cast him to star as Quixote opposite Johnny Depp (as Sancho Panza) and Vanessa Paradis.
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In March, however, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya said he was confident the situation for farmers would improve once the "bankability" of the leases was finalised.
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But her lack of bankability as a star had remarkably little effect on her general appeal as a celebrity — a quotient measurable, at least in part, by magazine appearances.
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"With better knowledge, skills and resources, we can improve project feasibility and bankability, enabling project leads to become viable commercial projects," said Seth Tan Keng Hwee, executive director at Infrastructure Asia.
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The number of different guns an actor has handled in films is strongly correlated with Ulmer scores, which measure an actor's bankability—or ability to draw financing—on a scale from 0 to 300.
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Despite contraction in certain areas of the art market, the bankability of Klimt, whose $135 million "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" was the world's most expensive artwork in 2006, is reaching new heights.
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I'm not the only one who's invested: Johnson's appeal and bankability have him at the top of most Hollywood power lists, and his latest film, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, will only cement his status.
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Serving up bloody violence as a $10 pay-per-view on YouTube and charging as much as $200 for floor seats in the arena, this was an affirmation of the enduring bankability of toxic masculinity.
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He and other big-name stars had films' fates riding on their bankability and didn't always deliver to the extent producers wanted, though, to be fair, Depp's movies are bringing in more than he makes.
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To quantify the "star power" of a cast, we used figures from The Ulmer Scale, which measures the perception of actors′ "bankability" by assessing how easy it is to secure financing for a film starring them.
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One of the many side effects of #MeToo has been to provide a reminder that Hollywood has never been a meritocracy, that it operates on favors and favoritism, lust and spite, just as much as it does ability and bankability.
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Even factoring in Costner's one-time bankability, the deep-bench casting, the presence of an ace director, and intellectual property from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, it's still mind-boggling that For Love of the Game could be so expensive to produce.
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Later, Fahadh happened to hear the story from Vadakkan and insisted Rasheed to reconsider the project. By then, the storyline had changed and bankability of Fahadh had also grown and Rasheed was confident in producing the film.
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The New York Observer identified the main competitor as Baseline StudioSystems. In 2014, Variety Insight added Vscore, a measure of actors' cachet and bankability. In 2015 they partnered with ScriptNoted, a social media website for film scripts.
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The failure of Cutthroat Island is also credited with significantly reducing the bankability and Hollywood production of pirate-themed films, which recovered only with the production of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003.
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Medical Credit Fund provides loans to doctors and clinics in the private sector, enabling them to improve the quality of their services, develop their business potential and service more low-income patients. Medical Credit Fund aims to contribute to a healthier investment climate and increase the bankability and thus scalability of the private healthcare sector.
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Sigaw (The Echo) is a 2004 Filipino horror film directed by Yam Laranas. The film was a box office success in the Philippines where the horror genre has become increasingly popular. The success of the film also owes much to the bankability of its two main stars. In 2005, the film received a release in both Singapore and Malaysia.
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With significant environmental tradeoffs, utility-scale solar is capital-intensive and bankability is often a concern. Distributed, rooftop solar can be a significant piece of the renewable energy mix, particularly as module- integrated electronics such as microinverters enable the transition to lower cost, easy-to-use AC module solutions.Global market outlook for photovoltaics until 2013 Fontaine, Benjamin. Fraile, Daniel.
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Private investors could be drawn to sustainable urban infrastructure projects where a sufficient return on investment is forecast based on project income flows or low-risk government debt repayments. Bankability and creditworthiness are therefore prerequisites to attracting private finance. Potential sources of climate finance include commercial banks, investment companies, pension funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds.
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Banyu Biru is a 2005 Indonesian film. Panned by the critics in Indonesia on release, the surreal theme of this roadtrip movie of self-discovery performed moderately well in cinemas but fared much better on its DVD release, probably owing to the bankability of its main star, Tora Sudiro. It also received positive reviews in specialist press and online film sites internationally. The film is notable for featuring music tracks by superstar Indonesian rockers, Slank.
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In the film industry, a bankable star is an actor famous or charismatic enough to be "capable of guaranteeing box-office success simply by showing up in a movie." The bankability of an actor includes their films' box office track record, professional demeanor, and other factors. Bankable stars are rare, with there being only about twelve at any point in time. Hiring a bankable star helps a film company to secure investment, secure distribution, and garner media attention.
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Prospects for a successful release did not look good. Aykroyd and Belushi had left SNL at the end of the previous season, reducing their bankability. Belushi's fame had taken a further hit after the commercial and critical failure of 1941 at the end of the year. One day after the editing was done, Wasserman invited Landis up to his office to speak with Ted Mann, head of the Mann Theatres chain, which dominated film exhibition in the Western United States.
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These modules perform maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for each module individually, measure performance data for monitoring, and provide additional safety features. Such modules can also compensate for shading effects, wherein a shadow falling across a section of a module causes the electrical output of one or more strings of cells in the module to decrease.St. John, Jeff (23 August 2012) Solar Electronics, Panel Integration and the Bankability Challenge. greentechmedia.com One of the major causes for the decreased performance of cells is overheating.
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Where the RDF is capable of being combusted cleanly or in compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, RDF can provide a funding source where unused carbon credits are sold on the open market via a carbon exchange. However, the use of municipal waste contracts and the bankability of these solutions is still a relatively new concept, thus RDF's financial advantage may be debatable. The European market for the production of RDF have been grown fast due to e.g. the European landfill directive, or landfill taxes e.g.
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Warner Bros., still satisfied with his bankability, re-hired him to direct Superman: Flyby in April 2003 after Ratner had dropped out due to casting and pre-production difficulties. During his tenure, McG and the producers spent more than $15 million planning storyboards, concept art, and locations, as well as having script revisions and the film completely pre- visualized. However, McG later left the project, citing his fear of flying to Sydney. This eventually brought Bryan Singer on board in July 2004, resulting in Superman Returns.
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NCDF bridges community project consulting gaps through the fostering of technical, economic, financial, institutional, management, environmental, socio-cultural and gender-related models amongst community stakeholders to achieve bankability. The implementation aspect of NCDF’s project development tagged “Impact Investing” is further conducted by seeking out direct investments from its partners, modelled to yield high social, environmental and financial rewards. Stakeholders under this initiative include the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, The Private Sector, Donor Agencies, Non-profit Organizations, Financial institutions geared towards economic development, multinational corporations, cooperative societies and the Nigerian Public.
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Although four decades had passed, Medak still felt the wounds from Sellers' actions, and The Ghost of Peter Sellers became his opportunity to tell the story of what happened on that film and release the weight associated with its failure. The film also documents the inner workings of the movie business, the lunacy of a production when it unravels, and how the bankability of an actor can be the catalyst for a project but also its nemesis. It is a comic-tragic feature documentary about what it takes to be a film director and survive one's biggest disaster.
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Studio contract player William Lundigan was initially considered for the lead role of Lieutenant John Harkness. When the budget was increased to include location filming at U.S. Navy yards in Virginia, the studio hired Gary Cooper to increase the audience appeal and bankability of the project. The film marked Cooper's first starring role for 20th Century Fox, which had hired him as an extra in the 1925 silent film The Lucky Horseshoe. Joanne Dru was the studio's first choice for the character of Ensign Ellie Harkness, but when she declined to sign a long-term contract, Jane Greer was cast instead.
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The Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll are the polls on determining the bankability of movie stars began quite early in the movie history. At first, they were popular polls and contests conducted in film magazines, where the readers would vote for their favorite stars, like the poll published in New York Morning Telegraph on 17 December 1911. Magazines appeared and disappeared often and among the most consistent in those early days were the polls in the Motion Picture Magazine. Though this and numerous other magazines, like Photoplay, continued with this type of poll, the standards for the polling were set by the Quigley Publishing Company.
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Endore, a popular writer and staunch socialist, had in 1933 published his book The Werewolf of Paris, which became a financial success. Hoping to profit on his newfound bankability, he was contracted by Simon & Schuster to write another novel that would be in the same mystery vein. Endore, who spoke French, decided to write a romance set against the backdrop of the Haitian Revolution, and went to Haiti to conduct research on the slave trade. Horrified by what he learned, he became particularly interested in the story of a rebellious slave named Dutty Boukman, who many consider to be the catalyst behind the Haitian slave rebellion.
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Through collaboration and with support from many partners, including the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, R20 has created a unique value chain approach that facilitates the identification, structuring, development (or bankability) and financing of green infrastructure projects. Sub-national governments from around the world can benefit from this unique one stop shop to improve the sustainability of their regions. #Project Identification: R20 works with sub-national governments and other networks of regions to identify potential green infrastructure projects and secure political support for their development. #Project Structuring: Together with Foundations and academic institutions, R20 conducts workshops and training programs to facilitate the structuring and design of projects identified.
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Soon, tabloid reporters arrive with questions about the seedy details of Conrad's personal life, but Rosie, Albert and the girls answer for him, hoping to protect his reputation and bankability ("Normal American Boy"). Conrad receives a hero's welcome in Sweet Apple, and Hugo worries that Kim likes Conrad more than she likes him, but Kim assures Hugo that he is the only one she loves ("One Boy"). Conrad shocks the town's parents and drives the teenage girls crazy with his performance of "Honestly Sincere", which causes all of the girls (including Edna, the mayor's wife) to faint. Conrad becomes a guest in the MacAfee house and irritates Kim's father, Harry, by being rude and selfish.
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In August 2008, Kaye revealed to the Los Angeles Times that he had recently screened a rough-cut of the film to actor Lawrence Fishburne. According to Kaye, his lead "loved" the film, which had originally been conceived as a Die Hard-like thriller. However, Kaye suggested his script changes were used as an excuse by producer David Bergstein to hold back payments on the film, and that Bergstein was attempting to alleviate his financial trouble by casting doubt on the film's bankability. On April 8, 2009, the production company came to an agreement with Cayman Islands-based financier Aramid Entertainment for the completion and release schedule for the film, which, at that point, remained unfinished. According to legal documents, Bergstein requested a sum of $1,775,000 for post-production.
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Public finance has traditionally been a significant source of infrastructure investment. However, public budgets are often insufficient for larger and more complex infrastructure projects, particularly in lower-income countries. Climate-compatible investments often have higher investment needs than conventional (fossil fuel) measures, and may also carry higher financial risks because the technologies are not proven or the projects have high upfront costs. If countries are going to access the scale of funding required, it is critical to consider the full spectrum of funding sources and their requirements, as well as the different mechanisms available from them, and how they can be combined.Understanding ‘bankability’ and unlocking climate finance for climate compatible development, Climate & Development Knowledge Network, 31 July 2017 There is therefore growing recognition that private finance will be needed to cover the financing shortfall.
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The Social Franchise Enterprise is a type of Social initiative directed to achieve development goals through private ventures that provide goods and services to unserved markets, at a viable price. The Social Franchise enterprise creates self sustainable economic activity for the franchisees by using the franchise model to provide them with Capacity Building (know-how & training), Access to Market (bulk procurement of standard supplies, network clients, brand) and Access to Credit (benchmarking leading to Bankability). Franchisees then become capable to supply a given population with much needed goods or services. By maintaining the transaction element, the Social Franchise Enterprise generates the revenue to both the Franchisees and to the Social Franchiser, who becomes self sustainable and can further extend its footprint and further supply unserved markets, enforce monitoring and continue to provide added value services to the Franchisees network.
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Kathy Griffin, an American comedian who became widely known for her frequent appearances on such programs, used the term in a tongue-in-cheek manner for her 2005 TV special The D-List and her 2005 TV series Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. It is also the lowest rating used by American journalist James Ulmer for his Ulmer Scale which ranks the bankability of 1,400 movie actors worldwide.Ulmer Scale Hot List Other successive letters of the alphabet beyond D, as in the terms E-list and Z-list, are sometimes used for exaggeration or comic effect but effectively have the same meaning as D-list; to the extent that there is a difference, letters further down the alphabet would indicate decreasing levels of fame (for example, regional celebrities such as local news anchors, community theatre actors, or common persons with no claim to fame whatsoever).
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