Reliance Global Group Inc (RELI)

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BLOOM
(musing to himself)
Heh, heh, heh, amazing. It's
absolutely amazing. But under the
right circumstances, a producer
could make more money with a flop
than he could with a hit.

Yes. Yes. It's quite possible.
If he were certain the show would
fail, a man could make a fortune.

CUT TO BIALYSTOCK. BY NOW HE IS HALFWAY ACROSS THE ROOM.
HIS WHOLE BEING TINGLING WITH ALERTNESS. HE MOVES TO
BLOOM'S DESK AND HOVERS OVER HIM, WAITING EXPECTANTLY FOR
MORE INFORMATION. BUT BLOOM IS LOST IN HIS WORK, UNAWARE
THAT BIALYSTOCK IS HANGING ON HIS EVERY WORD.

BIALYSTOCK
Yes???

BLOOM LOOKS UP. HE IS STARTLED TO SEE BIALYSTOCK'S FACE SO
CLOSE TO HIS OWN.

BLOOM
(at a loss)
Yes, what?

BIALYSTOCK
What you were saying. Keep talking.

BLOOM
What was I saying?

BIALYSTOCK
You were saying that under the
right circumstances, a producer
could make more money with a flop
than he could with a hit.

BLOOM
(smiling)
Yes, it's quite possible.

BIALYSTOCK
You keep saying that, but you don't
tell me how. How could a producer
make more money with a flop than
with a hit?

BLOOM, SLIGHTLY EXASPERATED, PUTS HIS PENCIL DOWN AND FACES
BIALYSTOCK. HE SPEAKS TO BIALYSTOCK AS A TEACHER WOULD A
STUDENT.

BLOOM
It's simply a matter of creative
accounting. Let us assume, just
for the moment, that you are a
dishonest man.

BIALYSTOCK
Assume away!

BLOOM
Well, it's very easy. You simply
raise more money than you really
need.

BIALYSTOCK
What do you mean?

BLOOM
You've done it yourself, only you
did it on a very small scale.

BIALYSTOCK
What did I do?

BLOOM
You raised two thousand more than
you needed to produce your last play.

BIALYSTOCK
So what? What did it get me? I'm
wearing a cardboard belt.

BLOOM
Ahhhhhh! But that's where you made
your error. You didn't go all the
way. You see, if you were really a
bold criminal, you could have
raised a million.

BIALYSTOCK
But the play only cost $60,000 to
produce.

BLOOM
Exactly. And how long did it run?

BIALYSTOCK
One night.

BLOOM
See? You could have raised a
million dollars, put on a sixty
thousand dollar flop and kept the
rest.

BIALYSTOCK
But what if the play was a hit?

BLOOM
Oh, you'd go to jail. If the play
were a hit, you'd have to pay off
the backers, and with so many
backers there could never be enough
profits to go around, get it?

BIALYSTOCK
Aha, aha, aha, aha, aha, aha!! So,
in order for the scheme to work,
we'd have to find a sure fire flop!