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Everything Everywhere Daily - Box Office Bombs

People in the entertainment industry often say that show business is “show business.”

As much as motion pictures are an art form, it is also a business. In many cases, a very big business. 

Motion picture studios will often invest hundreds of millions of dollars into a film expecting to see a return on their investment. 

Most of the time, a film will break even. However, in a few spectacular cases, a disastrous film has ruined a studio.

Learn more about box office bombs and some of the worst-performing movies in history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

Big stakes poker player and elections analyst Nate Silver is no stranger to a calculated risk.

In his new book, On The Edge, he makes the case that people willing to take massive calculated risks are winning in the modern economy.

Tim Harford talks to Nate about the mindset that?s driving hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and silicon valley investors.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Beth Ashmead Latham Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Nigel Appleton Editor: Richard Vadon

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The Indicator from Planet Money - The return of Fyre Festival and other indicators

It's ... Indicators of the Week! We roundup the economic indicators that caught our attention. On this (kinda) spoOoOooky Friday the 13th, we were morbidly curious about higher household incomes, a Keurig K-Cup kerfuffle and, believe it or not, the return of Fyre Festival.

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