Domestic Box Office Receipt (DBOR) Futures Contracts

Movies. People used to go to them. Eat popcorn. Drink Slushees. Make out.

A kid pays $12 for a ticket, and that 12 bucks is what's counted as the domestic box office receipts. Generally speaking, the theater exhibitor keeps about 6 bucks from that 12, and the remaining 6 gets sent to the distributor, who takes its cut of about 2 bucks, sending 4 bucks back to the producer.

The futures contracts inside of these receipts are a kind of betting pool on movie success and/or failure. It's not a real industry—the movie biz is tiny and shrinking today. But it's a fund gaming/gambling sidebar for would-be prognosticators of Ace Venture 9: Why Did We Have To Make This Movie?