A major film studio announced the release date of a movie based on a

Hey, GMATNinja

Can you break this down for us, please?

By the way, the amount is $200, 000 and not $2000.

How does C support the plan better and why is D better than C?

We should rate the publisher's strategy to capitalize on the success of the film and assume that the film is indeed a success.

Obviously answer D means that the strategy of the producer will function, as we can expect the actress will entice people to read the book. Hence, if we assume that the movie will be a success, D can't be the answer. Answering C makes more sense for the following reason: We do not know how to interpret 200k, is it a high number? who knows? it is very subjective. And whether it's a large sum or not doesn't help us in any way to determine the robustness of his strategy. It does not connect to the book in any way.

regardless, I accept that D makes the assumption that the film is indeed a success. But E and A make that assumption as well. If you want to discard D you'd have to discard A and E.

Hi, there's a confusion between the answer choice C & D. I am thinking C should be the answer. Can you please help me out on this.

I too marked C, but I guess I can see why D should be the correct answer.

Note that the question is about the 'soundness of the publishers plan'

D on the other hand hand talks about the actress who is definitely more likely to be concerned with the film studios success rather than the publishers. Its a stretch to think that her confessing love for the novel is a part of the publishers plan. Could be a part of the film studios plan, not the publishers.

Hello, everyone. I see no other Experts have chimed in on this one, and I think I know why. Unlike its sister question, this one has two problematic answers in (C) and (D). Although it is not necessarily true that (D) will lead to more book sales, the transaction outlined in (C) is static and would not allow the publisher to capitalize on the anticipated success of the film. That is, a $200,000 sale for production rights could just as easily be $1 or any other arbitrary number, even $0, and although the publisher would be materially advantaged from such a transaction if money had been exchanged, there is no way to tie the anticipated success of the film to more sales of the rereleased book. Perhaps the studio would never produce the film. (This happens all the time in Hollywood with purchased scripts.) The publisher would still, in the original scenario, be able to pocket the $200,000 and release another edition of the novel, but the point is that the success of that novel would not then depend at all on the success of the film. For me to get behind (C), the question would have to be rephrased, as in,

EACH of the following, if true, supports the soundness of the publisher's plan to capitalize on the film project EXCEPT.

Selling production rights to the studio would then qualify as capitalizing on the film, even if that film were never produced. I am with the nay-sayers on this one.

- Andrew

Thanks for clearing the doubt!

I don't think this is an official question .... If it I will go with C ..

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