She became engaged to Feldman, a lawyer and film agent, who is credited with being the first to sell director, actors and other talent as a single package.
Minow, 50, and Monks, 67, will publish some of their director ratings freely but aim to make a business out of selling the details to institutional investors and to the insurance companies that sell director- and officer-liability coverage.
"Each ticket sold," Director Kathy Adams says, "will enable EI to fully support, with their myriad of programs, a child in school for a month".
This was, after all, the guy who famously kept his "Bourne Identity" production crew on the clock after a day's filming to light a forest outside of Prague so he could play paintball — whose production delays, disorganization, screaming fights with producers and a reported $10-million 10-millionrrun on the $55-million "budget" coverrund Liman toncontheplate selling his director's credit on EBay.
"Selling begets selling," said Paul Bard, a director of research at Renaissance Capital, an I.P.O.
In 1997 the Panthers franchise was sold after directors revealed the club was in considerable debt.
Exploiting these anxieties, American insurance firms began selling policies for directors and corporate officers world-wide as far back as the late 1980s.Today this threat no longer seems primarily theoretical.
What does that mean to franchise owners looking to fill the stands, corporate sponsors trying to reach consumers and marketing directors selling licensed merchandise?
"They have to be able to sell a director on their ideas," said Mr. Cesario.
