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The buyers bought Kosuga’s onions, a reported 9 million pounds of them. He and his partners told distributors and buyers to buy their onions at higher prices or they will dump the onions on the market and trash onion prices. He kept his onions off the market and created a false shortage. Want access to the very latest in agriculture news each day? Subscribe to Southeast Farm Press Daily. He also decided to use his trading addiction to buy futures contracts on the onions being planted, and by fall 1955, he had trapped the onion market, essentially owning or controlling the loans of all onions in the United States. And not just storing his onions, he began buying and storing onions in secret across the country with a few partners. Kosuga began to store his onions, all of them, on his farm in 1955. Undeterred, Kosuga smelled a bigger opportunity with a commodity he knew best, onions, and capitalized on it in the mid-1950s, and his actions resulted in legislation which banned onions from futures trading, the only commodity with such a ban in the United States. And in the 1930s, Kosuga got hit hard by a bad wheat market. But, the futures market can also leave a farmer, or anyone else who bets on it, holding the bag if prices sink. Other than a farmer, Kosuga was also a shrewd businessman who bet on the futures market in the 1930s on soybean and wheat and other commodities, which still is a good tactic farmers can use to lock in a price and minimize risk in their business. And as we approach what would have been his 101 st birthday, I think he needs to be remembered. Y., and owned a large farm there where he grew celery, lettuce and, most infamously, onions. Farmer Vincent Kosuga was the only man to ever corner the onion market, or to so successfully get away with cornering any agricultural commodities market.
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nclomo · 2 years
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made this decision and the various reactions to all of it will likely continue to come out. is willing to just ignore those numbers is a baffling decision. Still, the numbers don't lie for Scoob! and the fact that a company like Warner Bros.
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So why cancel the film? Why not let it stream to HBO Max, where they know they have an audience that has already said they are willing to watch a Scoob! movie on streaming? One could argue about whether or not DC movies actually have an audience considering how up and down they have been in financial performance and quality. They have charts and numbers to point to that there is an audience for the film that exists, it is right there, and it is an audience willing and able to watch the movie at home if they want to. However, this movie has proof that they have a PVOD audience and a streaming audience. Something that Scoob! has that Batgirl doesn't are hard numbers to point out that even if they cannot prove they have a theatrical audience, it's hard to argue how the movie would have done without the pandemic and what the $27.1 million at the box office actually means in terms of success. (L-R) Daphne voiced by AMANDA SEYFRIED, Velma voiced by GINA RODRIGUEZ, Shaggy voiced by WILL FORTE, Fred voiced by ZAC EFRON and Scooby-Doo voiced by FRANK WELKER in the new animated adventure "SCOOB!" from Warner Bros. While not a critical smash, it did well enough that a sequel was confirmed in June of 2021. The fact that it was the third best PVOD offering of the pandemic with a short PVOD window, May 15th to June 25th, is quite impressive. A price dip in the fifth week from $19.99 to $15.99 revived things a little, and in October of 2020, The Hollywood Reporter said Scoob! was the third most popular PVOD title of the pandemic behind Mulan and Trolls World Tour. By weekend four, it was number one on FandangoNow, second on Amazon Prime, and fourth on iTunes. It stayed at number one for the second weekend of release on all of the services and stayed at number one on three of the four services. It didn't do as well as Trolls World Tour, but it was the top-rented film on Amazon Prime, Google Play, FandangoNow, Spectrum, and iTunes during its opening weekend. took a similar risk and released Scoob! as a PVOD film. It did well for Universal, and a month later, on May 15th, Warner Bros. Before that, a few studios had released movies early to streaming or VOD like Disney or Warner Bros., but no one had taken a theatrical release and made it a PVOD offering, entirely skipping the theater. In April 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Universal took the plunge and released Trolls World Tour as a PVOD release when it was supposed to be a theatrical release. The thing that makes the Scoob! Holiday Haunt cancelation even more fascinating than the Batgirl cancelation is the circumstances under which Scoob! itself was released.
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