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Arbitrage Movie Trailer: Film About Hedge Fund Manager Played By Richard Gere

  
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Directed by Nicholas Jarecki, it stars Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth, and Nate Parker.  The trailer looks like it also features a cameo by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo.  The movie will be released on September 14th, 2012.

Gere plays a hedge fund manager who is desperate to sell his trading empire before the depth of his fraud is exposed, but he makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
The trailer makes it look like the film is less about finance and more about a drama and homicide case.  The film’s tagline is Arbitrage: Power is the Best Alibi.
Embedded below is the movie trailer for Arbitrage:

 

Beer ad has solution to pestering girlfriends

  
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This Andes beer spot, from Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi in Argentina, shows guys at a bar using a high-tech contraption—a sound-proof “Teletransporter” with all manner of sound effects piped in—to convince their annoying girlfriends when they call that they’re not, in fact, at the bar. But it raises more questions than it answers. For starters, wouldn’t the girlfriends know about these machines already? Seems like something that would be all over the news! Also, what kind of person uses the hospital as an alibi for anything? That’s the easiest bluff in the world to call. And when she does call it, he’ll be in the hospital for sure. UPDATE: Here’s the Web site of the Teletransporter. And yes, the agency apparently installed these things around the city of Mendoza. Presumably the grainy footage of the guys is real footage, too.

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