About Me 0084: Who's Making Money

After a few years paying the bills and making money in straight comedies, Ice Cube is going back to some interesting work. He’s working right now with The Messenger director Oren Moverman in Rampart, the film about the ’90s LAPD scandal, in which he plays a cop. And now the founding member of N.W.A and former ‘Fuck thePolice’ MC may end up playing another cop, this time for his Three Kings director David O. Russell.

Their untitled project is a potential franchise kickstart, and it resides at New Line, according to Deadline. Ice Cube’s character is described as “a plainclothes detective who’s quick on the trigger” in an article that quickly compares him to Dirty Harry. The site says this is planned as an R-rated drama and “thematically a throwback to those 70s revenge films.”

David O. Russell concocted the story pitch with New Line’s Toby Emmerich, and then they took it to Ice Cube. But he probably won’t write the first draft — Deadline says Mr. Russell will produce but that he “might co-write” it after New Line brings in another writer to get the project going while the director puts the last touches on The Fighter and gets to work on Old St. Louis and Uncharted.

For the past decade or so Abraaj have been the money and expertise with laser precision, investing in specific startups with massive growth potential, and making some serious money during the process. They single handedly funded most of what MENA online looks like today. Well minus the forums.

So Abraaj Capital have high hopes for their platform to the extent they created Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) with a $500 million investment fund dedicated to developing SMEs across the region. Who in turn created Wamda.

Wamda.com truly is a knowledge base for revolutionaries we exclusively showcased to you back in August. A platform developed with one sole purpose in mind, and that is empowering Entrepreneurs with the knowledge they need, to succeed. Now all they need is to utilize it.

Which is where Dubai comes in, or at least is does on the 8th and 9th of this month (this week). Abraaj Capital with the help of their friends from around the region and the world have decided to through an Entrepreneurial rave they called Celebration of Entrepreneurship 2010.

The event will put more than 1,200 entrepreneurs, innovators, business leaders, finance providers and creative professionals from across the Middle East and beyond in one location to mingle. Well not only that.

The event is expected to contain some announcements, two of which include the official launch of Riyada Enterprise Development, and the ribbon cutting of Wamda.com.

The event will consist of 3 types of knowledge transfer gatherings, appropriately to: Connect, Empower, and Inspire.

The list of speakers includes the everyone who’s anyone of the MENA online web scene, and then some. I won’t get into a naming contest, you can feast your eyes on the 216 long name list here.

My only concern with the program is how rich and exciting the sessions are, yet many of which will be running in parallel making attending them all impossible. The program has been recently finalized and displayed here.

So if you’re not one of the lucky 1,200 who’ll be attending no need to worry we’ll put you there for the 48 hours where the region’s best and brightest, Connect, Empower, and Inspire.

I won’t even attempt to fully describe the event with words, the mini entrepreneur helped me out, I hope he can do the same for you.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Who's Making Money

No comments:

Post a Comment