Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) puts unreleased indie movie for sale on Ebay ($1mil asking price)

[LynneSin]

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-03-26/#film4

Indie Movie Is Auctioned on eBay


Forget Sundance. Forget Cannes. The writer-director-producer of the action-comedy Lady Magdalene's, starring Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek fame, is auctioning the movie on eBay (item #230108636678). Neil Schulman has set $1 million ($999,999 plus $1 for shipping) as the opening bid. Interested buyers can obtain a complimentary DVD screener. In his description of the item, Schulman writes, "If you're not entirely satisfied that this film will have an opening weekend of $30 million or more in domestic U.S. box office receipts, your money will cheerfully be refunded!"

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Lady Magdalene's is an unreleased, not-yet-premiered suspense/action/romantic comedy feature film starring Star Trek icon, Nichelle Nichols ("Uhura"), as Lady Magdalene, the madam of a legal Nevada brothel in tax default, which is assigned a federal receiver to operate it until it can pay its back taxes. The agent assigned to run the brothel is Jack Goldwater, just sent back to the IRS after a stint as a federal air marshal ended after a run-in with powerful U.S. Senator "Red" Kensington. While on assignment to the brothel Jack starts falling for one of the women who works at the brothel,

[AllegroRondo]

1. thats actually not a bad idea

auctioning off the distribution rights for an indie film. I only wish I had thought of it.