Ferguson to Enter Hollywood Production
It has been reported that Chris Fergusson will be putting at least some of his hard earned poker money into a Hollywood venture. Also investing will be Ferguson’s business partner Ray Bitar. The company they will be financing is RCR Pictures, which is the brainchild of Robin Schorr. Fergusson will not be involved with the running of the business. Robin, with her ample film production experience, will be taking care of that. Robin put things in perspective when she said, “Chris is not going to be reading scripts every weekend.” However she politely added, “These are incredibly smart guys. I’ll ask their advice here and there.”
On the surface it may sound crazy that Ferguson is putting his money in a field he knows nothing about. But actually it is not so crazy. There is a strong connection between Robin and Ferguson and they may even have been childhood friends. Robin’s father, Len Kleinrock, is a computer science professor at UCLA. Ferguson worked under the mentorship of Kleinrock for 20 long years while completing his PhD in virtual network algorithms. Even then it took 18 months of persistent wooing by Robin to get Ferguson to agree parting with his money. Perhaps the deal was clinched when Robin said that a killer script is like a straight flush. And who knows better than Fergusson what a straight flush can do.
If the Chris Ferguson fan club is hoping for a poker based blockbuster upfront from RCR Pictures they are going to be sorely disappointed. The first project is set to be a contemporary remake of the Steve McQueen blockbuster Nevada Smith. However Robin has offered a lollipop to Ferguson’s fan following. “And, yes, I would love to find a poker movie,” she has said. For Ferguson’s sake one hopes that she does not do so because the only poker based movie ever to succeed at the box office was the remake of Casino Royale. The original version, which was a greater success, had baccarat instead of Texas Hold’em.
While there has been no response from Fergusson, there have been plenty of comments on the poker forums across the Internet. Robert Barlow wrote at Deadline.com, which incidentally broke this news, “How do you make small fortune in Hollywood? … Start with a large fortune.” Let us hope, however, that Ferguson’s fortune grows in Hollywood as it has in Sin City.
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