ProjectGenome was started… well, a long time ago, in a different Internet. It was a world where you had to dig deep to find pretty much any kind of information about any kind of upcoming movie about, well, anything. It was envisioned as a one-stop resource for the intelligent, sophisticated HSX player to get the goods on every movie on the Exchange. The HSB&R started it and maintained and updated it for years. When that site went away, your old pal BlueDuck salvaged the old data, put it into a new format, and recruited some new blood to keep the site updated.
But now…
Look. Everybody knows how to find movie news now, it’s not hard. If we had constant updates (which BlueDuck doesn’t have time to do himself, and it’s boring anyway) then all we would be doing is going to Variety or ComingSoon or Cinematical and regurgitating what they already have anyway, and what’s the fun in that? I ask you. Sophisticated, savvy HSX players (that’s you) know what’s out there, they have a good idea of the resources (and the strengths and weaknesses of those resources) and can trade accordingly. I don’t like to say it, but it’s true – the world has largely passed ProjectGenome by, and it simply isn’t economically viable to keep it around as a movie-news site.
So. BlueDuck announces today that, for the time being, we are not doing updates to the movie side of ProjectGenome anymore. (The bond charts will continue, no problems there – doesn’t take as much time to do on a weekly basis as the movie updates do.) This suspension may last a week, it may last forever, who knows?
There is still a ton of detail on this site, and a lot of it is valuable to traders (or I hope so). You will still be able to access the site for the forseeable future. It just won’t be updated.
At some point, all things must evolve and change or die. I hope that there’s a way to turn the movie side of ProjectGenome into something useful, whether it’s your old pal BlueDuck still in charge or somebody else. But for now, it’s adios and see you around the next bend of the road.
