When Terence Winter wrote "The Wolf of Wall Street" about real-life swindler Jordan Belfort, he finally got a chance to make a movie about one of his favorite subjects: con men. Winter, who proved himself a master of mob psychology as a writer-producer on HBO's "The Sopranos," traces his fascination with relatively gentle criminals to the time he saw "Oliver" as a boy. "The script refers to the stock market crash of 1987, so the timing was weird," he says. Sony Pictures Entertainment's two biggest film franchises - Spider-Man and James Bond - were missing in action this year. Sony had too many big-budget failures, like 'After Earth' and 'White House Down,' " says Jeff Bock, senior analyst at Exhibitors Relations Co. "When their proposed tent poles bombed, that had a ripple effect. "All the studios are trying to figure out the best way to maintain a revenue stream," Bock says, "now that audiences are losing that tactile sensibility in terms of wanting to own DVDs and Blu-rays." {sbox}
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