I'm not a game theorist, but wouldn't people just game SpecArena the same way spammers game digg and reddit now? By 'game' I mean automatically rate the competition with low scores and have voting-gangs/bots give their own submissions high scores.
Except it would probably be worse because there would be more at stake.
I had a little to do with movies (a friend of mine was nominated for an Oscar two years ago and we had some discussions about starting a company together in the film biz) and my (limited) experience would suggest that you would run into the following problems:
- They are a dead conservative bunch. It is hard to convince them to try something new.
- There's a lot of politics and who-knows-who that you would have to overcome
- Instead of having just a few people read through a script maybe it should be free for all to read through and rate. That way you will have a good selling point to Hollywood - "hey - 500.000 people read this script and rated it, they will all go see the movie when it comes out. And bring their friends and family!"
- Marketing will be the hard part. You actually have to get people to use the damn thing...
I think that you income model should probably be to take a cut of the selling price for a script. They aint cheap you know...
> Instead of having just a few people read through a script maybe it should be free for all to read through and rate. That way you will have a good selling point to Hollywood - "hey - 500.000 people read this script and rated it, they will all go see the movie when it comes out. And bring their friends and family!"
That worked for "Lord of the Rings" but would it have worked for "Sixth Sense"? How about "Blades of Glory"?
Except it would probably be worse because there would be more at stake.