Manhattan Movie Studio and Bitcoin

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In November 2021, Bitcoin Movie Club presented Mike Nicoll's LYNCHPIN, a short film about the business of basketball to a packed audience at Lincoln Center. Manhattan Movie Studio leveraged its prior relationship with Swan Bitcoin to produce and distribute a short addendum to Nicoll's film featuring a conversation between Etop Udo-Ema, the subject of the documentary, and Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten. Their conversation resulted in the brokering of an unprecedented NIL agreement which is documented in Manhattan Movie Studio's upcoming release THE SPOILS.

In January 2022, Bitcoin Movie Club screened Jean Louis Droulers's (frontman of rap group FKA "Cook Thugless," now "Noches") experimental documentary NOiSE to a sold out crowd at Manhattan's Angelika Film Center. Employing a novel distribution technique called "Bitcoin Back," Bitcoin Movie Club allowed its audience members to receive change for its tickets in Bitcoin. In announcing the film's screening, Manhattan Movie Studio declared: "The art house shall now be measured in Bitcoin!" 

In the the spring of 2022, Swan Bitcoin announces its plan to gift Bitcoin to Compton Magic players and coaches through its Bitcoin benefit program. Bitcoin Movie Club's addendum to Mike Nicoll's short proves fruitful, and buzz builds for the upcoming release of Manhattan Movie Studio's THE SPOILS, as subject of the documentary, Compton Magic CEO Etop Udo-Ema proclaims, "The sovereign athlete is the future of basketball, and Bitcoin is the future of money. We're bringing the two together to create the first Bitcoin Basketball Program, a program that aligns itself with Bitcoin's principles of respecting time, long-term thinking, and sustainability.”

In November of 2022, the Pacific Bitcoin Conference hosts the Compton Magic at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA. Manhattan Movie Studio is there to document the event and witness its impact. The Magic, led by top future stars like Koa Peat, dazzle the crowd on the "Magic Money Court," celebrating the partnership between Bitcoin and basketball and providing conference goers relief from the usual lecture style monotony. Bitcoin has welcomed Basketball on its turf! 

In May 2023, in conjunction with Dkoda Labs, a Wall Street based FinTech lab, Manhattan Movie Studio hosted a launch party for Kansas Bowling's CUDDLY TOYS at an undisclosed Miami location. Here, Manhattan Movie Studio screened CUDDLY TOYS and unveiled 21 stills from the film inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain as ordinals. This marked the first time film ordinals were ever inscribed on the chain. 

In the fall of 2023, Manhattan Movie Studio and partner Nick Spanos broker a deal for Bitcoin investment in upcoming Hollywood release George Lopez's "How the Gringo Stole Christmas," distributed by Lionsgate and set to hit theaters nationally on December 1, 2023. The investment is reflected in the film cryptographically, through the above logo, thus announcing Hollywood's financial revolution has begun.