It’s not quite a secret report on the orange crop, but fans of the film "Trading Places" looking for their next investment can bid on a producer’s share of royalties for the 1983 comedy classic.
The comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd has become a finance favorite with its depiction of commodities trading. Its original theatrical run grossed $90 million and the film is considered a Christmas classic in Italy, where it is rebroadcast every Christmas Eve. The movie even merited a mention in the 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation, which prohibited insider trading on commodities in a provision that Gary Gensler, then chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, dubbed “the Eddie Murphy rule.”
