A science fiction movie director has been ousted for using funds awarded to create a movie to gamble on stocks and crypto. Perhaps the most notable gamble made by the director was the investment in Dogecoin, which has got the crypto community talking.

一名科幻电影导演因使用奖励的资金制作电影来赌博股票和加密货币而被驱逐。也许这位导演最引人注目的赌博是对狗狗币的投资，这引起了加密社区的热议。

Netflix Director’s Big Stock Gamble

Netflix 导演的股票大赌注

A report from the New York Times has revealed a rather interesting gamble by filmmaker Carl Erik Rinsch. Rinsch reportedly had a well sought-after series he wanted to develop, and would eventually score a deal with streaming giant Netflix to produce the series as a Netflix original.

《纽约时报》的一篇报道揭露了电影制片人卡尔·埃里克·林奇的一场相当有趣的赌博。据报道，Rinsch 想要开发一部广受欢迎的剧集，并最终与流媒体巨头 Netflix 达成协议，将该剧集制作为 Netflix 原创作品。

However, while Rinsch would work on the series, he would also divert funds earmarked for production into his own personal trading accounts. According to the report, Rinsch received an $11 million lump sum payment from Netflix to further production on the science fiction series which he called The Organic Intellect (later renamed Conquest by Netflix).

然而，虽然林什将参与该系列的制作，但他也将专门用于制作的资金转移到他自己的个人交易账户中。据报道，林什从 Netflix 获得了 1100 万美元的一次性付款，用于进一步制作他称之为“有机智力”（后来被 Netflix 更名为“征服”）的科幻剧集。

Statements show that after receiving an $11 million payment from Netflix, in addition to the tens of millions of dollars already invested into production, Rinsch proceeded to deposit $10.5 million into his personal brokerage account he held with Charles Schwab.

声明显示，在收到 Netflix 1100 万美元的付款后，除了已经投入制作的数千万美元之外，林什还向他在嘉信理财 (Charles Schwab) 持有的个人经纪账户中存入了 1050 万美元。

Things would go haywire when Rinsch would begin placing bets on the stock market and lose millions. His investments of choice were revealed to be risky bets that Gilead Sciences share price would skyrocket, as well as betting that the S&P 500 Index would continue its decline.

当林奇开始押注股市并损失数百万美元时，事情就会变得混乱。据透露，他选择的投资是对吉利德科学公司股价将飙升的高风险押注，以及对标准普尔 500 指数将继续下跌的押注。

In the end, both bets would end up being wrong, costing Rinsch a reported $5.9 million from the initial $10.5 million he had deposited. Interestingly, all of this unfolded in a matter of weeks.

最终，这两项赌注最终都错了，据报道，林奇从他最初存入的 1050 万美元中损失了 590 万美元。有趣的是，所有这一切都在几周内展开。

Turning To Dogecoin As A Last Ditch Effort

转向狗狗币作为最后的努力

In what seemed to be another risky bet, Rinsch would follow the crypto craze that emerged in the heat of the COVID pandemic and eventual worldwide lockdown. The funds that remained from the $10.5 million he had diverted to crypto and stock trading platform Robinhood, where he would place another seemingly risky bet. However, this time around, the bet would pay off.

在这似乎是另一个冒险的赌注中，Rinsch 将追随在新冠病毒大流行和最终全球封锁期间出现的加密货币热潮。他将 1050 万美元中剩下的资金转移到了加密货币和股票交易平台 Robinhood，在那里他将进行另一个看似风险很大的赌注。然而，这一次，赌注得到了回报。

Rinsch reportedly invested $4 million in Dogecoin in early 2021, and his holdings would grow readily as the cryptocurrency’s value rose. By the time the filmmaker sold his stash of Dogecoin in May 2021, they were reportedly worth a whopping $27 million.

据报道，Rinsch 在 2021 年初向狗狗币投资了 400 万美元，随着加密货币价值的上涨，他的持有量将迅速增加。据报道，当这位电影制片人于 2021 年 5 月出售他收藏的狗狗币时，它们的价值高达 2700 万美元。

With his bets finally paying off, Rinsch would go on an $8.7 million spending spree, buying Rolls Royces, a Ferrari, designer watches, clothes, and furniture. Naturally, Netflix was not pleased by this as the series they had invested in Rinsch to produce was still not finished.

随着他的赌注终于得到回报，林什开始了 870 万美元的疯狂消费，购买了劳斯莱斯、一辆法拉利、名牌手表、衣服和家具。 Netflix自然对此不高兴，因为他们投资Rinsch制作的剧集还没有完成。

The matter is currently in court as Netflix says it made the payments to Rinsch to deliver various production milestones that were never met. On Rinsch’s part, he maintains that by the contract between the two, the payments made to him were legally his, and claims that Netflix still owed him about $14 million in more payments.

此事目前正在法庭上审理，Netflix 表示，它已向 Rinsch 支付了款项，以实现从未实现的各种制作里程碑。林什则坚称，根据两人之间的合同，支付给他的款项在法律上属于他，并声称 Netflix 还欠他约 1400 万美元的款项。