I wrote earlier about my opinion that xXx would be a better game than movie This report on the money made by 'Grand Theft Auto' contains the information that it made $350 million. In terms of domestic box office receipts (not exactly apples to apples but a useful sense of scale) this would apparently make it the seventh highest grossing film of all time, just ahead of "Forrest Gump" and behind "Jurassic Park". Of course it didn't cost anywhere near as much to make as either of those films so the actual profits were higher.

If you've got $5 million to invest you won't get much of a movie these days, but you could get one hell of a game. In fact if you're a VC (very unlikely if you're reading this) then perhaps a games studio would be a better bet than yet another maker of enterprise software packages.