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Hedge Funds finance Hollywood.
Posted by Mammad in Film Funding Resources on
Some hedge fund managers watch Oscar ceremonies with great interest to see their funded films among the winners.
Several Oscar nominees, including hits such as “The Pursuit of Happyness”, “Blood Diamond” and “Borat,” were partially financed by hedge funds, loosely regulated pools of capital that are restricted to institutional investors and wealthy individuals.
Wall Street’s fascination with film financing has grown in recent years, with several private investment firms making agreements with major studios to co-finance slates of movies over a period of years.
With names like Relativity Media and Virtual Studios, these firms do not have the cachet or name recognition of the big studios. They certainly will not be sauntering up to the podium and thanking their agent should their films get an award. Even so, a win at the Oscars could be rewarding.
Relativity Media helped finance “Happyness,” whose lead actor, Will Smith, is up for Best Actor. An affiliate of Dune Capital Management, a hedge-fund firm once controlled by financier George Soros, kicked in money for “Borat,” the guerilla comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen that is a nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay. And Virtual Studios, which is backed by the hedge fund Stark Investments, has invested in “Blood Diamond,” which is up for five awards, as well as the disaster-film flop “Poseidon,” which garnered a nomination for best visual effects.
This list reflects the growing ties between Hollywood and hedge funds and private equity firms, which have invested billions in movies since 2005, Bloomberg News reported last month. Two investors in MGM, the movie studio, are the buyout firms Providence Equity Partners and Texas Pacific Group.
It can be a risky business. Legendary Pictures, another hedge fund vehicle, has caught flack for its investments in box-office bombs “Lady in the Water” and “The Ant Bully.”
Yet some of these companies seem to have found gold in the Hollywood Hills. “Borat” cost an estimated $18 million to produce. The tale of a fictional Kazakh reporter’s adventures in the United States has earned about $128 million in domestic box office.
Source- http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/hedge-funds-at-the-oscars/
Film Financing Sources
Posted by Tim in Film Funding Resources on
Tax-Shelter Deals
“A number of counties have introduced legislation that has the effect of generating enhanced tax deductions for producers or owners of films.”
“Schemes are created which effectively sell the enhanced tax deductions to wealthy individuals with large tax liabilities. The individuals pay the producer a fee in order to obtain the tax deductions. The individual will often become the legal owner of the film or certain rights relating to the film, but the producer will in substance continue as the real owner of the economic rights to exploit the film. For example, German tax-law used to allow investors to take an instant tax deduction even on non-German productions and even if the film has not yet gone into production. The film producers can sell the copyright to one of these tax shelters for the cost of the film’s budget, then have them lease it back for a price around 90 % of the original cost.”
Equity Deals
“Equity Deals come in many sizes and shapes. A common one is a production-financing- distribution (PFD) deal, which is with a major studio, usually. Independent Distributor Financing is similar to a PFD deal, except in this case the distributor is not affiliated with a major studio.”
Film Financing Sources
Posted by Tim in Film Funding Resources on
“One reason why studios are seeking third-party capital has been the rise in production costs. Darwell says: “Over the years top actors have gone from making $1 million to $2 million for a picture to $20 million to $25 million.” But investors should not be focused on the big budget blockbusters to make money. Smaller-budget movies with greater audience appeal can offer good rates of return.”
“Having come from the world of private equity and hedge funds, I believe that, as an asset class, films can offer significant returns; unfortunately the investor never gets to see them,” he says. “With this is mind we have tried to create a structure previously unseen in Hollywood that offers the investor complete transparency and a piece of ‘the holy grail’ – the distribution fee.”
“It is argued that film quality has suffered as studios now have a vested interest in getting films out of the theatre and onto DVD as quickly as possible. Owning the copyright to the picture is therefore essential for any investors in film.”
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Film Financing Sources
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