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NEW YORK (HegdeWorld.com) - Partisan Media Group LLC, a New York- based hedge fund specializing in movie financing, is readying its first fund: Barbarian Films LLC. The film investment fund will invest in low-budget films sold to domestic and foreign studios and to independent distributors. Investors participate in the risks and rewards of a portfolio of film investments, a new exotic asset class that delivers returns, presumably non-correlated to the market. Hence, the new appetite of specialized hedge funds.
Traditionally, film financing was provided by banks and movie studios project by project. But with the growing demand for independent, low-budget movies, hedge funds have now created baskets of film investments pooled in funds offered to investors looking to diversify film risk. I...
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This gubernatorial campaign season's going to be a doozie -- and it looks like one of the battle grounds will be Maryland's ability to attract film and television productions.
On Wednesday, Republican candidate and former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. announced he would invest $7 million in a key state tax credit to help bring back to Maryland the major movie and TV projects that have provided hundreds of jobs. He's talking about the state's Film Incentive Fund that in the last four years has been whittled down to about $1 million. In 2005, the fund was allotted $6 million.
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- National Independent Theatre Exhibitors, Inc., Plaintiff, James T. Patterson, Sr., Screen Advertising Film Fund, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Buena Vista Distribution Company, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees., 748 F.2d 602 (11th Cir. 1985)
James T. Patterson, Sr., pro se.
William N. Withrow, Jr., J. Kirk Quillian, Atlanta, Ga., for Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn, Paramount, 20th Century, Unite...
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Technicolor, Deluxe, Eastman Kodak and Fujifilm Create Silver Screen Fund
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453) (NYSE: TMS), through its ...
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Lawmakers took another step Friday toward boosting the state's commitment to land more film and television productions.
The House Workforce Services and Community and Economic Development Standing Committee passed HB17 along for wider debate by the House. The bill appropriates $3 million from the state's general fund to a new Motion Picture Incentive Fund, a dedicated fund to woo film and TV projects to Utah.
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NOVATO, Calif. -- While movie fans can't wait to see what film will be awarded the Oscar([R]) for Best Picture, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, the ...
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The Chamber of Commerce is holding a sundowner May 19 at Comerica Bank, 110 S. El Camino Real in the Henry's Farmers Market shopping center.
The eve...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Charlotte-based Independent Producers Alliance, LLC ("IPA"), which represents a growing number of award-winning independent pro...
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CAFAmerica Launches Donor Advised Fund to Invest Giving Proceeds from "The Gumpathon"; Benefiting Charities - HELP for HEROES; Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund; and The Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CAFAmerica, a member organization of the UK-based Charities Aid Foundation international network of offices, today announced that it has created a new Donor Advised Fund (DAF) to allow Americans to support the movie-inspired "Gumpathon" marathon across the United States (http://www.thegumpathon.com/index.php).