Tag: film finance

What sophisticated film investors should actually demand when a filmmaker walks in
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What Film Investors Actually Buy (It’s Not the Story)

Joe Wehinger - 0
What sophisticated film investors should actually demand when a filmmaker walks in; and how independent film fits an alternatives portfolio.A few years ago I...
Teddy Schwarzman, CEO of Black Bear and a two-time Academy Award-nominated producer
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The Urgent Answer to Indie Film: What Milken 2026 Entertainment Panel...

Joe Wehinger - 0
Sony, Black Bear, and Tubi's CEOs revealed the real threat to independent film distribution at Milken 2026 — and it's not AI. When Teddy Schwarzman,...
Independent film investment
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Independent Film Investment: The Uncorrelated Alternative Asset Hiding in Every Serious...

Joe Wehinger - 9
14–26% IRR, 2.0–2.5x MOIC, and genuinely uncorrelated returns — argued with the rigor the asset class deservesEvery serious allocator who survived 2008 went looking...
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AFM 2025: Producers Are Betting on this state with Best In...

Joe Wehinger - 9
West Kentucky film incentives, with a 35% cash rebate, are attracting filmmakers and investors at the 2025 American Film Market.In the bustling corridors of...