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Silver Screen's fourth limited partnership, Silver Screen Partners IV, was also set up to finance Disney's studios. On October 23, 1990, The Walt Disney Company formed Touchwood Pacific Partners which supplanted the Silver Screen Partnership series as their movie studios' primary source of funding.
Silver Screen Partners IV began in June 1988 and through 52,000 investors raised $400 million. Their films included The Good Mother, Beaches, Dead Poets Society, Turner & Hooch, and The Little Mermaid. (There was a Silver Screen Partners I, but it invested in HBO films, not in Disney.)
Silver Screen Partners II, L.P. began financing films for The Walt Disney Company in 1985 with $193 million [6] from 20,000 limited partners. Silver Screen was hands-off with Disney given its name and new management team led by Michael Eisner, formerly at Paramount.
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The original Silver Screen Partners, L.P. was organized by Roland W. Betts, New York film investment broker, to fund movies for HBO in 1982. HBO made a 50% guarantee on their investment for exclusive cable rights. Another 40% was guaranteed by Thorn EMI, a British firm, for foreign distribution and foreign TV and videocassette markets. Additional i...
The partnerships pay for the movie's production costs and share in the gross dollars in all markets from theater to television. Limited partners received their return before the production company can defray any of their expenses. This is preferred by investors as it guarantee some return if the film fails or has budget overrun and from the produce...
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Organized in 1985, Silver Screen Partners II, L.P. financed films for The Walt Disney Company with $193 million. In January 1987, Silver Screen III began financing movies for Disney with $300 million raised, the largest amount raised for a film financing limited partnership by E. F. Hutton. [5]
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