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Tomorrow, Wednesday October 27th is John Hadity's class: Single Picture Financing. This workshop will give an industry overview of how to finance a motion picture, including the health of the industry, trends in financing, advantages and disadvantages of studio financing, financing partners, production loans, foreign pre-sales, negative pick-ups, acquisitions, gap and mezzanine financing, and private equity.
The next day, on Thursday, October 28th is Innes Smolansky's Legal Aspects of Single Picture Financing. This workshop is the follow up in our two part series on the business and legal aspects of single picture financing. The class will further demistify the legal aspects of production loans, foreign pre-sales, negative pick-ups, acquisitions, gap and mezzanine financing, and private equity deals.