Dr. P.V. Viswanath

pviswanath@pace.edu

Class Notes and Spreadsheets

Notes: Film Finance
Primary Materials

• Slides:
  • Introduction
    • Slides on the Process of Making of a Film
  • Contracts
    • Slides on Contracts
  • Financing
    • Capital Structure Theory: How to Finance a Business
    • Issues in Film Financing

Supplementary Materials

• Questions raised by Edward Fee's article on outside equity control in film financing (“The costs of outside equity control: Evidence from motion picture financing,” Journal of Business, Oct. 2002, vol. 75, n. 4, pp. 681 ff.)
• Review Questions
• Sites with direct relevance for course material
  • Contracts
    • Wikipedia site on creative accounting
    • Epstein on exhibitor contracts from Slate
    • Epstein on The Meaning of Box Office Grosses from Slate
  • Financing
    • Epstein on Tax Financing -- from Slate

Useful Websites

• The Numbers: Box Office Data, Movie Stars and Idle Speculation
• The Hollywood Reporter
• The Hollywood Exchange
• Yahoo India Movies site
• Links related to The Death of Don Quixote
  • Wikipedia site related to the movie
• Financing
  • How to Finance Your Film from NewEnglandFilm.com by Robert C. DiGregorio, Jr.

Slides Online from Various Sources (but not mine -- no guarantees!)

• Financing the Film Industry from Karen Niwinski
• Film and Television Institute of India
• Indian Films
• The Bollywood Film Industry
• The Film Industry Today

Bibliography
(taken from various sources, incl. http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/98november/financing.htm)

• Abreu, Carlos de, and Howard Jay Smith. "Opening The Doors To Hollywood." Three Rivers Press, A Division of Crown Publishers, Inc. 1995.
• Cones, John W. "43 Ways To Finance Your Feature Film – A Comprehensive Analysis Of Film Finance." Southern University Press, 1995.
• Cones, John W. "The Feature Film Distribution Deal – A Critical Analysis of The Single Most Important Industry Agreement." Southern University Press, 1997.
• Litwak, Mark.. "Dealmaking In The Film and Television Industry – From Negotiations To Final Contracts." Silman-James Press. 1994.

Books on the Indian Film Industry

• Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking by Stephen Alter
• Indian Cinema: The Bollywood Saga by Dinesh Raheja (Photographer), Jitendra Kothari (Author)
• The Essential Guide to Bollywood by Subhash K Jha and Amitabh Bachchan (Paperback - Nov 1, 2005)
• Bollywood: A History by Mihir Bose