Dr. P.V. Viswanath

pviswanath@pace.edu

Film Financing

• Lionsgate: Fighting the system, Jan 25, 2014, The Economist
• Four Boffo Ways to Play the Box Office, Barron's, January 12, 2013
• Film financing: Hedge funds say it's a wrap, but should they?, May 2009, Euromoney
• A Director Tries 'Guerrilla' Financing: Steven Soderbergh's struggle to make his Che epic reflects a changing Hollywood, WSJ, December 5, 2008
• Filmmaker Says Distributor Failed Him, NY Times, June 26, 2008
• Studios Won't Accept SAG Demands, Associated Press from Wall Street Journal Online, May 1, 2008
• Tapping a New Source of Revenue When a Standby Falters, WSJ Online, Small Business section, May 2008
• Studios' Latest Stunt: Less Risk, Less Reward, Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2008
• Hollywood's new golden goose, By Edward Jay Epstein, Posted on Slate Monday, July 11, 2005, at 3:47 PM ET
• Choosing to Co-finance -- An Analysis of Project Specific Alliances in the Film Industry, by Darius Palia, S. Abraham Ravid and Natalia Reisel
• Co-Financing Doesn't Make Movies More Profitable,Business Wire, Dec 13, 2005
• Hollywood's Most Expensive Movies, 12.18.06, Forbes
• Documents pertaining to the film Lost in La Mancha
  • Problems with the Making of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • Base facts about the "making" of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
  • Lottery Funding for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
  • Terry Gilliam speaks out about The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
  • More on the breakdown of shooting of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
  • Interview with Lucy Darwin, the producer of Lost in La Mancha
  • Interview with Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, directors of Lost in La Mancha
  • Analysis of the film (in French)
• Introduction to Completion Guarantees
• Completion Guarantee Documents
• Financing Details pertaining to the film Reality Lost