Business For Sale Listing 72607
Active High Net Worth Investor for Mob Film
Status as of Jan-7-2009 at 06:13 PM: Active
Business Summary
Russian themed "Goodfellas" meets "Scarface" is looking for an active investor/partner who is looking to finance a standalone film project of $750,000-$1,500,000 or be involved in financing a slate of films ($10 million), with an innovative risk minimization strategy including utilizing A-level actors, political machines that can get a film into a festival/distribution, off-setting a film's budget by foreign and DVD film sales, exclusive of theatrical, and a sophisticated story line with a build-in audience who loves crime films and shows such as "The Sopranos"
There is ripe window of opportunity for independently financed films as exemplified with the recent success of such films as Napoleon Dynamite (made for $250,000, sold for $5 million, made $50 million at b.o.), Garden State, Open Water, Maria Full of Grace, SAW (made for $750,000, made $60 million), as well as the phenomenal success of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". The major studios are drying up in terms of producing product in-house and are aggressively looking to buy films made independently.
Fred Smith of FedEx and Norman Waitt of Gateway Computers who financed "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", as well as Marc Turtletaub from The Money Store, Roger Marino from EMC Corp, former Chicago bulls co-owner Jim Stern, Jeff Skoll of eBay, Sidney Kimmel Of Jones Apparel Group, Minnesota Twins owner Bill Pohlad, and the founders of Paypal are all financing independent films that are selling for 5-10x their budgets
I am looking to partner up with a similar individual who either recently sold his/her company, exited one with a large severance pay, is perhaps bored, and has always secretly wanted to be in the movie business for tax, vanity, or alternative investment reasons with someone who is ethical.
Please be sincere and a verifiable high net worth investor and indicate minimum/maximum you are open to investing.
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