Executive TL;DR Slate financing funding a portfolio of multiple films together rather than a single project is film finance’s core risk-diversification tool, built on the logic that a large studio releasing roughly a dozen films a year will typically see a...
Executive TL;DR Large studios and streaming companies access capital through standing credit lines extended by commercial banks, sometimes for hundreds of millions of dollars, and through negative pickup deals their scale and track record make routine to negotiate...
Executive TL;DR Pre-sales licensing distribution rights territory by territory before production begins account for 30-50% of a typical independent film’s budget in the mid-budget range, according to International Film and Television Alliance estimates, with...
Executive TL;DR Banks comprised just 18% of non-agency commercial real estate loan originations in Q3 2024, down sharply from 38% a year earlier, with bank CRE lending falling to an 11-year low as Basel III Endgame reforms specifically raised risk weights on...
Executive TL;DR Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has produced more than 12 giga-projects with a combined estimated investment of $1.1-1.3 trillion, the largest single-country construction pipeline in the world but the most ambitious of them, NEOM, illustrates the...
Executive TL;DR Basel III capital requirements, introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, made leveraged and middle-market lending structurally uneconomic for bank balance sheets to hold, and the ongoing Basel III Endgame reforms impose a further “output...
