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Entertainment & Sports

May 25, 2006

A Less-Risky Business: Investors Find New Way to Finance Films

LOS ANGELES - Dumb money is getting smart. Wall Street investors sometimes called rich people who finance Hollywood movies "dumb money" because they were seen as gamblers: It's hard to predict which flicks will flop or flourish.

By Peter Zuckerman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - Dumb money is getting smart.
      Wall Street investors sometimes called rich people who finance Hollywood movies "dumb money" because they were seen as gamblers: It's hard to predict which flicks will flop or flourish.
      But now some of the savviest investors - hedge funds, i...

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