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Entertainment & Sports,
Corporate

Jul. 30, 2019

Investing in films: Strategies to minimize risk

While Hollywood certainly has a way with appearances making it seem that every movie made is a smashing success, the reality is that movies fail, sometimes miserably.

Sara L. Terheggen

Founder and Managing Director
The NBD Group, Inc.

UC Berkeley Boalt Hall

The NBD Group, Inc., a leading legal and business solutions firm. Dr. T has advised on transactions with an aggregate value of more than $110 billion, including more than 20 IPOs, and she has been recognized close to 50 times for her professional expertise and leadership.

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DR. T ON SECURITIES

While Hollywood certainly has a way with appearances making it seem that every movie made is a smashing success, the reality is that movies fail, sometimes miserably. Of course, the same can be said for venture capital, where companies create the appearance of wild success and convince investors to put their money into the next start-up on the promise of it being the next unicorn. Film finance investors do the same when they put their ...

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