Focus on financing: Investors commit $200 million

January 26, 2007 Investment bankers have been putting financing packages together to fund the studios' slates, but the Focus deal is the latest example of investors doing business with specialty divisions. Dresdner has experience in the film arena, having taken the lead in Dune Entertainment, a multimillion-dollar fund to finance films on the 20th Century Fox slate. Dresdner did have to make some adjustments in its finance model to accommodate the differing economics in the specialty films business; Focus, for example, often uses foreign presales to help finance projects.

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