Film financiers predict years of tight credit

November 07, 2008 The bad news is that the ongoing credit crisis is going to make it harder to assemble film financing, which will result in fewer movies coming to market. The good news is that the ongoing credit crisis is going to make it harder to assemble film financing, which will result in fewer movies coming to market. While the increasingly grim global financial meltdown hangs like a black cloud over this year's American Film Market, participants at the annual AFM Finance Conference, held Friday at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, still saw a few silver clouds -- albeit on a fairly distant horizon.

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