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Sweet Deals?

Studios are setting up paper companies to get outside financing. Investors and 
banks put up the money, while studios collect the lion's share of any net 
profits

NEW COMPANY'S          4%      of equity capital is provided entirely by
CAPITAL STRUCTURE              outside investors

                      96%      of debt capital is guaranteed by banks

NEW COMPANY'S          4%      of any net profits go to outside
PAYOUT                         investors, after paying huge studio bills
                               and debt service
                      96%      of any net profits go to the studios,
                               which don't invest any capital


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