Investing in Movies

Acknowledgments

I want to thank all my colleagues at American Entertainment Investors (AEI)—my brother Charles, Andra Gordon, Christopher Howland, Myriam Bocobza, Luiz Tassi and David Chasmar for their strong support and willingness to search for data I directed them to. In particular, I want to thank my colleague, John Smith, for his many valuable comments on the text and his invaluable collaboration in preparing the charts and graphs interspersed throughout the book. I also want to thank my editor at Taylor & Francis, Emily McCloskey, and her editorial assistant John Makowski, for their much-appreciated guidance in making the book more accessible to the broadest possible readership and for persuading me not to go with a “sexier” but less-Googleable ...