HBO's film division was just starting out so film output was slow. Additional income was lined up for domestic videocassette sales. Another 40% was guaranteed by Thorn EMI, a British firm, for foreign distribution and foreign TV and videocassette markets. HBO made a 50 percent guarantee on their investment for exclusive cable rights. The limited partnerships (13,000) sold through EF Hutton were oversubscribed and raised $83 million. Betts to fund movies for HBO on April 19, 1983, and officially formed in Delaware on June 8 of that year. was organized by New York film investment broker Roland W. 3 List of notable Silver Screen Partners films.This became a part of the campaign issue over Hollywood's "pervasiveness of violence", centered around Silver Screen Management Board's approval of the highly violent horror-suspense film The Hitcher, when Bush ran for president in 2000. Bush was a member of Silver Screen Management, Inc.'s board of directors from 1983 to 1993. Despite a sting of successful films, Silver Screen Partners became defunct in 1992.įormer U.S. Silver Screen Partners entered into an agreement with The Walt Disney Company beginning in 1985 to collaborate with the Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Hollywood Pictures, and Touchstone Pictures studios to produce works such as The Great Mouse Detective Return to Oz The Black Cauldron Volunteers Down and Out in Beverly Hills Three Men and a Baby Good Morning, Vietnam Cocktail Oliver & Company Dead Poets Society Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Turner & Hooch The Little Mermaid Pretty Woman Dick Tracy The Rescuers Down Under Beauty and the Beast and Encino Man. The managing general partner for the partnerships was Silver Screen Management, Inc. Betts as a collaboration with cable television network HBO in 1983. Silver Screen Partners refers to four limited partnerships organized as an alternative funding source for film production originally formed by American investor Roland W.
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