Hollywood Again Lures Star-Struck Bankers

摘要

When Jay Cohen sought funding for a new independent film company, Wing and a Prayer Pictures, he had bankers falling over themselves to finance it. "We had seven banks call and offer us lines of credit," says Cohen, head of film financing and distribution at Los Angeles-based talent agency Gersh and an executive producer of the 1994 comedy Swimming With Sharks. "They had never met anyone involved in the company," he says.