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The original Silver Screen Partners L.P. was organized by New York film investment broker Roland W. Betts to fund movies for HBO on April 19, 1983, and officially formed in Delaware on June 8 of that year.
In 1983 he founded Silver Screen Management, Inc. (see Silver Screen Partners) with Tom Bernstein, which financed and produced over 75 films with the Walt Disney Company, including Pretty Woman, The Rocketeer, and Three Men and a Baby.
Silver Screen Partners refers to four limited partnerships organized as an alternative funding source for film production originally formed by American investor Roland W. Betts as a collaboration with cable television network HBO in 1983.
Silver Screen Partners IV began in June 1988 and through 52,000 investors raised $400 million. Their films included The Good Mother, Beaches, Dead Poets Society, Turner & Hooch, and The Little Mermaid. (There was a Silver Screen Partners I, but it invested in HBO films, not in Disney.)
The first Silver Screen Partners venture was formed in 1982 by New York film investment broker Ronald W. Betts to fund movies for the newly founded HBO Pictures (now "HBO Films"). TriStar Pictures would release the joint-venture's films theatrically.
History. The original Silver Screen Partners, L.P. was organized by Roland W. Betts, New York film investment broker, to fund movies for HBO in 1982. HBO made a 50% guarantee on their investment for exclusive cable rights. Another 40% was guaranteed by Thorn EMI, a British firm, for foreign distribution and foreign TV and videocassette markets.
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The first Silver Screen Partners venture was formed in 1982 by New York film investment broker Ronald W. Betts to fund movies for the newly founded HBO Films. TriStar Pictures would release the joint-venture's films theatrically.
