Summary
In a year rife with bad financial news, the film-finance world has seen its share of worrying portents. Though some financiers suggestthat conditions have in fact been deteriorating for considerably longer, in the 12 months since the start of the global credit crisis theoutlook has grown steadily worse for the kind of Wall Street-backed slate financing deals that have helped fund much of Hollywood'srecent output. Word has been spreading of slate deals that have failed to attract investors or that are set to produce disappointingreturns.