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DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, UNITED KINGDOM
Release date : Nov 16, 2015
 
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Completed - DUTCH, ENGLISH - Documentary, Biography, Family - 88 minutes

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How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood.

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Rozemyn AFMAN
Writer(s) : Rozemyn AFMAN, Pieter VAN DEN BERG
Cast : Frans J. AFMAN, Dino DE LAURENTIIS, Martha DE LAURENTIIS, Oliver STONE, John DALY, Kevin COSTNER, Mickey ROURKE

Producer(s) : Denis WIGMAN, Sander VERDONK, Thomas DEN DRIJVER, Rosan BOERSMA, Rozemyn AFMAN

Synopsis

In the 80s, Dutchman Frans Afman became the most important banker in Hollywood and one of the most powerful men in the business. Through Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis he was introduced to the world of filmmaking and together they created a system of financing that revolutionised the independent film industry in Hollywood, called pre sales. Over more than a decade, Frans was instrumental in financing films like Platoon, Terminator and Dances with Wolves, as well as the leading independent production companies such as Cannon, Hemdale and Carolco. As the success grew, ambition of others turned into greed. People of dubious character and credentials started to involve themselves in the independent film industry. People like Giancarlo Parretti, an Italian waiter turned investor with more brawn than brains. Immediately, Frans suspected that Parretti wasn't trustworthy, but his boss at Credit Lyonnais bank decided differently. Parretti became a major player and took over MGM with money...

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Country(ies) : USA

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