{"id":4863,"date":"2006-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-marwyn-eyes-475-mln-film-co-buy-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2006\/hedge-fund-marwyn-eyes-475-mln-film-co-buy-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund Marwyn eyes $475 mln film co buy-report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; UK hedge fund Marwyn Value Investors is to launch a 250-million-pound ($475-million) cash bid for Canadian film business Motion Picture Distribution, the Financial Times reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>  Motion Picture Distribution is the operating company of Movie Distribution Income Fund&nbsp; and is 51 percent indirectly owned by Canadian broadcaster Alliance Atlantis Communications.<\/p>\n<p>  Without citing sources, the paper said Marwyn was to use a cash shell on London&#8217;s junior AIM market for the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/stocks\/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx%3Fview%3DCN%26storyID%3D2006-08-11T015951Z_01_L11354086_RTRIDST_0_FINANCIAL-MARWYN.XML%26rpc%3D66&amp;cid=1108678841&amp;ei=aUncRM2WDYfMpwKhzMXvCA\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; UK hedge fund Marwyn Value Investors is to launch a 250-million-pound ($475-million) cash bid for Canadian film business Motion Picture Distribution, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Motion Picture Distribution is the operating company of Movie Distribution Income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}