Editing HBO Films (section)

==Background==
After or around 1978, HBO was involved into preproduction financing films for exclusive pay-TV rights, which was risky as the films could be unpopular while alienating movie studios.<ref name="idch">{{cite book |title=International Directory of Company Histories |date=1998 |publisher=St. James Press |via=FundingUniverse |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/home-box-office-inc-history/ |access-date=October 12, 2018 |language=en |chapter=History of Home Box Office Inc.}}</ref> 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. The limited partnership sold through [[EF Hutton]] were oversubscribed and raised $83 million. HBO made a 50% guarantee on their investment for exclusive cable rights.<ref name=lat>{{cite news |last=Mathews |first=Jack |title=HBO, Disney Take Betts At Fun Odds |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-20-ca-6537-story.html |access-date=18 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=September 20, 1985}}</ref> HBO then joined with [[Columbia Pictures]] and [[CBS]] to form  [[TriStar Pictures]], which was expected to become a [[major film studio]], in 1983. HBO sold half of its ownership in TriStar in December 1985.<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen |last=Prince |url=https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step |url-access=registration |title=A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley, Calif. |year=2002 |orig-year=2000 |isbn=9780520232662 |series=History of the American Cinema Vol. 10 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step/page/31 31] |access-date=August 13, 2013}}</ref>