{"id":5805,"date":"2007-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-share-in-epics-bloody-spoils-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/hedge-funds-share-in-epics-bloody-spoils-new-york-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Share in Epics Bloody Spoils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  The most famous surviving words from the ancient Greek Battle of Thermopylae have been \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmolon labe,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the defiant taunt by 300 Spartans to their numerically superior Persian adversaries. Translated,  it means roughly \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cCome and take them,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d referring to their weapons. This past weekend, it could also have referred to seats at movie theaters, as viewers swarmed cinemas to help Warner Brothers\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2  \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201c300\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00b3 shatter box-office records.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  Among those pleased by the lucrative recounting of the Spartans\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 slaughter? Hedge funds. Two of the five production companies listed for the swords-and-sandals epic are <strong>Virtual  Studios<\/strong> and <strong>Legendary Pictures<\/strong>, both vehicles backed by those private investor pools.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=  \"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/9-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/12\/hedge-funds-share-in-cinematic-epics-bloody-spoils\/&amp;cid=1114423482&amp;ei=Ue73RdavAYygsQHY7c2iAQ\">  Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The most famous surviving words from the ancient Greek Battle of Thermopylae have been \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmolon labe,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the defiant taunt by 300 Spartans to their numerically superior Persian adversaries. Translated, it means roughly \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cCome and take them,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d referring to their [&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-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}