Family Offices Pour $22.2 Billion Into Hollywood Across 137 Deals in 2 Years

1 articles · Updated · TheWrap · Aug 4

$22.2 billion flowed from family offices into media and entertainment over the past two years, spanning 137 investments in 123 portfolio companies, according to FINTRX.
65 deals were recorded in 2025 after 37 in 2024, with another 35 logged between Jan. 1 and July 1, showing sustained appetite for film, TV, sports, gaming and creator-economy assets.
Family offices are drawing interest because they can move in weeks, tolerate longer payback periods and back IP, brands or mission-driven projects that may not fit banks or studios.
That capital is still hard to access: experts say single-family offices usually make sense only above roughly $100 million in net worth, cost $500,000 to $5 million a year to run, and often invest through trusted intermediaries.
Check sizes range from $1 million to $5 million for many projects, though disclosed outliers included an $827 million DAZN investment and a $10 billion Los Angeles Lakers deal.