About
Content Partners is a unique investment fund and asset management company that acquires cash flows arising from intellectual property in film, television, music and other areas of media and entertainment. Content Partners does not develop, finance, or distribute projects in any medium. The Company provides liquidity to institutional investors and individual royalty owners and assumes the future risks and rewards of that ownership.
We also provide financing for the acquisition of media companies when revenue generating television, film and music assets are part of the underlying transaction.
Content Partners was founded in 2005 and is an SEC registered investment advisor. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
Target acquisitions include film, television and music royalties that are in profits and have long term distribution deals with major studios, networks, record companies, and other distribution channels.

Our Team

Steve H. Kram
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Steve H. Kram
is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Content Partners, LLC, a first-of-its kind entity that provides liquidity to owners of royalties and other passive profit participations in film, television, music, and other entertainment industry projects. Both an investment fund and asset management company, Content Partners has created a unique market that offers maximum, immediate financial security to clients including individuals, partnerships, estates, and corporations while Content Partners assumes the future risks and rewards of their cash flows in an uncertain economic environment.

Steven E. Blume
Co-founder, Chief Operations Officer, and Chief Financial Officer
Steven E. Blume
is the Co-founder, Chief Operations Officer, and Chief Financial Officer of Content Partners, LLC, a first-of-its kind entity that provides liquidity to owners of royalties and other passive profit participations in film, television, music, and other entertainment industry projects. Both an investment fund and asset management company, Content Partners has created a unique market that offers maximum, immediate financial security to clients including individuals, partnerships, estates, and corporations while Content Partners assumes the future risks and rewards of their cash flows in an uncertain economic environment.

John M. Mass
President
John M. Mass
is President of Content Partners, LLC. Mr. Mass has the unique combination of experience in finance, production and talent management. He was a partner at Oasis Media Group, a personal management company, focusing on the representation of content creators, and a producer of films, television shows and other forms of entertainment. Since its inception in 2010, Oasis Media has produced programming for ABC, MTV, ABC Studios, Discovery, National Geographic and Lifetime, amongst others.

Amalia Goldvaser
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
Amalia Goldvaser
is General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer of Content Partners, LLC. Ms. Goldvaser has broad experience working with both public and private companies on all facets of corporate transactions including private equity investments and financings.

Scott Hemming
Chief Executive Officer Revolution Studios
Scott Hemming
is the Chief Executive Officer of Revolution Studios. In 2017, as President and Chief Operating Officer, Hemming co-led the sale of Revolution to the Los Angeles-based investment firm Content Partners, LLC.

Alphonse Lordo
Partner at Content Partners Capital, LP, a division of Content Partners, LLC
Alphonse Lordo
Mr. Lordo is Partner at Content Partners Capital, LP, a division of Content Partners, LLC with a strategy of originating private credit opportunities across all entertainment sectors. In this role, Mr. Lordo sources and structures new investments and is involved with the strategic direction of the division.

Brendan Haley
Senior Vice President of Finance
Brendan Haley
is Senior Vice President of Finance at Content Partners, LLC. Mr. Haley has over 15 years of entertainment industry experience working in various finance and business development roles. His responsibilities at Content Partners include performing valuations for potential acquisitions and fulfilling financial reporting obligations to investors.

Adam Lebovitz
Vice President of Finance
Adam Lebovitz
is Vice President of Finance at Content Partners, LLC. Mr. Lebovitz has over 15 years of media and entertainment experience. His responsibilities at Content Partners include valuations, analysis, and due diligence on new investment opportunities in addition to monitoring the portfolio.

Aisha Sesay Taylor
Controller
Aisha Sesay Taylor
is the Controller at Content Partners, LLC. Ms. Taylor has over 13 years in both Public and Private Accounting with emphasis in the management of General Ledger Accounting, Consolidations, and External Reporting in the entertainment industry. Her responsibilities at Content Partners include the management of the accounting function and fulfilling financial reporting obligations to investors.
Founding Members

Paul D. Wachter
the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Main Street Advisors
Paul D. Wachter
is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Main Street Advisors. Main Street Advisors provides a wide range of financial, strategic and asset management advisory services to a select group of high net worth individuals and companies. Main Street Advisors was founded in 1997.

Todd R. Wagner
an entrepreneur and philanthropist
Todd R. Wagner
is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who has achieved considerable success in the fields of technology, media and entertainment.
Participants
We purchase backend profit participations from Service Participants and Financial Participants who own backend profit participations in films that have been theatrically released by the major studios, television series that are currently in profits and recorded music.
Service Participants
- Actors
- Writers
- Directors
- Producers
- Talent agencies, management companies, and law firms
- Estates
- Charitable foundations
- Production Companies
- Networks
Financial Participants
- Banks
- Investors
- Financial Institutions
- Family offices
- Insurance companies
- Studios
A straightforward, confidential process
Participants provide Content Partners with contracts, all previous accounting statements, audit reports and projections. We take it from there and present you with a firm offer. We will then arrange completion of the studio assignment.
Hassle-free participation maintenance
We purchase up to 100% of a participation, regardless of your reason for selling. In cases in which we purchase less than 100%, our services include monitoring all future participation statements. This includes commencing audits as necessary, advancing audit and legal costs, employing expert distribution consultants in the audit process, and negotiating audit settlements.


Content Partners in the News
2025
2024
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‘Forensic Files’ True-Crime Series Catalog Is Acquired By Content Partners
03/19/2024
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Content Partners Launches Private Capital Investing Division Led by Alphonse Lordo
08/28/2024
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Content Partners Breaks Down New Film, TV Funding Venture With Lionsgate
08/28/2024
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Content Partners Capital’s First Fund Invests in “The Karate Kid,” “Hacks,” More
08/28/2024
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Content Partners Capital Division Launches
09/09/2024
2023
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Hollywood Executives Brace for ‘Year of Turmoil’ in 2023
01/04/2023
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How Much Money Does a Hit Movie Really Make? Podcast by Matthew Belloni ft. John Mass
08/17/2023
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look Into the Negotiations That Are Shifting the Entertainment Industry
08/01/2023
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Meet 2023’s Top In-House Entertainment Attorneys featuring Amalia Goldvaser
09/05/2023
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Private Equity Barbarians at the Gate: Inside Content Partners' Bold New Push
08/09/2023
2022
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Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report 2022: Tough Times Take Tough Negotiators
12/07/2022
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Expert Voices: Content Partners' co-founder Steve Blume
07/06/2022
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What A24’s Whopping $2.5 Billion Valuation Says About the Indie Darling – and the Movie Business
03/18/2022
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Hollywood Deal Trends To Keep An Eye On In 2022
02/16/2022
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Streaming TV is benefiting—and struggling—from Great Resignation pressures
01/31/2022
2021
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Stallone Joins the Great Hollywood Cash-Out
12/16/2021
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Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report 2021: Top Negotiators Behind Mega Deals
12/08/2021
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'No Time to Die' shows how the Bond franchise can stay relevant and profitable
10/12/2021
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John Mass on the Future of Content
07/22/2021
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Good luck, Amazon. Unpacking MGM’s vault may be harder than it sounds
06/01/2021
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Tech Takes Hollywood: How Amazon’s MGM Buy Signals a New Order in the Content Game
05/26/2021
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A view to a killing: how Amazon will exploit Bond and other MGM classics
05/29/2021
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The Wide Shot: It’s March Madness time for streaming
02/23/2021
2020
2019
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MIPCOM: Sony Pictures Television, Revolution Studios Sign Distribution Deal
10/17/2019
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Revolution Studios & Sony Pictures TV Partner On Global TV & Digital Distribution
10/16/2019
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Content Partners Toasts 15 Years of Innovative Dealmaking Amid Industry Shifts
10/10/2019
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The Evolution Of Revolution: Studio Bosses On Strategic Shifts, Maximizing Library & The ’13 Going On 30′ Musical
03/04/2019