“If you talk to anyone in the exhibition industry about financing theatres, top of mind will be Entertainment Properties Trust,” says Gregory K. Silvers, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company’s vice president, chief operating officer and general counsel (www.eprkc.com). “We are an incredible capital solution for exhibition tenants and other kinds of specialty, niche-type of real estate. We start working with any client by listening,” he elaborates, “by trying to understand their business and to see what issues they are trying to solve. Can we provide a solution to their needs and still work within the constructs that we live by?”Consequently, the publicly traded real estate investment trust (NYSE: EPR) has enjoyed “an international reputation for developing, owning, leasing and financing properties for consumer-preferred, high-quality enterprises.” With total assets exceeding $2.9 billion (see our sidebar for more details about the latest quarter) in a portfolio comprised of some of the industry’s highest grossing megaplex movie theatres, entertainment retail centers, as well as “other destination recreational and specialty investments,” Film Journal International wanted to find out what this business is all about.“A real estate investment trust, otherwise know as REIT, is really a creature of the tax code,” Silvers draws the distinction…