Blogging’s going to be light-to-nonexistent today, since it’s a travel day for me.

Cinemark Holdings, a publicly traded movie house operator, completed a $660 million fundraising from a joint venture between AMC and Regal Entertainment Group, led by JPMorgan and Blackstone Advisory Partners. The company’s backers, Madison Dearborn Capital Partners, Syufy Enterprises LP Mitchell Special Trust, will sell some of their shares, leaving Madison Dearborn with a 32.1% stake, Syufy Enterprises with 5.3% and the Mitchell Special Trust 4.9%.

Mubadala Development Company has agreed to acquire a 9 percent equity stake in The Raine Group LLC, a firm which they seeks to capitalize on emerging investment opportunities in the media, entertainment and sports sectors around the world. Mubadala Development Company and William Morris Agency will be investors in Raine alongside private equity pioneer Ted Forstmann. Raine, a boutique merchant bank, was founded by Joe Ravitch, former senior partner and global head of media at Goldman Sachs, and Jeff Sine, former Vice-Chairman and global head of Technology, Media & Telecom at UBS.

NERA Economic Consulting’s Thomas Porter says fair-value accounting rules cannot be blamed for causing the credit crisis, mainly because they did not require any new fair-value measurements.

As Chris Dodd prepares for retirement, possibly to his 10-acre plot on Inishnee Island on Galway Bay (a story for another day as while it is part and parcel of the seedy side of Washington I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to work the CDS market into it), he will attempt to bring a financial reform bill that can actually pass both houses. The bill was originally intended to fix every last thing that was wrong with Wall St., the credit card companies, the mortgage industry and a whole host of other businesses whose raw material and finished product is the $ sign.