raise dough

And in a case of life imitating art, the guy making the movie--Guy Ritchie, that is, three days before shooting his first feature, the British crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels--found that the financing had fallen through, and he needed to raise dough pronto.

Some university could raise dough to send a team of scientists back here and a movie company would cough up plenty to use this place as a location for a caveman epic.