Sorrowdusk
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No people Troma set out to make bad films, but because of that they become good.
These guys just tried and......failed.
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No people Troma set out to make bad films, but because of that they become good.
These guys just tried and......failed.
Depending on the laws covering the group that produced the film, there may actually be a tax benefit to investing in a movie that flopped.
Jemal
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Icewind Dale : A Joss Whedon/Christopher Nolan Film
Starring Will smith as Drizzt Do'urden, Tyler Mane as Wulfgar, and Peter Dinklage as Regis.
Lol.. that would be... interesting, to say the least.
Oh, there are...DVD sales, buy back, loss due to piracy, it is Hollywood crazy accounting. But it goes something like this,
The outcome; a bad movie makes lots of money on the books.
1) Cost to make a DVD, 25cents = sell DVD for 15$
2) Buy back unsold DVDs at 5cents a copy but claim on taxes loss at 15$
3) Claim 25% or more loss $$$ due to piracy
4) Re-sale un-sold DVD in another market
5) Repeat 2 to 5
Exactly, but that's US law- some jurisdictions don't allow for Hollywood Accounting...but that isn't even what I was talking about.
Some countries have VERY generous laws about permitting huge write-offs on investments in movies that fail, including letting you carry them forward into the future if you've already maxed out your tax shelters foe the year...letting you claim the deduction off of your taxes in a future year. (This model is used all over the world for a variety of investment types, like investing in TV, Radio, or oil exploration.)
Some countries have VERY generous laws about permitting huge write-offs on investments in movies that fail, including letting you carry them forward into the future if you've already maxed out your tax shelters foe the year...letting you claim the deduction off of your taxes in a future year. (This model is used all over the world for a variety of investment types, like investing in TV, Radio, or oil exploration.)
Stormonu
NeoGrognard
Yep, Germany and Uwe Boll!
I thought it was only Germany that had those crazy "lose your shirt to make money" movie tax credits. I should have figured Bail-Me-Out America would have started it.
You sorely underestimate Hollywood's ability to F-up anything.
You guys WANT a "quality director"...you may get one, but it will be someone who doesn't know action or high-fantasy.
Like Tyler Perry. Or Woody Allen.
Or worse, they could go totally overboard and make it a big-budget, overbloated monstrosity: Brian DePalma directing Wesley Snipes, Robert DeNiro, John Malcovitch, Christopher Waulken and Angelina Jolie in something that so little resembles the source material that the fanboys go "Whut?"
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Stumblewyk
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Am I the only person who watched Your Highness and thought to themselves, "They seriously just sat down and watched a bunch of long-friends playing a really casual D&D game and then turned it into a movie?"
From beginning to end, the movie reads like someone just had their, admittedly immature, gaming group sit down and write a D&D movie script together.
From beginning to end, the movie reads like someone just had their, admittedly immature, gaming group sit down and write a D&D movie script together.
Those tax structures exist for good reasons, but like any system, there have been those who have perverted the intent of the rules to their own ends- the Law of Unintended Consequences rears it's ugly head again.
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