StudioPOW is a production company who develop and produce distinct and identifiable independent feature films and television with international appeal. Their entire back catalogue has been financed through private investment. FUNNY COW, shot in January 2017, was selected for the London Film Festival where it received its World Premiere. eOne released FUNNY COW in cinemas nationwide on April 20th 2018. Richard Hawley’s stunning soundtrack to the film was released on April 21st 2018. Australia, New Zealand and Canadian theatrical release followed and to date, it has played at the Galway, Dinard, Chicago, Nimes, San Francisco and Vancouver Film Festivals.CORDELIA, produced in association with Twickenham Studios, is now complete along with THE BOOKSHOP, which marks Susan Lynch’s directorial debut.
Welcome to our exclusive investor's page
- Please take some time to watch the interviews of our PR guru Mark Borkowski (Mamma Mia), David Garrett from Mister Smith (behind the $3B Twilight franchise), and Peter Dunne (Shrek) who all talk about their excitement at being involved in MIDAS MAN and their expectations for the film.
- There's a video entitled 'The Team.' This is a quick snapshot of all of the people, films and projects our team have been involved in. I'd advise you to check this out as it's spectacular.
- There's a jaw-dropping selection of some of the movies Twickenham Studios have been associated with. They've been around since 1913, so we had to be quite selective.
- We've included two videos of client events that we held at BAFTA and also The Soho Hotel. (Pre COVID)
- Once you've taken in all of this feel free to get into the nuts and bolts of the investment and take a look at the Investors Memorandum (IM) including forecasts, risks, returns and of course, a contract.
The Cast
JACOB FORTUNE-LLOYD
EMILY WATSON
EDDIE MARSAN
BILL MILNER
ANGUS IMRIE
ROSIE DAY
MATT LUCAS
OMARI DOUGLAS
KOBNA HOLDBROOK-SMITH
JORDAN KELLY
CHARLIE PALMER ROTHWELL
LUKAS GAGE
JAY LENO
BLAKE RICHARDSON
LEO HARVEY-ELLEDGE
JONAH LEES
CAMPPBELL WALLACE
ADAM LAWRENCE
Frequently Asked Questions
The following articles should give you an overview of how investing in Midas Man works
The investment in Midas Man works as follows.
Clients place their funds into the Midas Man vehicle. You will be benefiting purely from the success of this film. The performance of past and future movies developed by us will not affect your investment.
As we have some of the biggest names in film marketing and distribution in our team and we expect Midas Man to be one of the most talked-about movies of next year.
Midas Man will begin generating sales revenues once it has been released to the viewing public in 2022. Income will be generated from Cinema, Auxiliary (Airlines and Hotels), streaming, DVD and television.
All revenues from sales go directly to investors first. Studio POW and our partners do not begin to receive any returns from Midas Man until our investors have fully recouped their initial investment and have received an additional 20% profit for Round 1 and 32% for Round 2 investors.
Once investors are in profit, we then begin to split all further gains between Studio POW and our investors for the life of the movie.
Collections Agent
An independent third party will collect all funds from the sale of the film. These are referred to as a Collections Agent.
They will handle the collection of all funds created from theatrical, video on demand (Netflix, etc.) auxiliary (Airlines, Hotels etc.) DVD and Terrestrial. This is to protect the investors by making sure that every penny a film makes is returned as it has been agreed.
I hope this snapshot of the investment process was helpful.
Clients investing in our Stand Alone model are generously positioned at the front of the fiscal waterfall. The returns are reduced over two rounds of funding, paying the most advantageous returns to the early investor. Below we have outlined the potential returns from investing in our Midas Man movie when utilising the Stand Alone option.
- 100% of all net revenue generated by the exploitation of the film goes back to stand-alone investors first.
- Stand Alone investors receive 100% of their investment + 20% uplift for Round 1 and 32% for Round 2 investors before the studio, talent, producers or director begin taking their share.
- All returns are first split 30/70 in favour of the studio for Round One investors and 35/65 in favour of the studio for Round Two investors.
- Returns continue for the life of the film.
In addition to our stars and StudioPow, we have some of the most powerful marketers and admen in the business working on our film in Mark Borkowski (Mama Mia, Birdbox) and Trevor Beattie(Moon, Nureyev).
Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty and look at the type of returns you could expect to see from the sales of Midas Man. There are several ways of forecasting sales for a movie so that investors get a feel of what they are likely to see as an ROI. With our past films, we’ve used sales agents’ predictions. To forecast a potential return for Midas Man, the performance of five separate film biopics have been taken into account
- Walk the Line (a biopic of Johnny Cash)
- Nowhere Boy (a story about the early life of John Lennon)
- Ray (a biopic of Ray Charles)
- Rocketman (Elton John)
- Bohemian Rhapsody (a biopic of the rise of Queen)
- The Imitation Game (a biopic of Alan Turing)
They all achieved significant international recognition but in reality, biopics of bands, musicians and musical events are limited in number primarily because there are relatively few of them whose story warrants a film.
In the case of Midas Man, it is rarer still. He is the man who discovered, re-modelled, drove and managed The Beatles. He also discovered Cilla Black, Billy J Kramer and Gerry and The Pacemakers. He also promoted bands such as The Who, Pink Floyd, The Jimmy Hendrix Experience and many more. Some would say that Brian Epstein’s story is unique.
We are breaking our standalone raise into two rounds:
Round One (SOLD OUT)
All investors in Round One will receive 100% of their investment back plus 20% uplift before StudioPow begin to take any share of the profits. Once investors are in a 20% position of profit, all further revenue will be split 30% / 70% in favour of StudioPow. This includes revenues from Cinema, Airlines, Downloads, DVD and global television sales and any additional music revenues for as long as it is commercially viable.
Round Two
Round Two raises the remaining budget, and as in Round One, all investors will receive 100% of their investment back plus 32% uplift before StudioPow begin to take any share of the profits. Once investors are in a 32% position of profit all further revenue will be split 35% / 65% in favour of StudioPow. This includes revenues from Cinema, Airlines, Downloads, DVD and global television sales and any additional music revenues for as long as it is commercially viable. The split is slightly reduced due to the film being substantially de-risked.
The parties mentioned below are all integral to the production and subsequent exploration and collection of the revenues generated by the movie.
- Studio POW
- Twickenham Studios
- Production Accountant
- Sales Agent
- Collection Agent
The Production Accountant will handle all funds for the pre-production and production of Midas Man. This is an individual outside of the accounting firm that handles the day to day accounting for Studio POW and specialises in the handling of the development and spend for Midas Man as the film is shot.
The Sales Agent will decide which film festival Midas Man will launch at. In addition to this, they will begin to broker the film across the UK and Worldwide. The primary platforms they focus on are:
- Theatrical - Cinemas
- Auxiliary - Airlines and Hotels
- VOD - Video on Demand: Amazon, Apple, Hula, Netflix etcetera
- DVD - There is still life in this platform
- Pay-TV - Sky and the global equivalents
- Free TV - BBC, CH4 and the global equivalents
The above list of revenue streams is not the definitive list. This will expand to include streams such as music, TV serialisations and other areas of exploration that will benefit the standalone and EIS investor.
As the sales agent begins selling the movie across the globe, we will engage the services of a collections agent - Freeway Entertainment.
They handle the collection of all of the funds that are due from the exploration of Midas Man from all platforms around the world.
Funds arrive with Freeway Entertainment who acknowledge receipt and subsequently distribute funds directly to Studio POW. We expect funds to begin arriving with our Midas Man investors by the third or fourth quarter of 2022.
Studio POW then distributes funds as per contractual obligations to investors on a bi-annual basis for perpetuity.
For purposes of clarity; investors will receive a quarterly statement in arrears showing all funds distributed.
Investors will receive their initial seed investment amount tax-free. However, all further returns will be classed as income and taxed accordingly. All profits and gains will be allocated to investors every six months.
One of the reasons that we enjoy working with private investors as opposed to banks is down to the flexibility that individual investors can offer a studio. Due to the rigidity of banking loans, they do not always dove-joint well with the film making process.
Unforeseen delays such as weather, illness and market conditions can delay the shooting or release of a movie.
Raising funds through private investors gives filmmakers the flexibility to absorb short delays without having to endure fines or penalties. As part of this relationship, the studio puts investors in first position so that they receive priority returns from the film, ahead of us at the studio.
The current COVID-19 situation is an extreme example. However, it's still a working example of the benefits of why we use private investors and not banks to raise funds The shooting of Midas Man was delayed and our client base understands the conditions we are in.
This creates a perfect working relationship between studio and investor.
This type of flexibility is not always available when working with a bank or financial institution and the primary reason we acquire investment from individuals such as yourself.
David Garrett, the CEO of our Sales Agent, Mister Smith Entertainment, will be in charge of the international licensing and distribution of Midas Man. David is a highly respected and influential figure within the global film sales arena and we are very proud to have him on our team. You’ll see from the 5-minute video below that despite David’s epic CV he is a quietly spoken, humble man who doesn’t excessively trumpet his spectacular past.
Partners
StudioPOW
Trevor Beattie Films
Trevor Beattie Films was formed by ex-advertising executives Trevor Beattie and Jeremy Chatterton, to bring their craft discipline and decades of experience in commercial short-form film making onto the big screen. It is a career cross-over which began with Beattie’s involvement in the production of Duncan Jones’ BAFTA-winning sci-fi cult classic MOON in 2008. TBFilms work uniquely through all aspects of the film making process, from investment through production and potential brand involvement, to the marketing and PR of movies to at-home and cinema audiences. Midas Man is TBFilms first collaborative project with StudioPOW in what will be a multi-title venture.
Mister Smith Entertainment
Worldwide sales, co-ordinated by Executive Producer Peter Dunne, will be managed directly by Mister Smith Entertainment. Mister Smith Entertainment’s founder David Garrett, who had previously been a founding partner in Summit Entertainment before selling it to Lionsgate in 2012, will spearhead the sales campaign. David is one of the most successful sales agents in the industry and has been responsible for a host of hugely successful films including THE BFG, THE POST, LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, MR. & MRS. SMITH, AMERICAN PIE and the multi-billion dollar TWILIGHT saga films.
Freeway Entertainment
Freeway Entertainment Group is a rights management company specialising in collection account management, revenue sharing and distribution within the global entertainment industry. They have built strong partnerships with leading media rights holders from around the world and have worked on more than 4,000 productions, many of which have been globally successful.
View our Investment Memorandum
A comprehensive IM including forecasts, risks, returns and of course, a contract.
Talking to one of our team is invaluable to you. It's vital that you understand the minutiae of how everything works. That includes the risks as well as the benefits.
