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U.S. Govt seeking rights to Wolf of Wall Street, Dumb & Dumber To, and Daddy's home
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Sectorseven
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Does that mean they would enter public domain, or the rights would just get auctioned off?
Kind of ironic with the subject manner of Wolf of Wall Street.
Transistor
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A Million Ways to Die in the West had to have been a money laundering scheme. No way anybody actually read that and said "hey, this is great!"
Trojita
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HyperZone<3
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Pretty much every latter day Steven Seagal movie seems pretty fishy to me in that regard.
Guy had seven movies out last year, two of those got their direct-to-streaming release on the same day. Something there is up.
Guy had seven movies out last year, two of those got their direct-to-streaming release on the same day. Something there is up.
Fancyarcher
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Ted was a hit, so MacFarlane had some clout, not that hard to believe.
adamantypants
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This is bizarre and fascinating
Hatty
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I know five different people that love that movie. No, I don't know why
Come on, I laughed a couple times. Now Zoolander 2, yeeesh.
Little Old Man
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I had a roommate that made me & our other roommate watch it because he loved it. The other guy loved it, too...
MacFarlane could get away with a couple of flops because of Family Guy, but it wouldn't surprise me if this was true.
Investing in an actual entity is not how money laundering works lol. Money laundering typically involves running money through a business that can generate fake transations. Giving money to a film that fails would be a terrible way to "launder" money.
This is just people trying to make money off of their dirty money with clean investments.
In this case the money was already laundered before it reached the film investments.
This is just people trying to make money off of their dirty money with clean investments.
In this case the money was already laundered before it reached the film investments.
BobTheFork
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Suddenly Adam Sandler leaves the country unannounced.
Earthbound64
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Much better topic title than this thread' s clickbait title.
Wanted posters for Adam Sandler go up everywhere lol
BreezyLimbo
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I imagine with Hollywood accounting, you cold realistically launder money through shitty movies.
Dont underestimate the power of Hollywood Accounting. Itll make your head spin.
Linkstrikesback
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What Trump thinks of Trump, what we think of Trump and Pence, and what we want from Obama.
A coincidence of film titles? I think not.
A coincidence of film titles? I think not.
At least Mr Belding got some work.
Hollywood accounting is used to make it appear you didn't make a profit, in order to avoid taxes.
Money laundering involves making it appear you did make a lot of profit, off of sales or transactions that never occurred, so that you can pay taxes on the money and avoid the IRS scrutiny for large purchases.
A theater could money launder quite easily, you could pretend tickets were sold while theaters were actually empty. Investing in a movie? I don't see how that could actually launder money.
He bootlegged jackets just to pay for the stuff he had to buy, & one of the producers was in a nursing home during the entire production process, & she only spoke to Tommy. Not a dime of that movie was clean.
I normally don't condone that behavior, but it adds to The Room's mystique so it gets a pass.
Fancyarcher
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=daddyshome.htm
Anyway considering these films feature big stars who would have helped make the films hit, this just proves how morally corrupt people within Hollywood can be sometimes, jeez.
How so? The movie was a huge failure and did not generate clean profits that could be used to launder money.
It could have been used to pay people who worked on the film more money than they deserved I guess. A sort of money laundering. But it also just could have been a scam. But if the money was dirty; that doesn't really work. The source of the money is not clean, and not laundered.
Hollywood accounting isn't about taxes. It's about moving the profits from Company A to Company B (and Company B will pay taxes) because Company A has some agreement to pay royalties or share profits. If it was for tax dodging, it would have been made illegal some time ago. The government will get its money.
Marmaladefire
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Everything about The Room is amazing. Like someone else said, it's Not Okay but, it's The Room.
Wow, I guess I missed how well that movie did.
Very similar though; it's not a viable money laundering scheme.
Fancyarcher
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It was excellent counter-programming to Star Wars that Christmas. I was actually shocked by how well it did, since I was predicting maybe a 20m+ opening weekend a month earlier from its release, but apparently the reteaming of Ferrell and Wahlberg was enough to get a lot of 20+ year olds to go the theater. Being released around Christmas helped legs as well.
Wolf of Wall St. was an amazing movie though. They did not do the money laundering through a bad movie right on that one. I mean Leonardo Di Caprio alone commands a very pretty penny.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
my guess is that they have to auction it off because their attempt is to recover the funds stolen.
The Albatross
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I had never thought about it but film making very well might be a good way to launder some money with phony production teams getting paid for phony work and who can tell what it is.
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