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[Escape Goat]

In a complaint issued Thursday, the Justice Department claimed that tens of millions of dollars was diverted from a Malaysian government investment fund to produce "Dumb and Dumber To" and "Daddy's Home."

It's part of what prosecutors say was an enormous international fraud: Corrupt officials and financiers stole $4.5 billion from 1Malaysia Development Berhad between 2009 and 2015, laundering the money through a series of shell companies with bank accounts in the United States and abroad.
Prosecutors have filed to recover $1.7 billion.

The Justice Department says millions in stolen money was funneled through Red Granite Pictures, a Los Angeles production company. The government is laying claim to the movie rights from all three films in question, as well as any profits.


Also on the list of assets the government wants to recover: 2.5 million shares of stock in the tech startup Palantir; paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet; diamond jewelry; real estate in New York and Beverly Hills, California; and a 300-foot luxury yacht valued at more than $260 million.

What's Trump's game? Did he really like these movies that much he had to control it's rights? There's something going on...


http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/15/media/dumb-and-dumber-daddys-home-malaysia-1mdb/index.html

 

[SpaceWolf]

Didn't Dumb and Dumber 2 look infamously cheap despite its budget? Never got around to seeing that movie.

 

[KillLaCam]

My dad worked on Dumb and Dumber to. That's hilarious

 

[NealMcCauley]

Ah, Red Granite. This was happening even during Obama. IIRC the investigation only focused on WoWS, but I guess it expanded.

 

[Sojgat]

Those movies were already crimes.

 

[Akuun]

Holy shit.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Maybe they were just I.O.U.s

 

[GraveRobberX]

A trailer for Daddy's Home 2 just released lol...

 

[SunDimension24]

I wonder if that is going to affect the release of the second Daddy's Home.

 

[Ashhong]

A trailer for Daddy's Home 2 just released lol...

Yea..was just going to say this lol

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

This is a Hollywood movie in itself.

 

[GraveRobberX]

They did Wolf of Wall Street?

Talk about foreshadowing lol...

 

[BlueTsunami]

Maybe they were just I.O.U.s

The Malaysian Developer



Also, I bet those underproduced Adam Sandler flicks have a dirty underbelly

 

[BlueSteel]

woah-boy, 2.5 million shares in Palantir you say?

 

[Mr_Appleby]

woah-boy, 2.5 million shares in Palantir you say?

Yeah interesting choice of investment

 

[mjc]

This is fucking radical, so weird too.

 

[Revolutionary]

Why no mention of Wolf of Wall Street? The article says it was also financed by the illicit money.
Edit: Wait, I see the Wolf part of the story is apparently old news.

Pretty crazy story, regardless.

 

[Dishwalla]

So like, are we not supposed to watch these movies now? Cuz I love Wolf of Wall Street, don't care about the others.

 

[Slayven]

I always say this, never thought it was true

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

This is weird. Something I'd expect from porn but not something flowing into big movies with people like Dicaprio attached. I guess there's little oversight done with "following the money" on a lot of productions.

 

[Toothless]

I guess there's only one thing to do in Daddy's Home 2:

KILL THE MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER!!!

 

[Orbis Tabula]

It's always so weird where Palantir shows up sometimes.

 

[night814]

Those movies were already crimes.

Indeed.

 

[sturgboski]

Isn't this how Uwe Boll was able to make "movies"?

 

[akira28]

So the only way a Dumb and Dumb and Dumber Three gets made is an act of Congress?


good.

 

[Widdle Puppy]

Is this a common trend? I heard Wolf of Wallstreet was also made with laundered money? Is Hollywood the place to launder money?

 

[akira28]

One of many. Somewhere else, video game companies, pachinko parlors, and sports clubs would be considered a good way to launder money.

 

[DrSlek]

Isn't this how Uwe Boll was able to make "movies"?

I thought Uwe Boll was financed by people looking to exploit Germany's generous tax incentives for investment in the arts.

 

[sturgboski]

I thought Uwe Boll was financed by people looking to exploit Germany's generous tax incentives for investment in the arts.

Ah, that was it.

 

[Human Resources]

the people who actually made these movies had nothing to do with this (except a shady ass producer or two, maybe)
shit, i'd be surprised if the distributing studios even knew the exact providence of the funding from Red Granite

 

[Frozenprince]

This is a lot more common than you'd think.