Tagged: film

INX to List Advent Token, a Digital Security for Advent Entertainment

Next week, Advent Entertainment will pursue a digital security offering on INX  for a token tied to royalties. Advent aims to produce films, television shows, video games, and more. The initial token sale hopes to raise a minimum amount of $15 million. The tokens are… Read More

Ian LeWinter: President at Film.io, a Blockchain based Platform for Empowering Film Creators, Shares Latest Industry Updates

We recently connected with Ian LeWinter, an experienced producer and President at Film.io. LeWinter told us that he’s looking to challenge the existing order by providing new paths for filmmakers to build, fund, and distribute movies and TV shows. Film.io is a blockchain or distributed… Read More

FINTECH Circle Teams Up With ITN Production Industry News to Introduce “The Future of Fintech” Film

FINTECH Circle recently announced it has teamed up with ITN Productions Industry News to launch the co-production “The Future of Fintech”  to raise awareness and understanding of the global financial technology sector, and the vital role of fintech during the global pandemic. The film notably… Read More

NextSeed Adds New Asset Class for Investors: Film

NextSeed, formerly a Reg CF funding portal operating as a bank alternative that has since morphed into a full-stack online capital formation and private equity platform, has added a new asset class to its list of available investments with its first film offering. Described as… Read More

Legion M Announces Seventh Fundraising Round As Fan-Owner Entertainment Studio Passes $10 Million With More Than 25,000 Fan-based Investors

Legion M, a U.S.-based fan-owned entertainment company, announced on Thursday its seventh round of fundraising. The company reported that in a little over four years, it has secured more than $10 million from over 250,000 fan-based investors. Like its other rounds, the latest Regulation Crowdfunding… Read More

First Equity Crowdfunding Offer for a Film Launched in Southeast Asia, Listed on FundedByMe

Stranger Pictures has launched the first equity crowdfunding offering for a film in Southeast Asia according to a note from the issuer. The securities offering is listed on global platform FundedByMe in Malaysia. FundedByMe is based in Sweden and is a publicly-traded company. The company… Read More

Legion M’s 5th Crowdfunding Round Scheduled to Close Next Week, $9 Million Raised Over Time

In less than 7 days, Legion M will close its 5th crowdfunding round currently hosted on Wefunder under the Reg A+ exemption. According to the campaign page, Legion M has raised $4.86 million from 15,792 investors but a not from the company indicates that lifetime… Read More

tZERO to Tokenize Films in Partnership with Bloq Flix

tZERO, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) has formed a partnership with Bloq Flix, LLC, to tokenize films, according to a release. Bloq Flix claims to be the “first blockchain entertainment financing company.” tZERO said that Bloq Flix will utilize its tokenization protocol technology to tokenize… Read More

tZero to Tokenize Forthcoming Film: “Atari: Fistful of Quarters”

Overstock subsidiary (NASDAQ: OSTK) tZERO announced on Tuesday it was teaming up with producers of Atari: Fistful of Quarters to tokenize the upcoming motion picture. tZERO claims that this will be the first time the film industry to use blockchain technology, which marks a milestone… Read More

Over Two Dozen Television Pilots Fund Through Seed&Spark’s “Keep It Colorful” Crowdfunding Effort

Seed&Spark, the independent film crowdfunding platform, announced on Thursday that pilots for 27 television series developed by creators of color were funded as part of a special month-long “Keep It Colorful” crowdfunding effort. According to Seed&Spark, approximately 50 content creators of color entered the crowdfunding… Read More

Legion M Returns to Wefunder with New Crowdfunding Campaign

LegionM has filed a new Form C with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating its intent to launch a new crowdfunding campaign to raise additional funding.  LegionM was the second project to leverage Reg CF to hit the $1 million funding cap (since raised to $1.07M) LegionM… Read More

Broken Lizard Releases Trailer for Indiegogo-Funded “Super Troopers 2” (Video)

Just a few months before the highly anticipated premiere of Indiegogo-funded Super Troopers 2, the film’s production company Broken Lizard released the comedy’s official trailer. As previously reported,  Broken Lizard sought to raise $2 million for the sequel of the 2001 cult classic Super Troopers and raised more than $4.6… Read More

WeFunder Alum Legion M Makes Sundance Film Festival Debut

Legion M, a fan-owned entertainment company, announced on Wednesday it will be making its debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. According to Legion M, the Legion M Lounge will be open from Thursday, January 18th, to Sunday, January 21st and will be the location of… Read More

Producing Change: Seed&Spark CEO Emily Best Discusses #MeToo, the Film Industry & Crowdfunding

“We are asking everyone in our community to take responsibility for their part. We ask all of our filmmakers to make a public facing statement about how their project is increasing inclusion in entertainment. We make it very clear to our audiences that what we… Read More

Seed&Spark and CEO Emily Best Have Exciting Plans for 2018: Action!

Seed&Spark, the subscription streaming and crowdfunding platform focused on making entertainment more diverse and inclusive, has announced a slate of crowdfunding rallies for 2018, aiming to bring hundreds of thousands of dollars in matching loans, grants and investments from prestige brands and production company partners… Read More

Seed&Spark CEO Emily Best & Duplass Brothers Productions Celebrate Hometown Heroes Crowdfunding Rally Film Winners: “MisEducation of Bindu” & “Drought”

Seed&Spark CEO & Founder Emily Best and Mark Duplass (Room 104, The One I Love, Creep) and announced that Duplass Brothers Productions will be executive producing two locally based features as the winners of the Hometown Heroes Crowdfunding Rally: The MisEducation of Bindu (Indianapolis, IN)… Read More

Fashion on Screen Campaigns for “Will” on SyndicateRoom, Plans for 2018 Nasdaq Nordic Listing

Online investment platform SyndicateRoom announced that UK film and entertainment company, Fashion On Screen (FOS), will be raising £1.5 million via its platform.  FOS, a film production company which aims to produce prestigious, inspiring, commercial films for a global market, is raising funds for its first… Read More

Rooster Teeth Releases Trailer For Indiegogo Success “Lazer Team” Sequel (Video)

Almost two years after the release of Indiegogo-funded Lazer Team 2, production studio Rooster Teeth released the first trailer for the film’s upcoming sequel. As previously reported, Lazer Team 2 received more than $2.3 million in funding during its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in 2014 and raised an additional $1… Read More

Green Light! Seed&Spark’s Hometown Heroes Crowdfunding Rally Presents Finalists

Fifteen filmmakers advanced today to the finals of Seed&Spark’s Hometown Heroes Crowdfunding Rally, moving on to pitch their local feature film to Mark and Jay Duplass, who will executive produce up to five of the movies as well as provide up to $25,000 in no-interest… Read More

Broken Lizard Releases Official Teaser For “Super Troopers 2” (Video)

Less than two weeks after announcing Super Troopers 2 will debut in theaters on April 20, 2018, the film studio behind the Indiegogo-funded comedy, Broken Lizard, released its official teaser. As previously reported,  Broken Lizard sought to raise $2 million for the sequel of the 2001 cult… Read More

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