Hi David, Can you please give a bit of a breakdown on your $6,510 per month burn rate, i.e. where are those funds going? Your offering answered my second question which was about release date. I can see you have a realistic 2018 Christmas opening planned. Looking forward!

Barnaby, those funds are going for approximately $6,300 in FaceBook ads, and the rest is for ongoing SaaS/accounting costs. That whole estimate goes out the window when we go into production. Then we'll spend $600,000 in 6 weeks, then another $250k over 3-4 months. Then our monthly costs go down to a few hundred bucks. So the whole burn rate paradigm is not super helpful with a single movie project like ours. And thanks for understanding about the release date!

I was an investor on StartEngine, where you met your funding target, but apparently it was not enough. Now you are raising more funds, here, for the same project. At the same time you are postponing the launch for 2018. I honestly feel very disappointed. This extra funding wou...

Joan, I'm sorry you feel disappointed, but there is absolutely no dilution! I cannot stress this enough -- your ROI will not be diluted. You ask a very reasonable question, and I am very happy to walk you through the reasoning -- which has never changed. Your portion of revenue was and always will be pro rated to the budget of the film, the minimum of which is $850,000. As was explained there, and in the investment documents, we need $850,000 minimum for the entire movie project. We need $600...

Does the fifty percent of net revenues include money made internationally or just domestically?

Joseph, the fifty percent of net revenues includes money from every source, both domestic and foreign. Any way the movie makes money -- you will make money. In perpetuity.

Looking into Tugg, it looks like only 5% of ticket sales goes to the content owner... why is that model preferable to working with a distribution company and what are the chances that I'll be able to see the movie in a theater near me? Also, you mentioned how much you might ge...

Hi, Andrew. With Tugg, the 5% you're referring to is for the Promoter, which is someone who arranges a screening. That doesn't apply to us, as we are the content owners. We would make a minimum of 35% of each screening through Tugg. It's not the only way we could screen theatrically, we could also go with an indie distributor or distribute it ourselves in theatres. As for the likelihood of it being in a theatre near you, it depends on whether or not you live near one of the 20 biggest cities....

I know there's way too many variables to give a concrete answer (and I won't hold you to it) but do you guys have any box office/revenue estimates?

Hi, Dean. That's a great question. Unfortunately, even though we had experts run the numbers on income projections, we're not really allowed to show that publicly. But we wouldn't be spending all our time and money making this movie if we didn't like those numbers. (And remember, we, the producers, don't even get profit participation until AFTER all the investors are paid back 115%.) With those facts in mind, you can make your own decision. Or, as one of our investors put it: "You'd have to m...

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