UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | | 7812 | | 56-2646829 |
(State or jurisdiction of | | (Primary Standard Industrial | | (I.R.S. Employer |
incorporation or organization) | | Classification Code Number) | | Identification No.) |
1752 East Avenue J #266, Lancaster, California, 93560, 213-694-1888
(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)
SAMUEL WIERDLOW, INC.
3422 Old Capitol Trail #584, Wilmington, Delaware, 19808, 302-777-1642
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this Registration Statement becomes effective.
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box: x
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of each | | Amount | | | Proposed | | | Proposed | | | Amount of | |
class of securities | | to be | | | maximum | | | maximum | | | registration fee | |
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Common Stock | | | 64,434,822 | (1) | | $ | 0.01 | (2) | | $ | 644,348.22 | | | $ | 25.32 | |
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Common Stock | | | 100,000,000 | (3) | | $ | 0.10 | (4) | | $ | 10,000,000 | | | $ | 393.00 | |
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TOTALS | | | 164,434,822 | | | | -- | | | $ | 10,644,348.22 | | | $ | 418.32 | |
(1) | This Registration Statement covers the re-sale by our selling shareholders of up to 64,434,822 shares of our common stock previously issued to such selling shareholders. |
(2) | The offering price has been estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933. The offering price was determined by the last price, which was also the highest price, at which we sold any of the shares. |
(3) | Represents shares of common stock that may be acquired by Auctus Private Equity Fund, LLC from time to time pursuant to a drawdown line of equity credit facility. |
(4) | Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933. The price per share of the shares offered has been arbitrarily determined by us, the Company. |
The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This prospectus shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such State.
PROSPECTUS
Writers’ Group Film Corp.
164,434,822 shares of Common Stock
This Prospectus relates to two issuances of securities:
First, this prospectus relates to 64,434,822 shares of our common stock, par value $0.001 per share, which may be offered for sale or otherwise transferred from time to time by the selling shareholders.
These 64,434,822 shares are being registered to permit public secondary trading of the securities offered by the selling stockholders named in this Prospectus. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the securities by the selling stockholders.
These 64,434,822 shares of our common stock will be sold by selling security holders at a fixed price of $0.01 per share until our shares are quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board and thereafter at prevailing marketing prices or privately negotiated prices. See "Plan of Distribution" on Page 32 of this Prospectus.
We intend to apply to list our common stock on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“OTCBB”) if and when we meet the listing requirements. There can be no assurances, however, that we will meet the listing requirements. Therefore, we cannot give you any assurance that an established trading market in our common stock will develop, or if such a market does develop, that it will continue.
Second, this prospectus relates to the issuance from time to time of up to 100,000,000 shares of stock which may be purchased by Auctus Private Equity Fund, LLC, pursuant to a drawdown line of equity credit facility. The total amount of shares of common stock which may be sold pursuant to this prospectus would constitute 61.1% of our issued and outstanding common stock as of January 15, 2009, if all of the shares had been sold by that date.
We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. However, we will receive the sale price of any common stock that we sell to Auctus under the drawdown line of equity credit facility.
Important Note: Investing in our company, Writers’ Group Film Corp., involves a great deal of risk, for many different reasons. Please see a list of the risk factors involved in investing in our company, beginning on page 6 of this prospectus.
The Commissioner of Corporations of the State of California does not recommend or endorse the purchase of these securities.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
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Summary Information and Risk Factors.
This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should read the entire prospectus, including “Risk Factors” and the consolidated financial statements and the related notes before making an investment decision.
We are Writers’ Group Film Corp., a start-up entertainment production company, incorporated in March of 2007 with the twin goals of a) producing television programs for distribution via broadcast, cable and/or satellite television channels, and b) producing films for distribution to movie theatres or directly to video and other outlets. We have generated a small amount of revenues – see our MD&A section and our Financial Statements for details – but have never had a profit.
We are using this prospectus to register both the 64,434,822 shares already issued through private offerings, as well as up to 100,000,000 shares of our common stock to be sold from time to time in the future to Auctus Private Equity Fund, LLC pursuant to a drawdown line of equity credit facility which we have executed with them.
Selling Shareholders. 64,434,822 of the shares of common stock offered under this prospectus may be sold by the selling security holders on the public market, in negotiated transactions with a broker-dealer or market maker as principal or agent, or in privately negotiated transactions not involving a broker or dealer. Information regarding the selling shareholders, the common shares they are offering to sell under this prospectus, and the times and manner in which they may offer and sell those shares is provided in the sections of this prospectus captioned "Selling Security Holders" and "Plan of Distribution". The registration of common shares pursuant to this prospectus does not necessarily mean that any of those shares will ultimately be offered or sold by the selling security holders.
The Drawdown Equity Facility. Up to 100,000,000 shares of our common stock are being registeredThe money raised from the drawdown facility, up to $10,000,000, will be used to a) finance continual upgrading of our website; b) finance the production of short films and “spec” – short for “speculative”, meaning unsolicited – television series pilots which we expect to have serve as examples of our quality of work for the benefit of television and film executives who would be in a position to offer us film and television production opportunities; c) finance seed capital for our feature film projects; and d) finance the entire budget of our first two feature films.
We have never had a profit, are in poor financial condition and we anticipate no profits for at least the first two years, as we build our brand name and recognition factor among members of the entertainment industry by making a continuous stream of short films, feature films, and other entertainment products and marketing them as described later in this prospectus.
The mailing address of our principal executive offices is: 1752 East Avenue J #266, Lancaster, CA 93560. The telephone/fax number of our principal executive offices is: (213) 694-1888. Our website is www.writersgroupfilmcorp.com.
The following table sets forth summary financial data derived from our financial statements. The data should be read in conjunction with the financial statements, related notes and other financial information included in this prospectus.
Operating Statement Data | | for the period March 9, 2007 (Inception) through March 31, 2008 (Audited) | | | for the six months ended September 30, 2008 (Unaudited) | |
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Revenues: | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | |
Expenses: | | | 116,878 | | | | 15,272 | |
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Net Loss from Operations: | | | ( 116,878 | ) | | | (15,272 | ) |
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Balance Sheet Data | | as at March 31, 2008(Audited) | | | as at September 30, 2008(Unaudited) | |
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Total Assets: | | $ | 1,000 | | | | 0 | |
Total Liabilities: | | | 0 | | | | 3,252 | |
Total Stockholders' Equity: | | | 1,000 | | | | (3,252 | ) |
You should carefully consider the following risk factors and all other information in this prospectus before investing in our common stock. Investing in our company involves a high degree of risk. Any of the following risks makes this offering speculative or risky, and could adversely affect our business,
financial condition and results of our operations and could result in a complete loss of your investment.
The Short Film We Purchased May Not Succeed In Bringing The Amount Of Attention We Need To Properly Pursue The First Prong of Our Business Plan, Which Would Bring A Failure To This Portion Of Our Plan And Put More Pressure On The Other Three Parts Of Our Initial Business Plan To Succeed.The first prong of our four-prong initial business plan – see Description of Business and MD&A sections, below – is to use the short film we already purchased, an irreverent comedic parody entitled “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?”, as a marketing tool to create brand awareness and overall attention from the public to our products and talents, in particular to entertainment industry executives who would be in a position to commission us to produce other entertainment products. And the first method to achieving success of this prong calls for the placement of this short movie on video sharing websites, such as YouTube and Google Video. However, this short film has already been placed on the YouTube, Veoh and FunnyorDie.com video sharing websites, and has so far not been viewed a sufficient number of times. After approximately two years on YouTube, the short film has been viewed approximately 50,000 times. After six months on FunnyorDie.com, it has been viewed less than 500 times, and after eight months on Veoh, it has been viewed approximately 1,000 times. By comparison, videos on YouTube which have accomplished what we would like to accomplish in our business plan – namely, broad public recognition of our work and talent – typically receive over 1 million views. It is unlikely that this short film alone will be able to accomplish that portion of our business plan dealing with wider recognition of our work alone, which means our future work will have to carry an extra burden of doing this. Additionally, our management must be more diligent in researching and executing the various techniques one uses to get one’s videos more widely viewed on these sites.
Our Marketing Plan Calls For Risky, Somewhat Novel Strategies Which Could Easily Fail, Forcing Us To Re-Think Our Entire Marketing Plan, Likely Leading To A Long Delay In Our Profitability.The second method to achieving success of the first prong of our business plan is to submit our short film unsolicited to those entities which typically air comedic parody short films and other similar products from less well-known suppliers. But we really have no idea whether any of these outlets - including HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, IFC and Sundance Channel - would at all be receptive to our unsolicited product. We don't know for sure if anyone at any of these outlets would even look at what we sent them, let alone air it.
Finally, our business plan directs us to submit the short film – which has already been submitted to various film festivals – to more film festivals. But many film festivals, which often include competitions of the films they exhibit, are typically overwhelmed with film submissions, and simply do not have enough slots for all the films which are submitted for consideration. Therefore, it is a competitive process just to get one's film accepted as an entrant in one of these film festivals, and there is no guarantee any film festival – whether it is a large and famous one like Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah or Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, or even a small and niche one like Giggleshorts Comedy Festival - will want to accept any of our filmed products for exhibition. And the one film festival to which our film was accepted so far – the NewFilmmakers NY film series – did not generate any wide recognition or acknowledgement of our work.
There Is No Guarantee Our Future Filmed Skits, Concepts and Short Films Will Fare Any Better Than Our First, And If This Portion Of Our Business Plan Should Fail, Our Initial Business Plan Would Be Crippled.The second prong to our initial business plan is to film additional pieces, mostly very short, funny, irreverent scenes, skits and concepts which we believe will appeal to the typical viewer of shared video sites such as YouTube. The intention in doing so is not to gain revenues, but to continue to create a brand for ourselves, as well as build wide public recognition of our work and talent in general. But there is no guarantee that this strategy will work. YouTube, for example, receives thousands of new videos every day and it is very difficult to get one’s video noticed above the constant flood of new material coming in from others. And if we should go unrecognized, then these efforts will have been wasted, and our success would rely almost entirely on the portion of our business plan dealing with the production of feature films. See Description of Business and MD&A sections below for more information on our four-pronged initial business plan.
Third-Party Financiers And Our Own Money Raises May Not Be Successful In Raising Sufficient Capital To Properly Entice Well-Known Actors And Their Representation To Participate In Our Feature Film Projects, Which Would Cripple The Most Important Aspect Of Our Initial Business Plan, And Make Our Overall Success Unlikely. The third, and most important, prong to our initial business plan is to produce feature-length films. Our first contemplated method of financing such a project is to approach third-party financiers, as well as utilize our own money raises, such as this initial public offering, to collect approximately 10-15% of each of our feature films’ respective budgets and offer that money to well-known actors in exchange for their participation as actors in the respective films. Once we have the well-known actor’s commitment, we can then approach established film studios and production companies for the remainder of the budget. However, despite a verbal agreement with one third-party financier to commit $150,000 in the next 3-4 months for such a purpose for our film “Writers’ Assistants” – see Description of Business and MD&A sections, below – there is no guarantee that this financier will follow through, and no guarantee that we will be able to raise enough money, or convince any other third-party financier to commit to such funding, to have this method of financing our movies be successful. We are not in talks with any other third-party financier at this time.
Well-Known Actors And Directors Of Whose Services We Ask May Not Agree To Participate In Our Projects Even If Offered 10-15% Of The Film’s Budget, And If We Are Not Able To Secure The Services Of Any Well-Known Actors or Directors For Our Projects, Our Films Will Very Likely Not Get Made Despite Raising 10-15% Of The Budget.Assuming that, as part of our principal plan to produce feature films, we have successfully raised 10-15% of the film’s budget through money raises or through third-party financiers, we shall then approach well-known actors and/or directors to participate in one of our film projects, offering them the money that we raised. However, money is not the only factor which determines an actor’s or director’s participation. Other factors, such as quality of the script, competence of the filmmakers, genre in which the film deals, and simple matters such as scheduling, all play as much or more of a role in determining an actor or director’s next project. There is no guarantee that any given actor or director will participate. We will have more than one choice for actor and/or director, but it is possible that none of our choices will choose to participate, making the completion of the film highly unlikely at that point.
Film Studios And Production Companies May Not Finance Our Films, Even With The Participation Of A Well-Known Actor Or Director, Making Our Plans To Produce Films Virtually Impossible.Historically, the inclusion of a well-known actor or director in a film project makes it much more likely to be financed by entertainment industry executives responsible for financing films. However, there is no guarantee that we will be able to receive the full funding of our respective motion pictures’ budgets, even if we are successful in getting a commitment from a well-known actor or director to participate in each respective film. There are other myriad factors involved in the decision by a studio or large production company to finance a film, including overall budget, genre of the film, likelihood of success in foreign markets, and many others, making the film studios’ and production companies’ decision to finance the remaining portion of our respective films’ budgets by no means guaranteed.
Submission Of Our Screenplays And Film Projects To Contests And Online Writers’ Services, As Well As To More Traditional Terminals Such As Directly To Literary Agents And Production Companies, Is Unlikely To Yield Positive Results Because Of The Sheer Volume Of Screenplays And Film Projects In Existence, Rendering Our Plan To Produce Movies Much More Difficult.The second method of achieving our third goal in our initial business plan of producing feature films is to utilize both new, online-based writers’ support services, such as websites devoted to showcasing certain writers and scripts and online contests, as well as more traditional methods of sending out our scripts to literary agents to see if they would be willing to represent the film, and production companies to see if they would produce our film. But the sheer number and volume of screenplays and film projects being submitted to all of these terminals far outpaces the demand for such material by the entertainment industry, thereby making our projects unlikely to be discovered or even read. And even if they are read, there is no guarantee that others will agree that our scripts are of high-enough quality that they are worthy of representation or production.
TV Show Pilots Produced Without The Backing Of A TV Channel Or A Major Studio Production Company Have Extremely Limited Distribution Opportunities, Making This Prong Of Our Business Plan Relatively Unfeasible In The Short Run.The fourth prong of our initial business plan is to produce TV show pilots “on spec”, meaning unsolicited, without the backing of a TV channel or network or major studio production company, and then show them to entertainment industry executives in the hopes that they will either purchase our show, if they are a television executive, or help us produce it and sell it to a television channel or network, if they are with a production company. But there is almost no distribution of a TV show outside of television, except for very limited experiments on certain websites such as MySpace and Apple iTunes. And getting meetings with television executives is very difficult. Finally, self-distributing our TV show pilots to non-paying channels in order to simply generate public recognition of our work is limited to a website called “Channel 101” plus the same video sharing websites we plan to use for our short films, such as YouTube and FunnyorDie.com, and historically are unlikely platforms from which proper television programs are purchased by television channels and networks or major studio production companies. This prong of our initial business plan will have to wait until our other prongs have had a chance to work.
We Are A Start Up Company, And As Such Face Difficulties Including Steep Development Costs, Low Name Recognition And No Goodwill, Which If Not Overcome Could Mean We Will Have To Shut Down Operations. We expect to encounter risks and difficulties frequently faced by start up companies in new and rapidly
changing markets. If you invest in our shares you must consider the risks and difficulties frequently encountered by new businesses, such as:
o The need to establish our brand name awareness;
o The need for sufficient funds;
o The dependence on our website;
o The need to manage changing and expanding operations;
o The need to effectively compete in the entertainment industry;
o The need to establish ourselves as an important contender in the evolving film industry.
Although we feel we have substantial understanding of what products people might enjoy, based on our years of experience and expertise, we may have a limited insight into other trends that may affect our business. We can't be certain that we will be successful or that we will successfully address these risks. If we fail to do so, our products will be poorly received by our intended public, causing our name to be quickly associated with bad products and making it much more unlikely that our plan to be given a producing opportunity will come to fruition.
We Have Little History of Operations, And Therefore Investors May Not Have The Adequate Data Needed to Determine If Our Track Record Makes Us A Sound Investment Or Not.Our operations have consisted mainly of purchasing one short film, creating our web site and developing our business model and otherwise organizing our operations. We just recently generated revenues through a single contract to render services and by optioning one of our screenplays. We incorporated in Delaware on March 9, 2007. We are a new business, and the failure rate for new businesses has been high. To be profitable we must develop, promote, and market our services, so they are accepted on a broad, commercial basis, and this will take years. In the meantime, potential investors should be aware that our income statements are likely to show a large amount of expenses and nearly no revenues.
We Have No Recent Profits From Operations, Are In A Poor Financial Condition And We Will Likely Not Be Profitable Soon, Which Means Investors' Investment May Not Even Result In Any Claims To Assets If We Are Forced To Liquidate.Although we have purchased our first short film, this film has not been sold, and will likely never be sold. In fact, we have only optioned one of our screenplays for $1,000, and been engaged in one contract to render services, for $8,425, and so have no profits, recent or otherwise, and will likely not have any profits for the next few years, and little revenues for the next 1-3 years, even with a large infusion of debt or equity funding, as we continue to produce entertainment products without likelihood that any will be sold. Since inception, we have accumulated a deficit of over $132,000 and we will incur significant losses in the future, as we devote time and money to development, promotions, marketing, and establishing our marketing staff.
We May Not Have Sufficient Funds And This May Lead to More-Diluted Stock. Future events, including the problems, delays, unexpected expenses and other difficulties frequently encountered by movie production companies may lead to cost increases that could make the net proceeds of this offering insufficient to fund our proposed operations. Current operations may continue if this offering is not successful; however, future planned operations over the next year will be quite limited if this offering is not successful. We may require additional financing. This may not be available on a timely basis, in sufficient amounts or on acceptable terms. This financing may also dilute existing shareholders' equity. Any debt financing or other financing of securities senior to common stock will likely include financial and other covenants that will restrict our flexibility. If we need to obtain additional financing, there's no assurance that financing will be available.
Our Business, The Entertainment Industry, Typically Has Far More Supply Of Product Than Demand, Thereby Making Our Products Much More Likely To Not Be Seen, Greatly Affecting Our Marketing Plan. Although now with the internet there are literally almost an infinite number of ways one may show one's entertainment products to the public, there are still, nevertheless, only a very few ways to show one's entertainment product to the public in exchange for money. There's broadcast network programming, which includes NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, WB and UPN, and several basic cable "network" channels which have original entertainment programming, including USA Network, Comedy Central, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, the PAX network, ABC Family, and MTV Networks. There's also a limited amount of original programming funded by premium pay cable outlets, including HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and Encore! And most recently, there has been a precious few number of internet sites that have financed fictional entertainment products, such as MySpace. But there are not many other venues for exhibiting one's work for money, and this huge amount of supply, combined with relatively few outlets for the supply, creates a "bottleneck" effect for entertainment products, where there is a great deal of competition among suppliers of entertainment content, such as Writers’ Group, and outlets which air them, such as broadcast, basic cable and premium cable channels. This will make it more difficult for us to exhibit our work for money and thereby make any revenues.
There Is No Market For Our Common Equity Securities, And We May Never Develop A Market, Which Would Render Investors' Investment Very Illiquid.Our common shares are not listed on any stock market or exchange, making the selling and trading of our shares exceedingly difficult. Without a secondary market, one is not easily able to sell or trade our shares after purchasing them, and therefore may be stuck with their shares, rendering them rather illiquid. We have applied for a priced quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board, but there is no guarantee that our application will be approved. And even if we are accepted, quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board doesn't assure that a meaningful market will be created and sustained. In fact, OTC-listed companies are notorious for having inconsistent or non-existent trading volumes on a day-to-day basis.
We Have Not Done A Feasibility Study And Therefore Are More Likely To Make Errors in Our Marketing and Business Plans, And Hence More Likely To Achieve Bad Performance.Our business and marketing plans are only based on our own experience. We can't promise we have made a good judgment of the workability of this project. By investing in Writers’ Group, you are risking your investment on an experimental business and marketing plan which is more difficult to adjudge of its merits because of a lack of a feasibility study. The lack of a feasibility study could then result in errors in judgment and planning and cause the business to lose producing opportunities and force closure of Writers’ Group.
We Are Dependent On The Senior Management Team And If We Should Lose Any Of Them, We May Not Have The Ability To Carry On With Our Business Plan As Conceived, Lowering Our Chances of Ultimate Success. Our management team is Tal L. Kapelner, President, Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ariella Kapelner, Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director and Glenn M. Benest, Director. If we lost any of these key people it would hinder our progress a great deal, and it should be noted that we have no employment agreements with any of our officers or directors. This means that potentially, any of our officers and directors may leave Writers’ Group without notice and possibly work for a competitor.
Because we operate in a competitive market, we are very dependent on being able to attract qualified people to work with us. So, we must restrict hiring to key executives and a small administrative staff and invest in marketing and other activities wisely. Additionally, there is intense competition for the kind of personnel we need. Our success depends on our ability to attract and hire such personnel. We can't assure you that we will be able to attract and retain the kind of staff and other personnel we need to be successful.
We Have No Plans To Pay Dividends, Leaving Our Equity Investors With No Income From Writers’ Group For The Foreseeable Future.We do not expect to pay dividends now or in the foreseeable future. We intend to use any future earnings for upkeep of our website and more entertainment products, such as films. Should we decide to pay dividends at any time in the future, there is no guarantee that they will be paid on a timely basis. If in buying our stock you anticipate income from dividends, you should not buy our stock.
We May Face Liability, Which, If We Do, Will Mean We Will Be Spending A Great Deal Of Our Time And Money On Legal Expenses, Rather Than On Production, As We Lay Out In Our "Use Of Proceeds" Below.Content on our web site may bring liability to Writers’ Group. We will post product information and other content on our web site and could possibly face potential liability for negligence, copyright, patent, trademark, defamation, indecency and other claims based on the nature and content of the materials we post. Such claims have been brought and sometimes successfully pressed against Internet content distributors. We could also be exposed to liability with respect to unauthorized duplication of content or unauthorized use of other parties' proprietary technology. Although we may obtain general liability insurance, it may not cover potential claims of this type or may not be adequate to protect us from all liability that may be imposed. Therefore any imposition of liability could become very expensive for us and lower the worth of shares. We believe that our products, trademarks and other proprietary rights do not infringe on the proprietary rights of third parties. There can be no assurance that third parties will not assert infringement claims against us in the future with respect to current or future products, trademarks or other Company works or that such assertion may not require us to enter into royalty arrangements or engage in costly litigation.
There Is Limited Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights, Meaning A Limited Ability For Us To Claim Damages If Our Intellectual Property Is Infringed, And Possibly Rendering Some Of Our Products Worthless If Others Market Our Ideas As Theirs Before We Can Market Them.We regard our entertainment products, as well as the scripts for all scripted entertainment products, as proprietary and rely primarily on a combination of copyright, trademark, trade secret and confidential information laws, and will rely on employee and third-party non-disclosure agreements and other methods, to protect our proprietary rights. But there can be no assurance that these protections will be adequate to protect our intellectual property rights or that our competitors will not independently develop technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our technologies.
We Have A Limitation Of Liability Against Our Directors, Where Permitted By Law, Possibly Limiting Certain Claims By Investors Should Our Business Fail.As permitted by Delaware law, there are limits of liability of our directors for monetary damages for breach of director's fiduciary duty except for liability in certain instances. As a result you as a stockholder will have limited rights to recover against directors for breach of fiduciary duty.
Forward Looking Statements Render Investment In Writers’ Group Uncertain. The information and discussion in this Prospectus contains both historical and forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements regarding our financial condition, operating results, business prospects or any other aspect
of our company, can be quite different from our actual financial condition, operating results and business performance in the end, once we have become operational.
We have tried to identify factors that would cause results to differ from our expectations. The factors we have isolated are:
o bad economic conditions;
o intense competition;
o entry of new competitors with similar marketing plans;
o increased and more stringent federal, state and local government regulation;
o under-funding;
o unexpected costs;
o price increases for supplies;
o inability to raise prices;
o failure to get more people to view our site;
o risk of litigation and administrative proceedings against our Company and our employees;
o fluctuation of our operating results and financial condition;
o bad publicity and news coverage;
o unsuccessful marketing and sales plans;
o loss of key executives;
o inflation factors;
o failure to win a slot in a film festival;
o failure to get any of our work aired on a broadcast, satellite or cable outlet.
We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of any of the 64,434,822 shares of common stock being registered in this prospectus and which are currently held by our selling shareholders.
However, we will receive the proceeds from the sale of up to 100,000,000 shares of common stock we are registering in this offering, any portion of which we may sell from time to time in the future to Auctus
Private Equity Fund pursuant to a drawdown line of equity credit facility, up to a total of $10,000,000 if the entire equity line is filled.
We intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of shares pursuant to this drawdown equity facility as follows:
The first $1,500,000 sold to Auctus pursuant to the drawdown equity facility will be used as follows:
All figures are approximate
Priority Number 1:
· | Administrative Expenses Pursuant to This Public Offering |
o | Printing and Postage 500 |
o | Transfer Agent Fees 400 |
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Sub-total, priority #1 900
Priority Number 2*:
· | Other Administrative Duties and Functions |
o | Audit and Review Fees 11,000 |
o | EDGARizing for filings 8,000 |
· | Office and Computer Supplies/Phone/Fax 5,600 |
· | Web Hosting and Domain Name Renewals 300 |
· | Web Design, Maintenance, Expansion and Marketing 4,000 |
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Sub-total, priority #2 76,600
* Through 2nd quarter of FY 2010 (September 30, 2009).
Priority Number 3:
· | Marketing Completed Short Film |
o | Film Festival Submission Fees 1,000 |
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Sub-total, priority #3 1,300
Priority Number 4:
· | Short-Form Entertainment Products |
o | Digital Video Camera 1,200 |
o | 3 super-short films 6,000 |
o | 1 short film – “Buckeye Marhaba” |
§ | Production costs on “Buckeye Marhaba” 30,000 |
§ | Marketing costs on “Buckeye Marhaba” 10,000 |
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Sub-total, priority #4 47,200
Priority Number 5:
o | “Writers’ Assistants” - full budget 1,000,000 |
o | “His Name Is Noah” - seed money for actor 150,000 |
o | “Forever Man” – seed money for actor 150,000 |
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Sub-total, priority #5 1,300,000
Priority Number 6:
o | Production Costs 70,000 |
o | Marketing Costs, including transportation 4,000 |
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Sub-total, priority #6 74,000
Total, all priorities: 1,500,000
We expect to use the remaining $8,500,000 as necessary for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures and general marketing activities.
The offering price for the 64,434,822 shares already issued to the selling shareholders was determined by the price per share of the last, and highest-priced, stock offering conducted by us, the company.
The offering price for the 100,000,000 shares being registered pursuant to the drawdown equity facility was set arbitrarily by our management, and the price chosen has no bearing on our assets, book value, revenues, prospects or other established criteria of valuation. Despite the offering price being arbitrary, however, there were certain nebulous and subjective factors that were considered by management in determining the offering price, and these factors were
a) the fact that Writers’ Corp. is just under two years old, with little real operating history;
b) the fact that we have not had profits and just begun generating revenues, and expect no profits for the foreseeable future;
c) the fact that our business is extremely risky and speculative;
d) the fact that at $0.10 per share, Auctus would be buying our shares at 10 times the price that the earlier investors of Writers’ Corp. paid when they bought our shares during our earlier private offering;
e) our attempt to set a price that could offset the risks involved in a potential investor's mind; and
f) our attempt to start small, not risk more investors' money than we have to, and then, if we begin meeting the goals in our business plan, to do future money raises as needed and set the price higher.
64,434,822 of the shares of common stock that we are registering in this prospectus will not be dilutive because they are shares that have been issued already.
However, the issuance of shares pursuant to the drawdown equity facility with Auctus Private Equity Fund will dilute our common stock.
Assuming the entire equity line of $10,000,000 is filled, the percentage of consideration from the existing shareholders will be 6.0%, while the percentage of consideration from the new shareholders will be 94.0%.
And assuming all 100,000,000 shares being registered pursuant to the drawdown equity facility are sold, the number of shares held by the existing shareholders will remain 64,444,822 -- which will become equivalent to 39.2% of the total number of outstanding shares -- and the number of shares held by the new investors will be 100,000,000 -- equivalent to 60.8% of the total number of outstanding shares.
The net tangible book value per share before the distribution, if subtracting the par value of all stock, is $0.000.
Assuming all 100,000,000 shares being registered are sold at a price of $0.10 per share to Auctus pursuant to the drawdown equity facility, the net tangible book value per share after the distribution will be $0.061.
Assuming all 100,000,000 shares being registered are sold at a price of $0.10 per share to Auctus pursuant to the drawdown equity facility, the amount of the increase in such net tangible book value per share attributable to the cash payments made by purchasers of the shares being offered is $0.061, which is 100%.
Assuming 100,000,000 shares being registered are sold at a price of $0.10 per share to Auctus pursuant to the drawdown equity facility, the amount of the immediate dilution from the public offering price which will be absorbed by such purchasers is 39%.
We are registering 64,434,822 shares that were previously issued in stock issuances not involving any public offering.
On our date of incorporation we issued 56,550,000 shares to 4 founders and consultants for the company at a price of $0.001 per share, in exchange for services and/or assets.
From March-August 2007, we conducted a private placement stock offering pursuant to Rule 504 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, wherein we sold 6,132,822 shares to 31 investors at a price of $0.01 per share.
From July-August 2008, we conducted a second private placement stock offering pursuant to Rule 504 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, wherein we sold 552,000 shares to 6 investors at a price of $0.01 per share.
From December, 2008-January, 2009, we conducted a third private placement stock offering pursuant to Rule 504 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, wherein we sold 1,200,000 shares to 6 investors at a price of $0.01 per share.
Now we are registering in this prospectus all 64,434,822 shares which we previously issued in the above-described private offerings.
The following table lists all selling shareholders and other information regarding the beneficial ownership of the shares of common stock by each of the selling shareholders. The second column lists the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by each selling shareholder as of January 19, 2009. The third column lists the shares of common stock being offered pursuant to this prospectus by each of the selling shareholders. The fourth column lists the number of shares that will be beneficially owned by the selling shareholders assuming all of the shares offered pursuant to this prospectus are sold and that shares beneficially owned by them, as of January 19, 2009, but not offered hereby are not sold. All shareholders listed below are eligible to sell their shares.
Except as indicated in the footnotes to the table, no selling shareholder is an affiliate of us, the company.
Name | | Shares Owned | | | Shares Offered | | | Shares Owned After Offering | |
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Tal L. Kapelner(1) | | | 45,000,000 | | | | 45,000,000 | | | | 0 | |
Ariella Kapelner(2) | | | 6,750,000 | | | | 6,750,000 | | | | 0 | |
Glenn Benest(3) | | | 800,000 | | | | 800,000 | | | | 0 | |
FMCOCO, Inc. | | | 4,000,000 | | | | 4,000,000 | | | | 0 | |
Manny Griefman | | | 200,000 | | | | 200,000 | | | | 0 | |
Keith Wagner | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Paul Zamberg | | | 500,000 | | | | 500,000 | | | | 0 | |
Dannylle Milford | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Peter Milford | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Cassie Wagner | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Gregory P. Shoop | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Daniel Fraisse | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Robert Milford | | | 100,000 | | | | 100,000 | | | | 0 | |
Kathy Byrne | | | 300,000 | | | | 300,000 | | | | 0 | |
Alastair N. Wood | | | 500,000 | | | | 500,000 | | | | 0 | |
Janine Martinez | | | 25,000 | | | | 25,000 | | | | 0 | |
Gary R. Jordan | | | 100,000 | | | | 100,000 | | | | 0 | |
Henry D. Martinez | | | 25,000 | | | | 25,000 | | | | 0 | |
Ronald W. Brock | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Jonathan Douglass | | | 200,000 | | | | 200,000 | | | | 0 | |
Robert P. Cobuzio | | | 25,000 | | | | 25,000 | | | | 0 | |
Cheney Shapiro | | | 100,000 | | | | 100,000 | | | | 0 | |
Emerson Dibley | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Gale D. Voight | | | 2,375,000 | | | | 2,375,000 | | | | 0 | |
James M. Douglass | | | 520,000 | | | | 520,000 | | | | 0 | |
Allison Lukert | | | 20,000 | | | | 20,000 | | | | 0 | |
Kelsi Schmiedeke | | | 20,000 | | | | 20,000 | | | | 0 | |
Aaron Hashim | | | 150,000 | | | | 150,000 | | | | 0 | |
Steven Aguilera | | | 67,822 | | | | 67,822 | | | | 0 | |
Lisa Benest | | | 10,000 | | | | 10,000 | | | | 0 | |
Bob DeSimone | | | 10,000 | | | | 10,000 | | | | 0 | |
Valerie L. Hanna | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
Hilary Heard | | | 100,000 | | | | 100,000 | | | | 0 | |
Mac Duffy Arthur Dibley | | | 69,000 | | | | 69,000 | | | | 0 | |
David Aranovich | | | 266,000 | | | | 266,000 | | | | 0 | |
Alastair N. Wood | | | 300,000 | | | | 300,000 | | | | 0 | |
Joseph P. Hochman | | | 50,000 | | | | 50,000 | | | | 0 | |
James M. Kilmartin | | | 75,000 | | | | 75,000 | | | | 0 | |
William Kilmartin | | | 75,000 | | | | 75,000 | | | | 0 | |
Caige Moore | | | 30,000 | | | | 30,000 | | | | 0 | |
Cody Moore | | | 22,000 | | | | 22,000 | | | | 0 | |
James M. Douglass | | | 330,000 | | | | 330,000 | | | | 0 | |
Jonathan Douglass | | | 200,000 | | | | 200,000 | | | | 0 | |
James Somers | | | 10,000 | | | | 10,000 | | | | 0 | |
Abigaile Breslin | | | 100,000 | | | | 100,000 | | | | 0 | |
Alastair N. Wood | | | 250,000 | | | | 250,000 | | | | 0 | |
William T. Penninger | | | 310,000 | | | | 310,000 | | | | 0 | |
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(1) | Tal L. Kapelner is our President, Secretary, Chairman and a major shareholder. |
(2) | Ariella Kapelner is our Vice-President, Treasurer, a Director and a major shareholder. |
(3) | Glenn M. Benest is a Director of the company. |
The Equity Drawdown Facility.
On December 27, 2008, we entered into an equity line of credit agreement with Auctus Private Equity Fund, LLC in order to establish a possible source of funding for us. The equity line of credit agreement establishes what is sometimes also referred to as an equity drawdown facility.
Under the equity line of credit agreement, Auctus has agreed to provide us with up to $10,000,000 of funding prior to December 27, 2011. During this period, we may request a drawdown under the equity line of credit by selling shares of our common stock to Auctus and Auctus will be obligated to purchase the shares. We may request a drawdown once every five trading days, although we are under no obligation to request any drawdowns under the equity line of credit. There must be a minimum of five trading days between each drawdown request.
During the five trading days following a drawdown request, we will calculate the amount of shares we will sell to Auctus and the purchase price per share. The purchase price per share of common stock will be based on the daily volume weighted average price of our common stock during each of the five trading days immediately following the drawdown date, less a discount of 7%.
We may request a drawdown by sending a drawdown notice to Auctus, stating the amount of the drawdown and the price per share, which shall be the lowest closing bid price of our common stock during the preceding five trading days.
There is no minimum amount we can draw down at any one time. The maximum amount we can draw down at any one time is the larger of:
| · | 200% of the average daily volume based on the trailing ten days preceding the drawdown notice date. |
Because our stock is not traded on any market, exchange or secondary stock quotation service, we cannot take advantage of this drawdown equity facility until such time as our application for a priced quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board, currently pending with FINRA, is approved.
We paid $10,000 to Auctus Private Equity Management, Inc., for Auctus' legal expenses relating to the equity line of credit.
A copy of the agreement is included as an exhibit to this prospectus.
The selling security holders may, from time to time, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of their shares of common stock or interests in shares of our common stock on any stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the shares are traded or in private transactions. These dispositions will be at a fixed price of $0.01 per share until our shares are quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board and thereafter at prevailing marketing prices or privately negotiated prices.
The selling security holders may use any one or more of the following methods when disposing of shares or interests therein:
- ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;
- block trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent, but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;
- purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;
- an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;
- privately negotiated transactions;
- short sales effected after the date the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part is declared effective by the SEC;
- through the writing or settlement of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;
- broker-dealers may agree with the selling security holders to sell a specified number of such shares at a stipulated price per share; and
- a combination of any such methods of sale.
The selling security holders may, from time to time, pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the shares of common stock owned by them and, if they default in the performance of their secured obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the shares of common stock, from time to time, under this prospectus, or under an amendment to this prospectus under Rule 424(b)(3) or other applicable provision of the Securities Act amending the list of selling security holders to include the pledgee, transferee or other successors in interest as selling security holders under this prospectus. The selling security holders also may transfer the shares of common stock in other circumstances, in which case the transferees, pledgees or other successors in interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus.
In connection with the sale of our common stock or interests therein, the selling security holders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions, which may in turn engage in short sales of the common stock in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The selling security holders may also sell shares of our common stock short and deliver these securities to close out their short positions, or loan or pledge the common stock to broker-dealers that in turn may sell these securities. The selling security holders may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or the creation of one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of shares offered by this prospectus, which shares such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).
The aggregate proceeds to the selling security holders from the sale of the common stock offered by them will be the purchase price of the common stock less discounts or commissions, if any. Each of the selling security holders reserves the right to accept and, together with their agents from time to time, to reject, in whole or in part, any proposed purchase of common stock to be made directly or through agents. We will not receive any of the proceeds from this offering.
Broker-dealers engaged by the selling security holders may arrange for other broker-dealers to participate in sales. Broker-dealers may receive commissions or discounts from the selling security holders (or, if any broker-dealer acts as agent for the purchase of shares, from the purchaser) in amounts to be negotiated. The selling security holders do not expect these commissions and discounts to exceed what is customary in the types of transactions involved.
The selling security holders also may resell all or a portion of the shares in open market transactions in reliance upon Rule 144 under the Securities Act, provided that they meet the criteria and conform to the requirements of that rule.
Any underwriters, agents, or broker-dealers, and any selling security holders who are affiliates of broker-dealers, that participate in the sale of the common stock or interests therein may be “underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act. Any discounts, commissions, concessions or profit they earn on any resale of the shares may be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. Selling security holders who are “underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act will be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act. We know of no existing arrangements between any of the selling security holders and any other stockholder, broker, dealer, underwriter, or agent relating to the sale or distribution of the shares, nor can we presently estimate the amount, if any, of such compensation. See “Selling Security Holders” for description of any material relationship that a stockholder has with us and the description of such relationship.
In order to comply with the securities laws of some states, if applicable, the common stock may be sold in these jurisdictions only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers. In addition, in some states the common stock may not be sold unless it has been registered or qualified for sale or an exemption from registration or qualification requirements is available and is complied with.
We have advised the selling security holders that the anti-manipulation rules of Regulation M under the Exchange Act may apply to sales of shares in the market and to the activities of the selling security holders and their affiliates. In addition, we will make copies of this prospectus (as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time) available to the selling security holders for the purpose of satisfying the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act. The selling security holders may indemnify any broker-dealer that participates in transactions involving the sale of the shares against certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act.
We have agreed to pay certain fees and expenses incurred by us incident to the registration of the shares. Such fees and expenses are estimated to be $4,000. We have agreed to indemnify the selling security holders against liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act and state securities laws, relating to the registration of the shares offered by this prospectus.
We have agreed with the selling security holders to keep the registration statement of which this prospectus constitutes a part effective until the earlier of (1) such time as all of the shares covered by this prospectus have been disposed of pursuant to and in accordance with the registration statement or (2) the date on which the shares may be sold pursuant to Rule 144(b) and (d) of the Securities Act.
In addition to the foregoing, persons who purchase common stock from a selling stockholder pursuant to this prospectus may resell such shares of common stock without restriction by any method permitted by applicable law.
Auctus Private Equity Fund may offer for sale up to an estimated 100,000,000 shares of our common stock which it will originally acquire pursuant to the terms of the equity line of credit agreement as more fully described under "Equity Drawdown Facility." Auctus will be offering such shares for their own account. We do not know for certain how or when Auctus will choose to sell their shares of common stock. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock by Auctus.
To permit Auctus to resell the shares of common stock issued to it, we agreed to file a registration statement and all necessary amendments and supplements with the SEC for the purpose of registering and maintaining the registration of the shares. We will bear all costs relating to the registration of the common stock offered by the prospectus. We will keep the registration statement effective until the earliest of any of the following dates:
- December 27, 2011;
- the date after which none of the shares of common stock held by Auctus that are covered by the registration statement are or may become issued and outstanding;
- the date after which all of the shares of common stock held by Auctus have been transferred to persons who may trade such shares without restriction under the Securities Act of 1933 and we have delivered new certificates or other evidences of ownership of such shares without any restrictive legend;
- the date after which all of the shares of common stock held by Auctus that are covered by the registration statement have been sold by Auctus pursuant to such registration statement;
- the date that Auctus’ shares of common stock may be sold under the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act without any time, volume or manner limitations under Rule 144(b) and (d) under the Securities Act of 1933
We are not a party to any pending legal proceeding, nor are we aware of any proceeding contemplated by any governmental authority.
Directors, Executive Officers, Promoters and Control Persons. The following are the names and ages of all directors and executive officers, their positions and offices, and brief descriptions of their business experience during the past five years:
Name | Age | Position(s) Held | Business Experience During |
| | | Past Five Years |
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Tal L. Kapelner | 33 | President, Secretary and | From April 2000-present, Mr. Kapelnerhas been the sole officer and director of a California subchapter S corporation named Tally-Ho Ventures, Inc., which has been engaged in various services, such as technical writing, as well as consulting and artistic services such as acting and writing. |
| | Chairman of the Board |
| | of Directors |
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| | | His duties currently include preparing business plans for companies in various fields, as well as acting in, and writing for, films. |
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Ariella Kapelner | 61 | Vice-President, Treasurer | From August 1998-present, founded and still serves as President of the nonprofit corporation Living & Education, Inc., a provider of instructional DVDs covering such fields as parenting and drug and criminal rehabilitation under which she has produced educational materials and seminars currently being sold world-wide. |
| | and a Director |
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| | | From September 2001-January 2003, served as executive director of the non-profit Federal Commission on Educational Rights, Inc., a group which seeks to inform parents of their rights in the educational system. |
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| | | Ms. Kapelner wrote the feature film screenplay “His Name Is Noah” based upon real life events which she researched through her work educating parents of their rights. |
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Glenn M. Benest | 58 | Director | From July 2002 to Sept of 2006 has written and produced the independent film, “Hungry Hearts.” Starring Pauley Perrette and Susan Blakeley, “Hungry Hearts” has won 9 major film festival awards including Special Jury Award for Best Low Budget Feature at the Houston International Film Festival. |
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| | | “Hungry Hearts” was picked up for worldwide distribution by Shoreline Entertainment in 2004. |
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| | | Duties as writer/producer included co-writing the screenplay, raising funds, hiring all staff, and running the physical production. Also supervising all post production on the film and finding distribution. |
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| | | From April 2002 to the present, Mr. Benest has worked as a creative director for David Freeman Productions, writing feature films and video games, and holding the position of head writer for “Brooktown High: Senior Year,” a Konami video game. Duties with David Freeman Productions included supervising the five person writing staff and serving as liaison to Backbone Entertainment, the production unit responsible for the game. |
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| | | In addition, has taught professional level screenwriting workshops for the past 10 years, through which workshop were written several produced screenplays for feature films, including “Scream,” “Andre,” “Event Horizon,” and “Teaching Mrs. Tingle.” |
The following are all the directors of Writers’ Corp., their terms of office and periods in which they served, and identification of any other directorships held in reporting companies, with names of those companies:
Director's Name | Term of Office as Director and | Other Directorships Held in |
| Period During Which Served | Reporting Companies |
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Tal L. Kapelner | 1 year, 10 months | Director of Tally-Ho Ventures, Inc., a Delaware corporation (now called “Premier Wealth Management, Inc.”), from November, 2002-May, 2005. Tally-Ho has been a reporting company from approximately November, 2003-present. This Delaware corporation should not be confused with the California corporation also called Tally-Ho Ventures, Inc. of which Mr. Kapelner is currently sole officer and director. |
| Served March 9, 2007 – present |
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Ariella Kapelner | 1 year, 10 months Served March 9, 2007 - present | None |
Glenn M. Benest | 1 year, 10 months | None |
| | Served March 9, 2007 - present |
Ariella Kapelner, Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director, is the mother of President, Secretary and Chairman of the Board, Tal L. Kapelner.
We have 64,434,822 shares of common stock outstanding at $0.001 par value. 175,000,000 shares of common stock are authorized.
The following information is for any person, including any group of two or more persons acting as a partnership, syndicate or other similar group, who is known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent of any class of our voting securities:
Title of Class | Name and Address of Beneficial Owner | Amount and Nature | Percent |
| | of Beneficial Owner | of Class |
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Common | Tal L. Kapelner | 45,000,000 shares(1) | 69.8 |
Stock | 1752 East Avenue J #266 | President, Secretary and | |
| Lancaster, CA 93535 | Chairman of the Board | |
| | of Directors | |
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Common | Ariella Kapelner | 6,750,000 shares(2) | 10.5 |
Stock | 1752 East Avenue J #266 | Vice-President, Treasurer | |
| Lancaster, CA 93535 | and a Director | |
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Common | FMCOCO, Inc. | 4,000,000 shares(3) | 6.2 |
Stock | 5689 Country Road 33 S.E. | | |
| Buffalo, MN 55313 | | |
(1) Tal L. Kapelner owns 45,000,000 shares of Writers’ Corp., no part of which are options, warrants, or via any other rights, and he has no rights to acquire beneficial ownership of any other shares, whether through option, warrant, conversion privilege or any other right, within sixty days.
(2) Ariella Kapelner owns 6,750,000 shares of Writers’ Corp., no part of which are options, warrants, or via any other rights, and she has no rights to acquire beneficial ownership of any other shares, whether through option, warrant, conversion privilege or any other right, within sixty days.
(3) FMCOCO, Inc. owns 4,000,000 shares of Writers’ Corp., no part of which are options, warrants, or via any other rights, and she has no rights to acquire beneficial ownership of any other shares, whether through option, warrant, conversion privilege or any other right, within sixty days.
We only have one class of equity securities, and that is our Common Stock, and we have no parents. We have three wholly-owned subsidiaries, named “Writers’ Assistants Movie, Inc.”, “His Name Is Noah Movie, Inc.” and “Forever Man Movie, Inc.”. All three of our subsidiaries are Delaware corporations, with Forever Man Movie being incorporated in August of 2008 and our other two subsidiaries incorporated by us in May, 2007. For our Common Stock, we present the following information regarding the security ownership of our management, as of September 30, 2008:
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Title of Class | Name and Address of Beneficial Owner | Amount and Nature | Percent |
| | of Beneficial Owner | of Class |
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Common | Tal L. Kapelner | 45,000,000 shares(1) | 69.8 |
Stock | 518 Oak Street #2 | President, Secretary and | |
| Glendale, CA 91204 | Chairman of the Board | |
| | of Directors | |
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Common | Ariella Kapelner | 6,750,000 shares(2) | 10.5 |
Stock | 1752 East Avenue J #266 | Vice-President, Treasurer | |
| Lancaster, CA 93535 | and a Director | |
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Common | Glenn M. Benest | 800,000 shares(3) | 1.2 |
Stock | c/o Writers’ Group Film Corp. | Director | |
| 518 Oak Street #2 | | |
| Glendale, CA 91204 | | |
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Common | All Directors and Executive | 52,550,000 shares(4) | 81.5 |
Stock | Officers as a Group | | |
| c/o Writers’ Group Film Corp. | | |
| 518 Oak Street #2 | | |
| Glendale, CA 91204 | | |
(1) Tal L. Kapelner owns 45,000,000 shares of Writers’ Corp., no part of which are options, warrants, or via any other rights, and he has no rights to acquire beneficial ownership of any other shares, whether through option, warrant, conversion privilege or any other right, within sixty days.
(2) Ariella Kapelner owns 6,750,000 shares of Writers’ Corp., no part of which are options, warrants, or via any other rights, and she has no rights to acquire beneficial ownership of any other shares, whether through option, warrant, conversion privilege or any other right, within sixty days.
(3) Glenn M. Benest owns 800,000 shares of Writers’ Corp., no part of which are options, warrants, or via any other rights, and she has no rights to acquire beneficial ownership of any other shares, whether through option, warrant, conversion privilege or any other right, within sixty days.
(4) All Directors and Executive Officers as a group own 52,550,000 shares of Writers’ Corp., no part of which are options, warrants, or via any other rights, and they have no rights to acquire beneficial ownership of any other shares, whether through option, warrant, conversion privilege or any other right, within sixty days.
We are authorized to issue 175,000,000 shares of common stock, and we have no other classes of shares. Currently we have 64,444,822 shares outstanding. We have no options, warrants nor any convertible instruments outstanding.
Dividend Rights - Holders of record of shares of Common Stock are entitled to receive dividends when and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds of Writers’ Corp. legally available therefore.
Voting Rights - Holders of shares of Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders, including the election of directors. Shares of Common Stock do not have cumulative voting rights, which means that the holders of the majority of the share votes eligible to vote and voting for the election of the Board of Directors can elect all members of the Board of Directors.
Preemption Rights - Holders of our common stock have no preemptive or conversion rights or other rights to subscribe for or to purchase any stock, obligations or other securities of Writers’ Corp.
Liquidation Rights - In the case of liquidation, dissolution or winding up of Writers’ Group Film Corp., the holders of shares of our Common Stock will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets of Writers’ Corp. legally available for distribution to shareholders after payment of all our liabilities and any preferred stock then outstanding, although none is currently outstanding.
Other Material Rights - There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our Common Stock. The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of our Common Stock are subject to the rights of the holders of shares of any series of preferred stock that we may designate and issue in the future, although our Certificate of Incorporation does not currently authorize any preferred stock at all.
There are no provisions in our Certificate of Incorporation or bylaws which would delay, defer or prevent a change in control of the small business issuer.
Our counsel which has provided us the legality opinion regarding the securities being registered is Diane D. Dalmy.
The independent registered accountants who have audited our financial statements are Malone & Bailey, PC. The accountants' report is given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.
Disclosure of Commission Position of Indemnification for Securities Act Liabilities.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation law makes provision for the indemnification of officers and directors under certain circumstances from liabilities, including reimbursement for expenses incurred, arising under the Securities Act. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation law empowers a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers and to purchase insurance with respect to liability arising out of their capacity or status as directors and officers, provided that this provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director:
a) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders;
b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
c) arising under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation law; or
d) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
The Delaware General Corporation law provides further that the indemnification permitted thereunder shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which the directors and officers may be entitled under the corporation's bylaws, any agreement, a vote of stockholders or otherwise.
However, currently, Writers’ Group Film Corp. has no charter provisions, bylaws provisions, contracts or other arrangements that insures or indemnifies directors, officers or controlling persons of Writers’ Corp. against liability under the Securities Act.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act") may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the small business issuer pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the small business issuer has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
We provide the undertaking that in the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by Writers’ Corp. of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of Writers’ Corp. in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of our counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
From inception to our quarter ended September 30, 2008, we have participated in 3 transactions in which a related person had a direct or indirect material interest and where the amount involved exceeded one percent of our total assets as of our Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2008.
On March 9, 2007, we purchased the “Writers’ Assistants” unproduced feature film screenplay, the short film “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” and the business plan for Writers’ Corp. from our President and Chairman Tal L. Kapelner for a total of $45,000 worth of our Common Stock, at a price of $0.001 per share, for a total Common Stock share issuance of 45,000,000, which, as of September 30, 2008, represents 69.8% of all issued and outstanding shares of our stock. Mr. Kapelner paid virtually no money for the goods sold to us in this transaction; his interest was principally in terms of his time.
On March 9, 2007, we purchased the “His Name Is Noah” unproduced feature film screenplay from our Vice-President, Treasurer and Director Ariella Kapelner in exchange for $6,750 worth of our Common Stock, at a price of $0.001 per share, equal to 6,750,000 shares of our Common Stock, representing 10.5% of all issued and outstanding shares of our stock as of September 30, 2008. Ms. Kapelner paid virtually no money for the good sold to us in this transaction; her interest was principally in terms of her time.
On March 9, 2007, we purchased the “Forever Man” unproduced feature film screenplay from our third Director Glenn M. Benest in exchange for $800 worth of our Common Stock, at a price of $0.001 per share, equal to 800,000 shares of our Common Stock. Mr. Benest paid virtually no money for the good sold to us in this transaction; his interest was principally in terms of his time.
We have conducted three private stock offerings, and one public offering, as follows:
Our first private placement offering of our common shares of stock was conducted pursuant to Regulation D, Rule 504 of the Securities Act of 1933. The offering began on March 10, 2007 and was closed August 31, 2007. A total of 6,132,822 shares were sold in the offering to 31 residents of the state of California at a price of $0.01 per share.
We next conducted a registered offering of our common shares of stock pursuant to Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The offering began on May 1, 2008, and with only one investor participating in the 90 days following the offering’s beginning, the offering was closed on July 30, 2008. A total of 10,000 shares were sold in the offering to 1 resident of the state of California, at a price of $0.15 per share.
We then conducted a second private placement offering of our common shares of stock pursuant to Regulation D, Rule 504 of the Securities Act of 1933. The offering began on July 20, 2008 and was closed August 15, 2008. A total of 552,000 shares were sold in the offering to 6 residents of the state of California at a price of $0.01 per share.
Finally, we conducted a third Rule 504 private placement offering from December 15, 2008 – January 19, 2009, wherein 1,200,000 shares were sold to 6 residents of California at a price of $0.01 per share.
We do not have any parents. We have three wholly-owned subsidiaries, named “Forever Man Movie, Inc.”, “Writers’ Assistants Movie, Inc.” and “His Name Is Noah Movie, Inc.”. All three of our subsidiaries are Delaware corporations, with Forever Man Movie incorporated by us in August of 2008 and the other two incorporated by us on May 30, 2007.
The names of our three promoters are Tal L. Kapelner, Ariella Kapelner and Glenn M. Benest, who are the three founders of our company.
Our Board of Directors is composed of three members, Chairman of the Board Tal L. Kapelner, Ariella Kapelner and Glenn M. Benest. All three directors have held their positions since inception on March 9, 2007, and there have been no other directors of our company. Using the guidelines provided by the American Stock Exchange Company Guide, none of our Board members could be defined as independent. Our Board does not have separately designated audit, nominating or compensation committees.
Business Development
Writers’ Group Film Corp., a Delaware corporation, was incorporated on March 9, 2007.
Over the course of the two years before we incorporated, Tal L. Kapelner and Ariella Kapelner were each working independently on their own feature film screenplays. Also during that time, Mr. Kapelner was attending a weekly screenplay writing master class workshop taught by professional screenwriter and screenwriting instructor Glenn M. Benest, during which classes Mr. Kapelner workshopped his screenplay, entitled “Writers’ Assistants”.
During that time, Mr. Kapelner developed ideas regarding methods of financing the production of the Writers’ Assistants film, such as having a third-party financier put 10-15% of a film’s budget into an escrow account for use solely to attract a well-known actor or director to the project, thereby making subsequent full funding from a larger production company or film studio far more likely and fast.
Mr. Kapelner also realized that this method, though as-yet untried by him, could be used for other film projects which he did not write, and further, that money could be raised directly from investors in exchange for securities and that that money could be used in the same way to attract actors or directors to projects or even, if the money raise was successful enough, for independent full financing of their own film projects.
We then decided that we should start up a corporation as the vehicle by which to operate this venture, and have the corporation be a television and film production company.
Just prior to incorporation, Mr. Kapelner prepared a business plan which we purchased from Mr. Kapelner in exchange for shares of stock. The business plan is divided into two parts: An initial business plan, which is where nearly all the focus of the plan is, and then a much smaller second part which briefly provides an overview of where the company should go if and when the initial business plan is successful. We provide this overview below in this section, as we discuss Phase II of our future operations.
We incorporated on March 9, 2007 in the state of Delaware, and on the first day of business purchased three screenplays and a short film. From Tal L. Kapelner we purchased a screenplay entitled “Writers’ Assistants”. Please see Business of Issuer below for a complete description of this film project.
We also purchased a completed short film from Mr. Kapelner entitled “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” which we plan to continue to market and distribute as a sample of our work and talents in hopes of gaining recognition from executives in the entertainment industry who are in a position to commission us to produce future films, or television programs. Please see Business of Issuer below for more detail on our distribution and marketing methods.
The two other screenplays we purchased were “His Name Is Noah” by Ariella Kapelner, and “Forever Man” by Glenn M. Benest. We purchased these screenplays from their respective authors in exchange for shares of our stock. Please see Business of Issuer below for descriptions of each of these two film projects.
Since that time we have set up a website located at www.writersgroupfilmcorp.com, as well as begun very rudimentary promotion of the website, such as submitting our web address to some of the more popular web search engines and web directories, including Google and Yahoo! Search, as well as DMOZ, which provides search results to many search engines such as Alexa and AOL Search.
We also raised money through a private stock offering which commenced on March 10, 2007 and lasted until August 29, 2007. We sold 6,132,822 shares of our Common Stock – which is the only type of stock we have – to 31 different individual subscribers at a price of $0.01 per share. In exchange for the shares, we received $36,300 in cash and $25,028 worth of services, for a total of $61,328 in cash and services.
In April of 2007 we learned that the short film we purchased from Mr. Kapelner, “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?”, was accepted for a screening at the NewFilmmakers NY film series in New York City. In mid-June, our President traveled to New York to attend the screening, but he reports that the screening did not immediately result in the kind of recognition amongst entertainment industry personnel that our business plan expects.
In a separate matter, thinking that it would be best legally and structurally if we isolated each feature film project in its own corporate structure, we decided to form two wholly-owned subsidiary corporations, which we did on May 30, 2007. Both corporations are incorporated in Delaware and their purpose is to produce one movie each. Writers’ Assistants Movie, Inc. is charged with producing the film Writers’ Assistants, and His Name Is Noah, Inc. is charged with producing the film His Name Is Noah. In exchange for 100% of the issued shares of each company, we gave each of our two subsidiaries the respective script for the movie they are to produce. The management team for each subsidiary is exactly the same as our own management team: Tal L. Kapelner as President, Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ariella Kapelner as Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director, and Glenn M. Benest as a third Director. We decided not to form a subsidiary for the Forever Man film project yet, because its author Mr. Benest feels that the screenplay requires further re-writes, and as the third movie on our production slate, behind Writers’ Assistants and His Name Is Noah, it will likely not be produced, even if our business plan is successful, for at least 1-2 years.
In August of 2007, our President met with a financier to discuss the Writers’ Assistants film project. Mr. Kapelner presented a plan to the financier wherein the financier puts $150,000 into an escrow account. Once the money is in the escrow account, we would then approach well-known actors, offering them $150,000 for their participation in the project for approximately 2-4 weeks, including rehearsal time and filming time. Once we got the commitment of a well-known actor, we would then approach major studios and larger production companies with the project in hopes of receiving the full $1 million budget. If we were successful in receiving the full budget, the financier would keep his escrowed money, plus receive a $50,000 producers’ fee. If we were not successful, the film does not get made, the actor does not get paid, and the financier can keep his escrowed money. The financier agreed to this plan verbally but recently cancelled this agreement, citing recent economic factors. Please see Business of Issuer below for a more detailed description of this plan and how it fits into our overall business plan.
Our thumbnail plan for future operations is as follows:
Phase I, which we refer to as our “initial business plan”, and which is what we cover in this prospectus (over the next 3 years):
- Continue marketing our short film through video-sharing websites and through submission to more film festivals, with the hopes of creating recognition for our work and ultimately receiving a commission to produce a film or television program.
- As funds allow, create more short films and super-short – super-short being under 5 minutes – vignettes, skits and concepts, and market them in the same manner as our first short film.
- Raise approximately $100,000-$150,000 through the drawdown equity facility or from a third-party financier to attract a well-known actor to commit to work on the film Writers’ Assistants.
- If successful in raising $100,000-$150,000, and successful in attracting a well-known actor, then approach film studios and larger production companies for the full $1 million budget to produce Writers’ Assistants.
- If successful in financing the entire $1 million budget, produce the feature film Writers’ Assistants.
- If unsuccessful in raising financing for Writers’ Assistants, then attempt to get financing from studios in more traditional methods, by submitting the screenplay itself to screenplay contests, writers’ online service firms, literary agents and directly to more-established producers and other entertainment execs.
- Proceed in a similar manner in financing the His Name Is Noah and Forever Man film projects.
- Produce an unsolicited – called “spec” – TV pilot and attempt to show and/or submit it to executives at the appropriate television channels for the purpose of having our television programs air on their channels; or, in the alternative, generate interest in our television pilots by distributing them over our website, the video sharing websites like YouTube and through the television pilot website, Channel 101.
Phase II, which is where we’ll be if our initial business plan is successful (3-10 years from now):
- Regeneration of our film and television show production slate shall come from the ideas of our three members of management, as well as through Mr. Benest’s screenplay workshop class, where students of Mr. Benest’s master class may be chosen to have their screenplays produced by us.
- As funding is available, significantly expand operations to include regular, consistent production of television programs, short and feature-length films, as well as commercials and music videos.
- Move towards normal, industry-standard marketing and advertising channels for our products, and larger-budget productions.
Phase III, which is not contemplated by our business plan but for purposes of this prospectus can give a nebulous insight into our general long-term direction (10+ years from now):
- Consider business combinations with other entertainment companies, especially TV and film production companies; or, in the alternative, consider either remaining an independent television and film production company or reviewing the feasibility of significantly expanding operations even further.
Business of Issuer
Principal products or services and their markets. We are a development-stage company in the business of producing entertainment products, principally short and feature length films and television programs. In addition, more as a marketing tool than as a product we expect to exchange for money, we also intend to regularly produce super-short video vignettes, skits and concepts for distribution through, among other methods, uploading onto free video-sharing websites.
But whether the entertainment product is a short film, a feature film, or a television pilot, the process by which one produces the product is similar, and follows a basic five-part structure. We shall first delineate the process of producing our products using an outline, and after the outline, we will describe each part of the process in detail.
The five-stage process for producing a major filmed entertainment product, in outline form, is:
Development:
| · | Idea/story is fleshed out. |
| · | Key talent is attached (principal actors plus competent producers and a director). |
Pre-production:
| · | Production offices are set up. |
| · | All other actors are cast. |
| · | All other crew members are hired. |
| · | Production schedule is created. A production, or shooting, schedule, is simply a calendar of days into which every scene for a movie is scheduled for being shot. The scenes are very often not filmed in sequence; rather, similar scenes in the same location are bunched together to be shot on the same or consecutive days, regardless of the sequence in which the scenes appear in the movie. |
| · | Director goes into rehearsals with actors. |
| · | Director works with the camera crew (led by the director of photography, a.k.a. the cinematographer) to tediously go over everything that will be filmed for the movie, angle by angle, which creates the “shot list”. |
| · | Producers work with location scouts to secure the proper locations. |
| · | Producers, under director’s direction, prepare the sets and locations for shooting. The art department and set designer prepare the visual look of every set (paint, decorations, major furnishings, etc.), while the prop department, outdoor landscaping dept, etc. do their part as well. |
| · | Film or digital video cameras and other equipment, set trailers for equipment and actors’ dressing rooms, and all other major on-set materials, are rented or purchased. |
Production (a.k.a. principal photography):
| · | Using the production (shooting) schedule (see description above), the cast and crew, led by the director, film all the scenes that are described in the script. The director uses the “shot list” created with his or her camera crew (see description above) to make sure he or she gets every single shot. |
Post-production:
| · | Editor collates together a first cut of the film, using all the raw footage shot by the director and his or her camera crew during production. |
| · | If something didn’t turn out right or a new idea comes to mind, the director and his or her camera crew, along with the actors, will shoot “secondary photography” (a.k.a. “pick-ups”) where, for no longer than a day or two, they will re-shoot scenes that didn’t come out good, or shoot new scenes that will make the movie better, more logical, etc. |
| · | Director and editor work over the film until they are pleased – this is the “final cut”. |
| · | Music is cleared for use in the movie by an attorney and then added to the film. |
| · | Any special effects are added. |
Distribution (for so-called “independent” [non-studio] films, such as ours):
| · | Exhibited at film festivals, then bought on the spot by a distribution company (e.g. Miramax, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney, Buena Vista, Paramount, Paramount Classics, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros., Warner Independent, Universal, United Artists, Lion’s Gate, etc.) which agrees to cut us in on all the revenue centers (see below for list of revenue centers); and/or |
| · | Shown to foreign and domestic sales agents, who then purchase the film as middlemen for distributors which agree to cut us in on all the revenue centers (see below); and/or |
| · | A “producers’ rep” is hired to show the film directly to the distributors, who then buy it and agree to cut us in on all the revenue centers (see below). |
The five-stage process for producing a major filmed entertainment product is described in detail as follows:
First, we start with an idea. This idea typically comes from one of our three founders, Tal L. Kapelner, Ariella Kapelner or Glenn M. Benest, and it usually consists of no more than a simple idea for a plot or storyline or interesting concept or even just a clever line of dialogue that a story can be built around. To describe it most simply, an idea is the completion of a "what if" scenario. Ideas are a byproduct of inspiration, the occurrences of which are very difficult to predict.
Once an idea is hatched by one of our three founders, that founder will begin to write a screenplay, which is a script written for the screen, encompassing that idea. This process can take up to several months or more, depending upon the intended approximate length of the final product. During this time, a director and one or more "producers" are decided upon for the production. Producers are those individuals who manage and oversee the co-ordination of all of the elements to making a film, including actors, writers, directors, propmen, wardrobe personnel, etc., as well as co-ordinate with any legal and other professional personnel to handle any and all regulatory, accounting or union paperwork and other issues regarding the making of the film.
After the script is written, the producers create a budget and a timeline for production, based upon what the script calls for. The is called a “production schedule”. The most intricate part of the production schedule is the series of days where the main filming – called “principal photography” – is to take place, with each scene to be shot in the film placed somewhere on the schedule, usually not in the order it appears in the script but rather in the order cheapest and most convenient to shoot in as fast a time as possible. The script itself determines how long the production schedule will be and how much the budget should be. For example, a 10-page script which has all the action take place in one room of a standard home would be cheaper and faster to produce than a 120-page script which calls for car chases. Generally speaking, each page in a script translates to approximately one minute of running time in the final film, and about 45 seconds in a television show.
Once the budget and production schedule are decided upon, financing is sought. Financing films, both short films and features, is a difficult process, and it becomes more difficult the larger the budget. This is for several reasons. First, there are simply not that many individuals and entities worldwide who can put up the amount of money typically needed to finance an average-budget feature film produced by one of the studios, which is about $30 million, or even the average budget of the type of independently-produced films we shall be making, which is currently about $3-5 million. Second, recouping money from a film is a long process, as there is typically a gap of 1-3 years between the time the money is paid to finance the film, and the theatrical release of the film. And if the theatrical release did not recoup all of the financiers' money, then the financiers will have to wait until more money is brought in from overseas markets; ancillary markets, which are non-theatrical markets such as military and airplane exhibitions; sales of video and DVD copies of the film; and cable television and broadcast network exhibitions. Finally, often times films don't recoup the money that is spent on them ever, making financing films extremely risky. And financing short films is typically more difficult than financing feature films, because although short films are much cheaper to produce - they usually cost less than $50,000 - there are much fewer opportunities to exhibit them, and therefore fewer ways by which to recoup the investment.
For these reasons, funding is typically the most demanding, and oftentimes the longest, part of every project. Funding for films is so elusive, in fact, that most organizations which seek to help the independent filmmaker, such as Independent Film Project and Filmmakers Alliance of Los Angeles, will not even address the key matter of funding and will focus instead on providing inexpensive resources by which to make films, once funding has already been achieved.
There are some sources of funding available specifically for films, however. The two major types of funding are fundraising and financing. Fundraising refers to grants and corporate gifts, while financing includes both debt and equity financing. Sources for fundraising include the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco (www.filmarts.org), The Independent magazine (www.aivf.org/independent) and The Foundation Center (www.fdncenter.org), all of which have a list of foundations issuing grants, with information about each grant such as deadlines, criteria, etc. We intend to pursue this line of funding whenever practicable. Each project will have to be analyzed to see if it is a good fit for a funding entity. Entertainment attorneys may also be contacted to provide guidance or consulting or introduction to brokers, dealers or finders who may assist in locating financiers.
Both debt and equity financing shall be used as needed whenever fundraising is not a viable option. The manner by which we will generally seek to secure financing will depend upon the level of financing we will need. For smaller-budgeted short films, we shall rely on stock offerings such as this one, or upon loans from management or another benefactor, or upon an equity investment from a benefactor or venture capital group.
For larger-budgeted films, we hope to raise enough money through this or future money raises to independently finance our films. For example, the first film we have scheduled for production is Writers’ Assistants, the budget for which is $1 million. If we sell all shares in this offering, we will be able to independently finance the entire budget ourselves.
However, if, for our feature films, we cannot raise sufficient capital to independently finance the entirety of a given film’s budget, we believe there is another method to get our films financed while only raising a fraction of the full budget, and we intend to pursue this method.
The method is to raise approximately 10-15% of a given film’s budget, about $100,000-$150,000 per $1 million of the budget. Once this seed money is raised, we approach a well-known actor or director, through his or her representation, and offer this money to the actor or director in exchange for that person’s commitment to participate in the film. If it is an actor, we let him or her know that the commitment will be for no longer than 2-4 weeks, including rehearsal time, depending upon how many scenes that actor’s character must appear in the film. If the actor or director agrees, and commits in writing to appear in the film, we then approach studios and larger production companies for the full financing. If the actor or director does not agree, then we approach our second-choice actor or director, and so on, until a well-known actor or director agrees.
The reason we believe this method will be frequently successful is because historically, studios and large production companies are much more willing to finance movies if there is a well-known actor or director attached to the project, particularly if the budget is relatively low. We believe this is the case because in our reading and observation, studios and large production companies believe that a film will be easier to market, and they will make more money, if a well-known actor or director is involved. In addition, again according to our observation, studios and large production companies feel more comfortable with a project if they know that someone famous is already involved, and in that vein feel as if the film has already been vetted. Simply getting a studio or production company to consider a project is made much more easy by having recognized talent attached.
Determining precisely which actors would prompt a studio or large production company to finance a given film has been made more scientific with reports such as The Hollywood Reporter’s Star Power and The Ulmer Scale, each of which lists over one thousand actors’ names along with a rating meant to give an idea of how “bankable” that particular actor is in terms of worldwide box office appeal. Such ratings for directors are incomplete and therefore less useful, making selecting a director which would command full financing more subjective.
And the reason we believe a well-known actor or director would agree to commit to one of our films is that in our research and observation, $150,000 per $1 million of budget is a sufficient salary for many, though certainly not all, of the hundreds of actors rated highly by the actor’s guides mentioned above, particularly if the actor’s time commitment was limited to 2-4 weeks. There are many examples of this, such as an extremely well-known actor’s recent participation in the upcoming independently-produced feature film “Firefiles in the Garden”, which has an $8 million budget, for a salary of $150,000. Also, in addition to salary, we may, depending upon the name recognition of the actor or director, offer a percentage of any profit made by the film, which is also typical of these deals.
It should be noted, however, that not every actor or director we approach will agree to participate, and maybe not even a majority, because despite the salary, there are other factors involved in an actor’s, and especially a director’s, decision to participate in a given project, including quality of script, genre, and even scheduling. Please see Risk Factors section, above.
It is in this way that we believe that were we to raise only 10-15% of a given film’s budget, we would still be able to produce the film, using the well-known actor/director method above.
But in addition to this, for our feature films that we cannot finance ourselves or even raise sufficient capital to put up our own seed money for a well-known actor or director, we believe we have developed another, more novel approach to financing. First, we approach a third-party prospective financier. Our plan is to have the financier put 10-15% of a given film’s budget into an escrow account. Once the money is in the escrow account, we would then approach well-known actors, offering them that money for their participation in the project. Once we got the commitment of a well-known actor, we would then approach major studios and larger production companies with the project in hopes of receiving the full $1 million budget. If we were successful in receiving the full budget, the financier would keep his escrowed money, plus receive a $50,000 producers’ fee. If we were not successful, we may try other avenues, but if we are ultimately unsuccessful in getting the project made, then the actor is not paid and the financier can keep his escrowed money.
If the financing is not successful, we must pursue other avenues by which to get our project made. To this end, we will utilize our drawdown equity facility, as well as traditional methods of getting our project recognized, including submission to screenplay contests; submission of the screenplay to literary agents; developing lines of communication to producers, actors and others in a position to help garner financing and key talent; and using a relatively new type of online writers’ help service. Some examples of these services are:
www.InkTip.com
Writers load their scripts unto the website along with a description of the work. Six months listing costs $50. Production companies which are members of this website service search for and read scripts as needed. If they like a script they contact the writer, enter into an agreement for option or production. InkTip also publishes a newsletter to bring new work to the attention of producers.
www.infolist.com
A free e-mail service which informs script writers of seminars, workshops and meeting opportunities with industry professionals who are looking for scripts, successful professionals who teach script writers how to get their scripts into the right hands, how to make their scripts marketable, screenwriting competitions, and other writer resources
http://www.scriptpimp.com/
Members receive a list of all the productions companies, literary agencies and management companies who are currently looking for scripts and script writers, with details of what’s wanted. Links to writing competitions. This service also publishes scripts on its website for industry professionals to read and choose work they can use.
www.moviebytes.com
For a subscription price of $20/six months or $30/year, this service provides lists of what agencies and management companies in the entertainment industry are looking for material, specifying the type of material, etc. It also has a list of upcoming writing contests, employment opportunities for writers, writer conferences, and classified ads.
Once financing is successful, then the project can proceed.
With the money, budget, schedule, script and key actor(s) and/or director in place, the producers meet to more carefully plan out the pre-production process. "Pre-production" refers to the time period when the film is being made but nothing has been shot yet.
During this time, we generally will be contacting SAG to arrange for the signing of a contract that allows us to hire professional actors, including our well-known, key talent. We will fill out the paperwork and produce the $500-$1000 deposit required by SAG at this time and hire a payroll company that will help us secure workers' compensation insurance for our actor employees as well as process payroll for the actors.
Depending upon the size of the project, we may or may not sign with other talent unions, including the directors guild, writers guild or the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), which is the union for most crewmember positions. Signing with such unions would severely limit the non-acting talent we would be able to hire, increase our costs by forcing us to hire all non-actors as employees rather than independent contractors, and force us to adhere to many rules regarding workplace environment which are geared towards larger productions and would unnecessarily increase the costs of our modestly-budgeted projects. Regardless, if we have not hired a director yet during the development phase, we will hire one now during the earliest stage of pre-production.
Concurrently with working with the actors union and ensuring that all legal and union regulatory compliance is made, casting is completed. We generally will be hiring professional acting talent, in order to cheaply enhance the quality and visibility of our work. In order to procure such talent, the general procedure is to post "breakdowns", which are descriptions of the characters we are casting. Popular outlets to post breakdowns include breakdownservices.com; the Backstage newspaper and backstage.com, divisions of VNU Business Media; castnet.com; and, for background actors ("extras"), Central Casting, a division of Entertainment Partners. These outlets typically charge $0 - $75 for an entire cast of character breakdowns.
After posting the breakdowns, a large number of submissions will flow to our production offices, at which time the producers and director, along with a casting director usually, will review the submissions and audition 2-6 actors for each role being cast, eventually casting one actor for each role.
Concurrently with casting the film, wardrobe and props are purchased by the producers, any film equipment necessary is rented and crewmembers are hired to perform certain technical tasks in the shooting of the film. Writers’ Corp. owns none of its own equipment and will have to rent equipment for each of its shoots. Writers’ Corp. locates its crewmembers quite easily by simply typing into an internet search the name of the technical position required, along with the word "hire", and then browsing the results. www.mandy.com and www.mediaresourcecontacts.com are also two common sources of non-union non-actor talent, as are the Independent Film Project (www.ifp.org) and the Filmmakers Alliance (www.facommunity.org) organizations, which have non-union crewmember directories.
Securing shoot locations is also important. Writers’ Corp. neither owns nor leases any studio space for the purpose of shooting films. Both IFP and Filmmakers Alliance have production studios available for very low budget films, and oftentimes films can be filmed inside private homes or offices, depending upon the script.
Once all of the above arrangements have been made in pre-production, the shooting of the film begins. The scenes, as written in the script, are shot. Expenses such as food for the cast and crew and transportation to and from the location sites are incurred during this period.
After the shooting of the film, the post-production process begins. An editor is chosen, the images recorded during the shoot are catalogued and the director and editor, along with the producer occasionally, sit in an editing bay and piece the footage together. It is during post-production that any additional sound effects, narration, music or visual effects are added. Writers’ Corp. neither owns nor leases any of its editing space or equipment, which is available either from the editor him or herself, or from non-profit organizations that cater to the independent filmmaker, such as IFP and Filmmakers Alliance, or from higher cost mainstream editing rental facilities.
Also during the post-production period, clean-up paperwork is done on the production, including bookkeeping, SAG recordkeeping, tax and payroll recordkeeping, etc.
Finally, after the film is finished, as determined typically by the director and producers, copies of the film are made in whatever media is determined to be suitable and distributed.
The distribution process is the stage in the making of a movie in which there is the least established, expected path and the most flexibility in terms of methods of accomplishing the task. Completed films are distributed in a myriad of ways, and will be described in the sub-section Distribution and marketing, below.
It is during the distribution process that revenues for the project are typically made. Films have many different revenue centers, which we discuss below in our sub-section Distribution and marketing, although it should be stressed that many films never see any revenues at all, and many other films see revenues but not enough to offset production costs. See Risk Factors above.
The budget for our Writers’ Assistants film is set at $1 million. There is no budget set for our His Name Is Noah or Forever Man films, although they are both expected to be higher, Forever Man significantly so. We anticipate our first short film slated for production, “Buckeye Marhaba”, to cost approximately $30,000 to make and $10,000 to market, and most of our super-short films, those under 5 minutes in length, to cost approximately $5,000.
The timeframe for completing a short film from script to final print is approximately 5-9 months, while the timeframe for completing a super-short film is approximately 2-5 months. The timeframe for completing a feature film is very hard to predict, with the development stage typically taking 1-3 years, depending upon the speed at which the script is written and financing secured; the pre-production through post-production stage taking nine months; and the bulk of the work in the distribution stage taking 1-2 years, depending upon whether the film receives a theatrical release, which would extend the distribution stage by several months or more.
Our first product is the one we purchased from our President and Chairman Tal L. Kapelner: a comedic short film entitled “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” This film is a send-up of both the television show “The E! True Hollywood Story”, which airs on the E! Entertainment television channel, as well as the film “Dude, Where’s My Car?” which was released by Twentieth Century Fox in 2000. Our short film parody is a faux behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film Dude, Where’s My Car? It has been submitted to various film festivals – one of which, the NewFilmmakers NY film series, accepted and screened the film – as well as uploaded to three video sharing websites so far: YouTube, Veoh and FunnyorDie. It can be viewed on YouTube, for example, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdusokHElqc. Please see our sub-section Distribution and marketing below for more information on the breadth of the marketing and distribution possibilities for our products.
Our first product slated for production is the feature film “Writers’ Assistants”, written by our President and Chairman Tal L. Kapelner, who used his experience working for one season as a writers’ assistant on a sitcom as a starting point for his script. It is currently still in the development phase, in that the idea, script and preliminary budget have all been completed, but neither financing nor key talent have been secured. Our first focus has been and will continue to be on securing financing and key talent, which, as described above, are typically handled simultaneously in our plan.
Our second project may be the short film “Buckeye Marhaba” or it may be our second feature film, “His Name Is Noah”, depending upon the success of Writers’ Assistants.
Our first short film slated for production is Buckeye Marhaba. Here is our summary:
Buckeye Marhaba is the story of a late-middle-aged Arab couple, born in Jordan with only conversational English skills, but living in Akron, Ohio and running their own convenience store. After suffering daily from locals who look askew at the Arabic couple and view them suspiciously due to the couple’s nation of origin, the couple realize that things cannot remain the same. While the husband can only vent his frustration, the wife understands that the best way to begin to bridge the gap is to find a point of agreement between them and their larger community, and one day she discovers a rich possibility: Ohio State football. She buys herself and her husband Ohio State University sweatshirts and insists to her husband that they begin to follow the games – once they learn how the game is played. And after a while, they become rabid fans, attending all the games. When their son from Southern California calls to see how they’re doing, the wife starts talking trash over the phone about how OSU beat UCLA. But when the husband goes overboard in his determination to assimilate, it is the wife who feels she must rein him in.
We also intend to produce super-short – under five minutes – video vignettes, skits and concepts, while we are working on our other, more major, projects. By “concepts” is meant videotaped trifles which have no story or plot, just an idea, intended usually to be funny. One example is having a man walk up unannounced and shirtless to an Abercrombie and Fitch store and start posing with the live models at the entryway for under one minute, or until told to leave by security. It is not intended for these super-shorts to garner revenues, but rather to be used as marketing tools to develop our brand and create public recognition of our work and talents.
The process for making our super-shorts is, in broad strokes, the same as described above for making films and television pilot episodes; however, the process is much cheaper and therefore, much faster. Also, the method of distribution is much simpler: We simply upload the finished products to our website as well as other video sharing websites, such as YouTube, for viewing on the web.
Funding for our super-shorts are expected to come from equity money raises, such as this one, or future money raises or debt, i.e. loans from management or a benefactor.
The market for our products varies depending upon the product and the mode of distribution. In general, because we are not an established production company, we cannot simply produce a large-budget project and immediately release it to the public in hopes of garnering immediate revenue. Rather, it must first be presented and screened to members of the entertainment community either through film festivals or private screenings for entertainment industry executives, who then would make the decision to distribute it to the public. By the same token, we cannot simply produce a super-short project and expect it to be immediately screened by members of the entertainment community; rather, we must attempt to build wide public recognition of the product first through the public at large before it has a chance of being noticed by executives in the entertainment industry, who might then be interested in commissioning us to produce a film or television program, or entertain a meeting with us where we would pitch a film or television program.
Therefore, the immediate market for our large-budget short and feature films would be members of the entertainment industry who attend film festivals and those to whom we screen the movie privately, with the ultimate market being the public at large. Conversely, the immediate market for our super-shorts
would be the broad public, in order to generate enough recognition of our work and talent that we can approach agents and executives in the entertainment industry with credibility. We elaborate upon this in our Distribution and marketing sub-section below.
The short- and long-term overall financial plan. We have issued shares to purchase three screenplays and the short film “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?”. We have used some of the cash we raised in our private stock offerings to pay for audit and financial statement review fees, attorney fees, various office and administrative costs, and costs associated with our website. We expect to sell at least enough shares through the drawdown equity facility to allow us to a) maintain our administrative responsibilities, b) maintain and update our website, c) continue to market our products and d) make more products, over the next 12 months. Please see Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation below, and Use of Proceeds above. Within three years, we hope to have successfully produced and distributed a feature film and/or be offered a budget from a film and/or television distribution company or television network to produce a film or television program.
We applied for a priced quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board in October of 2008, and expect to amend our application upon effectiveness of this registration statement.
Distribution and marketing. The fifth and final phase of film production is distribution, and within this phase comes most of one’s marketing efforts.
It is in this phase that one may see the most variation in terms of accomplishing the task. Whereas most films during the first four phases of production proceed in roughly the same manner as we outline above, the final phase of distribution is wide open to different avenues and many unique paths. For example, while large films produced by a major studio follow a more certain path through theatrical release, followed by home video, pay-per-view and so on, movie projects which are independently-produced, such as ours are likely to be for the foreseeable future, cannot typically afford to engage in what is called “self-distribution”, which is to attempt to place one’s own movie in theatres around the world, and spend money advertising and marketing it properly. Therefore, so-called “indie movies” such as ours must first garner the attention of an entity – typically a major studio, production company, or a firm that specializes in distribution, such as Newmarket Films – which could help the indie movie get proper distribution through normal channels, such as a theatrical release. And because of this need for assistance from larger players in the entertainment industry, indie movies have completely different, and much murkier, paths towards distribution than the large studio pictures. It will be these paths of gaining distribution that we intend to utilize, and which we will describe here.
Despite the myriad paths of distribution available to independently-produced films, channels towards distribution generally coalesce around three distinct routes, which we outlined above and repeat here:
| · | Exhibited at film festivals, then bought on the spot by a studio, large production company or specialized distributor (e.g. Miramax, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney, Buena Vista, Paramount, Paramount Classics, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros., Warner Independent, Universal, United Artists, Lion’s Gate, New Line Cinema, Newmarket Films, etc.) which agrees to cut us in on all the revenue centers (see below for list of revenue centers); and/or |
| · | Shown to foreign and domestic sales agents, who then purchase the film as middlemen for distributors which agree to cut us in on all the revenue centers (see below); and/or |
| · | A “producers’ rep” is hired to show the film directly to the distributors, who then buy it and agree to cut us in on all the revenue centers (see below). |
Submitting a film to a festival or film market is a key way, and the most common way, to expose an indie movie to both peers and executives in the entertainment industry. A film which plays well at a major festival or market, meaning that it is enjoyed by those that go to see it, and is well-attended, stands a good chance of being bought immediately or very shortly after the festival by a studio or production company. In buying the film, the studio, production company or distributor agrees to pay an up-front sum for the movie, as well as share a portion of the revenues and/or profits the film may receive. Below we list the revenue centers for most films.
With respect to this method of gaining distribution, the major issue confronting small production companies such as ours is successfully submitting a film to a major festival. While there are hundreds of film festivals and markets held around the world every year, most are not major enough to lead to the scenario we describe above, where a film that does well at a festival gets bought immediately. There are, in fact, probably less than three dozen festivals and markets around the world each year that could be considered “major”, in the sense that they historically and regularly screen films that get bought by studios, distributors and other entities. Some of these major film festivals are Sundance Film Festival, held in Utah every January, Tribeca Film Festival in New York and Cannes Film Festival in France. Competition to have one’s film screened is one of the major festivals is incredibly intense and not likely by any means. See Risk Factors above.
Prior to submitting the film to a festival – or by-passing the festival circuit altogether – we may opt for another method of gaining distribution, that being direct screenings to foreign and domestic sales agents. Sales agents are much more concerned with the “elements” of a film – i.e. which well-known actor(s), if any, are involved, which director, which genre the movie falls under, etc. – rather than the subjective quality of the film as a whole. This is because sales agents re-sell the movie to companies who specialize in packaging and marketing films to their publics based upon genre, advertising prints, and well-known commodities, such as an actor or director’s name. Particularly for foreign markets, sales agents use a very objective calculus in determining how much they will pay for a film, all based purely on genre, names of participants and, oftentimes, the quality of the poster for the film. As with other methods of gaining distribution, the film may be purchased for a lump sum, plus a share of future revenues or profits.
The third method of gaining distribution we shall likely utilize is the “producer’s representative”, a person or firm acting essentially as the agent for the film. A producer’s representative may be hired on a contingency basis to represent the film at film festivals and markets and attempt to secure a buyer or exhibitor for the film, or may attempt to screen the movie privately for specific studio or other entertainment industry executives who may then in turn agree to purchase the film.
If we are successful in gaining distribution for one of our films, the film then proceeds through the usual distribution schedule, which is typical for most films, even indie films. Revenue centers for a film come with each step of the distribution cycle, as follows:
| · | Domestic Theatrical Box Office |
| · | Ancillary (merchandise and other tie-ins, soundtrack, books of, or based on, the movie, etc.) |
| · | Foreign Theatrical Box Office |
| · | Worldwide DVD Sales (including sales to rental outlets) |
| · | Video on Demand/Pay TV sales |
| · | Misc. exhibition: Airplanes, U.S. Armed Forces, foreign TV, etc. |
| · | Entertainment Product Spin-offs (sequels, TV show[s] based on movie, movies or TV shows based on secondary characters being featured in different scenarios, etc.) |
Not every film is positioned to take advantage of all of the revenue centers above. For example, big-budget action movies released during the summer that are rated PG or PG-13 are more likely to have merchandise tie-ins than other, more adult-themed films. Also, a popular movie with an open-ended conclusion may be more likely to have a sequel made than a movie with a closed narrative structure.
Also, not every film will be successful at any given step.
Our first movie slated for production, Writers’ Assistants, is not likely to take advantage of merchandise tie-ins, nor is it likely to do well in the foreign box office, as the movie deals with machinations on a sitcom set in Hollywood, which could be alien to many people in other countries. It is conceivable, however, that Writers’ Assistants could take advantage of all other revenue centers listed above.
The methods delineated above cover our feature films.
Our significant short films, such as “Buckeye Marhaba”, will be submitted to film festivals, but more with a view towards gaining recognition for our work, rather than a view towards distribution to the public in exchange for revenues. In this sense they form part of our marketing plans; our end market for these films will be the entertainment industry executives themselves. The hope is that upon seeing our finest work in these more substantive short films, executives in the industry will agree to meet with us and have us pitch to them our other film and television concepts, with a view towards being asked to produce one or more of them.
But it will be our less significant, more comedic short films, such as the one we purchased – “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” – along with our super-shorts described above, which will form the backbone of our public marketing campaign. The idea is that through broad public recognition of our work, we will be demonstrating to entertainment industry executives that we have a built-in market for our work. The hope is that by so demonstrating, we will be more likely to be granted meetings with executives where we can pitch our ideas and ultimately be asked to produce one of them.
The first way we intend to market and distribute our comedic shorts and super-shorts is to post them on our website, www.writersgroupfilmcorp.com, as well as video sharing websites, which include:
Initially, we will not have any resources - except word of mouth – to actively advertise our videos or our website in general, and so we anticipate very little traffic initially for our website. However, our website is up and operating properly already, and GraphicPark.net, the website design and marketing firm we are using, has already submitted our URL - http://www.writersgroupfilmcorp.com - - to the most popular search engines and directories, including Google and Yahoo! Search, as well as DMOZ, which provides search results to many search engines such as Alexa and AOL Search. This will allow the general public to become aware of our site through web searches they conduct on their own into the areas with which our website deals, and we anticipate that some growth in site traffic will occur through this means.
Although our videos will be available for viewing for free, and therefore not be income-producing, our plan nevertheless calls for us to concentrate on increasing traffic to those videos. We view traffic as a way to increase the positive word of mouth about our products, thus hopefully getting the attention of executives of a film and/or television distribution company or television network, who might offer us a professional production opportunity, such as producing a television pilot or special, or short or feature-length film, and it is the steady producing of television shows and films which is our ultimate goal. For that reason, our business plan also calls for future funds - funds we receive after this offering is completed - to be used to advertise on other websites which might have a demographic that would appreciate our work, including off-beat political "me-zines", which are individualized web sites featuring a definite personality such as bricksexplode.blogspot.com, or other off-beat humor websites such as bobanddavid.com or collegehumor.com.
The second way in which we anticipate marketing and distributing our comedic shorts and super-shorts is to simply submit DVD copies of our film and video products to those satellite, cable and broadcast entities who air such products, such as HBO and/or Cinemax, both owned by AOL Time Warner; Showtime and/or The Movie Channel, both owned by Viacom; IFC, Independent Film Channel - owned jointly by Cablevision, General Electric and MGM; and the Sundance channel, a joint venture between Viacom, PolyGram and Robert Redford. All of these cable and satellite channels air short films regularly and might be willing to at least look at unsolicited submissions to see if they would like to air them, although we have no personal knowledge that it is that easy. Please see Risk Factors, above.
It is true, however, that Alexandra Pelosi, the producer and director of the feature-length documentary "Journeys With George" - a documentary featuring an intimate look at President George W. Bush as he campaigned for President in the year 2000 - did nothing more than submit her final edit of "Journeys With George" to HBO with a handwritten note asking them to air it, and HBO executives watched it, liked it and did, indeed, air it. We will try this plan and hope that something similar to what transpired for "Journeys With George" occurs for one of our film products, although it should be noted that Alexandra Pelosi is the daughter of a high-ranking member of Congress, an advantage we do not share, and the subject matter of Ms. Pelosi's documentary is likely of more interest to a wider audience than any of our products will be.
The third manner by which we intend to market and distribute our comedic shorts and super-shorts is by submitting them as entries in various film festivals and competitions across the continent. The largest and most famous film festivals, which often include competitions of the films they exhibit, in North America include Sundance and Slamdance, both in Park City, Utah, Telluride in Telluride, Colorado and the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario. Given the asymmetric amount of supply of films to the slots allowed in these festivals, we believe it is not realistic that our films will be shown at any of these most famous film festivals, although we will certainly try to submit our films as entrants into them. More realistic, we feel, is successfully entering our films in smaller film festivals, including Toronto Giggleshorts Comedy Film Festival and World of Comedy International Film Festival, both held in Toronto, Ontario; Firstglance Los Angeles Film Festival in Los Angeles; and the Anchorage Film Festival in Anchorage, Alaska. Our comedic short film parody "The G! True Hollywood Story: Dude, Where's My Car?", for example, which we purchased at our inception on March 9, 2007, was screened at the NewFilmmakers NY film series in New York City in June, 2007. Exhibiting any of our film products at film festivals should increase the exposure our work receives, increasing the chance that an executive of a film and/or television distribution company or television network might see our work, and then might help us achieve our goals by offering us a professional production opportunity, such as producing a television pilot or special, or short or feature-length film. And while it should be noted that the NewFilmmakers NY screening of our short film did not significantly increase our exposure, in our research and observation, acceptance at other film festivals becomes much easier after at least one festival has already accepted the film. We look to submit “G! Dude?” to more festivals.
Television pilot programs that are produced unsolicited are much harder to distribute and market. For example, we are aware of only one website which caters to exhibiting pilot television programs and that is channel101.com. Besides Channel 101, we would have to show our pilots to members of the entertainment industry directly. As such, we shall not produce a television pilot program until the other prongs of our business and marketing plans have succeeded sufficiently to where we can be confident an executive in the television industry would be willing to view our pilot.
The plan for growth. Ultimately, we plan for one of our feature films to be financed and be successful. Also, we plan for a network to approve of one of our TV pilots and pay us money to produce more episodes of that concept. We also plan ultimately for a movie studio executive to view one of our short films and finance a future feature film and/or gaining a sufficient amount of broad public recognition for our brand through our comedic shorts and super-shorts to be able to successfully pitch a feature film or television program to the appropriate executive. And once we begin to generate fees from the production of films and sees profits being derived from the release of completed films, which we believe may occur within the next 1-3 years, we are confident that we will be able to meet our minimum operating requirements. We then anticipate having funds available for the needs of our development, making it possible to expand in both quality and quantity. Please see Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation below.
Competition. First, as a general note, competition in this industry, particularly in the low-budget, independent film production niche of the industry, is extremely intense. Major film studios such as Warner Bros. and Sony Corp's Columbia-Tri Star dominate the industry; "mini-major" film studios such as Miramax and New Line Cinema compete fiercely to produce and/or distribute low- and mid-budgeted films; smaller independent production companies such as Twentieth Century Fox’s Fox Searchlight, Vivendi Universal's October Films, Lion's Gate Films and Regent Entertainment are well-established and use their recognition and track record as leverage to compete favorably for financing and other resources used to make films; and there are literally hundreds of web-based producers of films - with varied levels of quality - virtually all of which compete for recognition, attention and, ultimately, financing for future productions, in this crowded marketplace.
Initially, in order to make the business, marketing and distribution plans we described above work, we need to have our entertainment products competitive in three places: 1) at film festivals, 2) on the Internet, and 3) within the actual offices of members of the entertainment community. And business conditions in all three places are extremely competitive.
First, at film festivals, our work will be submitted to the various film festivals across the continent, and then, prior to each festival, judged against thousands of other short film submissions. If our work is selected by the respective festival's judging panel, our work then is exhibited at the festival along with one hundred or more other films, all presumably of similar quality. These conditions combine to create a very poor business environment for our work, in that the likelihood of being offered professional production opportunities as a result solely of these exhibitions is small.
Second, on the Internet, there is an overwhelming supply of entertainment products, including short- and feature-length films and videos, and entertaining written material such as essays, screenplays, teleplays, columns, short stories, etc., and most of the suppliers of these entertainment products are actively trying to get their products seen by the broad public, and many want to be offered paid jobs in the entertainment industry to write, direct, produce or act in television, music videos and/or film projects, which is similar to our plan.
With the advent of the Internet, the amateur entertainment suppliers have multiplied geometrically. There are literally thousands upon thousands of internet-based, short-form entertainment providers such as ourselves which feature the creative and artistic work of one or more people in the fields of film, video and creative writing. Providers which make available entertainment products similar to ours include Awkward Pictures, Stuckey & Murray, GoPotatoTV, Fod Team and JoeyandDavid. These groups providing entertainment products similar to ours - and many thousands more - are virtually all more established than we are, offer more material than we do currently, and are more well-known than we are.
Additionally, thousands of new videos are uploaded to video websites every day. Getting one's product noticed on the Internet in this environment of overwhelming supply is extremely difficult. And with only one video so far – the short film we purchased, “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” – and almost no promotion of the video, our competitive position in this industry is very weak currently.
The third area in which we need our products to be competitive initially is within the actual work offices of the members of the entertainment community. Competition here is also fierce. This is because the number of submissions - both solicited and unsolicited - which members of the entertainment community receive is huge. Often agents, producers, studio heads and others involved in programming in the entertainment industry will receive hundreds of submissions every month, including script submissions, video submissions and so on. Even with our unusual marketing and distribution method, we face a daunting uphill battle to get our work noticed. And with our relatively unknown status, our competitive position in this arena is, again, very weak.
Our position is further weakened because price is not a method of competition in this segment of the industry. Virtually no low-budget web-based supplier of entertainment products charges for their products, making it impossible to "undercut" the competition through price. And of course no supplier charges members of the entertainment industry a fee when they send submissions because suppliers are often desperate for members of the entertainment industry to view their work. Quality of product is certainly a method of competition; however, there, too, the sheer amount of entertainment products available make it close to impossible to "rise above the rest" in terms of quality.
Another competitive method is "who you know", meaning that any personal and/or business relationships cultivated with members of the entertainment community by each supplier are utilized to get the respective supplier's work seen by those members of the entertainment community. Here again, although our President and Chairman worked for one season as a writers' assistant and assistant to the
executive producer on a sitcom which aired on the WB Network, and our third Director Mr. Benest is an accomplished screenwriter with many lines of communication to agents and producers, and while we certainly will try to utilize whatever relationships with members of the entertainment community we have to our advantage, we cannot say that we are in a necessarily more competitive position in this method of competition than other suppliers in the entertainment industry.
Finally, if we were to be successful to the point where we would be asked to be the production company of any kind of television programming or film of any length, our competition would be significantly broadened to include some of the largest and most well-established multi-national corporations in the world, including Walt Disney Company, Sony Corp., Viacom, News Corp. and Time Warner. Please see Risk Factors above.
Dependence On a Few Major Customers. Although now with the Internet there are literally almost an infinite number of ways one may show one's entertainment products to the public, there are still, nevertheless, only a very few ways to show one's entertainment product to the public in exchange for money. There's broadcast network programming, which includes NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, and The CW, and several basic cable "network" channels which have original entertainment programming, including USA Network, Comedy Central, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, the PAX network, ABC Family, and MTV Networks. There's also a limited amount of original programming funded by premium pay cable outlets, including HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and Encore! But there are not many other venues for exhibiting one's work for money, and this huge amount of supply, combined with relatively few customers for the supply, creates a "bottleneck" effect for entertainment products, where there is a great deal of competition among suppliers of entertainment content, such as Writers’ Corp., and outlets which air them, such as broadcast, basic cable and premium cable channels. Please see Risk Factors above.
Right now we have no customers, and we anticipate no customers for the near future. If our business plan was quite successful, then in the foreseeable future we would likely be reliant on the very few customers delineated above for all of our work.
Intellectual Property and Labor Agreements. Our success and ability to compete will be dependent in part upon our ability to obtain and maintain protection for our current and future literary properties, to defend our intellectual property rights and to operate without infringing on the proprietary rights of others. We will attempt to rely, as needed, on a combination of copyrights and trademarks to establish and protect our intellectual property rights, including use of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Form PA and the Writers Guild of America's Intellectual Property Registry, for we believe that factors such as the technical and creative skills of our personnel are essential to our success and ability to compete. The Form PA, published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., allows the filer to register with the USPTO their creative recorded work, such as a film and the underlying script for the film. Although registration with the Copyright Office is not required to have a valid copyright, registration does provide several benefits, including the establishment of a public record and evidence of our claim as the valid copyright owner of our films and their underlying scripts, the ability to file a federal lawsuit against someone who uses our films or portions thereof without our permission, and eligibility to receive statutory damages and attorneys' fees in the event we file and win a copyright infringement lawsuit. The WGA’s Intellectual Property Registry assists writers in establishing the completion dates of intellectual property, providing a dated record documenting a writer's claim of authorship. If necessary, a Registry employee may produce the material as evidence if a legal or official Guild action is initiated. All three of our screenplays have been registered with the Writers’ Guild.
Despite use of the federal Form PA and the Writers Guild's Intellectual Property Registry, there can be no assurance that any of our intellectual property rights will provide competitive advantages or will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by competitors. There can be no assurance that disputes will not arise concerning the ownership of intellectual property. Furthermore, there can be no assurance that intellectual properties will not become known or be independently developed by competitors or that we will be able to maintain the confidentiality of information relating to our literary properties.
Conversely, content on our website may bring us liability. Our website could possibly face potential liability for negligence, copyright, patent, trademark, defamation, indecency and other claims based on the nature and content of the materials we post. Such claims have been brought and sometimes successfully pressed against Internet content distributors. We could also be exposed to liability with respect to unauthorized duplication of content or unauthorized use of other parties' proprietary technology. Although we intend to obtain general liability insurance as we begin to produce larger-budgeted projects, it may not cover potential claims of this type or may not be adequate to protect us from all liability that may be imposed. Therefore any imposition of liability could hurt our business. Please see Risk Factors above.
We have never had any labor contracts. However, upon commencing production of any entertainment product which includes on screen one or more members of the Screen Actors Guild – including our President, Tal L. Kapelner – we will sign a labor agreement with the Screen Actors Guild. A SAG contract discusses the rules involved with hiring, paying and working with the actors we use on our film and television shoots. We do not believe an agreement with SAG will negatively effect our business, as SAG specifically stipulate that, on film budgets under $2,500,000, we have the right as producers to negotiate pay directly with the performers we wish to hire, rather than be bound by SAG's normal minimum pay structure. There are, however, other rules we would be bound by because of an agreement with SAG, including actors' pension and health contributions, which we feel will increase our costs somewhat. However, importantly, most low-budget agreements with SAG allow us to hire non-SAG actors as well, greatly broadening our ability to search for the best and most cost-effective talent for our productions. In any event, any film wherein a contract with SAG is in force will simply have to take that into account in its budgeting.
Existing or Probable Governmental Regulation. There are the usual governmental regulations on workplace environment and safety, as well as employee pay, benefits, taxes and relations that other businesses face, as well as intellectual property considerations, discussed above; however, we do not anticipate any other governmental regulations to substantially effect our business.
Employees. The total number of employees we have, including full- and part-time, is currently zero (0). We rely on the services of our President, Secretary and Chairman, Tal L. Kapelner, our Vice-President, Treasurer and Director, Ariella Kapelner, and our third Director, Glenn M. Benest, to devote as much time as they can to Writers’ Corp. and its projects, and to spend time overseeing our administrative responsibilities as well, but at this time we have no employees, not even our three management personnel. Currently, Tal L. Kapelner devotes approximately 30 hours per week to Writers’ Corp., Ariella Kapelner devotes about 15 hours per week to Writers’ Corp. and Glenn M. Benest devotes 5 hours per week, on average, to Writers’ Corp. We anticipate that our officers will continue to devote the same number of hours, on average, per week to our company in the foreseeable future, although there will naturally be a spike in the number of hours per week devoted by our management team whenever we go into production on a project. In the event we are successful in generating revenue and making our company profitable, employment contracts will be offered to members of our management personnel, and if in the mid-future, 1-3 years from now, we are successful enough to have the resources for and need to hire additional management or administrative or other personnel, we will do so.
With respect to our short films and super-short vignettes, skits and concepts, those are worked on by independent contractors who work on each shoot on a project basis. The only exception to this are the actors. Pursuant to the rules of the Screen Actors Guild, we are required to consider the actors we hire on each film employees, even if they are hired for only one day. However, the typical length of employment for actors on a short film shoot is 2-5 days. This is typical of our industry and we will likely continue to produce short films without hiring employees, except for the actors on very short-term bases.
On larger-budgeted films, with longer production schedules, generally all crewmembers as well as actors are salaried employees. We shall be using a payroll service during those weeks to comply with associated rules and regulations, including workman’s compensation insurance regulations. In addition, depending upon our budget, we may sign a contract with IATSE, the trade union which represents many crew members such as camera operators and propmasters, though if we sign a contract, it would likely cover only that project.
Reports to Security Holders
We will not voluntarily send an annual report to security holders; however, we do currently file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We are subject to the requirement to prepare a 10-K (annual report) every year, and once each 10-K has been prepared and approved by our counsel for filing with the SEC, we will provide this report and any additional information to any security holder who requests it, and these reports will include audited financial statements.
We will also be required to file reports on Form 8-K relating to any material information which is important for investors in our securities to know. We will have a continuing reporting obligation under Section 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, once the registration statement becomes effective.
The public may read and copy any materials we file with the SEC at the SEC's Public Reference Room at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. The address of that site is http://www.sec.gov. Our Internet address is http://www.writersgroupfilmcorp.com.
In our most recent private stock offering, conducted from December, 2008 – January, 2009, we raised $11,600 in cash and $400 worth of consulting services, which will help us maintain operations for the next several months. We expect to use the drawdown equity facility after that. However, we can continue to operate, albeit in a limited capacity, without additional equity financing. By "limited capacity" we mean that our administrative responsibilities can continue and our marketing efforts for our first short film can continue, using our cash, as well as management’s verbal unbinding pledge to loan us money for those purposes, through at least the end of our 2010 fiscal year, which closes on March 31, 2010. We believe that with a completed short film purchased, exhibited at a film festival and uploaded onto three different video sharing websites, our business plan and operations can continue and will not be placed in jeopardy if we are not able to raise additional equity financing in the upcoming fiscal year. Additionally, our plan calls for the use of third-party financiers as well as studios and larger production companies to finance our feature films, if we cannot do so ourselves. This portion of our plan requires no funds from us and can therefore be pursued without additional investment in us.
The amount of cash we currently have on hand, as of September 30, 2008, is $0, and the amount of negative working capital we have is ($3,252). The amount of cash we will need to operate our business over the next 12 months is $19,200. The amount of cash we have on hand is insufficient to satisfy our cash requirements. We received a capital contribution from our President of $1,000 from July-August of 2008. Without an infusion of cash from the offering, management will likely have to continue to contribute money to pay our expenses.
We also recently generated our first revenues. In November, 2008, we signed a services contract with Car Search Consulting, Inc. of Los Angeles, California, wherein we were contracted to produce a 35-second commercial advertisement as well as a 5-10 minute internal employee training video. We were paid $8,425 up front for those services, which we are in the process of currently providing.
Also in November of 2008, we optioned the screenplay for Forever Man to Cruck Productions, Inc. a Florida-based production company, for $1,000.
Despite these early revenues, we do not anticipate these or future revenues to produce a profit for the foreseeable future; we have subsisted so far by capital contirbutions from our management and by selling shares through our three private offerings and our public offering, which raised for us a total of $51,750 in cash and $85,148 worth of services, including initial website design and consulting services. In order to simply maintain our administrative responsibilities over the next 12 months, and also complete our application for a priced quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board in the coming year, without personal financial support from management, we need to raise at least $19,200 through the drawdown equity facility or other financing in the next year.
In Fical Year 2010, which begins April 1, 2009, we plan to produce a minimum of 3 super-short films, 1 significant short film, 1 feature film, and move 2 more feature films through pre-production. We also expect to continue marketing our first comedic short film, “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” and market our other products as we describe in the Description of Business section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed July 15, 2008.
The time it takes for each project to be completed varies widely depending upon the length of the entertainment product to be produced, the ease in getting investment or financing for it, and a myriad of other circumstantial factors. As we mention in the Description of Business section in our Annual Report, generally speaking a super-short film takes 2-5 months to produce including development time, a significant short film takes 5-9 months to produce including development time, and a typical indie feature film takes 2 ¾ years – 5 ¾ years including development time. We expect to take the normal, full time for our super-short and significant short films, but because our first feature film, Writers’ Assistants, would be nearly through the development stage were this stock offering to be successful, the time to distribution would be approximately 12 months rather than several years.
There are specific milestones - and steps to achieving each milestone - to our business and marketing plans. Our first milestone was to establish our business. The specific steps we took to accomplish this were:
| a) | Incorporate our corporation, name our management and adopt bylaws; |
| b) | purchase our business plan, first short film, and three screenplays; |
| d) | open a bank account; and |
| e) | incorporate two subsidiaries, each of which to handle one movie. |
This first milestone was reached in approximately three months, from March 2007 to June 2007 and cost us approximately $500 in cash and $57,000 worth of shares. Tal L. Kapelner loaned us most of the cash needed to complete this milestone.
The second milestone was to raise money for administrative responsibilities. The specific steps we took to accomplish this were:
| a) | Got Board authorization; |
| b) | had attorney conduct blue sky securities law survey; |
| c) | prepared disclosure memorandum and financial statements; |
| d) | received legality opinion letter from attorney; |
| e) | conducted private stock offering exclusively in state of California pursuant to California Corporations Code section 25102(f); filed 25102(f) Notice with California; |
| f) | filed Form D with Securities and Exchange Commission, as offering was conducted pursuant to Rule 504 of Regulation D; and |
| g) | sold 6,132,822 shares of stock in this offering to 31 different individual subscribers at a price of $0.01 per share. In exchange for the shares, we received $34,850 in cash and $26,478 worth of services, for a total of $61,328 in cash and services. |
This second milestone was reached in approximately 5 ½ months, from March to August 2007 and cost us approximately $500, with the offering itself paying for the costs.
The third milestone is to continue to market our first entertainment product, a comedic short film entitled "The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where's My Car?" The specific steps we have taken so far to accomplish this were:
| a) | In addition to YouTube and Veoh, we posted the short film to the FunnyorDie.com video sharing website, which specializes in comedic videos; |
| b) | our President and Chairman, Tal L. Kapelner, attended the NewFilmmakers NY film series, where the film was accepted for screening, in June of 2007 in New York City; and |
| c) | we distributed additional copies of the film on DVD to members of the public. |
These steps have taken approximately one month to complete, taking place primarily in the month of June of 2007. The cost to us was $600 for travel expenses, borne initially by our President and then re-imbursed by the Company to him. Also, the additional copies of the film on DVD were given to us when we purchased the short film at inception. The specific steps we still must take to accomplish this milestone are:
| d) | Submit the film to more film festivals; |
| e) | submit the film to more video sharing websites, such as Google Video and AOL; |
| f) | research manners by which one increases number of viewers of one’s videos, and implement those suggestions, as practicable; |
| g) | attend any film festivals to which the film will be accepted, and use those screenings as networking opportunities with peers and executives in the entertainment industry; and |
| h) | distribute the last remaining 40 or so copies of the film on DVD to members of the public. |
These last five steps to completing this milestone will likely take an additional six months, as many film festivals require that submissions be sent several months in advance. The cost of these five additional steps is likely to be approximately $2-3,000, depending upon how many festivals our film is accepted to, and where those festivals are located, and we will use our cash on hand and notes receivable to finance these steps, if this public offering is not successful.
The fourth milestone is to raise more financial capital, register all the shares we issued in our private stock offering and otherwise prepare our share structure so as to allow for listing later on a secondary market by having freely-tradable securities. The specific steps we have taken so far in accomplishing this were:
| a) | Retain counsel, auditor and EDGARizer professionals; |
| b) | prepare preliminary administrative and legal responsibilities, including having attorney prepare a blue sky survey and write a legality opinion letter; and preparation of a draft Form S-1; |
| c) | perfect Form S-1 and file with SEC; |
| d) | have SEC review and offer comments; and |
| e) | revise S-1 and re-file with SEC; have SEC re-review and offer further comments; continue to revise until cleared for offering by SEC. |
| f) | Conduct offering in the state of California, retain transfer agent, issue share certificates, etc. |
These steps have taken approximately ten months, from July 2007 to August 2008, and cost approximately $11,000, which was paid for using proceeds from our private stock offering.
Our fifth milestone is to produce our next entertainment product: a feature film entitled “Writers’ Assistants”. The specific steps we have taken so far in accomplishing this milestone were:
| a) | Purchased the screenplay, synopsis, logline and preliminary budget for the film; |
| b) | prepared a list of well-known actors we think could play certain roles in the film and might agree to participate; and |
| c) | met with a third-party financier regarding putting up seed money, and successfully getting a verbal agreement from him to put $150,000 into an escrow account to attract a well-known actor to participate. |
These steps have taken approximately five months, from March to August 2007, and cost approximately $45,000 worth of shares of our Common Stock. It did not cost us any cash because Mr. Kapelner paid for the expenses of his trip to the financier, approximately $100, out of his own pocket, which we’re accounting for as additional paid-in capital. The specific steps we still must take to accomplish this milestone are:
| d) | Finance the film either through approaching well-known actors to see which one would be willing to play a role in the film, and meeting with studios and larger production companies to secure the full $1 million budget, or through sales of shares in this public offering; |
| e) | decide on a director and producers; |
| f) | develop a production schedule and finalize the budget; |
| g) | prepare paperwork for, and sign with, actors union; |
| h) | sign with payroll company and prepare employer tax and workers' compensation obligations; |
| j) | hire all needed crewmembers; |
| k) | purchase or otherwise secure props, wardrobe and filmmaking equipment; |
| l) | shoot the film as directed in the production schedule; |
| m) | complete final tax and union paperwork; |
| n) | hire editor to catalogue all of the footage shot; |
| o) | have director, producers and editor work together to cut the footage together into a final feature, adding any visual or sound effects, additional dialogue recording, narration, additional footage, etc.; |
| p) | submit the film to film festivals and markets; |
| q) | hire a producer’s representative on a contingency basis to represent the film at film festivals and markets, and to screen the film privately for executives in the entertainment industry; and |
| r) | meet with foreign and domestic sales agents in hopes of persuading them to purchase the film. |
The timeframe for completing this milestone depends upon how quickly we can achieve financing; however, we anticipate starting this project in July 2009 and marketing the finished product by December 2009. We project a cost of $1,000,000 for this project, and anticipate paying for this project through our drawdown equity facility upon obtaining a priced quotation on a secondary stock quotation service, or through financing from studios or production companies.
The sixth milestone in our business plan is to produce and market our first super-short film, which we are tentatively calling “A&F”, in which an overweight man takes off his shirt and pretends to be one of the live human models at an Abercrombie and Fitch store. The specific steps for completing this milestone will be:
| a) | Purchase videocamera using proceeds from this public offering; |
| b) | arrange for a cameraman to operate videocamera; |
| c) | develop outline of concept, and plan for filming; |
| d) | if using one or more unionized actors, prepare a letter stating that fact to the Screen Actors Guild actors’ union; |
| e) | film at an Abercrombie and Fitch store which features live human models standing in the doorway; |
| f) | edit footage into a super-short film; |
| g) | upload to video sharing websites; and |
| h) | research methods by which to generate wide public recognition of the work. |
We anticipate working on this project during the month of August, 2009, and spending approximately $2,000 to produce and market it.
The seventh milestone in our business plan is to complete our application for a priced quotation on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board stock quotation service. The specific steps we will need to take to complete this milestone are:
| a) | Prepare updated due diligence paperwork to supplement our Form 211 filing; |
| b) | submit our updated due diligence materials to FINRA via our market maker, Westminster Securities; |
| c) | respond to any deficiencies in our application as pointed out by FINRA; |
| d) | upon approval for an unpriced quotation by FINRA, have market maker revise Form 211 to apply for a priced quotation on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board; and |
| e) | work with market maker on setting an opening price and discuss making market on the stock. |
The timeframe for completing this milestone is expected to be February – March, 2009. There is no cost for applying for a priced quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board stock quotation service.
The eighth milestone in our business and marketing plan is to produce and market our planned significant short film, “Buckeye Marhaba”. The specific steps we will need to take to complete this milestone are:
| a) | Secure $30,000 in financing; |
| c) | decide on a director and producers; |
| d) | approach The Ohio State University about possibly co-producing our film; |
| e) | develop a budget and production schedule; |
| f) | prepare paperwork for, and sign contract with, actors’ union; |
| g) | sign with payroll company and prepare employer tax and workers’ compensation obligations; |
| i) | find and secure locations for shooting; |
| j) | hire all needed crewmembers; |
| k) | purchase or otherwise secure props, wardrobe and filmmaking equipment; |
| l) | rehearse scenes with the actors; |
| m) | dress sets, prepare food service, and otherwise prepare locations for shooting; |
| n) | shoot the film as per the production schedule; |
| o) | complete final tax and union paperwork; |
| p) | hire editor to catalogue footage and prepare rough cut of film; |
| q) | have director, producers and editor work together to cut the footage together into a final film, adding any narration, effects, music, additional dialogue recording and/or additional footage needed; and |
| r) | submit to film festivals as per our marketing plan outlined above. |
In addition to the above-mentioned creative projects, we have many ideas in development for our other entertainment products, including a television pilot dealing with public high school students and the effect on them by school district politics and policies; and a super-short film about a lazy stalker.
We have no purchases or sales of plant or significant equipment planned in the next 12 months.
We do not anticipate any significant changes in the number of employees. We currently have zero and anticipate having zero employees in the next 12 months.
We have chosen the accounting firm of Malone & Bailey, PC to audit our company because of members of our management's personal knowledge of their good work and reasonable fees, despite the fact that we are incorporated in Delaware and located in California, and our auditors Malone & Bailey, PC are located and licensed in Texas and California.
We have our offices in the home of Tal L. Kapelner, and is provided to us for free as a work space. It contains sufficient space and materiel for us to do our administrative work for Writers’ Corp., and the space is covered by homeowner’s insurance.
Currently, and for the foreseeable future, which we consider to be over the next 12 months, it is our policy to not engage in any investments in real estate or interests in real estate, or any investments in real estate mortgages, or any securities of or interests in persons primarily engaged in real estate activity; however, we do not have in place specific, written limitations on the percentage of assets which may be invested in any one investment, or type of investment. This policy we have described may be changed without a vote of our security holders. Currently, it is not our policy to acquire assets either primarily for possible capital gain or primarily for income.
From inception to our quarter ended September 30, 2008, we have participated in 3 transactions in which a related person had a direct or indirect material interest and where the amount involved exceeded one percent of our total assets as of our Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2008.
On March 9, 2007, we purchased the “Writers’ Assistants” unproduced feature film screenplay, the short film “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” and the business plan for Writers’ Corp. from our President and Chairman Tal L. Kapelner for a total of $45,000 worth of our Common Stock, at a price of $0.001 per share, for a total Common Stock share issuance of 45,000,000, which, as of September 30, 2008, represents 69.8% of all issued and outstanding shares of our stock. Mr. Kapelner paid virtually no money for the goods sold to us in this transaction; his interest was principally in terms of his time.
On March 9, 2007, we purchased the “His Name Is Noah” unproduced feature film screenplay from our Vice-President, Treasurer and Director Ariella Kapelner in exchange for $6,750 worth of our Common Stock, at a price of $0.001 per share, equal to 6,750,000 shares of our Common Stock, representing 10.5% of all issued and outstanding shares of our stock as of September 30, 2008. Ms. Kapelner paid virtually no money for the good sold to us in this transaction; her interest was principally in terms of her time.
On March 9, 2007, we purchased the “Forever Man” unproduced feature film screenplay from our third Director Glenn M. Benest in exchange for $800 worth of our Common Stock, at a price of $0.001 per share, equal to 800,000 shares of our Common Stock. Mr. Benest paid virtually no money for the good sold to us in this transaction; his interest was principally in terms of his time.
We do not have any parents. We have three wholly-owned subsidiaries, named “Forever Man Movie, Inc.”, “Writers’ Assistants Movie, Inc.” and “His Name Is Noah Movie, Inc.”. All three of our subsidiaries are Delaware corporations, with Forever Man Movie incorporated by us in August of 2008 and the other two incorporated by us on May 30, 2007.
The names of our three promoters are Tal L. Kapelner, Ariella Kapelner and Glenn M. Benest, who are the three founders of our company.
Our Board of Directors is composed of three members, Chairman of the Board Tal L. Kapelner, Ariella Kapelner and Glenn M. Benest. All three directors have held their positions since inception on March 9, 2007, and there have been no other directors of our company. Using the guidelines provided by the American Stock Exchange Company Guide, none of our Board members could be defined as independent. Our Board does not have separately designated audit, nominating or compensation committees.
Market for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters.
There is no public trading market where our common equity is traded.
There is zero common equity for Writers’ Corp. which is subject to outstanding options or warrants to purchase, or securities convertible into our common equity.
We have agreed to register 64,434,822 shares under the Securities Act for sale by security holders. These were the shares that were issued to 39 California investors in our private stock offerings. None of the 39 subscribers to our private stock offerings are affiliates.
We have also agreed to register up to 100,000,000 shares in connection with a drawdown equity credit facility which we entered into with Auctus Private Equity Fund, LLC.
In 2008, we offered and registered up to 10,000,000 shares in a public offering, and sold 10,000 shares, and de-registered the remainder.
We have only one authorized class of common equity, and that is our Common Stock. There are 43 holders of record of this class of common equity. Our transfer agent is Signature Stock Transfer, Inc. of Plano, Texas. Their phone number is (972) 612-4120.
We have not issued or declared dividends and have no plans to do so.
There are no shares authorized for issuance under an equity compensation plan. We have no equity compensation plans in place and no future plans for such at this time.
No compensation was awarded to, earned by or paid to any officer or director of Writers’ Corp.
Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
There have been no changes in, nor disagreements with, our accountants.
The only accounting firm we have ever retained has been Malone & Bailey, PC. There have been no disagreements with Malone & Bailey, and we anticipate no change in accounting firms.
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To The Board of Directors
Writers' Group Film Corp.
(A Development Stage Company)
Glendale, California
We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Writers' Group Film Corp. (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2008 and 2007 and the related statements of expenses, cash flows and changes in stockholders’ equity for the year ended March 31, 2008, for the period from March 9, 2007 (inception) through March 31, 2007 and for the period from March 9, 2007 (inception) through March 31, 2008. These financial statements are the responsibility of Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatements. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Writers’ Group Film Corp. as of March 31, 2008 and 2007, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the periods described in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company has no revenues and has accumulated losses since inception which raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans regarding those matters also are described in Note 2. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
/s/ Malone & Bailey, PC
www.malone-bailey.com
Houston, Texas
July 14, 2008
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
[A Development Stage Company]
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
| | March 31, 2008 | | | March 31, 2007 | |
ASSETS | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
Current Assets | | | | | | |
Cash | | $ | 576 | | | $ | 2,977 | |
Receivables | | | 424 | | | | - | |
Subscriptions Receivable | | | - | | | | 13,500 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Total Current Assets | | | 1,000 | | | | 16,477 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Total Assets | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 16,477 | |
| | | | | | | | |
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
Current Liabilities | | | | | | | | |
Payable to Related Party | | $ | - | | | | 164 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Total Liabilities | | | - | | | | 164 | |
| | | | | | | | |
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
Common stock, $0.001 par, 75,000,000 | | | | | | | | |
shares authorized, 62,682,822 shares | | | | | | | | |
issued and outstanding | | | 62,683 | | | | 58,600 | |
Additional paid-in capital | | | 55,195 | | | | 18,450 | |
Deficit accumulated during the development stage | | | (116,878 | ) | | | (60,737 | ) |
| | | | | | | | |
Total Stockholders’ Equity | | | 1,000 | | | | 16,313 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | 16,477 | |
See Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Notes to Financial Statements
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
[A Development Stage Company]
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EXPENSES
| |
| | | | | March 9, 2007 | | | March 9, 2007 | |
| | | | | (Inception) | | | (Inception) | |
| | Year ended | | | Through | | | Through | |
| | March 31, 2008 | | | March 31, 2007 | | | March 31, 2008 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
General and administrative | | $ | 56,081 | | | $ | 60,737 | | | $ | 116,818 | |
Interest Expense | | | 60 | | | | - | | | | 60 | |
Net loss | | $ | (56,141 | ) | | $ | (60,737 | ) | | $ | (116,878 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Basic and diluted | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss per share | | $ | (0.00 | ) | | $ | (0.00 | ) | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Weighted average common | | | | | | | | | | | | |
shares outstanding | | | 61,610,206 | | | | 57,369,565 | | | | | |
See Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Notes to Financial Statements
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
[a development stage company]
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
| | | | | March 9, 2007 | | | March 9, 2007 | |
| | Year | | | (Inception) | | | (Inception) | |
| | Ended | | | through through | | | | |
| | March 31, 2008 | | | March 31, 2007 | | | March 31, 2008 | |
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING | | | | | | | | | |
ACTIVITIES | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (56,141 | ) | | $ | (60,737 | ) | | $ | (116,878 | ) |
Adjustments to reconcile | | | | | | | | | | | | |
net loss to cash used | | | | | | | | | | | | |
in operating activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Stock issued for services | | | 26,478 | | | | 56,550 | | | | 83,028 | |
Changes in: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Accounts receivable | | | (424 | ) | | | | | | | (424 | ) |
NET CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES | | | (30,087 | ) | | | (4,187 | ) | | | (34,274 | ) |
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CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ACTIVITIES | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Payments on notes payable | | | | | | | | | | | | |
to shareholders | | | (164 | ) | | | 164 | | | | - | |
Stock issued for cash | | | 14,350 | | | | 7,000 | | | | 21,350 | |
Proceeds from subscription | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Receivable | | | 13,500 | | | | - | | | | 13,500 | |
NET CASH PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES | | | 27,686 | | | | 7,164 | | | | 34,850 | |
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NET CHANGE IN CASH | | | (2,401 | ) | | | 2,977 | | | | 576 | |
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Cash balance, beginning | | | 2,977 | | | | 0 | | | | 0 | |
Cash balance, ending | | $ | 576 | | | $ | 2,977 | | | $ | 576 | |
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CASH PAID FOR: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Interest | | $ | - | | | | - | | | $ | - | |
Income taxes | | $ | - | | | | - | | | $ | - | |
See Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Notes to Financial Statements
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
(A Development Stage Company)
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
From March 9, 2007 (Inception)
through March 31, 2008
| | Shares | | | Amount | | | Additional Paid-in Capital | | | Deficit Accumulated during the development stage | | | Total Stockholders Equity | |
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Common shares issued for services at inception at $0.001 | | | 56,550,000 | | | $ | 56,550 | | | | | | | | | $ | 56,550 | |
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Shares issued for cash in March 2007 at $0.01 | | | 2,050,000 | | | | 2,050 | | | $ | 18,450 | | | | | | | 20,500 | |
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Net Loss | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | (60,737 | ) | | | (60,737 | ) |
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Balance, March 31, 2007 | | | 58,600,000 | | | | 58,600 | | | | 18,450 | | | | (60,737 | ) | | | 16,313 | |
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Shares issued for cash in FY 2008 at $0.01 | | | 1,435,000 | | | | 1,435 | | | | 12,915 | | | | | | | | 14,350 | |
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Shares issued for services in FY 2008 at $0.01 | | | 2,647,822 | | | | 2,648 | | | | 23,830 | | | | | | | | 26,478 | |
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Net Loss | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (56,141 | ) | | | (56,141 | ) |
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Balance, March 31, 2008 | | | 62,682,822 | | | $ | 62,683 | | | $ | 55,195 | | | $ | (116,878 | ) | | $ | 1,000 | |
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See Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Notes to Financial Statements
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
[A Development Stage Company]
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 1 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Organization and Business Operations.
Writers’ Group Film Corp. was incorporated in Delaware on March 9, 2007 to produce films, television programs and similar entertainment programs for various media formats.
Use of Estimates.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Cash and Cash Equivalents.
For purposes of the statement of cash flows, Writers’ Group considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Income taxes.
Writers’ Group recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities based on differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities using the enacted tax rates and laws that are expected to be in effect when the differences are expected to be recovered. Writers’ Group provides a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets for which it does not consider realization of such assets to be more likely than not.
Basic and Diluted Net Loss per Share
Basic and diluted net loss per share calculations are presented in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Statement 128, and are calculated on the basis of the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. They include the dilutive effect of common stock equivalents in years with net income. Basic and diluted loss per share are the same due to the absence of common stock equivalents.
Recently-Issued Accounting Pronouncements.
Writers’ Group does not expect the adoption of recently issued accounting pronouncements to have a significant impact on its results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
NOTE 2 - GOING CONCERN
These financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. Writers’ Group has not generated any revenues since inception and has accumulated losses since inception which raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. The continuation of Writers’ Group as a going concern is dependent upon the ability to obtain necessary equity financing and the attainment of profitable operations. These financial statements do not include any adjustments to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should Writers’ Group be unable to continue as a going concern.
NOTE 3 – COMMON STOCK
On March 9, 2007, shares were issued to four persons and/or entities, as follows:
45,000,000 shares were issued to founding director Tal L. Kapelner at $.001 per share in exchange for services rendered and valued at $45,000, including the short film “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?” and the screenplay to the unproduced feature film “Writers’ Assistants.”
6,750,000 shares were issued to founding director Ariella Kapelner, at $.001 per share in exchange for services rendered and valued at $6,750, including the screenplay to the unproduced feature film “His Name Is Noah.”
800,000 shares were issued to founding director Glenn Benest, at $.001 per share in exchange for services rendered and valued at $800 including the screenplay to the unproduced feature film “Forever Man.”
4,000,000 shares were issued to founding shareholder FMCOCO, Inc., at $.001 per share in exchange for consulting services rendered and valued at $4,000.
During the short year ended March 31, 2007, Writers’ Group sold 2,050,000 shares through a private offering to 14 different investors, raising $20,500 in cash. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, the private offering continued, wherein 2,647,822 shares of common stock were issued for services rendered of $26,478 and 1,435,000 shares were issued for $14,350 cash.
NOTE 4 - COMMITMENTS
Writers’ Group’s principal office is in the home of Writers’ Group’s president pursuant to an oral agreement on a rent-free month-to-month basis.
NOTE 5 – ACQUISITION OF TWO SUBSIDIARIES
In May 2007, Writers’ Group incorporated two corporations in Delaware, named Writers’ Assistants Movie, Inc. and His Name Is Noah Movie, Inc. Each of these two corporations became wholly-owned subsidiaries of Writers’ Group when they issued to Writers’ Group shares of stock in their corporations in exchange for the scripts to the films “Writers’ Assistants” and “His Name Is Noah”, respectively.
NOTE 6 – INCOME TAXES
Writers’ Group uses the liability method, where deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial and income tax reporting purposes. During fiscal 2008, Writers’ Group incurred net losses and, therefore, has no tax liability. The net deferred tax asset generated by the loss carry-forward has been fully reserved. The effective tax rate for fiscal 2008 is 0%. The cumulative net operating loss carry-forward is approximately $35,000 at March 31, 2008, and will expire in the years 2013 - 2028.
Deferred tax assets | | | |
Net operating losses | | $ | 4,700 | |
Less: valuation allowance | | | (4,700 | ) |
Net deferred tax asset | | $ | 0 | |
WRITERS' GROUP FILM CORP. | |
[A Development Stage Company] | |
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS | |
(unaudited) | |
| | September 30, | | | March 31, | |
| | 2008 | | | 2008 | |
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ASSETS | | | | | | |
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Current Assets | | | | | | |
Cash | | $ | - | | | $ | 576 | |
Receivables | | | - | | | | 424 | |
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Total Assets | | $ | - | | | $ | 1,000 | |
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) | | | | | | | | |
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Current Liabilities | | | | | | | | |
Accounts Payable | | $ | 3,252 | | | $ | - | |
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Total Liabilities | | | 3,252 | | | | - | |
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Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) | | | | | | | | |
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Common stock, $0.001 par, 75,000,000 | | | | | | | | |
shares authorized, 63,244,822 and 62,682,822 shares | | | | | | | | |
issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2008 and March 31, 2008, respectively | | | 63,245 | | | | 62,683 | |
Additional paid-in capital | | | 65,653 | | | | 55,195 | |
Deficit accumulated during the development stage | | | (132,150 | ) | | | (116,878 | ) |
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Total Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) | | | (3,252 | ) | | | 1,000 | |
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Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 1,000 | |
See Notes to Unaudited Financial Statements
WRITERS' GROUP FILM CORP. | |
[A Development Stage Company] | |
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EXPENSES | |
(unaudited) | |
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| | Three Months Ended | | | Six Months Ended | | | March 9, 2007 (Inception) | |
| | through | |
| | September 30 | | | September 30 | | | September 30, | |
| | 2008 | | | 2007 | | | 2008 | | | 2007 | | | 2008 | |
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General and administrative | | $ | 8,017 | | | $ | 30,665 | | | $ | 14,848 | | | $ | 46,467 | | | $ | 131,726 | |
Other expense | | | - | | | | - | | | | 424 | | | | 0 | | | | 424 | |
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Net loss | | $ | (8,017 | ) | | $ | (30,665 | ) | | $ | (15,272 | ) | | $ | (46,467 | ) | | $ | (132,150 | ) |
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Basic and diluted | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss per share | | $ | (0.00 | ) | | $ | (0.00 | ) | | $ | (0.00 | ) | | $ | (0.00 | ) | | $ | (0.00 | ) |
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Weighted average common | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
shares outstanding | | | 63,048,273 | | | | 60,382,136 | | | | 62,864,549 | | | | 60,521,141 | | | | | |
See Notes to Unaudited Financial Statements
WRITERS' GROUP FILM CORP. | |
[a development stage company] | |
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS | |
(unaudited) | |
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| | Six Months Ended | | | 9-Mar-07 | |
| | September 30, | | | (inception) through | |
| | 2008 | | | 2007 | | | 30-Sep-08 | |
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING | | | | | | | | | |
ACTIVITIES | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (15,272 | ) | | $ | (46,467 | ) | | $ | (132,150 | ) |
Adjustments to reconcile | | | | | | | | | | | | |
net loss to cash used | | | | | | | | | | | | |
in operating activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Stock issued for services | | | 1,720 | | | | 26,478 | | | | 84,748 | |
Changes in: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Accounts Payable | | | 3,252 | | | | - | | | | 3,252 | |
Accounts Receivable | | | 424 | | | | - | | | | - | |
NET CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES | | | (9,876 | ) | | | (19,989 | ) | | | (44,150 | ) |
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CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ACTIVITIES | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Payments on notes payable to shareholders | | | - | | | | (164 | ) | | | - | |
Stock issued for cash | | | 5,300 | | | | 27,850 | | | | 40,150 | |
Contribution of Capital | | | 4,000 | | | | - | | | | 4,000 | |
Collection of subscription receivables | | | - | | | | - | | | | | |
NET CASH PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES | | | 9,300 | | | | 27,686 | | | | 44,150 | |
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NET CHANGE IN CASH | | | (576 | ) | | | 7,697 | | | | - | |
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Cash balance, beginning | | | 576 | | | | 2,977 | | | | - | |
Cash balance, ending | | $ | - | | | $ | 10,674 | | | $ | - | |
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CASH PAID FOR: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Interest | | | - | | | | - | | | | - | |
Income taxes | | | - | | | | - | | | | - | |
See Notes to Unaudited Financial Statements
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The accompanying unaudited interim financial statements of Writers’ Group Film Corp., have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto contained in Writers’ Group's annual report filed with the SEC on Form 10-K on July 15, 2008. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of financial position and the results of operations for the interim periods presented have been reflected herein. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year. Notes to the financial statements which would substantially duplicate the disclosure contained in the audited financial statements for fiscal 2008 as reported in the Form 10-K have been omitted.
NOTE 2. GOING CONCERN
These financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which implies Writers’ Group will continue to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business. Writers’ Group has never generated revenues since inception and is unlikely to generate earnings in the immediate or foreseeable future. The continuation of Writers’ Group as a going concern is dependent upon the continued financial support from its shareholders, the ability of Writers’ Group to obtain necessary equity financing to continue operations, and the attainment of profitable operations. As of September 30, 2008, Writers’ Group has accumulated losses of $132,150 since inception. These factors raise substantial doubt regarding Writers’ Group's ability to continue as a going concern. These financial statements do not include any adjustments to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should Writers’ Group be unable to continue as a going concern.
NOTE 3. EQUITY
In May of 2008, during the first quarter of fiscal 2009, the President and Chairman of Writers’ Group paid $3,000 for operating expenses. The amount is reflected as contributed capital.
In July and August of 2008, the President and Chairman of Writers’ Group paid $1,000 for operating expenses. The amount is reflected as contributed capital.
Beginning July 25, 2008 and ending August 15, 2008, Writers' Group conducted a private offering of its stock to residents of the state of California. Shares of Common Stock were offered at $0.01 per share. The offering raised $5,300 in cash and $220 worth of services, and through the offering the Company issued a total of 552,000 shares to 7 subscribers.
In July and August of 2008, the Company issued 10,000 shares for services to one subscriber at $0.15 per share.
NOTE 4. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
We conducted a third Rule 504 private placement offering from December 15, 2008 – January 19, 2009, wherein 1,200,000 shares were sold to 6 residents of California at a price of $0.01 per share.
1,160,000 of those shares were sold for cash ($11,600). And 40,000 shares were sold for consulting services rendered ($400 worth of services).
PART II - INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
There are no charter provisions, bylaws, contracts or other arrangements that insures or indemnifies a controlling person, director or officer of Writers’ Corp. which affects his or her liability in their capacity as controlling person, director or officer.
However, Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation law makes provision for the indemnification of officers and directors under certain circumstances from liabilities, including reimbursement for expenses incurred, arising under the Securities Act. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation law empowers a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers and to purchase insurance with respect to liability arising out of their capacity or status as directors and officers, provided that this provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director:
- for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation
or its stockholders;
- for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
- arising under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation law; or
- for any transaction from which the director derived an improper
personal benefit.
The Delaware General Corporation law provides further that the indemnification permitted thereunder shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which the directors and officers may be entitled under the corporation’s bylaws, any agreement, a vote of stockholders or otherwise.
Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.
The following is an itemized statement of all expenses of the offering:
SEC Registration Fees: | | | 418 | |
EDGARizing Fees: | | | 3,200 | * |
State Blue Sky Registration Fees: | | | 60 | * |
Transfer Agent Fees and Certificate Printing: | | | 400 | * |
Copying and Printing Prospectus: | | | 285 | * |
Mailing and Couriering Prospectus: | | | 1,800 | * |
Accounting and Audit/Review: | | | 5,600 | * |
Total: | | | 11,391 | * |
* estimate
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.
On March 9, 2007, we sold 45,000,000 restricted shares of our Common Stock to Tal L. Kapelner, in exchange for a) the business plan for Writers’ Corp., b) his short film “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?”, and c) the screenplay he wrote, entitled “Writers’ Assistants”, together worth $45,000 - see Financial Statements - at a price of $0.001 per share. The section of the Securities Act under which we claim exemption from registration is Section 4(2). The facts we relied upon to make the exemption available include the fact that the shares were issued only to one person, who is a founder of Writers’ Corp., and not as part of any public offering, but instead simply as exchange for goods provided.
Also on March 9, 2007, we sold 6,750,000 restricted shares of our Common Stock to Ariella Kapelner, in exchange for the screenplay she wrote entitled “His Name Is Noah”, worth $6,750 - see Financial Statements - at a price of $0.001 per share. The section of the Securities Act under which we claim exemption from registration is Section 4(2). The facts we relied upon to make the exemption available include the fact that the shares were issued only to one person, who is a founder of Writers’ Corp., and not as part of any public offering, but instead simply as exchange for goods provided.
Also on March 9, 2007, we sold 800,000 restricted shares of our Common Stock to Glenn M. Benest, in exchange for the screenplay he wrote entitled “Forever Man”, worth $800 - see Financial Statements - at a price of $0.001 per share. The section of the Securities Act under which we claim exemption from registration is Section 4(2). The facts we relied upon to make the exemption available include the fact that the shares were issued only to one person, who is a founder of Writers’ Corp., and not as part of any public offering, but instead simply as exchange for goods provided.
Also on March 9, 2007, we sold 4,000,000 restricted shares of our Common Stock to FMCOCO, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, in exchange for $4,000 worth of business consulting services rendered, at a price of $0.001 per share. The business consulting services rendered included a review of our business plan, and advice on the entertainment industry and various fund-raising methods. The section of the Securities Act under which we claim exemption from registration is Section 4(2). The facts we relied upon to make the exemption available include the fact that the shares were issued to one entity and not as part of any public offering, but instead simply as exchange for business consulting services rendered. Also, the sole officer, director and shareholder of FMCOCO, Inc., Steven Medley, is a sophisticated investor with many years experience investing in both publicly-held and privately-held companies. FMCOCO, Inc. was not solicited through any general advertising, but rather, agreed to receive shares from us in exchange for services as we discussed our normal business relations. FMCOCO, Inc., an entity which was very knowledgeable about Writers’ Corp.'s business plan before receiving the shares, is aware of the restrictions on resale of these securities and has agreed to abide by them, including the safe harbor provisions of Rule 144.
From March 10-August 29, 2007, we conducted a private offering of our Common Stock to residents of the state of California. We sold 6,132,822 shares of stock in this offering to 31 different individual subscribers at a price of $0.01 per share. In exchange for the shares, we received $34,850 in cash and $26,478 worth of services, for a total of $61,328 in cash and services. The section of the Securities Act under which we claim exemption from registration is Section 3(b), because we conducted the offering pursuant to Regulation D, Rule 504 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The facts we relied upon to make the exemption available include: a) At the time of the offering we were not subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act; b) we were not an investment company; c) we had a specific business plan that had nothing to do with engaging in a merger or acquisition with any entity; d) we engaged in no advertisement of our offering; e) all sales were made within the same six month period, and no shares have been issued since our offering closed on August 29; f) sales were well under $1 million; g) share certificates issued through the offering were stamped with a restricted legend; and h) the shares were sold pursuant to an exemption from registration in the state of California, which required us to, among other things, only sell shares to persons already known to us, or to persons who could demonstrate financial or investment expertise, or to accredited investors, and to only sell to a maximum of 35 persons worldwide, with accredited investors not counted in that figure.
We conducted two other private offerings in the same manner. We conducted a second private placement offering of our common shares of stock pursuant to Regulation D, Rule 504 of the Securities Act of 1933. The offering began on July 20, 2008 and was closed August 15, 2008. A total of 552,000 shares were sold in the offering to 6 residents of the state of California at a price of $0.01 per share.
Finally, we conducted a third Rule 504 private placement offering from December 15, 2008 – January 19, 2009, wherein 1,200,000 shares were sold to 6 residents of California at a price of $0.01 per share.
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Undertakings.
We undertake to file, during any period in which we offer or sell securities, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to:
(i) Include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) Reflect in the prospectus any facts or events which, individually or together, represent a fundamental change in the information in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) or any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (§230.424(b) of this chapter) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement; and
(iii) Include any additional or changed material information on the plan of distribution.
We also undertake, for determining liability under the Securities Act, to treat each post-effective amendment as a new registration statement of the securities offered, and the offering of the securities at that time to be the initial bona fide offering.
We also undertake to file a post-effective amendment to remove from registration any of the securities that remain unsold at the end of the offering.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this post-effective amendment to the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Lancaster, State of California on January 19, 2009.
WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP.
By: 
Tal L. Kapelner
President
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this post-effective amendment to the registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Tal L. Kapelner
President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Principal Executive
Officer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer
January 19, 2009
/s/ Ariella Kapelner
Ariella Kapelner
Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director
January 19, 2009
The above two persons constitute a majority of the Board of Directors.