UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-1
Amendment No. 2
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 incorporation or organization) | (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | (I.R.S. Employer 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: As soon as practicable 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
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer o | Non-accelerated filer o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) | Accelerated filer o | Smaller reporting company x |
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of each class of securities to be registered | Amount to be registered | Proposed maximum offering price per unit | Proposed maximum aggregate offering price | Amount of registration fee |
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Common Stock | 64,434,822(1) | $0.03(2) | $1,933,044.60 | $75.97 |
(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, and then multiplying that figure by an arbitrarily-determined 300%. Our selling shareholders’ shares will sell at $0.01 per share until our shares are quoted on the OTC BB and thereafter at prevailing market prices or privately negotiated prices |
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.
64,434,822 shares of Common Stock
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 16 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.
The total amount of shares of common stock which may be sold pursuant to this prospectus would constitute 99.98% of our issued and outstanding common stock as of March 15, 2009. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Summary Information | 5 |
Risk Factors | 6 |
Use of Proceeds | 12 |
Determination of Offering Price | 12 |
Dilution | 12 |
Selling Shareholders | 12 |
Plan of Distribution | 14 |
Legal Proceedings | 15 |
Directors, Executive Officers, Promoters and Control Persons | 16 |
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management | 17 |
Description of Securities | 19 |
Interest of Named Experts and Counsel | 19 |
Disclosure of Commission Position of Indemnification for Securities Act Liabilities | 19 |
Organization Within Last Five Years | 20 |
Description of Business | 21 |
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition | 28 |
Description of Property | 30 |
Certain Relationships and Related Transaction | 30 |
Market for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters | 30 |
Executive Compensation | 31 |
Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial | 31 |
Disclosure | |
Financial Statements | 32 |
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.
SUMMARY INFORMATION
We are Writers’ Group Film Corp., a start-up entertainment production company, incorporated in March of 2007. We currently own one short film and three unproduced feature film screenplays. One of our three screenplays, “Forever Man”, was optioned in November of 2008 by Florida-based production company Cruck Productions, Inc. Also in November of 2008 we were hired by Car Search, Inc., a Los Angeles used car dealership, to provide a 30-second television commercial and an in-house employee training video. This job, however, represents our only paid work to date.
Our twin goals are 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 are using this prospectus to register the 64,434,822 shares already issued through private offerings.
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. Slowing us down in achieving this will be a lack of, and difficulty in obtaining, sufficient funds, intense competition from hundreds of other original entertainment content providers and an untried business plan. See Risk Factors starting on page 6 for more information.
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 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.
Our revenues for the most recent audited period – April 1, 2007 – March 31, 2008 – were zero, and were $1,000 for the last quarter ended December 31, 2008. Our net loss for the most recent audited period was $56,141 and for the last quarter ended December 31, 2008 was $3,593. We have accumulated a deficit of $136,167 since inception and our auditors have issued a going concern opinion. See the notes to our audited financial statements below. 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 nine months ended December 31, 2008 (Unaudited) | |
Income Statement Data | | | | | | |
Revenues: | | $ | 0 | | | | 1,000 | |
Expenses: | | | 116,878 | | | | 20,289 | |
Net Loss from Operations: | | | ( 116,878 | ) | | | (19,289 | ) |
Balance Sheet Data | | as at March 31, 2008 (Audited) | | | as at December 31, 2008 (Unaudited) | |
Total Assets: | | $ | 1,000 | | | | 10,891 | |
Total Liabilities: | | | 0 | | | | 8,560 | |
Total Stockholders' Equity: | | | 1,000 | | | | 2,331 | |
RISK FACTORS
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 investment in our company 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.
Risk Factors Related Directly to Our Business Plan
The Short Film We Purchased May Not Succeed In Bringing The Amount Of Attention We Need To Properly Pursue Brand Awareness, 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 key part of our 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 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 51,000 times. After one year on FunnyorDie.com, it has been viewed less than 600 times, and after fourteen 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 our quest for brand awareness 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.Our initial business plan also includes the filming of 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 initial business plan.
Third-Party Financiers And Our Own Stock Offerings 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 cornerstone of 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 stock offerings to collect approximately 10-15% of each of our feature films’ respective budgets and offer that money, along with as much as 5-10% of the profits from the film, 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, a verbal agreement with one third-party financier to commit $150,000 for such a purpose for our film “Writers’ Assistants” – see Description of Business and MD&A sections, below – was rescinded by the financier, citing the recent downturn in the financial markets. 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 stock offerings 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, along with as much as 5-10% of the film’s profit. 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. Since inception, we have not established any professional relationships with any well-known actors or directors.
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 Portion Of Our Business Plan Relatively Unfeasible In The Short Run.We also intend 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 portion of our initial business plan will have to wait until our other strategies have had a chance to work.
Risk Factors Related to Our Early Phase of Business, Track Record, Experience and Position in Industry
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.
We Have Little History of Operations, And Therefore May Not Have the Sufficient Track Record Needed by Investors to Determine If We Are A Sound Investment Or Not.Our operations have consisted mainly of purchasing one short film and three unproduced screenplays, 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 is high. This does not constitute a lengthy track record of accomplishments, and this fact may make it more difficult for investors to determine if we are a suitable investment. 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. As a result of our limited operating history, it may be difficult for investors to accurately forecast our operating expenses or potential revenue.
The Recent Market Downturn Has Negatively Affected Our Business Plan and May Further Affect it Negatively.The severe market downturn that began in September, 2008, has already caused one significant disruption to our business plan: In November 2008 we were told by the California financier, who had earlier verbally committed to putting up $150,000 in order that we may entice a well-known actor to act in our first feature-film project “Writers’ Assistants”, that he would no longer be able to put up that money, thus forcing us to use other avenues to raise those funds, and in the meantime has shut down that aspect of our business plan.
We foresee additional setbacks to our business plan based on the recent downturn in the markets in that production companies and studios, who may have funded the entire budget of “Writers’ Assistants” based upon the participation of a well-known actor, now cannot be solidly relied upon to do so, as their own cash availability may not be sufficient to fund such a project.
Our plans to produce a short film, “Buckeye Marhaba”, are on hold because of our inability to attract financing, exacerbated by the recent market downturn. Similarly, our other web-based skits and other entertainment products have not been financed, and the recent market downturn has affected our ability to raise financing for either these projects, or the company as a whole, putting on hold our entire business plan.
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 Do Not Have Sufficient Funds And This May Lead to More-Diluted Stock. We currently do not have sufficient funds for the next 12 months. In addition, f uture events, including the problems, delays, unexpected expenses and other difficulties frequently encountered by movie production companies may lead to cost increases that have made the net proceeds of previous offering s insufficient to fund our proposed operations. We will 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.
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. Our marketing initiatives have an unproven record and we have not enjoyed success with these tactics in the past.
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. Also, neither of our executive officers are currently receiving any compensation, and we do not have the funds necessary to offer them competitive salaries, nor do we have funds to hire additional management or employees. 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.
Our Management Has Limited Previous Experience in Managing a Public Company and in Evaluating Internal Controls. Although each member of our management has written a screenplay, and has some familiarity with the entertainment industry, our management team has virtually no experience managing a public entertainment company, and n one has extensive experience in evaluating internal controls on the financial reporting, nor in identifying weaknesses in the internal controls. As Writers’ Group expands, we will need to allocate significant resources to meet applicable internal financial reporting standards, which include those controls and standards intended to keep our financial accounts and reporting accurate, thorough and free of fraud. If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud, which would have a material adverse effect on our business and stock.
Risk Factors Related to Our Stock
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. It is common, in fact, for OTC-listed companies to have a non-existent trading volume on any given day.
Most of Our Capital And Assets Have Been Provided by Management And Our Registered Offering Was Unsuccessful .Our initial capital and assets have been largely provided by our management pursuant to private placements of our common shares. The total number of shares purchased by our management in the private placements is 52,550,000, which represents 81.5% of the total outstanding shares of the company . We previously conducted a registered offering of our common shares in which only 10,000 shares were sold, to one investor.
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.
Any Market That Develops In Shares Of Our Common Stock Will Be Subject To The Penny Stock Regulations And Restrictions Which Will Create A Lack Of Liquidity And Make Trading Difficult Or Impossible.
The trading of our securities, if any, will be in the over-the-counter market which is commonly referred to as the OTCBB as maintained by FINRA. As a result, an investor may find it difficult to dispose of, or to obtain accurate quotations as to the price of our common stock.
Rule 3a51-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 establishes the definition of a "penny stock," for purposes relevant to us, as any equity security that has a minimum bid price of less than $5.00 per share or with an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to a limited number of exceptions which are not available to us. It is likely that our shares will be considered to be penny stocks for the immediately foreseeable future. This classification severely and adversely affects any market liquidity for our common stock.
For any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the penny stock rules require that a broker or dealer approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks and the broker or dealer receive from the investor a written agreement to the transaction setting forth the identity and quantity of the penny stock to be purchased. In order to approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks, the broker or dealer must obtain financial information and investment experience and objectives of the person and make a reasonable determination that the transactions in penny stocks are suitable for that person and that that person has sufficient knowledge and experience in financial matters to be capable of evaluating the risks of transactions in penny stocks.
The broker or dealer must also deliver, prior to any transaction in a penny stock, a disclosure schedule prepared by the SEC relating to the penny stock market, which, in highlight form, sets forth:
§ the basis on which the broker or dealer made the suitability determination, and
§ that the broker or dealer received a signed, written agreement from the investor prior to the transaction.
Disclosure also has to be made about the risks of investing in penny stocks in both public offerings and in secondary trading and commissions payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative, current quotations for the securities and the rights and remedies available to an investor in cases of fraud in penny stock transactions. Finally, monthly statements have to be sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held in the account and information on the limited market in penny stocks.
Because of these regulations, broker-dealers may not wish to engage in the above-referenced necessary paperwork and disclosures and/or may encounter difficulties in their attempt to sell shares of our common stock, which may affect the ability of selling shareholders or other holders to sell their shares in any secondary market and have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in any secondary market. These additional sales practice and disclosure requirements could impede the sale of our common stock, if and when our common stock becomes publicly traded. In addition, the liquidity for our common stock may decrease, with a corresponding decrease in the price of our common stock. Our shares, in all probability, will be subject to such penny stock rules for the foreseeable future and our shareholders will, in all likelihood, find it difficult to sell their common stock.
Risk Factors Related to Legal Issues
We May Face Liability As A Result of Our Web Content , 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, Particularly As We Carry No Liability Insurance. 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, and to date, we have not obtained any kind of liability insurance for the company or our management personnel. 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.
Our Short Film – As Well As Other Works We May Produce in The Future – May Infringe Upon Others’ Intellectual Property Rights, Leading to Expensive Lawsuits And An Inability to Distribute Our Products.Our “G! Dude?” short film is a send-up of both the film “Dude, Where’s My Car?” as well as the television show “The E! True Hollywood Story”. We did not ask permission from the producers or rights-holders for either of these copyrighted works to spoof their properties, even though we used similar logos, music and styles as their properties in the process. We may therefore be subject to lawsuits from the rights-holders of these works, claiming intellectual property infringement. Such a suit would likely mean either spending an inordinate amount of time and capital fighting it, or capitulating to the demands of a cease and desist notice, thereby making the film undistributable. Such a scenario is possible for any of our future projects which seek to spoof other, existing intellectual properties.
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 entertainment products – intellectual properties designed as entertainment, including television programs, films, web-based short form films and serials - that are substantially equivalent or superior to our products.
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.
Use of Proceeds
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.
Determination of Offering Price.
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, and multiplying that figure by an arbitrarily-determined 300% to reflect a higher value for the shares, assuming that we will be successful in our application for a priced quotation on the OTC BB.
Dilution.
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.
Selling Shareholders.
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. None of our selling shareholders is a registered broker-dealer or affiliate of a registered broker-dealer.
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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| 64,434,822 | 64,434,822 | |
(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. |
Plan of Distribution.
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 registration.
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.
Legal Proceedings.
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 With the Company | Business Experience During Past Five Years |
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Tal L. Kapelner | 34 | President, Secretary and Chairman of the Board | From April 2000-present, Mr. Kapelner has 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 providing paralegal services to attorneys, writing business plans for companies in various fields, as well as artistic services such as acting and writing. From November, 2002 to May, 2005, Mr.Kapelner was also the President and Chairman of a Delaware subchapter C corporation also named “Tally-Ho Ventures, Inc.” (now called “Premier Wealth Management, Inc.”) which, at the time Mr. Kapelner was involved, was an entertainment production company. Mr. Kapelner’s duties included administrative functions as well as helping to create and expand the entertaining material on the website. |
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Ariella Kapelner | 62 | Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director | 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. 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. 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. “Hungry Hearts” was picked up for worldwide distribution by Shoreline Entertainment in 2004. 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 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. 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 Period During Which Served | Other Directorships Held in Reporting Companies |
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Tal L. Kapelner | 2 years Served March 9, 2007 – present | 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. |
Ariella Kapelner | 2 years Served March 9, 2007 - present | None |
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Glenn M. Benest | 2 years Served March 9, 2007 - present | None |
The respective terms of all three directors ends on March 9, 2010 , at which time they may be re-elected by a majority vote of the shareholders at the annual meeting of shareholders on March 9, 2010.
Ariella Kapelner, Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director, is the mother of President, Secretary and Chairman of the Board, Tal L. Kapelner.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management.
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 of Beneficial Owner | Percent of Class |
Common Stock | Tal L. Kapelner1 752 East Avenue J #266 Lancaster, CA 93535 | 45,000,000 shares(1) President, Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Directors | 69.8 |
Common Stock | Ariella Kapelner 1752 East Avenue J #266 Lancaster, CA 93535 | 6,750,000 shares(2) Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director | 10.5 |
Common Stock | FMCOCO, Inc.5689 Country Road 33 S.E Buffalo, MN 55313 | 4,000,000 shares(3) | 6.2 |
(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. He has the sole voting and investment power and dispositive control over these shares. |
(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. She has the sole voting and investment power and dispositive control over these shares. |
(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. Steven Medley, President of FMCOCO, has the sole voting and investment power and dispositive control over these shares. |
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 December 31 , 2008:
Title of Class | Name and Address of Beneficial Owner | Amount and Nature of Beneficial Owner | Percent of Class |
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Common Stock | Tal L. Kapelner 518 Oak Street #2 Glendale, CA 91204 | 45,000,000 shares(1) President, Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Directors | 69.8 |
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CommonStock | Ariella Kapelner 1752 East Avenue J #266 Lancaster, CA 93535 | 6,750,000 shares(2) Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director | 10.5 |
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Common Stock | Glenn M. Benest c/o Writers’ Group Film Corp.518 Oak Street #2 Glendale, CA 91204 | 800,000 shares(3) Director | 1.2 |
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Common Stock | All Directors and Executive Officers as a Groupc/o Writers’ Group Film Corp. 518 Oak Street #2 Glendale, CA 91204 | 52,550,000 shares(4) | 81.5 |
(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. He has the sole voting and investment power and dispositive control over these shares. |
(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. |
Description of Securities.
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.
Interest of Named Experts and Counsel.
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.
Organization Within Last Five Years.
From inception to our quarter ended December 31 , 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.
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 term of our agreement with FMCOCO ran from February, 2007 to December, 2007.
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.
Description of Business.
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, the hope being that this would help induce subsequent full funding from a larger production company or film studio. However, we had, and still have, no proven record of securing full funding from production companies or film studios by offering financial incentives to secure well-known actors or directors.
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.
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 the business plan we are currently using, as well as 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 three private stock offering s which raised a total of $61,328 in cash and services. Details of these offerings can be found in our Selling Shareholders section, above.
In a separate matter, we decided to form two wholly-owned subsidiary corporations, as we believed it would be best legally and structurally to isolate each feature film project into its own corporate entity, based upon the fact that most feature films – even those produced by major production companies and studios – are placed in their own corporate vehicles, which are then made subsidiaries of the companies that produce them, in order to a) limit liability to the parent production companies, b) more clearly identify ownership and investment by various persons in each project, and c) isolate financial accounting for that production, thereby making audits easier and claims for such things as tax credits easier. We incorporated these two subsidiaries 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 or directors, offering them $150,000, plus as much as 5-10% of the film’s profit, 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 or director, 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 or director 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.
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.
Currently, our assets are:
· | The completed short film “The G! True Tinseltown Tale: Dude, Where’s My Car?”, a parody of the television show “The E! True Hollywood Story” and the film “Dude, Where’s My Car?” |
· | The unproduced feature film screenplay “Writers’ Assistants”. |
· | The unproduced feature film screenplay “His Name Is Noah”. |
· | The unproduced feature film screenplay “Forever Man”. |
Our short film, “G! Dude?”, 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 exhibited at the Anthology Theatre in New York in June 2007 as part of the New Filmmakers New York Spring 2007 Film Festival. We have also put the film up on YouTube, Veoh and FunnyorDie video-sharing websites, where it has been viewed a combined total of approximately 52,000 times. It can be viewed on YouTube, for example, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdusokHElqc. This film has never garnered any revenues for us and is unlikely to in the future. We are using it primarily as a “calling card” to show members of the entertainment industry our abilities as a filmmaking company, with the hope that we will be asked to produce, for pay, an entertainment product.
Revenue-Generating Events
To date, we have had two revenue-producing transactions, both of which occurred in November of 2008. First, we signed a contract with Car Search, Inc., a used-car dealership in Los Angeles, to produce a 30-second commercial and a 5-10 minute in-house employee training video. As of December 31, 2008 this was recorded as unrealized revenue because we completed the project for Car Search in January 2009. The amount of revenue we received from this transaction was $8,425.
Second, we had our screenplay for “Forever Man” optioned by Florida-based production company Cruck Productions, Inc. The option agreement is filed as an exhibit to this prospectus, pursuant to the terms of which, Cruck now may “shop around” the screenplay to production companies, studios and other prespective financiers in an attempt to get the film produced. For this option, Cruck has paid us $1,000. If Cruck is unsuccessful is getting the film produced by September 15, 2009, Cruck may, at its option, pay us an additional $2,400 to extend the option agreement by an additional 20 months. If Cruck is still unsuccessful in getting Forever Man made into a movie after the additional 20 months, then the entire rights to the screenplay revert to us.
If Cruck Productions is successful in getting “Forever Man” made into a film, we would receive payment as the owner of the screenplay, but exactly how much payment we would receive is up to future negotiations and cannot reliably be estimated at this time.
Plan to Generate Future Revenues with our Products
The focus of our business plan now is to produce our feature film screenplay “Writers’ Assistants”, as we believe it is our best chance to generate revenues, either by being sold outright to a major studio, production company or distributor, or by generating distribution fees through one or more distribution agreements. Out of the three screenplays we own, Writers’ Assistants requires the smallest budget, making it a more manageable project to produce. And no other entertainment product we may produce – e.g. web-based programming, or short films – can be relied upon to generate significant revenues.
Both debt and equity financing shall be used as needed, and as available , whenever fundraising is not a viable option. For “Writers’ Assistants”, we hope to raise enough money through future registered offering s or private placements to independently finance the entire budget ourselves.
However, if we cannot raise sufficient capital to independently finance the entirety of “Writers’ Assistants” $1 million budget, we believe there is another method to get it 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, along with up to 5-10% of the film’s profit, 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 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. We shall use the Ulmer Scale in particular, and select actors with bankability ratings above 40 on its 100-point scale, which limits us to approximately 450 American actors and actresses. Such quantified scales and 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, plus a 5-10% profit participation, 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 5-10% of any profit made by the film, which is also typical of these deals.
We have prepared a list of prospective actors who we believe would fulfill our requirements to make this portion of our plan work for “Writers’ Assistants”.
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. To date, we have made initial contacts with two prospective actors, with one actor’s management team turning down our offer, and the other actor’s management representative being receptive to our offer, subject to our raising the $150,000.
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, if we cannot finance the film 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 Writers’ Assistants made. To this end, we will utilize 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, such as inktip.com, infolist.com or moviebytes.com, which allow writers to contact production companies directly, typically for a fee. Once financing is successful, then the project can proceed.
Distribution and marketing – overall discussion. 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.
We have no products currently which are expected to be distributed or marketed as part of a direct revenue-generating transaction.
Our marketing efforts currently revolve around spreading word of mouth about our “G! Dude?” short film. To date, we have screened the short film at a film festival and have posted it to video-sharing websites YouTube, Veoh and FunnyorDie. To date, these marketing efforts have failed to generate any revenues directly – such as through a sale of the film – or indirectly, such as inducing a paid production opportunity.
Significant r evenue-generating marketing and distribution efforts will not come until we have produced our first feature film, “Writers’ Assistants”.
Distribution and marketing – discussion of “Writers’ Assistants” Submitting Writers’ Assistants to a festival or film market is a key way to expose the film 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 Writers’ Assistants 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, Writers Assistants 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 Writers’ Assistants 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 Writers’ Assistants, the film then proceeds through the usual distribution schedule, which is typical for most films, even indie films. Revenue centers which we believe will be available to Writers’ Assistants are:
· | 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. |
We believe these revenue centers will be available for us to participate in, once Writers’ Assistants is produced, because these revenue centers constitute the standard business model for virtually all movie roll-outs, with the possible exceptions of domestic and/or foreign theatrical box office, as some movies slated for an initial theatrical release are distributed only by DVD, depending upon the results of potential audience tracking surveys. Writers’ Assistants may very well not be able to participate in domestic or foreign theatrical box office revenues due to poor tracking surveys.
In any case, it should be noted that these revenue centers will only be available to us if a) Writers’ Assistants is bought or distributed by a film buyer, whether that buyer is a distributor, studio, large production company or private investor; and b) we sign a contract that allows us participation in these revenue centers. It is possible that, even if we are bought or enter into a distribution agreement, we may not be allowed to participate in all revenue centers. We will press for the best contract for the company as possible, but if there is only one or two prospective buyers, our ability to press for better participation rights is hamstrung.
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.
Our short film “G! Dude?” is registered with the United States Copyright Office pursuant to Form PA (Registration Number PAu003049533). Our screenplay “Writers’ Assistants” is also registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (Registration Number PAu003031933), as is “His Name Is Noah” (Registration Number PAu003342457). The screenplay for “Forever Man” has not been registered yet; however, it is our intenton to register the script prior to production of the film.
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.
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 quarterly reports on Form 10-Q after our first, second and third quarters of each fiscal year, as well as current 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 100 F Street, N.E., 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.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
Overview.The recent market downturn has negatively impacted the entertainment industry, and this company in particular. Right now, we are pinning our hopes for revenue on the production and success of “Writers’ Assistants”, but the third-party financier who verbally agreed to put up the $150,000 incentive money we needed to attract a well-known actor has pulled his commitment in the last few months, citing the poor economic climate, leaving us to raise that money through other third-party financiers – who have not materialized yet – and/or future private placements or registered offerings. Further, even if we raised $150,000 and attracted a star actor, film financing companies are tightening their belts and are financing fewer films, even those that may be quite viable with a well-known actor attached, leaving us few options in financing the film.
We are looking more seriously now into the possibilities provided by web-based entertainment as a source of future growth, perhaps even as a revenue source. Historically, we have not been of the opinion that web-based entertainment provides much opportunity for anything but use as a marketing vehicle for our talents as filmmakers and as a way to positively brand the company as a whole. However, two web-based serials – “Quarterlife” and, very recently, “In the Motherhood” – have been picked up as programs for broadcast television, and several more – out of admittedly thousands – have managed to earn small profits, including “Paradise Cove”, “Easy to Assemble”, “Web Therapy” and “Tiki Bar”, mostly through sponsorships and merchandise sales. The benefits to producing a web-based serial is that it is significantly cheaper, requiring far less start-up capital, and would get the company at least in production on something, rather than just working on administration and raising capital. There would be many challenges for us, however, not least of which would be securing sponsorships. Because of our relatively unknown status, it would take significant recognition by the public of any web-based program we produced first, before we could hope to successfully sign sponsorship deals with advertisers.
Financial Condition . 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.
The amount of cash we currently have on hand, as of December 31, 2008, is $10,891, and the amount of working capital we have is $2,331. The amount of cash we will need to operate our business over the next 12 months is $19,200. The refore, the amount of cash we have on hand is insufficient to satisfy our cash requirements. We received a capital contribution from our President of $4,300 from October-December of 2008. Without an infusion of cash from additional revenues or future registered offering s or private placements , 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 completed in January 2009.
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 contributions 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.
Changes in Financial Condition. Generally-speaking, our financial condition has deteriorated in certain respects from the nine months ended December 31, 2007 to the nine months ended December 31, 2008. While it is true that our net loss for the nine months ended December 31, 2008 is less than that for the same period last year, our cumulative loss continues to grow, standing now at $136,167. And our cash position has not significantly improved. We believe this deterioration is due to the simple fact that we have not made any significant revenues, while we still continue to pay for the preparation and audit of financial statements, among other administrative functions .
Plan for the next 12 months.In Fi s cal Year 2010, which begins April 1, 2009, we plan to produce our film “Writers’ Assistants” and finish developing a web strategy which may include producing a web-based serial (“webisodic programming”) and/or producing short vignettes and skits for use solely as a marketing and branding tool.
Writers’ Assistants
The major challenge in producing Writers’ Assistants is the financing, as our “Plan to Generate Future Revenues” subsection, located in our “Description of Business” section above, discusses.
Our timetable, then, in producing Writers’ Assistants is:
· | May – September, 2009: Raise $150,000 through private and public stock offerings. |
· | September – December, 2009: Identify, approach, negotiate and sign an agreement with a well-known actor to have him or her appear in the film. |
· | December, 2009 – March, 2010: Identify studios, distributors, large production companies and other financiers who may finance the remainder of the film’s budget, submit applications and secure financing. |
· | March – April, 2010: Complete development and pre-production on the film. |
Web Strategy
Our web strategy will focus on answering the following questions: Is it possible to make a profit from content produced specifically for, and distributed on, the web? If so, how significant a profit is possible, or has been historically achieved? Besides sponsorships from advertisers and merchandise sales, what are the other keys to profiting from web-based content? What type and genre of programming has had the most success, and how has the content been organized and distributed?
Once we have answered those questions, we will develop a comprehensive web strategy that, depending on the answers we get from our questions, will either focus on developing the type of content that will seek to make a profit, but is generally more expensive and time-consuming to produce and distribute, or the type of content that is geared only towards our marketing and branding efforts, which would likely be cheaper and easier to produce and simpler to distribute.
In other words, if our web strategy calls for us to produce content for profit on the web, the type of content will necessarily be of a higher quality, both in terms of appeal and in the quality of the various production elements, such as camera, lighting, etc.
For example, we have already identified two possible candidates for development into webisodic programming. The first is to re-work our first short film, “Buckeye Marhaba” – a drama about an Arab couple living in the U.S. who attempt to balance assimilation with retention of their cultural identity through the following of the Ohio State Buckeye football team – which was slated for production but is now languishing with no immediate prospect for production, into a web-based serial of perhaps 10 “webisode” installments of approximately 3 minutes each.
The second is a new comedy concept we developed, entitled “Flagged”, about a group of assistants to professional athletes who form a flag football team. This could be organized as close to a television sitcom as possible, with each “webisode” made up of three “acts” of 7 minutes each, much the same way a typical television sitcom is broken up. We could produce a “season” of 8-13 webisodes, mirroring the number of episodes typically ordered per season for a basic cable television program.
While we have done no market research yet, anecdotally we understand that professionally-produced webisodes can cost about $1,000 per minute, which would make Buckeye Marhaba a $30,000 project and Flagged a $56,000 - $91,000 project. This is significantly cheaper than financing a feature film, but would still present challenges in financing. Distribution would be through more complex and professional sites that are geared towards monetization of web content, such as TubeMogul, Virtual Property and Dogma Studios.
On the other hand, if our web-based strategy calls for us to produce simple video vignettes and sketches, solely for marketing and branding purposes and without attention on profiting from the content itself, we would look to produce those products more cheaply and distribute them more simply, such as through our own website, and video-sharing websites such as YouTube, Veoh and FunnyorDie.com.
Two examples of these sketches are “A&F”, in which an overweight man takes off his shirt and pretends to be one of the live male models at an Abercrombie and Fitch store, and “Stalk Another Day”, about a lazy celebrity stalker.
Our timetable for our web strategy is:
· | April – September, 2009: Conduct market research on cost, and on answering the questions identified above. Develop comprehensive web strategy. |
· | September – October, 2009: Develop ideas and scripts for either a) for-profit web content; or b) sketches and vignettes for marketing purposes only. |
· | October – December, 2009: Raise financing through registered offerings or private placements. If we are financing for-profit web content, financing needs may be anywhere from $30,000 to almost $100,000, as noted above. Since inception, we have not successfully raised $100,000 in cash, and at this time have no special ideas to raise the necessary funds, other than approaching venture capitalists and other private equity firms who invest in entertainment projects. |
· | December, 2009 – March, 2010: Produce either for-profit web content or the video sketches and vignettes for marketing purposes only. |
· | March – April, 2010: Distribute the material that we produced. |
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.
Our auditors are Malone & Bailey, PC, located in Texas and licensed in Texas and California.
Description of Property.
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.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.
From inception to our quarter ended December 31 , 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.
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.
Executive Compensation.
No compensation was awarded to, earned by or paid to any officer or director of Writers’ Corp. We have no plans to pay executive compensation in the foreseeable future. The issue of executive compensation shall be revisited by our Board on the first annual meeting of Board of Directors following our first realized annual EBITDA over $100,000.
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE | |
Name and Principal Position | Year | | Salary ($) | | | Bonus ($) | | | Stock Awards ($) | | | Option Awards ($) | | | Non Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($) | | | Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings ($) | | | All Other Compensation ($) | | | Total ($) | |
Tal L. Kapelner President | FY2009 FY2008 | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | |
Ariella Kapelner Vice-President | FY2009 FY2008 | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | | | | - - | |
DIRECTOR COMPENSATION |
Name | Fees Earned or Paid in Cash ($) | Stock Awards ($) | Option Awards ($) | Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($) | Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings ($) | All Other Compensation ($) | Total ($) |
Tal L. Kapelner | | | | | | | |
Ariella Kapelner | | | | | | | |
Glenn M. Benest | | | | | | | |
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.
Financial Statements.
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 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
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 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
NET CHANGE IN CASH | | | (2,401 | ) | | | 2,977 | | | | 576 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cash balance, beginning | | | 2,977 | | | | 0 | | | | 0 | |
Cash balance, ending | | $ | 576 | | | $ | 2,977 | | | $ | 576 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
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 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Common shares issued for services at inception at $0.001 | | | 56,550,000 | | | $ | 56,550 | | | | | | | | | $ | 56,550 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Shares issued for cash in March 2007 at $0.01 | | | 2,050,000 | | | | 2,050 | | | $ | 18,450 | | | | | | | 20,500 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Loss | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | (60,737 | ) | | | (60,737 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance, March 31, 2007 | | | 58,600,000 | | | | 58,600 | | | | 18,450 | | | | (60,737 | ) | | | 16,313 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Shares issued for cash in FY 2008 at $0.01 | | | 1,435,000 | | | | 1,435 | | | | 12,915 | | | | | | | | 14,350 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Shares issued for services in FY 2008 at $0.01 | | | 2,647,822 | | | | 2,648 | | | | 23,830 | | | | | | | | 26,478 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Loss | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (56,141 | ) | | | (56,141 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance, March 31, 2008 | | | 62,682,822 | | | $ | 62,683 | | | $ | 55,195 | | | $ | (116,878 | ) | | $ | 1,000 | |
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)
| | | | December 31, 2008 | | | March 31, 2008 | |
ASSETS | | | | | | | | |
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Current Assets | | | | | | | |
Cash | | | $ | 10,891 | | | $ | 576 | |
Receivables | | | - | | | | 424 | |
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Total Current Assets | | | 10,891 | | | | 1,000 | |
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Total Assets | | $ | 10,891 | | | $ | 1,000 | |
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY | | | | | | | | |
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Current Liabilities | | | | | | | | | |
Accounts Payable | | $ | 135 | | | $ | - | |
Deferred Revenues | | | 8,425 | | | | - | |
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Total Liabilities | | | | 8,560 | | | | - | |
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Stockholders' Equity | | | | | | | | |
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Common stock, $0.001 par, 175,000,000 | | | | | | | | |
shares authorized, 63,774,822 and 62,682,822 shares | | | | | | | | |
issued and outstanding | | | 63,775 | | | | 62,683 | |
Additional paid-in capital | | | 74,723 | | | | 55,195 | |
Deficit accumulated during the development stage | | | (136,167 | ) | | | (116,878 | ) |
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Total Stockholders' Equity | | | 2,331 | | | | 1,000 | |
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Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity | | $ | 10,891 | | | $ | 1,000 | |
See Notes to Unaudited Financial Statements.
WRITERS' GROUP FILM CORP.
[A Development Stage Company]
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EXPENSES(unaudited)
| | Three Months Ended | | | Three Months Ended | | | Nine Months Ended | | | Nine Months Ended | | | March 9, 2007 (inception) through | |
| | December 31, 2008 | | | December 31, 2007 | | | December 31, 2008 | | | December 31, 2007 | | | December 31, 2008 | |
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Revenues | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | - | | | $ | 1,000 | | | $ | - | | | $ | 1,000 | |
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General and administrative | | | 4,593 | | | | 2,572 | | | | 20,289 | | | | 49,039 | | | $ | 137,167 | |
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Net loss | | $ | (3,593 | ) | | $ | (2,572 | ) | | $ | (19,289 | ) | | $ | (49,039 | ) | | $ | (136,167 | ) |
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Basic and diluted | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss per share | | $ | 0.00 | | | $ | 0.00 | | | $ | 0.00 | | | $ | 0.00 | | | | n/a | |
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Weighted average common | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
shares outstanding | | | 63,314,712 | | | | 62,378,832 | | | | 63,014,895 | | | | 60,521,141 | | | | n/a | |
See Notes to Unaudited Financial Statements
WRITERS' GROUP FILM CORP.
[a development stage company]
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(unaudited)
| | Nine Months Ended | | | Nine Months Ended | | | March 9, 2007 (inception) through | |
| | December 31, 2008 | | | December 31, 2007 | | | December 31, 2008 | |
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING | | | | | | | | | |
ACTIVITIES | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (19,289 | ) | | $ | (49,039 | ) | | $ | (136,167 | ) |
Adjustments to reconcile | | | | | | | | | | | | |
net loss to cash used | | | | | | | | | | | | |
in operating activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Stock issued for services | | | 2,020 | | | | 25,028 | | | | 85,048 | |
Bad debt expense | | | 424 | | | | - | | | | - | |
Accounts Payable | | | 135 | | | | - | | | | 135 | |
Deferred revenue | | | 8,425 | | | | - | | | | 8,425 | |
NET CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES | | | (8,285 | ) | | | (24,011 | ) | | | (42,559 | ) |
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CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ACTIVITIES | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Other Capital Contributions | | | 8,300 | | | | (164 | ) | | | 8,300 | |
Proceeds from Subscription Receivable | | | - | | | | - | | | | 13,500 | |
Stock issued for cash | | | 10,300 | | | | 29,300 | | | | 31,650 | |
NET CASH PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES | | | 18,600 | | | | 29,136 | | | | 53,450 | |
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NET CHANGE IN CASH | | | 10,315 | | | | 5,125 | | | | 10,891 | |
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Cash balance, beginning | | | 576 | | | | 2,977 | | | | - | |
Cash balance, ending | | $ | 10,891 | | | $ | 8,102 | | | $ | 10,891 | |
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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 generated nominal 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 December 31, 2008, Writers’ Group has accumulated losses. 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 pursuant to its only public offering.
In the three months ended December 31, 2008, the President and Chairman of the Company contributed $4,300 for operating expenses.
In December, 2008, the Company sold 530,000 common shares for $5,300 at $0.01 per share. $5,000 was in cash and $300 was for consulting services rendered.
NOTE 4. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
In January 2009 the Company sold 570,000 shares of common stock for $6,600 cash and issued 100,000 shares of common stock for services.
In January the Company amended its Certificate of Incorporation to increase its capital stock to 175,000,000 shares of Common Stock at $0.001 par value.
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.
We also conducted three private placement offerings. See section on Selling Shareholders.
Exhibits.
Index of Exhibits | |
Certificate of Incorporation | incorporated by reference* |
Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation | incorporated by reference* |
Bylaws | incorporated by reference* |
Instruments defining the rights of holders, incl. indentures | see bylaws exhibit (incorporated by reference*) |
Opinion re: legality | EX-5.1 |
Production Services Contract with Car Search, Inc. | incorporated by reference** |
Option Agreement with Cruck Productions, Inc. | incorporated by reference** |
Our Subsidiaries | incorporated by reference** |
Consent of Independent Registered Certified Public Accountants | EX-23.1 |
Consent of Counsel | see opinion exhibit (EX-5.1) |
* Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed January 21, 2009, File No. 333-156832.
** Registration Statement on Form S-1/A filed March 4, 2009, File No. 333-156832.
Undertakings.
· | To include any propectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933; |
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant 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. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant 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, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its 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 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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 registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Lancaster, State of California on March 30 , 2009.
| WRITERS’ GROUP FILM CORP. | |
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| By: |  | |
| | Tal L. Kapelner | |
| | President | |
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Dated:March 30, 2009 | By: |  | |
| | Tal L. Kapelner President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer | |
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Dated:March 30 , 2009 | By: | /s/ Ariella Kapelner | |
| | Ariella Kapelner | |
| | Vice-President, Treasurer and a Director | |
The above two persons constitute a majority of the Board of Directors.