FilmChain

Setting the Scene

  • Profits from a movie don’t always end up in the right pockets. 🤔

  • Here’s the payment flow:

    • Cinemas and streaming platforms claim 40-50% of revenue.

    • Distributors earn a commission for marketing the film.

    • Sales agents make a cut for pitching to festivals and distributors.

    • Private investors take their share.

    • Finally, producers pay actors, directors, screenwriters, and the crew with the rest of the funds.

  • This process often occurs manually, which causes payment delays, underreporting, and mismatched revenue.

  • This week’s company provides a platform that centralizes payment and royalty distributions for films and TV shows.

In a Sentence

FilmChain is a payments platform that collects, distributes, and analyzes profits for films and TV shows.

  • Platform: Leverages blockchain technology to ensure transactions are automated, traceable, and visible to stakeholders.

  • Collects, distributes, and analyzes: Records transactions, distributes funds, manages royalties, displays ownership, illustrates financial data, and predicts film performance.

  • Films and TV shows: Customers range from indie filmmakers and producers to enterprise-level movie studios and streaming platforms.

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  • FilmChain is like an advanced Google Sheet for film finances, auto-updating in real-time and recording transactions for every stakeholder. 👀

The Basics

Due Dilligence

WHAT WE LIKE

  • 🎥 The cinema scene: Box office revenue is expected to reach $30b this year, yet filmmakers and studios face a complicated payment process with frequent delays, a lack of transparency, and underpayment.

  • ⚙️ Film flywheel: By engaging various stakeholders across the payment process, FilmChain will build key relationships, drive repeat usage, and acquire new customers.

  • 👀 Sequel end markets: FilmChain has the potential to serve the music, gaming, and other industries to improve the payment flow and royalty management.

POTENTIAL RISKS

  • 👥 The onboarding process: Producers must convince the entire chain of stakeholders to join and accept payments on the platform, which may lead to longer sales cycles.

  • 😳 Customized deals: FilmChain negotiates each deal with the customer, which takes time, may hinder scalability, and causes difficulty in standardizing pricing structures.

  • ✍️ Writers’ strike: Customers may be reluctant to adopt a new platform due to the strained relationships and industry slowdown caused by the writers’ strike.

Founder Profile

Comps

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Why FilmChain

  • With an automated payment platform that builds transparency for all stakeholders across a wide end market, we applaud FilmChain’s innovative payments solution. 🎬

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