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Anti-war Filmmaker Brian DePalma: Tax Writeoff |
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Written by JD Johannes
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
After Mark Cuban lost millions underwriting DePalma's last anti-war movie 'Redacted' some other deep pockets are lining up for the guaranteed business loss to shelter some money.
Pat Dollard has the scoop, here .
Seriously, the only business sense it makes to finance a DePalma anti-war pic is to intentionally take the loss. Filmmaking as a tax shelter.
The only other motivation could be a zealous desire to make propaganda film that very few people will see.
Cuban blew $5,000,000 making 'Redacted.' that is a 1.3% return of the original investment.
The truly absurd part about anyone bank rolling DePalma is that my latest Iraq war documentary is more than half-way to beating his Gross.
As of this moment, we've returned 90.8% of the investment in the Outside The Wire trilogy. That's right. We are almost set to enter the exclusive club of profitable Iraq War movies.
But what I really want to do is straight up beat DePalma. Seriously, how embarrassing would it be for one dude with a camera to gross more than the famed DePalma?
We're 56% of the way there.
If you can afford to, please buy a DVD.
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