Ingenious Media
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Investment |
| Genre | Investment and advisory group |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Founder | Patrick McKenna |
| Headquarters | London, W1 United Kingdom |
Key people | Patrick McKenna (CEO 1998-present) |
Number of employees | 80 |
| Website | www |
Ingenious Media (styled as INGENIθUS) is a division of London-based Ingenious Capital Management Limited, also known as Ingenious. The company was founded in 1998 by Patrick McKenna.
Filmography
2000s
2010s
| Year | Title | Director | Distributor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Rupert Wyatt | 20th Century Fox | co-production with Chernin Entertainment, Dune Entertainment and Big Screen Productions |
| The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | John Madden | Fox Searchlight Pictures | co-production with Dune Entertainment, Participant Media, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ and Blueprint Pictures | |
| 2012 | Life of Pi | Ang Lee | 20th Century Fox | co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures, Dune Entertainment and Haishang Films |
| Ginger & Rosa | Sally Potter | Artificial Eye (United Kingdom), Universal Pictures (Denmark) and Union Pictures (Canada) | co-production with British Film Institute, BBC Films, Adventure Pictures, The Match Factory, Media House Capital, Miso Film and Danish Film Institute | |
| 2014 | Selma | Ava DuVernay | Paramount Pictures (United States) and 20th Century Fox (United Kingdom) | co-production with Pathé, Harpo Films, Plan B Entertainment, Cloud Eight Films and Redgill Selma Productions |
| What We Did on Our Holiday | Andy Hamilton | Lionsgate | co-production with BBC Films, Creative Scotland, LipSync Productions and Origin Pictures | |
| 2015 | Brooklyn | John Crowley | Lionsgate (United Kingdom and Ireland) and Mongrel Media (Canada) | co-production with BBC Films, Telefilm Canada, Irish Film Board, SODEC, BFI, Wildgaze Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Parallel Films, Item 7, BAI, RTÉ and HanWay Films |
| High-Rise | Ben Wheatley | StudioCanal | co-production with Recorded Picture Company, Film4, British Film Institute, HanWay Films and Northern Ireland Screen | |
| 2016 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Tim Burton | 20th Century Fox | co-production with Chernin Entertainment, Tim Burton Productions, TSG Entertainment, Scope Pictures and St. Petersburg Clearwater Film Commission |
| Max Steel | Stewart Hendler | Open Road Films | co-production with Dolphin Films and Mattel Playground Productions | |
| Dog Eat Dog | Paul Schrader | RLJ Entertainment | co-production with Blue Budgie Films, Roxwell Films, Arclight Films, Pure Dopamine and Shanghai Gigantic Pictures | |
| Genius | Michael Grandage | Summit Entertainment and Roadside Attractions | co-production with Riverstone Pictures, Pinewood Pictures, FilmNation Entertainment, Desert Wolf Productions and Michael Grandage Company | |
| 2017 | Wind River | Taylor Sheridan | The Weinstein Company (United States) and STXinternational (United Kingdom) | co-production with Acacia Entertainment, Savvy Media Holdings, Star Thrower Entertainment, Synergics Films, Thunder Road Pictures, Film 44, The Fyzz Facility, Riverstone Pictures, Voltage Pictures and Wild Bunch |
| 6 Days | Toa Fraser | Icon Film Distribution (United Kingdom) and Transmission Films (New Zealand) | co-production with New Zealand Film Commission, General Film Corporation and XYZ Films | |
| Inconceivable | Jonathan Baker | Lionsgate Premiere | co-production with Grindstone Entertainment, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films and JB Entertainment | |
| Kidnap | Luis Prieto | Aviron Pictures | co-production with Lotus Entertainment, di B Pictures, 606 Films, Gold Star Films, Well Go USA, and Rumble Entertainment | |
| 2018 | Replica | Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | co-production with Di Bonaventura Pictures, Riverstone Pictures, Company Films, Remstar Studios, Fundamental Films, Lotus Entertainment, 74850 and Global Pictures Media LLC and Ocean Park Entertainment |
| Adrift | Baltasar Kormákur | STX Entertainment | co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment, H. Brothers and RVK Studios | |
| The Wedding Guest | Michael Winterbottom | IFC Films | co-production with Riverstone Pictures, Stage 6 Films and Revolution Films | |
| Siberia | Matthew Ross | Saban Films | co-production with Elevated Films, The Fyzz Facility, Global Road Entertainment, Summerstorm Entertainment, Film House Germany and Company Films | |
| Backtrace | Brian A. Miller | Lionsgate Premiere | co-production with Grindstone Entertainment Group, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Diamond Film Productions and Highland Film Group | |
| 2019 | After the Wedding | Bart Freundlich | Sony Pictures Classics | co-production with Cornerstone Films, A Joel B. Michaels Production and Rock Island Films |
| Blinded by the Light | Gurinder Chadha | Entertainment One Films | co-production with Levantine Films, Bend It Films and Cornerstone Films | |
| Seberg | Benedict Andrews | Amazon Studios (United States) and Universal Pictures (United Kingdom) | co-production with Automatik Entertainment, Bradley Pilz Productions and Phreaker Films | |
| The Informer | Andrea Di Stefano | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with The Forest Road Company, Thunder Road Pictures, The Fyzz Facility and Endeavor Content | |
| Triple Threat | Jesse V. Johnson | Aurora Alliance Films and Well Go USA Entertainment | co-production with Kungfuman Culture Media, Hamilton Entertainment, Arclight Films, FJ Media Group, Gamegoo Pictures, WWE Studios and TF1 Séries Films | |
| A Score to Settle | Shawn Ku | RLJE Films | co-production with Highland Film Group, GoldRush Entertainment, Mind's Eye Entertainment, Paragon Media Production and Saturn Films | |
| The Burnt Orange Heresy | Giuseppe Capotondi | Sony Pictures Classics | co-production with MJZ, Rumble Films, Wonderful Films and HanWay Films | |
| Guns Akimbo | Jason Lei Howden | Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand), Altitude Film Distribution (United Kingdom) and Andrea Leone Films S. R. L. (Germany) | co-production with Occupant Entertainment, Four Knights Film, Maze Pictures, Cutting Edge, The Electric Shadow Company, Umedia, WS Filmproduktion, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Hyperion Entertainment and New Zealand Film Commission |
2020s
| Year | Title | Director | Distributor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Resistance | Jonathan Jakubowicz | IFC Films | co-production with Bliss Media, Epicentral Studios, Neptune Features, Panteleon Films, Rocket Science and Vertical Media |
| Misbehaviour | Philippa Lowthorpe | 20th Century Studios | co-production with Left Bank Pictures, Pathé, BBC Films and British Film Institute | |
| Military Wives | Peter Cattaneo | Lionsgate | co-production with Embankment Films, 42 and Tempo Productions | |
| Inheritance | Vaughn Stein | Vertical Entertainment | co-production with Southpaw Entertainment, Redline Entertainment and Highland Film Group | |
| Endless | Scott Speer | Quiver Distribution | co-production with Summerstorm Entertainment, Film House Germany, Thunder Road Films and Mind's Eye Entertainment | |
| Unhinged | Derrick Borte | Solstice Studios | co-production with Burek Films | |
| The Vanished | Peter Facinelli | Saban Films | co-production with The Exchange and SSS Entertainment | |
| The World to Come | Mona Fastvold | Bleecker Street | co-production with Killer Films, Sea Change Media, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, Yellow Bear Films and Hype Film | |
| The Duke | Roger Michell | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Pathé, Neon Films and Screen Yorkshire; will be released in the UK on February 25, 2022 | |
| The Comeback Trail | George Gallo | Cloudburst Entertainment | co-production with Storyboard Media, March On Productions, Alla Prima and Rapid Farms Productions | |
| Honest Thief | Mark Williams | Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment | co-production with The Solution Entertainment Group, Zero Gravity Management and Samuel Marshall Films | |
| The Stand In | Jamie Babbit | Saban Films | co-production with The Exchange, Flower Films, Polyphemus Productions and Wrigley Media Group | |
| 2021 | SAS: Red Notice | Magnus Martens | Sky Cinema and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment | co-production with silver Reel, Creativity Capital, Parabolic Pictures, Altitude Film Entertainment, The Electric Shadow Company, J3 Film Finance and Lipsync Productions |
| Voyagers | Neil Burger | Lionsgate Films | co-production with AGC Studios, Thunder Road, Nota Bene Films, Fibonacci Films, Stillking Films and Freecss Films Limited | |
| JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass | Oliver Stone | Altitude Film Distribution | co-production with Ixtlan Productions and Pantagruel Productions | |
| The Protégé | Martin Campbell | Lionsgate Films | co-production with Millennium Media, Fourteen Films, I Road Productions and Campbell Grobman Films | |
| 2022 | Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy | Roadside Attractions | co-production with Protagonist Pictures, LB Entertainment, Redline Entertainment, FirstGen Content, Our Turn Productions, and RB Entertainment |
| Living | Oliver Hermanus | Lionsgate Films & Sony Pictures Classics | co-production with Number 9 Films, Film4 Productions and British Film Institute | |
| Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | Neon | co-production with Argonauts Productions S.A, Serendipity Point Films, Davis Films, Telefilm Canada, CBC, Bell Media, Ekome and Natixis | |
| Mr. Malcolm's List | Emma Holly Jones | Bleecker Street | co-production with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Refinery29, Untitled Entertainment, Rebelle Media, Blinder Films and Holly Film Production | |
| Joyride | Emer Reynolds | Vertigo Releasing | co-production with Screen Ireland, Embankment Films, and Subotica Entertainment | |
| Allelujah | Richard Eyre | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Pathé and BBC Film | |
| 2023 | Hypnotic | Robert Rodriguez | Ketchup Entertainment | co-production with Solstice Studios, Studio 8 and Double R Productions International distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures |
| The Last Rifleman | Terry Loane | Sky Cinema | co-production with Wee Buns Films, Ripple World Pictures and Singer Studios |
Upcoming
| Year | Title | Director | Distributor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | Geechee | DuBois Ashong | STX Entertainment | co-production with AGC Studios |
Future projects
In 2018, Ingenious Media partnered with Solstice Studios to produce and distribute theatrical feature films.[1]
Tax avoidance case
In July 2014, Ingenious Media was investigated by HMRC for promoting tax avoidance schemes.[2][3] In October 2014, HMRC sent "accelerated payment notices" to people who had invested with Ingenious Media, demanding payment of substantial amounts of tax.[4] The tax bill following his investment in the scheme was cited in the subsequent bankruptcy hearings of the former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland footballer, Steve Staunton.[5] In 2018, a group of more than 500 investors launched a civil case against Ingenious for making false representations[6] which Ingenious had always denied. Ingenious (specifically Ingenious Games LLP, Inside Track Productions LLP and Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP) lost their appeal against HMRC's initial ruling in June 2019, with the Upper Tribunal ruling that "None of the LLPs were carrying on a trade. None of the LLPs were carrying on a trade with a view to profit."[7]
However, in August 2021 the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling of the Upper Tribunal in respect of Inside Track Productions LLP and Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP on both the trading and with a view to profit issues.[8]
References
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (2018-10-02). "Mark Gill, Andrew Gunn, Guy Botham & Vincent Bruzzese Launch Solstice Studios; Teams With Ingenious Media On Theatrical Releases". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
- ^ "HMRC publishes list of suspect tax avoidance schemes". BBC. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ Garside, Juliette (19 October 2016). "Taxpayer faces huge bill after Ingenious Media wins case against HMRC". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1d16a40-4a49-11e4-bc07-00144feab7de.html#axzz3FdZXAZp9 (Retrieved 9 October 2014)
- ^ "Former Ireland star Steve Staunton files for bankruptcy". The Irish Times. 28 November 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
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- ^ Civil case filing, Bailii.org
- ^ "Ingenious Games LLP & ors -v- The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs". 4 August 2021.
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