Company Structures
This kind of company is formed specifically for one project and then dissolved.
Special Purpose Vehicle
A fundraising strategy where backers receive swag or access in exchange for support.
Rewards Based Crowdfunding
A long-term deal in which a TV Network gets rights to multiple future projects.
Output Deal
This short promotional video is often released before a full trailer.
Teaser
If you personally guarantee a loan and the film flops, this kind of liability could affect your own finances.
Personal Liability
This term refers to partners in an LLC.
Members
This loan is designed to fill the difference between secured funding and the production budget.
GAP Financing
This is the fee a distributor charges to cover the cost of selling your film.
Distribution Fee
This is a printed or digital image used to promote a film’s tone and cast.
Poster
his legal concept refers to the rights someone holds over their own face or body in marketing and media.
Likeness
This kind of company is created solely to manage the producer's brand and IP.
Production Company
A funding method where people loan to others without going through a bank.
Peer-to-Peer Lending
A strategy of selling rights before a film is made, usually based on cast or script.
Pre Sale
These are licensed consumer products like action figures and t-shirts.
Merchandising
This term refers to a contract clause that defines how and when investors will share in film revenue.
Investors Participation
This type of lending is backed by owned items.
Asset Based Lending
This is the smallest amount of money a producer must raise to trigger investor commitments.
Minimum Raise
The term for geographic areas where movies licensed individually.
Territory
A document that captures a film’s purpose or future goals.
Vision Statement
When multiple investors share returns proportionally based on what they put in, this arrangement is called:
Pro Rata
This kind of company is created solely to develop ideas, scripts, and intellectual property—not to produce.
Development Company
A fundraising model where donors expect no financial return.
Donation Based Crowdfunding
A number that represents an investor’s share of gross profits before deductions.
Defined Gross
This kind of research gathers firsthand data—like surveys or focus groups—to shape marketing strategy.
Primary Research
This Latin phrase means investors are paid at the same rate and time, without preference.
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