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axanar_finances [2016/07/03 14:04] – Adds Britto pic Carlos Pedraza | axanar_finances [2018/09/21 16:48] (current) – [Axanar is Broke, Peters Claims] edit to clarify Carlos Pedraza | ||
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====== Axanar is Broke, Peters Claims ====== | ====== Axanar is Broke, Peters Claims ====== | ||
- | //**Axanar's Offer to Buy Ares Digital Reveals Precarious Financial Situation**// | + | // |
- | In May 2016, Axanar producer | + | < |
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- | "We don't have any cash right now," | + | In May 2016, Axanar producer [[Alec |
+ | "We don't have any cash right now," Peters informed his former chief technologist, | ||
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+ | ===== Escrow Account ===== | ||
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+ | Johnson further claimed that donors' | ||
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+ | > Alec Peters has not used donation funds for anything but making //Axanar// and all donor funds would safely be tucked away in an escrow account only to be used to make the film. … Axanar is not running out of money … and our donation money is indeed perfectly safe.(({{:: | ||
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+ | **AxaMonitor** emailed Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden to confirm the existence of the escrow account and to disclose how much donor money was in that account, as well as to whether Johnson was speaking officially on behalf of Axanar. At the time of this posting Bawden hadn't yet responded. | ||
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+ | However, in a May 27 interview on the Axanar blog, Bawden described just such a scenario for a hypothetical fan film flush with funds from a more-successful-than-planned crowdfunding campaign: | ||
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+ | > When it’s a fan project, then you’ve gotta wonder, “What are we gonna do with the extra [money]? Because we can’t pocket it. We can’t count it as profit.” And at that point, then, my advice to somebody would be to say, “<wrap hi>You need to take that money and put it in an escrow account.</ | ||
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===== The Offer ===== | ===== The Offer ===== | ||
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//**__« I question whether or not Alec could make the statement that Axanar is out of money. »__**// — //Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden// | //**__« I question whether or not Alec could make the statement that Axanar is out of money. »__**// — //Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden// | ||
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==== Unknown Financial Status ==== | ==== Unknown Financial Status ==== | ||
- | Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden, contacted for comment on Peters' | + | Bawden, contacted for comment on Peters' |
> I don't have any first-hand knowledge of the financial standing of Axanar Productions and, quite frankly, I'm not sure Alec does either since as far as I know the accountant that's been retained still has all of the financial records and is still working on comprehensive financial reports for review. So I question whether or not Alec could make the statement that Axanar is out of money.((Mike Bawden email to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 7/3/16.)) | > I don't have any first-hand knowledge of the financial standing of Axanar Productions and, quite frankly, I'm not sure Alec does either since as far as I know the accountant that's been retained still has all of the financial records and is still working on comprehensive financial reports for review. So I question whether or not Alec could make the statement that Axanar is out of money.((Mike Bawden email to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 7/3/16.)) | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>**FOR MORE** information about Axanar' | ||
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+ | The news that Axanar may have run out of money raises a variety of questions about its spending, given how much it should have had on hand in January 2016 — hundreds of thousands of dollars — when the [[CBS]]/ | ||
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