However, it appears OnlyFans has trouble acquiring outside institutional investors because of its adult content.
OnlyFans is seeking a “strategic partner.”
By the numbers [from Axios editors] :” “Any other company with growth like OnlyFans would be able to raise big money in a matter of minutes.” -Dan Primack
From OnlyFans pitchdeck:
2021 figures are based on run-rate through the end of Q1, while 2022 figures are OnlyFans projections:
Axios got ahold of the pitch deck for OnlyFans. The company had net revenue of $375 million last year and expects $1.2 billion this year. It has paid out $3.2B to its creators life to date. The company makes 20% off every financial transaction. (15/18X) https://t.co/IvHGCCCLFL
— Chris Morris (@MorrisatLarge) August 19, 2021
Gross merchandise value (GMV): 2020: $2.2 billion; 2021: $5.9 billion; 2022: $12.5 billion.
Net revenue: 2020: $375 million; 2021: $1.2 billion; 2022: $2.5 billion.
Free cash flow: 2020: $150 million; 2021: $620 million; 2022: $1.2 billion.
Total amount paid to creators since inception: $3.2 billion
More than 300 “creators” earn at least $1 million annually. Around 16,000 “creators” earn at least $50,000 annually. More than seven million “fans” spend on OnlyFans each month. It has even more users who only consume free content.”
I’ve picked up some good moves from the episodes and some non-sense you should stay away from…when dealing with women. Of course the producers and consultants of the show don’t have the life experience that I and many of my readers have.
St. Patrick’s asks his mistress, Angela: What’s wrong, baby ?
I guess naming the nightclub St. Patrick opened “Truth” is one thing, actually knowing you never covet to a woman is another. It is interesting Tasha, St. Patrick’s wife, knows all about his drug dealings, while his law-enforcement mistress sleeps with him to discover who he is…but he discovers who she is first.
In this case, mothers know best. If you have a girl who loves you, that’s the “love” of a woman.
At least that answer to women’s shit “I love you” is right.
St. Patrick, it seems, continues sleeping with Angela the government lawyer instead of cutting it off.
That sounds like my advice, and of many others, of how to best be with a woman. I say see her once or twice, a week. (Friendly reminder, the best post of 2020 was Goldman’s Socks 69 Rules of Being a Man)
Holly Molly. Nobody does.
Let’s see how Kanan rolls, since he’s looking to take St. Patrick out. We’ll keep you updated as we dig more interesting facts from the show.
Until next time,
Your Man,
Max Cantor
“Elements that fit the CW [that’s the channel that has is] include betrayal, murder, lust, and a hotshot Ferrari-driving protagonist…
Patrick Dempsey plays Dominic, the president of a fictional international bank. The flawed hero of the story is the bank’s head of trading, Massimo, played by Alessandro Borghi, an actor with a passing resemblance to Bradley Cooper. The character says he was ‘born low’, making him an outsider among the blue bloods at the bank, who pepper their gripes about his rogue methods with anti-Italian stereotypes…Massimo’s accomplices include an operative for a Wikileaks-like site, Laia Costa. Together they go up against Massimo’s main adversary who -spoiler alert- also happens to be his mentor and father-figure, Mr. Demsey’s Dominic.”
Wall Street Journal’s review by John Jurgensen
The movie is based on the novel “I Diavoli” by Guido Maria Brera and was acquired by The CW after its spring 2020 debut in Italy. Supposedly it was successful in the Italian market (on Sky Italia).
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“In the first five episodes provided for the press, we don’t find out. One assumes it’ll be revealed in the back half of a 10-episode first season, but the question is what ultimately propels the series forward, as Massimo becomes the main suspect in the murder investigation. Fighting to clear his name, he becomes involved in an intercontinental financial war and is forced to choose between supporting his mentor Dominic or going up against him. Without giving anything away, it should still be obvious which path he takes.
The series is teeming with characters and multiple subplots — including the mysterious death of Massimo’s ex-wife (Sallie Harmsen), who may or may not have been an escort, and the travails of an ambitious journalist (Laia Costa) with familial reasons for trying to bring down NYL — that it might be a challenge to keep up, or, in my case stay awake, because this is no Robert Altman movie. It’s clearly more plot- than character-driven and meant to be fast-paced, so there has to be some new major revelation every episode in order to keep viewers engaged. They’re just mostly vapid, essentially made for audiences with short attention spans.”
Indiewire
Well, they got the woman right – Laia Costa, the journalist, is “exposing secrets” which means destroying some man’s life and work.
Devils is available for streaming for free on the CW network
Except that is not. From WSJ Movie Industry’s Troubles are Far From A Wrap:
“No Time to Die is being moved from next month to April 2021. It was the last major release that could have propped up business for theater chains this year. U.K-based Cineworld said Monday it will be suspending operations at its U.S. theaters. Some 44% of US theaters haven’t reopened, according to Comscore. The ones that have aren’t drawing much of a crowd. According to Box Office Mojo, last weekend’s total domestic box-office was more than 93% below what October 2019’s weekends averaged.”
WSJ, @Dan Galagher, Oct. 5, 2020
“…major insurance providers aren’t willing to cover Covid-related shutdowns.
…Once coverage becomes available, the broker estimates Covid-related insurance and safety protocols will add an incremental $26 MM to a $100 MM film budget.”
WSJ
You can read the rest of the article yourself.
What it means for us is that my movie project, unfortunately, is being delayed indefinitely.
Newsworthy for you and me:
Forest Road Acquisition plans to make deals in media and tech sectors
The post Mr. Bond is not saving the movies this year first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]>“The regime of testing for the several hundred producers, set designers, painters and carpenters will cost more than $1.5 MM a month once cameras are rolling and several 1000s are on the set said the studio chief executive, Frank Patterson.”
Wall Street Journal
This production company believes testing expenses “will eventually qualify for the state’s film production tax credits.”
“Workers at Pinewood Atlanta report for testing days before they are scheduled to be on the lot to allow time for results to come in. A nurse performs a nasal swab for the first test; if that first test comes back negative, subsequent tests are conducted via saliva samples.
All workers on Pinewood productions have to answer health questions via an app on their phones. A completed questionnaire and a negative Covid-19 result get an all-clear code on the app, which workers present at the checkpoint atthe studio. To open doors on the campus, workers must scan a badge; the badges only work of the weare has received a negative test result.”
Wall Street Journal
As we endeavor to move forward with my movie idea, things surely are complex.
While I have no idea when this is going to get done, I got a bare-bones screenplay idea ready.
The obvious question is, who’s going to do it. The economy in Holywood post-coronavirus is slower than it was before. I certainly would like to have the biggest names in motion pictures working at this, but who knows ? That and the fact that I’ve never done something like this before.
I think most of what you can watch now on TV is poor quality: watch Netflix and all the major movie channels and tell me if you find something good. I personally haven’t watched a really good movie since the Game of Thrones on HBO.
“We are optimistic that we will go back into production on some shows as early as early as late July or August, said Jeff Frost, president of Sony Pictures TV Studios.
People in the industry offered varying estimates for how much new safety measures and longer shooting schedules might add to a given production’s budget, from 5% to doubling or tripling the cost.
Some of the guidelines are similar to what most of the country has been doing for months- wearing masks and social distancing. However, that doesn’t work for actors in front of the camera.
Actors’ off-camera experience on set is likely to change, too, including minimizing the time between the application of makeup and shooting a scene, said Screen Actors Guild general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.”
Wall Street Journal, June 13-14th, 2020
So few are ready to shout “lights, camera, action” just yet. Maybe for months to come. Overseas I don’t expect the situation to be different. Yet actors, producers, cameramen and everyone else involved need jobs. On my side, I have no cast requirements at this time. Nor do I have a set budget. We’ll make it on an economy budget if we need to. But I know that when this gets done, in the right hands, it will make a star out of some man and some woman. Better yet, a few men and women.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Good choice for the new James Bond soundtrack