Anime News

Cinequanon Establishes Animation Trust Fund
Date: 10/21/2005
In the news yesterday regarding their distrubution deal with Yumeta on the coming Haruka Naru Toki No Naka De animated film, Cinequanon announced on Friday in Japan it was establishing animation JDC trust fund. 4.5 billion Yen will be procured from private investors to invest in the fund which covers about 20 works. According to the scheme which has been embraced in Japan rather widely recently, private investors can add money to the trust (50,000 Yen minimun invetment in this case). 2.5 billion Yen will then be appropriated to produce the film and two billion will be used as a "P&A expense" to cover print fees and the advertising. After release, dividends are then payed back to original investors based on the boxoffice performance / DVD sales etc..
Source: Anime News Service