Ingenious Media
{{Short description|UK media investment and advisory group}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Ingenious Media
| logo = File:Ingenious Media logo.svg
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| type = Private
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| genre = Investment and advisory group
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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1998}}
| founder = Patrick McKenna
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| location = London, {{postcode|W|1}}
United Kingdom
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| key_people = Patrick McKenna
(CEO 1998–present)
| industry = Investment
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| num_employees = 80
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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.theingeniousgroup.co.uk/}}
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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 and is focused on media, real estate and infrastructure.{{Cite web |title=Our story |url=https://www.theingeniousgroup.co.uk/our-story/ |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=Ingenious |language=en}}
Filmography
= 2000s =
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!Year !Title !Director !Distributor !Notes |
| 2004
|co-production with Moving Picture Company, BBC Films, UK Film Council and Pathé Pictures |
| 2005
|Rainbow Films U.S.A. (United States) and Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom) |co-production with Balle Pictures, Capitol Films, Isle of Man Film and Spices Productions Ltd. |
| rowspan="4" |2006
|co-production with Four by Two Films, Everyman Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Major Studio Partners, One America Productions, Talkback and Channel 4 |
| Scoop
|co-production with BBC Films, Phoenix Wiley and Jelly Roll Productions |
| Amazing Grace
|Momentum Pictures (United Kingdom), Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films (United States) |co-production with FourBoys Films, Walden Media and Bristol Bay Productions |
| A Good Year
|co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Dune Entertainment and Major Studio Partners |
| rowspan="6" |2007
|Prey |co-production with Anant Singh Production, Videovision Entertainment and Distant Horizon |
| The Walker
|THINKFilm (United States) and Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom) |co-production with Kintop Pictures and Isle of Man Film |
| Live Free or Die Hard
|co-production with Cheyenne Enterprises and Dune Entertainment |
| Stardust
|co-production with Marv Films |
| The Golden Compass
|New Line Cinema (United States) and Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom) |co-production with Scholastic Productions |
| Virgin Territory
|Eagle Pictures (Italy) and Quinta Communications (France) | |
| 2008
|co-production with Bazmark Films Australia and ScreenWest |
| 2009
|co-production with Lightstorm Entertainment and Dune Entertainment |
= 2010s =
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!Year !Title !Director !Distributor !Notes |
| rowspan="2" |2011
|Rise of the Planet of the Apes |co-production with Chernin Entertainment, Dune Entertainment and Big Screen Productions |
| The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
|co-production with Dune Entertainment, Participant Media, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ and Blueprint Pictures |
| rowspan="2" |2012
|co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures, Dune Entertainment and Haishang Films |
| Ginger & Rosa
|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 |
| rowspan="2" |2014
|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
|co-production with BBC Films, Creative Scotland, LipSync Productions and Origin Pictures |
| rowspan="2" |2015
|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
|co-production with Recorded Picture Company, Film4, British Film Institute, HanWay Films and Northern Ireland Screen |
| rowspan="4" |2016
|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children |co-production with Chernin Entertainment, Tim Burton Productions, TSG Entertainment, Scope Pictures and St. Petersburg Clearwater Film Commission |
| Max Steel
|co-production with Dolphin Films and Mattel Playground Productions |
| Dog Eat Dog
|co-production with Blue Budgie Films, Roxwell Films, Arclight Films, Pure Dopamine and Shanghai Gigantic Pictures |
| Genius
|Summit Entertainment and Roadside Attractions |co-production with Riverstone Pictures, Pinewood Pictures, FilmNation Entertainment, Desert Wolf Productions and Michael Grandage Company |
| rowspan="4" |2017
|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
|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 |co-production with Grindstone Entertainment, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films and JB Entertainment |
| Kidnap
|co-production with Lotus Entertainment, di B Pictures, 606 Films, Gold Star Films, Well Go USA, and Rumble Entertainment |
| rowspan="5" |2018
|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
|co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment, H. Brothers and RVK Studios |
| The Wedding Guest
|co-production with Riverstone Pictures, Stage 6 Films and Revolution Films |
| Siberia
|co-production with Elevated Films, The Fyzz Facility, Global Road Entertainment, Summerstorm Entertainment, Film House Germany and Company Films |
| Backtrace
|Brian A. Miller |co-production with Grindstone Entertainment Group, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Diamond Film Productions and Highland Film Group |
| rowspan="8" |2019
|co-production with Cornerstone Films, A Joel B. Michaels Production and Rock Island Films |
| Blinded by the Light
|co-production with Levantine Films, Bend It Films and Cornerstone Films |
| Seberg
|Amazon Studios (United States) and Universal Pictures (United Kingdom) |co-production with Automatik Entertainment, Bradley Pilz Productions and Phreaker Films |
| The Informer
|co-production with The Forest Road Company, Thunder Road Pictures, The Fyzz Facility and Endeavor Content |
| Triple Threat
|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
|co-production with Highland Film Group, GoldRush Entertainment, Mind's Eye Entertainment, Paragon Media Production and Saturn Films |
| The Burnt Orange Heresy
|co-production with MJZ, Rumble Films, Wonderful Films and HanWay Films |
| Guns Akimbo
|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 =
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!Year !Title !Director !Distributor !Notes |
| rowspan="12" |2020
|co-production with Bliss Media, Epicentral Studios, Neptune Features, Panteleon Films, Rocket Science and Vertical Media |
| Misbehaviour
|co-production with Left Bank Pictures, Pathé, BBC Films and British Film Institute |
| Military Wives
|co-production with Embankment Films, 42 and Tempo Productions |
| Inheritance
|Vaughn Stein |co-production with Southpaw Entertainment, Redline Entertainment and Highland Film Group |
| Endless
|co-production with Summerstorm Entertainment, Film House Germany, Thunder Road Films and Mind's Eye Entertainment |
| Unhinged
|co-production with Burek Films |
| The Vanished
|co-production with The Exchange and SSS Entertainment |
| The World to Come
|co-production with Killer Films, Sea Change Media, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, Yellow Bear Films and Hype Film |
| The Duke
|co-production with Pathé, Neon Films and Screen Yorkshire; will be released in the UK on February 25, 2022 |
| The Comeback Trail
|Cloudburst Entertainment |co-production with Storyboard Media, March On Productions, Alla Prima and Rapid Farms Productions |
| Honest Thief
|Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment |co-production with The Solution Entertainment Group, Zero Gravity Management and Samuel Marshall Films |
| The Stand In
|co-production with The Exchange, Flower Films, Polyphemus Productions and Wrigley Media Group |
| rowspan="4" |2021
|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
|co-production with AGC Studios, Thunder Road, Nota Bene Films, Fibonacci Films, Stillking Films and Freecss Films Limited |
| JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
|co-production with Ixtlan Productions and Pantagruel Productions |
| The Protégé
|co-production with Millennium Media, Fourteen Films, I Road Productions and Campbell Grobman Films |
| rowspan="6"|2022
| co-production with Protagonist Pictures, LB Entertainment, Redline Entertainment, FirstGen Content, Our Turn Productions, and RB Entertainment |
| Living
| Lionsgate Films & Sony Pictures Classics | co-production with Number 9 Films, Film4 Productions and British Film Institute |
| Crimes of the Future
| 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 | co-production with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Refinery29, Untitled Entertainment, Rebelle Media, Blinder Films and Holly Film Production |
| Joyride
| co-production with Screen Ireland, Embankment Films, and Subotica Entertainment |
| Allelujah |
| rowspan="2"|2023
|Ketchup Entertainment |co-production with Solstice Studios, Studio 8 and Double R Productions |
| The Last Rifleman
|Terry Loane |co-production with Wee Buns Films, Ripple World Pictures and Singer Studios |
= Upcoming =
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!Year !Title !Director !Distributor !Notes |
Future projects
In 2018, Ingenious Media partnered with Solstice Studios to produce and distribute theatrical feature films.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2018/10/mark-gill-andrew-gunn-guy-botham-vincent-bruzzese-launch-solstice-studios-teams-with-ingenious-media-on-theatrical-releases-1202475003/|title=Mark Gill, Andrew Gunn, Guy Botham & Vincent Bruzzese Launch Solstice Studios; Teams With Ingenious Media On Theatrical Releases|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|date=2018-10-02|work=Deadline|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en-US}}
Tax avoidance case
In July 2014, Ingenious Media was investigated by HMRC for promoting tax avoidance schemes.{{cite web|title=HMRC publishes list of suspect tax avoidance schemes|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28311047 |work=BBC |date=15 July 2014|access-date=9 October 2014}}{{cite web|last=Garside|first=Juliette|title=Taxpayer faces huge bill after Ingenious Media wins case against HMRC|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/19/taxpayer-huge-bill-ingenious-media-hmrc-wins-case|work=The Guardian|date=19 October 2016|access-date=3 July 2021}} In October 2014, HMRC sent "accelerated payment notices" to people who had invested with Ingenious Media, demanding payment of substantial amounts of tax.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1d16a40-4a49-11e4-bc07-00144feab7de.html#axzz3FdZXAZp9 (Retrieved 9 October 2014) 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.{{cite web|title=Former Ireland star Steve Staunton files for bankruptcy|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/former-ireland-star-steve-staunton-files-for-bankruptcy-1.2884968|work=The Irish Times|date=28 November 2016|access-date=3 July 2021}} In 2018, a group of more than 500 investors launched a civil case against Ingenious for making false representations{{Cite web|url=https://economia.icaew.com/news/august-2018/500-investors-sue-ingenious-over-film-scheme|title = Sorry, we can't find that page}} 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."[https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/TCC/2019/226.pdf Civil case filing], Bailii.org
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.{{cite web|title=Ingenious Games LLP & ors -v- The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs|url=https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ingenious-games-llp-ors-v-the-commissioners-for-her-majestys-revenue-and-customs/|date=4 August 2021}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.ingeniousmedia.co.uk/}}
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Category:Investment companies of the United Kingdom
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