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Are you familiar with Freeway? Freeway provides Collection Account Management, Residual Payroll, Escrow, Data Management, and Production Accounting. All services built around our deep understanding of the challenges faced by parties in the film and TV industry with the production, financing, and distribution of their projects and designed to address key needs for security, transparency, and impartiality. Like when it comes to reporting and handling a production’s sales revenues making sure...

Engaging a Sales Agent can be of great value if you are looking to sell your production internationally. Sales Agents know the market well and have important relationships with buyers. The right Sales Agent can help your project reach its full commercial potential. If you plan to appoint a Collection Account Manager (CAM), it is wise to set up the Collection Account before the selling starts. Then the Sales Agent can instruct buyers to pay their license fees directly into the Collection...

The recoupment schedule, also known as the waterfall outlines how a film’s revenues are distributed among producers, sales agents, financiers, unions, talent, and other back-end participants. A clear and accurately formulated waterfall is crucial for independent film productions, as it determines who gets paid, when, and how much, once the film starts earning revenues from international distribution. Preparing and managing waterfalls is at the core of what we do at Freeway: based on the...

As trusted third party collection account manager, we administer your production’s revenues and make sure that all stakeholders and revenue participants receive completely transparent reporting about sales made, royalties received, and revenue shares allocated in accordance with the agreed recoupment schedule or waterfall. Via Freeway Reporting, our online portal, producers, sales agents, and financiers can conveniently follow the exploitation of their projects 24/7. Transparency is the...

How to put together a Recoupment Schedule for a Film or TV production.

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