About Laughing Cow Productions
• Independent feature film production company based in Atlanta, Georgia
• Founded in 2012 by Emory University professors Doug Bremner & Viola Vaccarino
‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’
• A psychiatrist risks all to take on a corrupt drug company
• Described as Erin Brockovich meets The Constant Gardener
• Based on a true story that involves greed, power, lies, tragedy, danger, and death.
Reader Reviews for Goose Book Based on the Screenplay
• “An indictment of the pharmaceutical industry... illuminates the greed and unscrupulous nature of pharmaceutical companies and their market driven interests.”
• “A compelling and spell-binding narrative which fuses the personal and social in a heroic quest conducted by a physician who is a model for our era.”
• "I was so fascinated (and horrified) once I started reading that I finished the book in a single day…."
The Production Team • Doug Bremner (Partner) –
Producer, Writer, and Director
• Viola Vaccarino (Partner) – Producer
• Neil Shulman – Executive Producer (Doc Hollywood)
• Jim McKinney – Cinematographer and Associate Producer
• Chris Mills – Producer
Market and Strategy • Individuals concerned about
healthcare for themselves and their families, including possible risks related to the pharmaceutical industry
• Fans of strong, emotionally driven dramas, like courtroom dramas, with characters that they can emotionally engage with
• People who like films with inspirational messages
Study Growth in International Film Sales Year over Year
Casting Director – Cathy Reinking
• 25 years experience casting in Hollywood for TV and film
• Credits include Arrested Development and Frasier
• Author of How To Book Acting Jobs in TV and Film: The Truth About the Acting Industry - Conversations with a Veteran Hollywood Casting Director
• Winner, Best Screenplay, Harlem Film Festival and Urban Mediamakters Film Festival
• Discovered Jason Bateman, Adam Scott, and other stars.
Arye Gross • Plays plaintiff’s attorney Redhorn Leghorn • Active in regional LA theater • Film credits include Minority Report and Atlas
Shrugged II: The Strike. • TV credits include M E Sidney Perlmutter in
Castle, Cooper Conroy in Medium, Frank Muehler in Six Feet Under, - Rabbi Daniel Warner in The Practice and Carter Sweeney in Diagnosis Murder.
Elizabeth Stanley • Tony Award-winning start of Bridges of Madison County, the Musical, On the Town, and Downton Abbey, the Musical
• Created role of April in revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company
• Plays grieving mother of suicide victim, Ginny Bellaconda.
Peri Gilpin • Roz Doyle in the popular TV series Frasier. • Played Kim Keeler in Make It or Break It. • Other ongoing TV series where she had guest roles including
Designing Women, Cheers, and Wings. • Peri plays Lesley, the University Dean.
Cynthia Watros • Played Libby Smith, the “secret criminal” of the smash hit TV series, Lost
• Emmy Award winner for role as Annie Dutton Banks / Dee in Guiding Light.
• Elizabeth Wilson on Finding Carter, Kelly Andrews in The Young and the Restless, and Vicky on Another World.
• Film credits include Eletrick Children, Blood and Circumstance, and Park City.
• Plays Crystal, the ruthless attorney for the Renzon Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
Darryl Dillard • Darryl is an actor and casting talent who wrote and directed with Cathy Reinking the short film Real Man which was a winner at the Atlanta Black Arts Film Festival and the Harlem Film Festival for best screenplay in 2015.
• Darryl is a casting agent for the film as well as playing the role of Private Investigator Frank Dinaru.
Holley Fain • Holley is best known for her roles as Dr. Julia Canner on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, and Maureen van der Bilt on Gossip Girl.
• Also portrayed Daphne Stillington and Ruth Kelly in the Broadway productions of Present Laughter and Harvey, respectively.
• Other TV credits: 3 lbs, Lipstick Jungle, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Good Wife, Memphis Beat and The Mentalist.
• Film credits: Blinders, One Night and Forgetting the Girl. Holley plays university attorney Kirsten Best.
Goose That Laid the Golden Egg- Return on Investment (ROI)
$0
$50,000
$100,000
$150,000
$200,000
$250,000
Portion At Risk Investment Expected Return
At Risk
Section 181 Tax Write-off**
Ga Tax Credit
‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’ Sources of Finance
Total Budget $2,992,976*
Private Equity, $1,370,000
Vaccarino / Bremner, $340,000
Laughing Cow Productions,
$980,000
Georgia Film Tax Credit, $243,397 Intl. Presales,
$9,579
Product Placement, $50,000
Private Equity
Vaccarino / Bremner
Laughing Cow Productions
Georgia Film Tax Credit
Intl. Presales
Product Placement
Timeline
2015 – partner with agents, attach actors
Early 2016 – recruit private
equity investors
Spring & Summer 2016
– preproduction, Crowdfunding
Summer 2016 – principle production
Fall 2016 – post
production
Winter & Spring 2017 –
Festival premieres
Fall 2017 – U.S. Theatrical
Release
2017 – foreign distribution &
domestic cable release
Section 181 Tax Savings
Baseline Situation Salary Base Tax Cutoff Taxed at 39.6% Total Tax
$1,100,000 $127,962 $457,600 $254,390 $382,352
Investment of $1M Salary Base Tax Cutoff Taxed at 25% Total Tax
$100,000 $10,162 $73,800 $6,550 $16,712
Section 181 rule for investments in film productions gives you an immediate write-off without depreciation in the year of investment/production. In this scenario there is a tax reduction of $365,640 for an immediate return of 37% of investment.