After providing finance, business, distribution and/or creative services for 25 features and television episodes, with combined production costs of approximately $470 million, and global rights earnings exceeding $4 billion, this team began operating 1DS as of 7/18/18. 1DS provides creative and business services to production company clients, while also acquiring story assets to develop and produce their own mainstream-audience motion pictures and series for global studios, distributors and streaming networks.
Each project picked up by 1DS is driven by a global-audience-worthy story, has break-out earnings potential, and its greenlight demonstrates its ability to return profits from all global sources that could total at least twice its production cost: a minimum 2 to 1 earnings-to-cost ratio.This Offering is for 1DS’s premiere motion picture franchise, CALCULATED, that was placed into CDL, its wholly owned, single purpose development entity for full creative, distribution and production finance development.
Why develop and produce CALCULATED first? It is based on an extraordinarily high reader-rated and critic-reviewed Young Adult action-adventure novel series. It features a young woman hero, its global story takes place primarily in Shanghai and America’s Pacific Northwest. This book series has the potential to become the next big global Young Adult franchise in the tradition of DIVERGENT and HUNGER GAMES. The first book is currently in critic reader review. It premieres to readers February 11, 2021. The next two books release within nine months of one another, so all three books should be released before CALCULATED’S first motion picture premiers.
