Wolf fantasy men are ready to pursue Tremble -The very long -awaited film based on the first novel in the Romantasy series by Wolves of Mercy Falls that involved the filming in Vancouver at the end of last year.
But the financial wolves at the doors of the film’s producers have put Tremble In ICE: forcing the production company formed to turn the film into insolvency and leave hundreds of Canadian creditors of millions of dollars.
A judge of the BC Supreme Court placed Mercy Falls BC INC in the protection of creditors this week after the procedures establish a battle between the producers of the film and the study based in the United States that supposedly promised $ 20 million to make the film.
“Tremble It was a great production in British Columbia, “says James Joyce, who is owed more than $ 24,000 for his work delivering the snow and ice necessary to convert the sets of the film into the environment of Minnesota of the film.
“They put many people to work, and those people, you know how it is, you have to pay your bills,” says Joyce.
“He paid for his gas to go to work, or paid for his groceries to go to work, or if he is in the catering company, or provides a portion-potties or whatever. He has put that money and now I suppose that I suppose that [the producer] I can’t pay anyone. “
‘An imminent crisis’
Legal presentations provide a window to a financial fight as launched, if not as supernatural, as the interaction between humans and werewolf in fiction books for younger adults best -selling by author Maggie Stiefvater.
The central characters of the judicial battle are Jeanette Volturn, president of Mercy Falls BC Inc., the incorporated company to produce Tremble and Ryan Hamilton, director of the Wyoming -based studio that has the rights to turn the book into a film.
In an affidavit, Volturno affirms to May 8, the study had only paid $ 11 million of the $ 20 million that agreed to provide and what cash had frequently given, if not always, it was late and was sent in fragments of several sources. “
“The failure of the study to fulfill its financing obligations has caused an imminent crisis,” writes Volturno, an American who has worked on more than 95 feature films, including The hunger games and academy award winners Lash and Go out.
“He [production company] It does not have access to the cash required to pay its commercial suppliers and creditors, which has put production at a dead point. “
Tremble American actress and singer Maddie Ziegler as the human Grace Brisbane and Australian actor and model Levi Miller as her noon of Werewolf Sam Roth, who tempers her lupine lifestyle with shifts like her human being in a local bookstore.
Court documents say that production began in the film in August 2024, with a main photograph that was completed in early December, when the lack of the production of land funds.
“The production is now in the postproduction phase, which consists of films edition, sound edition, audio and music, visual effects, creating an advance and promotion and commercialization of the film for potential buyers,” says the sworn statement of Volturno.
“The film was originally scheduled to be released to the public in July 2026. Yes [the production company] He is able to pay his creditors and resume work, he intends to continue production until the end to finish the film. “
Studio wants to complete the movie
The creditor protection process intends to grant a debtor breathing space by preventing any legal action from progressing without the court’s permission, while a restructuring company or finds financing to pay its debts.
The judge who supervises the case also appointed a third -party monitor to supervise the finances of the production company.
Last week, Hamilton presented an affidavit that opposed the proposal for the protection of the creditors, accusing Volturno of replacing the “quality personnel lower than production” and refusing to share information about the state of millions of dollars of the tax credits of provincial films.
Hamilton says that his study, not the Volturnal Production Company, has intellectual property rights to any part of Tremble Already in the can.
He says that the study “has never sold, given or renounced any of its integral rights in the film,” which means any agreement “based on the property or sale of the film by [Volturno’s production company] would constitute misappropriation of the property of the study. “
“Is [the] Studio’s intention to complete and sell the film, “Hamilton wrote, asking the judge to allow the parties to resolve their differences” through the commercial negotiation of Routina “instead of the Canadian courts.
“[The] Studio is also the only realistic source of such financing in the future. “
‘Shame for all’
According to judicial documents, the production company owes $ 6.6 million to a variety of creditors in the United States. and Canada, including more than $ 42,000 for the city of Vancouver and $ 17,500 for the Canada Revenue Agency.
Even Australian director Claire McCarthy is out of $ 22,480-Money Volturno says that it must be paid “before Mrs. McCarthy continues to work on the film.”
Judicial documents include long email chains of creditors such as Wendy Cohen, the head of a New York -based company that manages authorization and placement of products.
“I have been told that this $ 2,000 will be published on five separated occasions now,” Hamilton wrote earlier this month.
“In all my years in the cinema business, I have never encountered such a shameless lie and robbery. Shame for everyone. You should find another field to work, since you obviously do not know how to budget or produce a movie.”
Mark Hirschi, the owner of Salmon’s transfer, is owed more than $ 43,000 for the work that his company made, temporarily moving and unpacking the content of the houses used as sets during the filming to “make him seem that there was no one there.”
Says the financial problems that surround Tremble They have had a great impact on the local film industry.
“Raise your hair on the back of your neck,” he says.
“It makes you much more doubtful to work with the film industry, because there is a sense of trust. When you are working with other companies, we all have a sense of trust. You want to trust that person to pay the bill. You have done the service, you pay the bill.”
