Investors profit from “Alles is Liefde” advantageous box office sales

Ellen den Hollander
Leiden

Investors who have participated in the financing of the Dutch movie production “Alles is Liefde”, profit well from this movie hit. Results may achieve 20% to 25% returns on investment.
Good news for the investors, says Andries de Boer, Managing Director of the company WVGH B.V. from Leiden. His company looks after the movie production LP- a Limited Partnership, in which a limited number of investors participate for a limited period of time. “Even if nobody has gone to the cinema, there were guaranteed returns of 8.2%, thanks to tax advantages.”

The returns now rise constantly, because the movie has attracted lots of spectators during the past 6 weeks. In total 1 million people have visited the movie theaters especially for “Alles is Liefde”. “It is an absolute record.”

The investment fund is a movie production LP, in which the participants must invest at least €10,000. “There were only 300 investors”, says Andries de Boer. “Until now this is our most successful LP”, he adds. “Minoes was our previous greatest success. The movie attracted 900,000 visitors. These numbers are now exceeded by Alles is Liefde and it continues to attract visitors.”
This is the last time that WVGH B.V. has offerred a movie production LP to investors. Sadly the attractive tax advantages offered to investors will be abolished in July this year. “Extremely regrettable”, thinks De Boer. “ It had a false start from the beginning, but during the last 2 years many successful movies were produced.
There is a new fiscal arrangement, but according to De Boer it works less efficient. “There is a fund now, which works on the principle “first come, first served”. Soon the producers will have to go beg the movie funds for subsidies. Or the budgets will decrease significantly”.