In theory, the porn industry should be able to make their own props and sets because of how much money that the industry makes. In the pre-millennium days of film-making, it was easy to blame a big budget on salary until it became commonplace for sites to list the net-worth of cast members. The caveat is that you rarely see a porno being filmed inside the Caesars Palace. Las Vegas is a hotbed for the mafia because of the casino enterprises. Besides being an inconspicuous place to conduct other kinds of business, owning a theater allowed mobsters to inflate box office receipts as a way of laundering income from various vices. A vast amount of theaters that screened the film were actually mob-connected enterprises. For example, look at the success of Deep Throat. This is easier to do because of how much mafia involvement that there is in the seedier side of the entertainment industry. The porn business is involved in a lot of money laundering lawsuits, but (ironically given this article) that is the least interesting thing for me in terms of what goes on behind the scenes.įor quite some time, porn companies have borrowed props from mainstream productions, whether it be films or TV. As bad as money laundering is, the worst way to find funding of a movie is to deliberately cause an accident so that you can use the insurance money. It’s because of the very nature of financing films that you won’t find too many interviews with accountants. A director named Anees Bazmee claimed that 60% of the money invested in a film is black money. Like in other parts of the world, Bollywood has a lot of shady investors who wouldn’t want to have their names credited for reasons that are obvious. However, India is such a big country that it was inevitable given how many people that the Indian film industry can profit from. I find this to be ironic given the superiority of Chinese films. Then there’s the issue of how Bollywood became the second biggest film industry. The best way to get rid of evidence in a counterfeiting ring is to find ways to dispose of the money on screen like someone who sets notes on fire or someone who triggers the fire alarm in a vault. So, this is perfect for writing off huge losses that were never accrued, or for claiming huge profits in order to launder money.
outside the country of the film’s production*). There is no government body in the world that can monitor how much a movie is truly sold for or collects elsewhere in the world (i.e. Not even crowdfunding is entirely absolved of criminal involvement. I don’t mean snuff movies, but movies whose budgets came from the profits of crime. People talk about blood diamonds, but people should also consider the possibility of blood movies. This isn’t going to be about those two martial arts movies, but the cover was a neat way of hitting two birds with one stone as opposed to using a picture of blood on money.