Ingenious Media

Ingenious Media (styled as INGENIθUS) is a division of London-based Ingenious Capital Management Limited, also known as Ingenious. The company was founded in 1998 by Patrick McKenna and is focused on media, real estate and infrastructure.^[1]

Ingenious Media

Company type	Private
Industry	Investment
Genre	Investment and advisory group
Founded	1998; 27 years ago (1998)
Founder	Patrick McKenna
Headquarters	London, W1 United Kingdom
Key people	Patrick McKenna (CEO 1998–present)
Number of employees	80
Website	www.theingeniousgroup.co.uk

Filmography

2000s

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes
2004	Millions	Danny Boyle	Pathé Distribution	co-production with Moving Picture Company, BBC Films, UK Film Council and Pathé Pictures
2005	The Mistress of Spices	Paul Mayeda Berges	Rainbow Films U.S.A. (United States) and Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)	co-production with Balle Pictures, Capitol Films, Isle of Man Film and Spices Productions Ltd.
2006	Borat	Larry Charles	20th Century Fox	co-production with Four by Two Films, Everyman Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Major Studio Partners, One America Productions, Talkback and Channel 4
	Scoop	Woody Allen	Focus Features	co-production with BBC Films, Phoenix Wiley and Jelly Roll Productions
	Amazing Grace	Michael Apted	Momentum Pictures (United Kingdom), Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films (United States)	co-production with FourBoys Films, Walden Media and Bristol Bay Productions
	A Good Year	Ridley Scott	20th Century Fox	co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Dune Entertainment and Major Studio Partners
2007	Prey	Darrell Roodt	The Weinstein Company	co-production with Anant Singh Production, Videovision Entertainment and Distant Horizon
	The Walker	Paul Schrader	THINKFilm (United States) and Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom)	co-production with Kintop Pictures and Isle of Man Film
	Live Free or Die Hard	Len Wiseman	20th Century Fox	co-production with Cheyenne Enterprises and Dune Entertainment
	Stardust	Matthew Vaughn	Paramount Pictures	co-production with Marv Films
	The Golden Compass	Chris Weitz	New Line Cinema (United States) and Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)	co-production with Scholastic Productions
	Virgin Territory	David Leland	Eagle Pictures (Italy) and Quinta Communications (France)
2008	Australia	Baz Luhrmann	20th Century Fox	co-production with Bazmark Films Australia and ScreenWest
2009	Avatar	James Cameron	20th Century Fox	co-production with Lightstorm Entertainment and Dune Entertainment

2010s

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes
2011	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Rupert Wyatt	20th Century Fox	co-production with Chernin Entertainment, Dune Entertainment and Big Screen Productions
	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	John Madden	Fox Searchlight Pictures	co-production with Dune Entertainment, Participant Media, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ and Blueprint Pictures
2012	Life of Pi	Ang Lee	20th Century Fox	co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures, Dune Entertainment and Haishang Films
	Ginger & Rosa	Sally Potter	Artificial Eye (United Kingdom), Universal Pictures (Denmark) and Union Pictures (Canada)	co-production with British Film Institute, BBC Films, Adventure Pictures, The Match Factory, Media House Capital, Miso Film and Danish Film Institute
2014	Selma	Ava DuVernay	Paramount Pictures (United States) and 20th Century Fox (United Kingdom)	co-production with Pathé, Harpo Films, Plan B Entertainment, Cloud Eight Films and Redgill Selma Productions
	What We Did on Our Holiday	Andy Hamilton	Lionsgate	co-production with BBC Films, Creative Scotland, LipSync Productions and Origin Pictures
2015	Brooklyn	John Crowley	Lionsgate (United Kingdom and Ireland) and Mongrel Media (Canada)	co-production with BBC Films, Telefilm Canada, Irish Film Board, SODEC, BFI, Wildgaze Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Parallel Films, Item 7, BAI, RTÉ and HanWay Films
	High-Rise	Ben Wheatley	StudioCanal	co-production with Recorded Picture Company, Film4, British Film Institute, HanWay Films and Northern Ireland Screen
2016	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	Tim Burton	20th Century Fox	co-production with Chernin Entertainment, Tim Burton Productions, TSG Entertainment, Scope Pictures and St. Petersburg Clearwater Film Commission
	Max Steel	Stewart Hendler	Open Road Films	co-production with Dolphin Films and Mattel Playground Productions
	Dog Eat Dog	Paul Schrader	RLJ Entertainment	co-production with Blue Budgie Films, Roxwell Films, Arclight Films, Pure Dopamine and Shanghai Gigantic Pictures
	Genius	Michael Grandage	Summit Entertainment and Roadside Attractions	co-production with Riverstone Pictures, Pinewood Pictures, FilmNation Entertainment, Desert Wolf Productions and Michael Grandage Company
2017	Wind River	Taylor Sheridan	The Weinstein Company (United States) and STXinternational (United Kingdom)	co-production with Acacia Entertainment, Savvy Media Holdings, Star Thrower Entertainment, Synergics Films, Thunder Road Pictures, Film 44, The Fyzz Facility, Riverstone Pictures, Voltage Pictures and Wild Bunch
	6 Days	Toa Fraser	Icon Film Distribution (United Kingdom) and Transmission Films (New Zealand)	co-production with New Zealand Film Commission, General Film Corporation and XYZ Films
	Inconceivable	Jonathan Baker	Lionsgate Premiere	co-production with Grindstone Entertainment, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films and JB Entertainment
	Kidnap	Luis Prieto	Aviron Pictures	co-production with Lotus Entertainment, di B Pictures, 606 Films, Gold Star Films, Well Go USA, and Rumble Entertainment
2018	Replica	Jeffrey Nachmanoff	Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures	co-production with Di Bonaventura Pictures, Riverstone Pictures, Company Films, Remstar Studios, Fundamental Films, Lotus Entertainment, 74850 and Global Pictures Media LLC and Ocean Park Entertainment
	Adrift	Baltasar Kormákur	STX Entertainment	co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment, H. Brothers and RVK Studios
	The Wedding Guest	Michael Winterbottom	IFC Films	co-production with Riverstone Pictures, Stage 6 Films and Revolution Films
	Siberia	Matthew Ross	Saban Films	co-production with Elevated Films, The Fyzz Facility, Global Road Entertainment, Summerstorm Entertainment, Film House Germany and Company Films
	Backtrace	Brian A. Miller	Lionsgate Premiere	co-production with Grindstone Entertainment Group, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Diamond Film Productions and Highland Film Group
2019	After the Wedding	Bart Freundlich	Sony Pictures Classics	co-production with Cornerstone Films, A Joel B. Michaels Production and Rock Island Films
	Blinded by the Light	Gurinder Chadha	Entertainment One Films	co-production with Levantine Films, Bend It Films and Cornerstone Films
	Seberg	Benedict Andrews	Amazon Studios (United States) and Universal Pictures (United Kingdom)	co-production with Automatik Entertainment, Bradley Pilz Productions and Phreaker Films
	The Informer	Andrea Di Stefano	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with The Forest Road Company, Thunder Road Pictures, The Fyzz Facility and Endeavor Content
	Triple Threat	Jesse V. Johnson	Aurora Alliance Films and Well Go USA Entertainment	co-production with Kungfuman Culture Media, Hamilton Entertainment, Arclight Films, FJ Media Group, Gamegoo Pictures, WWE Studios and TF1 Séries Films
	A Score to Settle	Shawn Ku	RLJE Films	co-production with Highland Film Group, GoldRush Entertainment, Mind's Eye Entertainment, Paragon Media Production and Saturn Films
	The Burnt Orange Heresy	Giuseppe Capotondi	Sony Pictures Classics	co-production with MJZ, Rumble Films, Wonderful Films and HanWay Films
	Guns Akimbo	Jason Lei Howden	Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand), Altitude Film Distribution (United Kingdom) and Andrea Leone Films S. R. L. (Germany)	co-production with Occupant Entertainment, Four Knights Film, Maze Pictures, Cutting Edge, The Electric Shadow Company, Umedia, WS Filmproduktion, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Hyperion Entertainment and New Zealand Film Commission

2020s

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes
2020	Resistance	Jonathan Jakubowicz	IFC Films	co-production with Bliss Media, Epicentral Studios, Neptune Features, Panteleon Films, Rocket Science and Vertical Media
	Misbehaviour	Philippa Lowthorpe	20th Century Studios	co-production with Left Bank Pictures, Pathé, BBC Films and British Film Institute
	Military Wives	Peter Cattaneo	Lionsgate	co-production with Embankment Films, 42 and Tempo Productions
	Inheritance	Vaughn Stein	Vertical Entertainment	co-production with Southpaw Entertainment, Redline Entertainment and Highland Film Group
	Endless	Scott Speer	Quiver Distribution	co-production with Summerstorm Entertainment, Film House Germany, Thunder Road Films and Mind's Eye Entertainment
	Unhinged	Derrick Borte	Solstice Studios	co-production with Burek Films
	The Vanished	Peter Facinelli	Saban Films	co-production with The Exchange and SSS Entertainment
	The World to Come	Mona Fastvold	Bleecker Street	co-production with Killer Films, Sea Change Media, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, Yellow Bear Films and Hype Film
	The Duke	Roger Michell	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Pathé, Neon Films and Screen Yorkshire; will be released in the UK on February 25, 2022
	The Comeback Trail	George Gallo	Cloudburst Entertainment	co-production with Storyboard Media, March On Productions, Alla Prima and Rapid Farms Productions
	Honest Thief	Mark Williams	Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment	co-production with The Solution Entertainment Group, Zero Gravity Management and Samuel Marshall Films
	The Stand In	Jamie Babbit	Saban Films	co-production with The Exchange, Flower Films, Polyphemus Productions and Wrigley Media Group
2021	SAS: Red Notice	Magnus Martens	Sky Cinema and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment	co-production with silver Reel, Creativity Capital, Parabolic Pictures, Altitude Film Entertainment, The Electric Shadow Company, J3 Film Finance and Lipsync Productions
	Voyagers	Neil Burger	Lionsgate Films	co-production with AGC Studios, Thunder Road, Nota Bene Films, Fibonacci Films, Stillking Films and Freecss Films Limited
	JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass	Oliver Stone	Altitude Film Distribution	co-production with Ixtlan Productions and Pantagruel Productions
	The Protégé	Martin Campbell	Lionsgate Films	co-production with Millennium Media, Fourteen Films, I Road Productions and Campbell Grobman Films
2022	Call Jane	Phyllis Nagy	Roadside Attractions	co-production with Protagonist Pictures, LB Entertainment, Redline Entertainment, FirstGen Content, Our Turn Productions, and RB Entertainment
	Living	Oliver Hermanus	Lionsgate Films & Sony Pictures Classics	co-production with Number 9 Films, Film4 Productions and British Film Institute
	Crimes of the Future	David Cronenberg	Neon	co-production with Argonauts Productions S.A, Serendipity Point Films, Davis Films, Telefilm Canada, CBC, Bell Media, Ekome and Natixis
	Mr. Malcolm's List	Emma Holly Jones	Bleecker Street	co-production with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Refinery29, Untitled Entertainment, Rebelle Media, Blinder Films and Holly Film Production
	Joyride	Emer Reynolds	Vertigo Releasing	co-production with Screen Ireland, Embankment Films, and Subotica Entertainment
	Allelujah	Richard Eyre	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Pathé and BBC Film
2023	Hypnotic	Robert Rodriguez	Ketchup Entertainment	co-production with Solstice Studios, Studio 8 and Double R Productions International distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures
	The Last Rifleman	Terry Loane	Sky Cinema	co-production with Wee Buns Films, Ripple World Pictures and Singer Studios

Upcoming

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes

Future projects

In 2018, Ingenious Media partnered with Solstice Studios to produce and distribute theatrical feature films.^[2]

Tax avoidance case

In July 2014, Ingenious Media was investigated by HMRC for promoting tax avoidance schemes.^[3][4] In October 2014, HMRC sent "accelerated payment notices" to people who had invested with Ingenious Media, demanding payment of substantial amounts of tax.^[5] The tax bill following his investment in the scheme was cited in the subsequent bankruptcy hearings of the former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland footballer, Steve Staunton.^[6] In 2018, a group of more than 500 investors launched a civil case against Ingenious for making false representations^[7] which Ingenious had always denied. Ingenious (specifically Ingenious Games LLP, Inside Track Productions LLP and Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP) lost their appeal against HMRC's initial ruling in June 2019, with the Upper Tribunal ruling that "None of the LLPs were carrying on a trade. None of the LLPs were carrying on a trade with a view to profit."^[8]

However, in August 2021 the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling of the Upper Tribunal in respect of Inside Track Productions LLP and Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP on both the trading and with a view to profit issues.^[9]