Movie producers James Vallo (aka Christian Bryant) and Robert Foreman of Westbridge Entertainment took in tens of thousands of dollars that investors provided for the completion of a film they had already finishing shooting, but needed post production work to complete the whole production. After a near 2 year delay, investors began to ask where their money went and why the film was still not completed.
When some of the investors asked to audit the film's financial records, Vallo and Foreman refused to provide any financial records or information other than a final budget sheet that had massive discrepencies and inconsistencies when compared to the original budget investors had seen. Again, investors asked to see the financial records in order to compare it to the final budget, but were denied.
Investors asked for copies of signed distribution deals that Mr. Vallo and Mr. Foreman had apparently signed once the film was released, but were again refused when they asked for records of the said documents and contracts.
A number of investors also compared their own investor contracts with each other and found countless financial inaccuracies that made the contracts impossible to live up to on the producers' part.investors were strongly discouraged by Mr. Foreman from contacting each other, but they did anyway since most of them had never heard of each other until some of them starting reaching out on different websites. On multiple occassions, Foreman and Vallo have threatened to sue the investors if they talk to anyone regarding these issues.
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