A Next-Generation Investment & Development Platform
APEX
We select and control — proven partners deliver.
Built with BOXO Productions, the platform manager, and ZQ Entertainment, which acquires and develops the IP — bringing together award-winning talent, capital, creativity and cutting-edge AI to build a world-class media and entertainment ecosystem in the UAE, bridging Hollywood and the GCC.
$1B+
Platform target across three phases — successor vehicles not yet formed
40+
IP assets & projects in development
$50B+
Combined box office of our collaborators’ films
31%p.a.*
Development track record — selected transactions, unaudited
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The Core Thesis
Control the IP. Control the economics.
Traditional film funds invest after projects are packaged — buying into someone else's asset at the most expensive moment. APEX begins at the earliest stage of value creation: acquiring and developing intellectual property before production, so it controls the underlying asset and participates across the entire lifecycle. IP first. Capital follows.
$20M
IP contributed to the JV at management value — 40+ projects co-owned by BOXO & ZQ; pending independent valuation
10
Active projects — 7 in production & post · 2 in pre-production · 1 in distribution
$150M
Combined budgets across the 10 active projects
94–96%
Cinelytic’s published forecast accuracy, 2023–2025 · 99% in August 2026, the largest August on record
Development engine. ZQ Entertainment has spent more than five years acquiring, developing and packaging premium IP across film and television — investing its own capital throughout development and retaining ownership of the majority of its IP, so the platform reaches projects at the earliest stage of value creation.
Five ways we earn — structurally, not speculatively
Most investors wait for box office. APEX earns at every stage of the value chain, with multiple revenue streams that minimize equity risk.
01 · Before Production
IP & Development
We acquire IP — scripts, books, stories — and develop them into bankable packages. When greenlit, our development cost is repaid from the official budget.
Development cost returned + premium*
02 · During Production
Equity Investment
We take the equity gap — often only 10–30% of budget after pre-sales, tax credits and MGs cover the rest — in a preferred return position before normal splits.
Capital returned + preferred return + back-end*
03 · At Release
P&A Financing
We can finance all or part of the marketing and release costs, depending on project conditions. P&A is repaid before equity — from theatrical revenues and all ancillary streams: streaming, TV, digital.
Priority repayment before equity
04 · Long-Term
Producer & IP Back-End
Because we originate and control the IP, we also participate on the producer side — separate from our investor position. Two pools of upside.
Back-end + sequel rights + gaming + licensing
05 · Throughout
Production Services
Through individually negotiated agreements with film producers, we generate fee income throughout the production process.
Recurring production fee income
* Indicative deal terms vary by project; illustrative only. Development: cost typically returned plus a 20–50% premium at greenlight. Equity: capital plus a preferred return of around 20%, plus back-end participation.
Three-Phase Capital Roadmap
From a joint venture to a $1 billion ecosystem
A staged roadmap — Joint Venture, Film Fund, then Scale & Infrastructure — designed to evolve APEX into a world-class media and entertainment ecosystem bridging Hollywood and the GCC: a global content creation hub built for high-value job creation, international capital, knowledge and skills transfer, and long-term economic diversification.
The APEX vision — from joint venture to a $1 billion media & entertainment ecosystem
PHASE I · OPEN
$40M
APEX Joint Venture
Open now. $20M of co-GP capital for 50% of the JV/GP as an equal partner — every dollar the JV receives, including the management fee, splits 50/50 from the first dollar — alongside APEX’s $20M contributed IP. The JV deploys $18M into the fund and retains $2M at the JV, taking its position in the fund to $38M.
PHASE II
$120M
APEX Film Fund
A regulated fund (Dubai / Abu Dhabi) with a film-only mandate: film equity, P&A financing and IP acquisition. $120M stated capitalization; $100M investable cash. Terms: 2/20 over an 8% hurdle · 5-year investment period · optional investor exit Year 5 · 10-year term (7 + 2 + 1).
PHASE III
$900M
Scale & Infrastructure
$400M Film Fund II + $500M Infrastructure Fund: an AI-driven physical production campus in the UAE — sound stages, patented mobile production systems and the NAIS operating platform; studio rentals, production services, technology licensing, live events and AI workflows — targeting a platform valuation above $1B.
Phase II — the $120M APEX Film Fund: $82M external LP + $18M JV/GP cash + $20M contributed IP, of which $100M is investable cash. This is the vehicle investors underwrite today.
Titles From the Controlled Portfolio
Locked
#1 Global Streaming
Flight Risk
#1 US Box Office
By Any Means
Paramount · 4 Sep 2026
Ali G: Who Iz I?
Amazon MGM · 23 Oct 2026
The Mark
Prod. Will Smith
Land of Bad
The Avenue
Selected titles from the controlled portfolio, produced or financed by the platform’s principals.
How We Gained Top Access
Strategic partners & agencies
We partner with top-performing filmmakers, producers and talent with long track records of commercial success — sourced through CAA, WME, UTA, Range, FilmNation and 30 West.
Sam Raimi · Spider-ManMatt Reeves · The BatmanBasil Iwanyk · John WickGore Verbinski · RangoMarc Forster · World War ZTimur Bekmambetov · WantedAdam McKay · Don't Look UpReginald Hudlin · Django UnchainedDavid Yates · Harry PotterGlen Basner · The King's Speech
Sourced & packaged through Hollywood's leading agencies and partners
What sets us apart
01
IP Ownership
We acquire and develop IP before production begins — capturing value at the earliest, cheapest stage of the asset lifecycle.
02
Multi-Vertical Monetization
Film, television, gaming, licensing, distribution and talent management — maximizing lifetime asset value from a single IP.
03
Preferential Deal Flow
Direct agency, producer and distributor relationships give access to premium projects before the broader market.
04
AI-Driven Production
An AI-enabled production ecosystem reduces development cost, accelerates execution and improves portfolio scalability.
05
Platform Economics
APEX earns across development, production, fund management, royalties and platform expansion — recurring, stacked revenue.
06
Power of a Large Slate
More films, more shots on goal — higher probability of hits and franchises, built on scale and long-term IP ownership.
Our Rules of Selection
Every project clears four gates before a dollar moves
A proprietary methodology funnels the entire market down to roughly five conviction projects a year. Each gate is a filter — creative, commercial, economic and finally data — so capital only commits to titles that have survived all four.
GATE 01
CAA & top-tier deal flow
Source from CAA and leading agencies — preferential access to premium projects at the development stage.
All deal flow
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GATE 02
Select the top 10%
Curate down to the best ~10% on creative quality, packaging, talent and commercial potential.
Top 10%
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GATE 03
Budget & location screen
Filter on budget fit, shooting locations, tax incentives and production economics.
Best fits
→
GATE 04
Cinelytic validation
The final ~5 projects run through Cinelytic to confirm the call — making sure we are correct before capital commits.
~5 projects a year
The narrowing is the point: preferential access at the top, human curation in the middle, and independent data validation at the gate — so the slate is proven before it is funded.
Data-Validated Slate · The Cinelytic Group
We prove the slate before we fund it
APEX is a client of The Cinelytic Group — the leading provider of AI decision-intelligence for film & TV. Cinelytic's greenlight-stage platform models box-office and ancillary revenue across 80+ international territories, turning slate selection from intuition into measurable signal.
Cinelytic's platform combines creative instinct with comprehensive data, real-time analytics and predictive forecasting — decision-intelligence trusted by studio clients including Warner Bros, STX, Sony Pictures and Lionsgate.
94–96%
Annual box-office forecast accuracy — three consecutive years, 2023–20251
99%
August 2026 — the largest August in box-office history2
19
Predictive project attributes per title, machine-learning driven
80+
International territories modeled for box-office & ancillary
Cinelytic figures are Cinelytic’s own published claims, attributed to the vendor. 1 Annual forecast accuracy, 2023–2025. 2 November-2025 projections vs actuals: year-to-date through August 94%, summer (May–August) 97%, August alone 99%; August 2026 was the biggest August in box-office history (domestic $1.28B; $4.645B global, the #1 month of the decade). Sources: Cinelytic — 2026 TIFF Insights Special: Running the Numbers · Screendollars — all-time record August global box office · Deadline — summer 2026 record $4.76B domestic. The platform also holds 122K+ films and 652K+ above-the-line talent profiles — platform statistics as published by Cinelytic; vendor’s own.
Greenlight IntelligenceIllustrative
88/100
Composite greenlight score
● Greenlight
Modeled global box office (P10–P90)$142M – $310M
Talent commercial index92
Genre demand signal81
Comparable performance86
Release-window fit79
Illustrative representation of Cinelytic's greenlight-stage output. Each candidate title is scored across 19 predictive attributes before APEX commits capital.
Fund Economics
The economics of the fund.
Capitalization is $120M — $82M external LP + $18M JV/GP cash + $20M contributed IP — of which $100M is investable cash (the IP contribution is non-cash), against an external raise of ≈$82M. All return figures below are modeled — not forecasts.
Net LP IRR — modeled
16.07%
After 2% management / 20% carry over an 8% hurdle, on capital held for the full ten years
Modeled gross portfolio IRR, pre-fee: 19.94%. These are base-case figures: they assume the slate performs as modeled. Downside scenarios are available on request.
Average Annual Cash Yield — modeled
18.29%
Cumulative net cash ÷ 10 years ÷ $120M stated capitalization
LP multiple 2.83× on $82M. Cash only, + library value — library, IP and royalties retained at year ten come on top.
Fund Performance — base case
Gross Portfolio IRR (modeled)
19.94%
Slate cash flows, pre-fee
LP Multiple
2.83×
On $82M · + library value
10-yr LP Total Received
$232.0M
On $82M, of which $150.0M is profit
Titles Written Down
8 of 49
Write-downs built in
Modelled Below Cost
3
Of the eight written down
To stay conservative, the model deliberately writes down eight of the 49 titles — more than our partners’ track record would suggest — and the fund still returns 16.07% IRR and 2.83×. On each of the eight the fund is a minority investor — between 15% and 26% of the budget — so it carries only its share of a write-down, while its recoupment premium is earned on all of its equity. On five of the eight that is enough to bring the fund back above what it put in, by $209k to $354k. On the other three the fund ends modestly below cost, by $56k to $998k.
Fund investors — all capital, on $120M
Total Received
$339.5M
$120M of capital returned plus $219.5M of profit
Profit
$219.5M
Over ten years, after all fees
Average a Year
18.29%
Cash yield on the original capital
Capital Covered By
Year 6
From distributed profit
Gross Portfolio, Before Fees
23.23%
Average a year · 3.32× · $278.7M of profit
What it costs to run the fund, over ten years
Management Fee
$24.0M
2% of $120M a year
Performance Fee
$35.3M
20% above an 8% annual hurdle ($9.6M)
Fund Direct Expenses
$13.2M
$1.32M a year
Total Cost
$72.5M
25% of profit before any deduction
Capitalization & Terms
Stated Capitalization
$120M
$82M LP + $18M JV/GP cash + $20M IP
Investable Cash
$100M
IP contribution is non-cash
External Raise
≈$82M
Third-party LP commitments
Fees — Management / Performance
$24.0M / $35.3M
Management / performance fee · modeled
Management fee 2% of $120M a year. Performance fee 20% above an 8% annual hurdle ($9.6M). Fund direct expenses $1.32M a year. Subject to final fund documents. The $20M IP contribution is non-cash at management value, subject to independent valuation.
Strategic position. The figures include $4.98M a year from strategic and opportunistic investments held alongside the slate — about 23% of total profit. The fund may allocate up to $24M to them; the model assumes about $20.4M is in use on average. It is a revolving book of investments in businesses that strengthen the fund’s position — another film company, a production platform, an AI studio; several such deals are in progress. The model treats the allocation as funded from assets the fund already holds rather than from film cash.
Basis. Capital is held for the full ten years and returned at the end; profit is distributed annually; the manager earns 20% only above an 8% annual hurdle. Modeled outcomes of stated assumptions, not forecasts and not promises. Cash only, + library value.
The pipeline
The fund does not start empty. It begins with a deep, diversified pipeline of intellectual property already owned, optioned or otherwise controlled by the platform — not a blind pool assembled after closing.
Pipeline & 10 active projects
IP Assets & Projects
40+
In development
In Production & Post
7
Of 10 active projects today
In Pre-Production
2
Sawbones · One Christmas in Washington
In Distribution
1
By Any Means · Paramount
Combined Project Budgets
$150M
Across the active projects
Production & post: Barracuda (Mackie, Keen; with Zemeckis; dir. Burger) · The Mark (Alba, Hopper; dir. Chadwick) · Ali G: Who Iz I? (Sacha Baron Cohen; Amazon) · 6 Till Midnight (Lane, Poarch; dir. Donoho) · Cackling of the Dodos (Harrelson, Rockwell; dir. Bateman; Netflix) · Mickey (Rourke; with Wahlberg; dir. Jákl) · Iron Jane (Eiza González; with Elwes, Bucko). Pre-production: Sawbones (based on Stan Lee’s horror universe; dir. & produced with Bekmambetov) · One Christmas in Washington (Winstone, Collette, Fraser; dir. Berlinger). Distribution: By Any Means (Wahlberg, Abdul-Mateen II; Paramount).
The modeled slate
The fund is rarely the only money in a picture — presales, tax incentives and co-financing carry the rest — so $120M supports far more production than it holds, and each dollar of investable cash is put to work about three and a half times.
The slate, as modeled
Active Titles
49
Built title by title in the model
Production Budgets Financed
$677.4M
Supported by the fund’s $120M
Fund Equity Deployed
$359.7M
The fund’s own equity across the slate
Each Cash Dollar Redeployed
3.6×
Capital recycled over the ten-year term
Recoupment Premium Earned
$54.4M
A contractual 20% on the equity invested
The $20M IP contribution — matched, not assumed
APEX’s founders contribute developed IP and film packages at a discount to their aggregate indicated value — matched dollar for dollar by the co-GP partner’s $20.0M cash.
IP valuation
Indicated Project Value
$21.5M
Aggregate, selected projects
JV Contribution Value
$20.0M
~7% discount to indicated value
Matched Cash
$20.0M
Cash alongside the IP — matched, not assumed
Projects in Development
40+
Full slate evaluated by Cinelytic
Houdini$4.1M
Sawbones$2.8M
Karate Bachelorette$1.3M
I Work At Macys$1.1M
Calico Joe$1.0M
Craving$0.8M
The Devil’s Playbook – Juul$0.6M
God’s Country$0.6M
Grounded by years of overhead and development capital invested, a dedicated and proven development fund, 40+ projects in development and realized proof-of-concept sales to major studios and streamers. The full slate has been evaluated by Cinelytic using its proprietary box-office forecasting models and comparable market data. Values are subject to final rights diligence and independent (Cinelytic) valuation.
Stress cases
These are base-case figures: they assume the slate performs as modeled. Downside scenarios are available on request.
JV / GP economics
$20M for half the general partner. All JV cash — fund distributions and the gross management fee — splits 50/50 between the co-GP investor and the founders from the first dollar. There is no capital preference and no JV-level preferred return. Management-company operating costs are not yet budgeted and are not deducted.
Co-GP investor — 50% of the JV, on $20M
Co-GP Investment
$20M
Half the JV/GP · open now
Modeled IRR
26.60%
Modeled · before management-company operating costs
Multiple
4.22×
$84.4M received on $20M, of which $64.4M is profit
Average a Year
32.19%
Across the ten years
Capital Covered By
Year 5
From distributed profit
The offer at a glance
JV Partner — Now
$20M
Co-GP raise, open now
LP Fund — Next
$82M
Raised immediately after · $120M capitalization
Fees to the JV/GP (10y)
$24.0M / $35.3M
Management / performance fee · modeled
Mandate
Film + strategic
Film, plus up to 20% strategic & opportunistic · Domicile: Dubai / Abu Dhabi
Fees & Term
2/20 over 8%
10-year term
Capital path. $18M of the $20M goes straight into the fund, taking the JV/GP position in the fund to $38M; the $82M LP fund is raised immediately after.
Basis. Capital is held for the full ten years and returned at the end; profit is distributed annually; the manager earns 20% only above an 8% annual hurdle. Modeled outcomes of stated assumptions, not forecasts and not promises. Cash only, + library value.
Built on a Real Track Record
30 partner films. Real, realized results.
Informed by 30 completed films produced by ZQ partners who will also produce future fund projects alongside the platform’s principals — supplemented by ZQ’s development performance.
30
Partner films analyzed
13 of 14
Films profitable with our key partner, since 2017
31%p.a.*
Development track record — realized proof-of-concept sales, unaudited
Realized partner films — profit vs. budget ($M)
Named partner films with realized P&L. Bubble = annual ROI. Internal, unaudited analysis; not a fund return.
Internal, unaudited analysis of partner films; not a fund return.* Development track record — see the disclaimer below.
Risk Factors & Mitigation
Engineered to manage risk
APEX manages risk through diversification, high production volume, value-chain participation, completion bonds and insurance, and institutional revenue collection through CAMA.
Risk 01
Market Cycling
Managed through a diversified slate across genres, budgets and distribution partners. Higher volume reduces single-project reliance and raises the probability of breakouts.
Risk 02
IP Access
Secured through preferential CAA & top-agency relationships at the development stage, plus ZQ's active, highly selective in-house origination.
Risk 03
Completion Risk
Industry-standard completion bonds and comprehensive insurance on every project mitigate capital exposure arising from on-set or logistical disruptions.
Risk 04
Production Fees
By participating across the value chain, a significant portion of capital is recouped through fees before profit participation — potentially reducing effective investment exposure by up to 50%.
Management & Advisory
The operators behind the platform
Petr Jákl
Chief Media Manager
25+ yrs
In motion picture production — director, producer, IP developer
10×
Czech national judo champion · 2000 Sydney Olympian
$400M+
Cumulative production budgets managed · $100M+ raised
40+
IP assets · $20M+ development portfolio contributed to APEX
Petr Jákl is a Czech director, producer and writer who came to filmmaking through elite sport and stunt work. A ten-time national judo champion and Judo World Cup winner, he represented the Czech Republic at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and holds a master’s degree from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports at Charles University in Prague. He entered the industry as a stuntman and actor on international productions including xXx, Bad Company and Alien vs. Predator.
As a director he has set records in his home market twice over: his debut thriller Kajínek (2010) took the highest opening weekend in Czech box-office history, and Ghoul (2015) became the highest-grossing Czech horror film. His historical action drama Medieval (2022), starring Ben Foster and Michael Caine, is the most expensive Czech production ever mounted, reached #2 on Netflix globally and won best feature at the Top Film Awards.
On the production side he works with studio-level talent and financiers — partnering with Sam Raimi on Locked and collaborating across a slate that includes Russell Crowe, Nicolas Cage, Anthony Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson and Al Pacino. Through his strategic partnership with ZQ Entertainment, run by former CAA agent Ara Keshishian, he originates and develops the IP that the platform contributes to the fund.
