Digital Domain Heads for Auction amid Lawsuit, Grave Concerns

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Textor negotiated $135 million in public incentives for his company to build an animation studio in Port St. Lucie and a film school in West Palm Beach. Textor resigned this month, and the company closed the studio and the school, marking the largest-ever failure in Florida’s two-decade cash-for-jobs program.

Digital Domain last month hired Michael Katzenstein of West Palm Beach-based FTI Consulting to take over operations. According to a bankruptcy document filed this week, Katzenstein found a company in a “liquidity crisis.”

“The company was insanely cash-flow negative,” Katzenstein said. “… it was … every business day burning about $460,000 in employee costs that it couldn’t pay, and roughly $250,000 a day of other costs it couldn’t pay.”

The company asked the bankruptcy court to set aside $350,000 in a “key employee incentive plan” that would provide a bonus pool for a successful sale of Digital Domain’s assets. The document identifying the recipients of the money was sealed.







Comments


When will Textor give back the $16M salary he claimed for himself as the company was "teetering"?

Anonymous (not verified) | Wed, 09/26/2012 - 08:22 | Permalink

Textor needs to roast for this one. I hope for once....just once....a slimy executive gets what he deserves at the end of all this. And thats *not* a golden parachute.

Lynch Mob (not verified) | Sun, 09/23/2012 - 09:54 | Permalink

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