The Gold Coast film production company behind a Queensland-shot 2023 film featuring Hollywood heavyweights is in voluntary administration, owing more than $7m to creditors.
Quirky Wars Pty Ltd, helmed by Gold Coast producer Carmel Imrie, was the special purpose production company behind film director Luke Sparke’s 2023 crime thriller Bring Him to Me, featuring Australian screen royalty Rachel Griffiths and Hollywood star Sam Neill.
It also produced Mr Sparke’s more recent horror/thriller offering Scurry, which is yet to be released.
But a $2.089m debt owed to Canada-based Sean Virgin and Martin Walton, who worked as producers on Bring Him to Me, is threatening to sink the venture.
The pair, listed on Nova Scotian company records as directors of NS 4321737 Ltd, applied to the Victorian Supreme Court to wind up Quirky Wars on July 16 after issuing a statutory demand for $1.2m.
Ms Imrie placed the company in voluntary administration shortly afterwards on July 21.
A report on company activities filed by Ms Imrie shows the company holds $32,500 in assets and owes $7.3m to creditors, $1.5m of which is claimed by related companies.
This week, Ms Imrie, Mr Sparke, and his wife Carly Sparke (nee Imrie) were preparing for the…