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| Commitments and Contingencies | Commitments and Contingencies The following is a schedule of future minimum cash contractual obligations as of December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
Leases
On January 30, 2019, the Company entered into an operating lease for 5,838 square feet of general office space at 190 N. Canon Drive, Suite 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 pursuant to a 96-month lease that commenced on August 1, 2019. The Company pays rent of $0.4 million annually, subject to annual escalations of 3.5%.
On February 1, 2021, as part of the acquisition of Beacon Communications, the Company assumed an operating lease that was entered into on May 19, 2019 for 6,845 square feet of general office space located at 245 Fairview Mall Drive, Suites 202 and 301, Toronto, Ontario M2J 4T1 pursuant to an 84-month lease which commenced on October 1, 2019. The Company pays rent of $95,830 annually, subject to annual escalations of 5% to 7%.
On March 2, 2021, the Company entered into an operating lease for 4,765 square feet of general office space located at 1050 Wall Street West, Suite 665, Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 pursuant to an 89-month lease which commenced on October 1, 2021. The Company paid rent of $115,154 annually, subject to annual escalations of 2.5%. Effective August 1, 2023, the Company terminated the lease.
On April 6, 2022, as part of the Wow acquisition, the Company assumed an operating lease for 45,119 square feet of general office space located at 2025 West Broadway, Suite 200, Vancouver, B.C., V6J 1Z6 which had a remaining lease term of 117 months and payments of $81,769 per month, subject to escalations of 7% each of the third and fifth years. In addition, the Company also assumed a parking lease for 80 parking spaces which had a remaining lease term of 117 months and payments of $6,091 per month. Effective November 1, 2023, the Vancouver office lease was modified to include rent concessions and rent payment deferrals. The landlord granted an abatement of CAD 0.2 million for the rent payments on November 1, 2023, and December 1, 2023. Additionally, rent payments from January to April 1, 2024, totaling CAD 0.4 million, will be deferred. The Company will repay the deferred amount through 8 equal payments of CAD 0.1 million, starting on May 1, 2024.
Also, as part of the Wow acquisition, the Company assumed various equipment finance leases, the majority of which are under equipment lease financing arrangements with certain banking institutions and had remaining lease terms of 10-33 months and monthly payments of $1,346-$57,362.
The present value discount of the minimum operating lease payments above was $3.3 million which when deducted from the cash commitments for the leases included in the table above, equates to the lease liabilities of $7.6 million recorded as of December 31, 2023 on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.
Other Funding Commitments
The Company enters into various agreements associated with its individual properties. Some of these agreements call for the potential future payment of royalties or “profit” participations for either (i) the use of third party intellectual property, in which the Company is obligated to share net profits with the underlying rights holders on a certain basis as defined in the respective agreements, or (ii) services rendered by animation studios, post-production studios, writers,
directors, musicians or other creative talent for which the Company is obligated to share with these service providers a portion of the net profits of the properties on which they have rendered services, as defined in each respective agreement.
Litigation
The Company is not a party to any material legal proceedings and is not aware of any material pending or threatened claims except for those cases described in Part I Item 3 Legal Proceedings within this Annual Form 10-K. From time to time however, the Company may be subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business activities.
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