NASDAQ told the beleagured independent movie production company yesterday that it’s concerned about possible violations of its rules regarding notification of new share issuance — and the requirement for investors to approve new securities that could represent more than 20% of the voting shares. The market also has questions about Seven Arts‘ proxy statement. Company CEO Peter Hoffman says he was “surprised” by NASDAQ’s decision “for what we viewed as technical issues.” NASDAQ’s position could change if Seven Arts complies with the notification rules. “We will make all additional disclosures requested by NASDAQ and remain confident that the actions taken at the stockholders’ meeting were pursuant to our articles, bylaws and Nevada Law,” Hoffman says. “We will be appealing any decision to de-list the Company’s common stock.” Seven Arts reported that it lost $1.59M in Q1, vs its $973,034 loss in the period last year, on revenues of $187,793, down 31%. The company’s shares are down 88.8% in 2012, and 96% for the last 12 months.


No surprise. Even a cursory check of the CEO’s background will reveal that there’s a history of questionable behavior. And I use “questionable” as a courtesy.
Who on earth would buy any shares of a film company owned and operated by peter hoffman? Who on earth would be surprised when that company loses all its money, is engaged in serial litigation around the globe, and then stops trading?
Of course the shares will be delisted. The shares were sold for dollars, then can be repurchased for a penny after delisting. Classic.
Quite possible that there is a major Fraud that has occurred here. I did a search of the failed UK company and these were the directors of Seven Arts Pictures Plc that went into Liquidation implicated in Asset Transfer Fraud.
Peter Hoffman
Kate Hoffman
Julia Verdin
Elaine New
Anthony Hickox
Anthony Gibbs
Simon Davies
Michael Garstin
First the UK company goes into liquidation, they sell all the assets at under vale to Seven Arts Entertainment, then change the name of their US company from Seven Arts Pictures Inc to Seven Arts Entertainment Inc. Obviously they didnt want to be associated with the failed UK company they had just ditched.
Does anyone know more about this?