>>745 A few lawyerly thoughts on the new company.

The one he shares with HBC has to do with his home. Basically you can have a building, or in his case a compound, where the owners each have a long lease of their apartment, but also have a share in the company which owns the freehold. The company will make decisions about work to common areas such as the roof. It is not identical to a co-op in terms of legal structure but that is the nearest equivalent and it serves the same basic purpose.

The one we linked to previously is a tax efficiency company. It had over £300k of assets which says to me Marvel etc pays that company for his services and the company then pays him a dividend. As a company can decide when to pay a dividend he can smooth his income across several tax years which is more efficient.

All his tax needs would be dealt with by that company, so my guess is that the new company is an actual production company. This is supported by the identity of the other director and shareholder, which is a company that is in turn owned by two other guys, one of whom is a director of what looks like a TV production company. There is also no tax benefit (and an active disadvantage!) to distributing your income through a company that has another shareholder, because if you pay yourself a dividend the other guy has to get one too! So my guess is that he is looking outside acting with this new company.