Stockholders' Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Equity [Abstract]

Stockholders' Equity

Note 16 – Stockholders’ Equity

Amendment to Authorized Shares

On June 30, 2022, the shareholders of the Company approved an increase in the total authorized shares from 100,000,000 to 200,000,000, comprised of 140,000,000 million shares of Class A common stock, 20,000,000 share of Class B common stock and 40,000,000 shares of preferred stock, of which, 10,000,000 are classified as Series A preferred stock.

Treasury Stock

On February 28, 2022, the Board of Directors increased the total authorization under the Company’s stock repurchase program by $10,000,000 to $30,000,000. At September 30, 2022, the Company had $3,474,300 of authorization remaining under the stock repurchase program. During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company repurchased 1,410,036 shares of Class A Common Stock at an average price of $9.90.

Common Stock Issuance for Redbox Merger

On August 11, 2022, the Company acquired all the outstanding equity interests of Redbox. In conjunction with the merger, the Company issued 4,662,195 shares of its Class A common stock. See Note 4 for additional information.

At the Market Offering

During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company completed the sale of an aggregate of 295,173 shares of Series A preferred stock, generating net proceeds of $7,116,965.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company completed the sale of an aggregate of 332,734 shares of Class A common stock, generating net proceeds of $3,339,883.

Common Stock Private Placement

On January 20, 2021, the Company completed a private placement of 1,022,727 shares of common stock at a price of $22.00 per common share, generating net proceeds of $21,374,994.

Subsidiary Convertible Preferred Stock

The subsidiary convertible preferred stock represented the equity attributable to the noncontrolling interest holder as a part of the Crackle Plus business combination. Given the terms of the transaction, the noncontrolling interest holder had the right to convert their Preferred Units in Crackle Plus into Common Units representing common ownership of 49% in Crackle Plus or into Series A Preferred Stock of the Company.

On January 13, 2021, the Company issued 1,600,000 shares of its Series A Preferred Stock to CPEH pursuant to the Put Option granted to CPEH under the JV Operating Agreement, as amended. The Put Option was exercised on December 14, 2020. The Company had the option to elect to pay cash in lieu of issuing Series A Preferred Stock. The Company elected to satisfy the Put Option entirely through the issuance of Series A Preferred Stock. As a result of CPEH’s exercise of the Put Option, the Company now owns 100% of Crackle Plus.

Noncontrolling Interests

Noncontrolling interests represent an equity interest in consolidated subsidiaries, including CSS AVOD, Locomotive Global and Landmark Studio Group. On March 3, 2022, the Company purchased the remaining equity interest in Landmark Studio Group in exchange for 84,000 shares of Class A common stock and $2,200,000, of which $1,450,000 is payable two years from the acquisition date. The purchase increased the Company’s ownership in Landmark Studio Group from 78.5% to 100%.

Warrants

Warrant activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 is as follows:

							Weighted
					Weighted		Average
					Average		Remaining
	Outstanding			Outstanding	Exercise		Contract
Warrants	at December 31, 2021	Issued	Exercised	at September 30, 2022	Price		Term (Yrs.)
Class W	526,362	—	—	526,362	$	7.50	0.75
Class Z	123,109	—	—	123,109		12.00	1.75
CSSE Class I	800,000	—	—	800,000		8.13	1.62
CSSE Class II	1,200,000	—	—	1,200,000		9.67	1.62
CSSE Class III-A	380,000	—	—	380,000		11.61	1.62
CSSE Class III-B	1,620,000	—	—	1,620,000		11.61	1.62
HPS	—	1,011,530	(1,011,530)	—		—	—
Redbox Public (CSSEL) (1)	—	1,039,183	—	1,039,183		132.18	4.07
Redbox Private (1)	—	339,065	—	339,065		132.18	4.07
Total	4,649,471	2,389,778	(1,011,530)	6,027,719	$	30.54	2.11

(1) The number of warrants is shown on an as converted basis based on exchange ratio of 0.087, the gross warrants are 11,944,627 public and 3,897,303 private.

In connection with the HPS Credit Agreement, we issued HPS and affiliates a five-year warrant (“Credit Facility Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,011,530 shares of our Class A common stock, at a per-share exercise price of $0.0001. All the Credit Facility Warrants were exercised in September 2022.

Warrants Classified as Liabilities

In connection with the merger of Redbox, the Company assumed all of Redbox’s 15,841,930 outstanding Public and Private Placement Warrants.

The Redbox warrants prior to assumption had entitled the holder to purchase one whole share of Redbox Class A common stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment. As a result of the mergers and adjustment caused thereby, 11.494 warrants (the “Per Share Warrant Requirement”) are required to purchase one whole share of Company Class A common stock at an aggregate exercise price of $132.18 per share, subject to adjustment. This was calculated by dividing the pre-merger $11.50 per-share exercise price of the Redbox warrants by the 0.087 Exchange Ratio. No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the warrants, with shares of Company Class A common stock issued upon exercise of such warrants rounded up to nearest whole share based on the total shares of Company Class A common stock being exercised and, subject to the Per Share Warrant Requirement.

The public warrants expire five years after issuance (October 24, 2026) or earlier upon redemption or liquidation

The Company may redeem the public warrants under the following conditions:

• In whole and not in part;

• At a price of $0.01 per warrant;

• Upon not less than 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption (the “30-day redemption period”) to each warrant holder; and

• if, and only if, the last reported sale price of the Company’s Class A common stock equals or exceeds $206.90 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the Company gives proper notice of such redemption and provided certain other conditions are met.

The redemption criteria discussed above prevent a redemption call unless there is at the time of the call a significant premium to the warrant exercise price. If the foregoing conditions are satisfied and the Company issues a notice of redemption of the warrants, each warrant holder will be entitled to exercise its warrant prior to the scheduled redemption

date. However, the price of the Company’s Class A common stock may fall below the $206.90 redemption trigger price (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) as well as the $132.18 warrant exercise price after the redemption notice is issued.

The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants, except that the Private Placement Warrants are exercisable on a cashless basis and are non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants.

As both the terms of the Private and Public warrants are substantively the same, the Company has determined to use the fair market value of the Public warrants to value all of the warrants. At the time of initial recording the warrants, they were valued at $2.52 per warrant or approximately $3,473,184. As of September 30, 2022 the fair market value of the warrants was $0.06 or $85,589. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recognized a gain of $3,387,595 on the change in fair value of the warrant liabilities in Other income (expense), net in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.