Correspondence 0001493152-23-037085 from American Picture House Corp (APHP)
American Picture House Corp
Date: Oct. 12, 2023 · CIK: 0001771995 · Accession: 0001493152-23-037085
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File numbers found in text: 000-56586
Referenced dates: October 3, 2023
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American
Picture House Corporation
555
Madison Avenue 5FL New York, NY 10022
October
12, 2023
Re:
American
Picture House Corp
Amendment
No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form 10-12G
Filed
September 22, 2023
File
No. 000-56586
To
Whom it may Concern:
American
Picture House Corporation (the “Company” or “APH”) is in receipt of your comment letter dated October 3, 2023
regarding the above referenced filing. As requested in your letter, we have provided responses to the questions raised by the staff.
For your convenience, the matters are listed below, followed by the Company’s responses:
Risk
Factors
Risks
Related to the Company’s Common Shares, page 13
1.
We reissue
comment 5. Revise to include a risk factor discussing the different authorized classes of stock, including the nature of the disparate
voting rights, number of votes per share to which each class is entitled and the potential dilution to common stock holders upon conversion
of the Series A preferred stock.
Response:
We
have added risk factors discussing the different authorized classes of stock, including language
to state the nature of the disparate voting rights, number of votes per share to which each
class is entitled and the potential dilution to common stock holders upon conversion of the
Series A preferred stock on page 13.
Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Results of Operations
Three
Months Ended June 30, 2023 Compared to Three Months Ended June 30, 2022 General and Administrative Expenses, page 19
2.
Please revise
your discussion in MD&A to explain the circumstances that resulted in your determination that the collection of $193,932 from a
customer is uncertain or improbable, consistent with your response to comment 7.
Response:
As
requested, we have added language describing the determination as to why the collection of approximately $194,000 from the customer
has been deemed improbable.
Board
of Directors, page 31
3.
We note your
revised disclosure in response to comment 9 and reissue our comment. Revise to specifically identify each director that is independent
under the independence standards applicable to you. Refer to Item 407(a)(1) of Regulation S-K. In this regard, we note that you have
only identified the independent directors on each committee, but you have not clearly identified all independent directors on the board
as a whole.
Response:
Language
identifying the Independent Directors has been added to page 31.
Executive
Compensation, page 32
4.
We note your
revised disclosure in response to comment 10 and reissue our comment. Revise to include the disclosure required by Item 402(m)-(r)
of Regulation S-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. In this regard, it appears you have only described the compensation
payable in fiscal year 2023. Also ensure that your disclosure includes the tables and narrative disclosure required by Regulation S-K.
To the extent no compensation was paid to directors or officers in 2022, so state.
Response:
Per Item
402(m)-(r) of Regulation S-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, the compensation of the CEO has been included on page 32.
As no other officer had compensation of over $100,000, the CEO is the only officer listed.
Statement
of Operations for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2023, page 44
5.
We note that
you restated your statements of operations in response to comment 15. Please identify the financial statements as “restated”
and provide the disclosures required under ASC 250-10-50 with respect to the correction of an error, as applicable.
Response:
We have
updated the Statements of Operations (page 44 and 57). Additionally, we have included in note 2 (page 47 & 60) a restatement of
previously issued financial statements.
Report
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, page 55
6.
We reissue
comment 14 in part, since you continue to provide two audit reports on pages 42 and 55 of your filing. Please remove one of these audit
reports and ensure that the audit report provided is properly dated. Also, in light of your restatement in response to comment 15,
please obtain an audit report that includes an explanatory paragraph stating that the previously issued financial statements have been
restated for the correction of a error and makes reference to the disclosure of the correction of the error in the notes to the financial
statements. Refer to paragraphs 9-10 and 16-17 of AS 2820.
Response:
The audit
report on page 42 was removed and an explanatory paragraph has been included as requested (page 55).
Notes
to the Financial Statements for the Years Ending December 31, 2022 and 2021 Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page
60
7.
We note your
response to comment 17 but are unable to locate the disclosures referenced in your response. Please tell us where you provided your
accounting policy for stock- based compensation as previously requested in comment 17.
Response:
We have
added disclosures related to stock based compensation (pages 50 and 65) as requested.
Produced
and Licensed Content Costs, page 61
8.
Please revise
the disclosure you provided in response to comment 19 to identify the caption in the income statement where the amortization of production
costs is recorded.
Response:
Disclosure has been revised as requested
(page 63).
Assigned
Rights to the Feature Film, Buffaloed, page 64
9.
Please revise
the disclosures you provided in response to comment 18 to quantify the fair value of the assets acquired and the consideration incurred
under the arrangement. To the extent the consideration is contingent, also disclose if and how such consideration is remeasured.
Response:
Disclosure as to quantification of fair
value of asset has been added (page 64).
Revenues
and Costs from Services and Products, page 64
10.
The disclosure
you provided in response to comment 22 appears to only describe your revenue recognition policy for consulting services. Please revise
this disclosure to also describe how you account for revenues from licensing and distribution of film and other entertainment rights.
Response:
Revenue recognition policy has been
included on page 64.
11.
We reissue
comment 23 as you did not appear to address it. Where you state that “a majority of the consulting services were performed by
management and members of the Board of Directors with no separate compensation due or payable to these individuals,” describe
if and how you measure and allocate their labor to the cost of revenues.
Response:
We revised
the note to provide greater clarity regarding allocation of consulting services and have notated that in this case it has been deemed
as immaterial.
Note
6 - Equity, page 68
12.
Please revise
your disclosure to quantify the liquidation preference as previously requested under comment 25.
Response:
Language quantifying the liquidation
preference has been included on page 68.
Sincerely,
American
Picture House
By:
/s/
Bannor Michael MacGregor
Name:
Bannor
Michael MacGregor
Title:
Chief
Executive Officer