In March, Participant announced a co-financing deal with Tapestry Films to produce "Minimum Wage", a comedy about a corrupt corporate executive sentenced to live for a year on a minimum wage salary. It was not produced. A month later, the company announced it and Groundswell Productions were co-financing "The Informant!", a comedy directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon about the lysine price-fixing conspiracy at Archer Daniels Midland in the mid-1990s. July saw Participant set up a co-financing deal with three other studios to produce "The Colony", an eco-horror film. It, too, was never produced.