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SOME NEWS BUSINESS FROM CANNES, WITH CAPITAL COMPANIES AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS;...

There is a lot of money in the World for Independent Films, here is just one example; http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/cannes-cassian-elwes-robert-ogden-barnum-launch-e2b-capital/#more-502588 ”...

I’m presuming a lot by giving advice on this forum, but here it goes! Please don’t be offended, none was meant to occur. I know this is a very personal experience for everyone of you, and are there...

Christopher, good luck on getting your film financed! Thank for your candor! I hope everything goes well for you!

Anybody else with an equally number of “CANDID” stories? Or knowledge of other...

I got to thinking that asking people to talk about how they financed their last “Independent Movie” might be too personal a question. It would be like letting “THE-CAT-OUT-OF-THE-BAG”! One thing is...

Since we have a “World Wide Audience” here at RedUser.net it might be interesting to hear how “small budgets” or “big budges” Films were financed. What kind of experience did you have? I, mean 50,000...

I had some additional thoughts on what Christopher Mills had to say about cost and things you might have overlooked in a Film. HERE IS TIP! Budgeting is something that comes after a Script is...

Thank Christopher, I appreciate your concern, I’ve been doing this for a long time! I’m 71 years Old or Young depending how you look at-it. I went to film school in 1969-1970. I personally know most...

I had a friend that eventually went to live in “Fiji”; he got the connection from one or both the airlines that land in Fiji on the way to Australia and New Zealand. He made “pasta” from a machine he...

Money is the “Live Blood” if filmmaking, so it stands to reason that there would be a seminar on how to raise “Money”! In each and every event around the Globe! Even if at the bare-minimum, you need...

This morning I went to a Costa Rican Cine Expo. It was interesting seeing how much influence the “Culture of Hollywood” affects the Whole World. There were PAINTINGS of frames from Hollywood Films,...

Terry, the estimates round very large numbers, whether it’s 50,000 or 549, or any number in between, it’s a lot no matter how you look at it! All those investors, all the actors, all the Filmmakers,...

ACCORDING TO STEVEN SODERBERGH; “In 2003, 455 films were released. 275 of those were independent, 180 were studio films. LAST YEAR 677 FILMS WERE RELEASED. So you’re not imagining things, there are a...

I was thinking out loud, how can we make the film that we want, but at the same time find a Distributor, or do-it our self’s. I’m ASSUMING a few things; we need a realistic budget, say maybe...

Thank Dan Hudgins, well said, especially the part; ”Some might think that a good film is one that makes the most money over its cost. Some might think that a good film is one that shows long after...

I remember with fondness Arthur Knight, the film critic who taught a very poplar class at USC Cinema back in the early 70s. He always had interesting guest, they generally came from the various...

I guess the current “Paramount & MGM Law Suite”, are just part of an the endless Law Suits that go on in Hollywood as part of “just-doing-business”, it’s when they get close to the how the “Hollywood...

Paramount & MGM Sued; http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/paramount-mgm-sued-by-g-i-joe-writers-for-23m/#more-491363 I guess the Major Distributer Go to court for any worthwhile reason that affects their...

I was thinking! People like; Frank Capra, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Wells, Steven Spielberg, David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, William Wyler, Elia Kazan, Oliver Stone, Fred Zinnemann, John...

Terry VerHaar, I was reading you comment from the; “San Francisco International Film Festival recently where Ted Hope, Exec Director of the San Francisco Film Society, stated that 80% of filmmakers...

Marcos Montenegro, congratulations, you’re absolutely right, if you like it, SO WILL MANY OTHER PEOPLE. What a relive to NOT BE UNDER THE PRESSURE, AND EXPENSE OF A MOVIE STUDIO! Go-for-it, don’t...

Mike Most, I’ve always respected your post, they’ve been interesting and informative. I mostly agree with you. It’s on the obscure cost, such as adverting, and other unambiguous cost, as well as such...

Elsie, I could not agree with you more! You’re absolutely right about Steven Soderbergh. The Studios have a way getting into your profits so you never see them. The Accounts and Lawyers’ are making...

Paul Herrin, at first I thought, “I’m not going to respond because of our last encountered did not go to well for either one of us”, but then I thought, let bygones, be bygones. Paul when I say the...

Studios have a DISADVANTAGE, they are always behind the “Eight-Ball” when it comes to predicting the FUTURE, and they make bad deals on their rush to make a QUICK PROFIT. It takes them a while to get...