I hope you’re having a great day so far, and for my US readers I hope you’re getting ready to enjoy a nice, long Thanksgiving holiday! . Speaking of Thanksgiving… today marks the start of our annual Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Cyber Monday FS membership promotion. . Basically, you can join for just $199/year (saving $100 of the regular $299 rate) […]
We’re in the home stretch of 2018 and timing-wise, there’s a mad rush to get projects packaged, or on the road to being packaged, in order to hit the ground running in 2019. . Personally I don’t use the holidays as an excuse to wait till January to start building momentum on projects because I’d be missing […]
As promised I’d like to give some final AFM take-aways but also, I plan to explore certain topics a bit deeper over the coming weeks as they deserve posts of their own….things like, attaching talent (to high and low budgets), building your team during development (who to hire and what to budget), dissecting back end […]
On Wednesday we left off talking about Day 1 & Pre-Game Analysis and I touched on the appeal of niche films in today’s marketplace…. and I want to pick up the discussion there today because this is an AFM trend this year that seems to be playing out in almost every deal that’s been announced so […]
I thought I’d kick off the series of AFM Dispatches today on Day 1 just to share a few quick tin-bits and impressions so far on this year’s market. . But first, I want to announce a special one week flash sale we’re doing on my Film Finance Essentials course which is soup to nuts […]
I hope you’re having a great week so far! . If you missed the last installment in my AFM series, you can check it out here – Positioning Your Indie Horror For A Sale. . But what about if you’re starting from scratch…. on something higher budget than micro or low budget, and thinking of bringing […]
I know many of you are in the thick of AFM outreach so wanted to address some observations I’ve had both from working with the FS Coaching Group and my Film Market Clients, as well as go over a ‘formula’ that seems to be working for everyone right now. . If you are at the script stage […]
With AFM coming up I’m getting a lot of people asking me if as a screenwriter you need a manager or agent to be able to submit your projects to production companies. . While it certainly can help in certain situations and particularly with the bigger companies, you can also skirt around this requirement by […]
Last week we left off talking about a shopping agreement for your series and I received some questions regarding budgeting and whether you need to worry about budgeting your series (or feature for that matter) before doing a shopping agreement with a producer. . The answer is, it depends…. . In one instance, I’m shopping […]
A couple months ago I put out a blog post on getting your series made via production partners and since then, I’ve had some questions about the deal making part of this…specifically, what do those deals look like? . We’ve also been working through a situation like this in the FS Coaching Group whereby a […]
