If you have ever made a YouTube video or played around with your home camera and have considered the production of a film, How to Make Money Making Movies is for you. All the ins and outs, benefi ts and terrors of making independent movies and the industry make for a humorous and sometimes outrageously opinionated book. Learn how the distribution of one of the world's most glamorous industries works and how best to succeed in it. Go through the film making process from story development to movie release and avoid the pit falls most film makers fall into. These are the realities of the business where the show must go on.
This book is about the practical realities of the film market today and how to make a film while minimizing financial risk.
In this groundbreaking book, leading economist Steven Levitt—Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal for the economist under 40 who has made the ...
For in this book, Sidney Lumet, one of our most consistently acclaimed directors, gives us both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture.
The writers of Reno 911! and several other feature films trace their haphazard experiences in the movie industry, revealing the process through which they worked on script development with executives and stars, pacified exploitative ...
Moran, Albert. (1996) 'Terms for a Reader'. Film Policy. Ed. Albert Moran. London: Routledge. 1–20. Moran, Albert. (1998) Copycat TV: Globalisation, Program Formats and Cultural Identity. Luton: University of Luton Press.
Designed for would-be filmmakers of all experience levels, this book explains how to make a good, commercially successful, low-budget movie in the current multi-million dollar Hollywood climate.
Indie Record Net Profits Deal (Scenario 2) (Phone Call) RECORD COMPANY EXECUTIVE: As you know, we're an indie label and our deals are net profit split agreements which are different from your standard record deal.
He came away with a unique understanding of adaptations--an understanding he shares in this book: which stories make good source material (and why); what Hollywood wants (and doesn't); what you can (and can't) get in a movie deal; how to ...
The very first step by step instruction manual on how to make money making movies.
A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, Best Pick provides a decade-by-decade look at the Oscars by examining the Best Picture winners, highest-grossing films, and biggest misses alongside a ...