THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
For indie filmmakers there is a shell game that has existed since the beginning, we're talking long before the Island Pictures and Harvey-Harvey-Miramax days - it's the money and talent thing. The fact no one will give you money to make your project until you have a profitable director or acting talent attached and no profitable director or actor will attach to your project (rather their CAA agent won't allow them) until they see mean bunches of green in a bank account, enough at the very least to pay them.So what do you do? Crowd sourcing our not, the truth is it is a rare thing for an indie director/writer/producer to be handed a million dollars to go shoot a film with George Clooney, Angelina Jolie or Meryl Streep. Period. So what you often do is lie.
Yep. You tell the assistant who tells the agent who tells their client that there's money in the bank. At the same time you tell the production company and the potential distributor and of course the potential sales agent that the A- list actor's agent loves the script and is reading it now. Or better yet, that the A-list actor is "interested." Or yep, even better still, sometimes= you tell the big whopper and say the A-list actor wants to do it and is ready to attach.
Then you cross your fingers and hope that it all works out.
Most of the time it doesn't. Sometimes it does, but who's going to cop to the lying?
It's a frustrating game to be sure. Even more frustrating when you don't want to pick up a phone, schedule a meeting or sit down at a table and play it. It's a tough game when all you want to do is make your dang movie!
That said, we are now on the hunt for great talent. We are on the beg and plead search for the managers that are not too jaded, and the agents that have yet to grow too greedy, People that will read our not fully-funded script and tell their talented clients that they must-must-must work with us.
We'll keep you posted on how that goes.
WE ARE NOT ALONE
At our meetings at AFM everyone seemed interested in our project. Several articles the past two years reflect that same sentiment, the interest in projects targeting an older, broader audiences. During AFM THR reported on one such film sale. We are not alone!
SPENT TV: THE CLASSICS
Speaking of oldies, if you haven't checked out our CLASSICS section on the SPENT TV webnet. One of our viewer favorites is PORN KING - hold on, hold on, it's not what you think. You'll get a kick out of it's campy style and in fact - it's coming back bigger and better. LOL.
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