Our goal producing today should be to get our movies MADE well, SEEN widely, and COMPENSATED fairly.
We need to support all four legs: Artists, Audiences, Industry, and Investors.
The best thing we can do is to make sure that investors receive a risk appropriate return.
Check out all the details in this video (never mind the pretty flowers):
Yup. I will tell some great tales, read a few passages, answer a lot of questions, and distribute some free gifts. All this and more this Friday evening. At Book Soup. 7p. 8818 Sunset Blvd. See you there!
I have great HOPE for what is happening right now in the film business. I recently wrote about it for The Hollywood Reporter. Check it out here.
It is a rich topic, and we need to think about it far more than we — the filmmaking community — do. Here’s a start:
1. There is very little development funding of scripts. Consequently directors are encouraged to develop their own material. Generally this encourages a focus on personal stories, stories based on experience, and thus we get character dramas first and foremost.
One of the many signs I encountered on my morning path today: pic.twitter.com/X7v11HRwn9
— Ted Hope (@TedHope) October 15, 2014
It’s Buster’s birthday. Celebrate it with this:
Whatever time you have to give today, tomorrow, this weekend, lend an ear to this interview I did in Toronto with David Poland for his DP/30 series.
I explain why I have taken a hiatus from project producing, why I went to Fandor, and what we are truly capable of building now — in pretty specific detail.
