Investment banker client wants to set up a film fund.

The band might make it in 25.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48516985)

Working on a deal for the UK, my upfront fee for that sale will wind up being b/w $50-65k.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48554750)

Two days ago, it looked like I was gonna lose the film. I might’ve just pulled a rabbit out of a hat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48808806)

Pacino seems a good get

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48516986)

I'm not sure what the last non-shtick role of his was--it's gotta be like 30 years by now. De Niro mostly just does shtick now too but he still has some great work in him like Silver Linings Playbook

Regardless, it's 180 that one of ARE POASTERS will be working with a Hollywood icon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48516993)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48548666)

Katie Holmes too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48516994)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48516989)

We've pre-sold a few key territories before production to help finance the production budget. Those folks put up an advance or a minimum guarantee that we can bank and take out a production loan against. So the upside is a bit capped in that before we make more money in those territories the distributor has to recoup their advance / MG.

We have 5 or 6 secured sales. Now that I'm closing the last $500k of the budget in equity to finance the rest, we're good, so I'll go to EFM and have more leverage selling out the remaining territories. Buyers will be easier to deal with as their risk is diffused and each secured territory means a more meaningful international marketing campaign which helps them all. So they'll begin to all fall into place and hopefully we have at least 3/4 of the world sold by the US launch. The rest usually sell shortly after.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48517037)

Al Pacino is to play a mafia boss in the new thriller 'Captivated'.The 84-year-old actor is to feature alongside Katie Holmes and Toby Kebbell in the film that is billed as a new take on the infamous kidnapping of John Paul Getty III in 1973.The picture centres on Calabrian mafia boss Saro (played by Kebbell and Pacino at different stages of his life) who kidnaps the grandson of one of the richest men in the world, Jean Paul Getty, and puts his organisation in danger when he develops romantic feelings for his victim's mother (Holmes) during the ransom negotiations.Michael Benaroya, Michael Mammoliti and Manasvi Mamgai are producing the movie for 32Red Entertainment and it is being launched for sales in Cannes by International Film Trust.Mammoliti is the nephew of one of the main kidnappers Saro Mammoliti and has spent years working on the project – even taking issue...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48519606)

xo pulling the hidden strings as always

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48523019)

i hear the international film sales world is BRUTAL these days

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48523556)

Int'l film sales is brutal if your film goes straight to platform/streamer in the US. If I REALLY have to, I can self-release domestically in the US and in the UK so can guarantee it will play on a few hundred screens at least...basically the bare minimum to justify a foreign distributor doing their own theatrical release. I won't take a streamer deal out of principle.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48539227)

Need $15m internationally to breakeven and get into black, full profitability (meaning when US domestic P&A is recouped by the big studio) likely $17m or so.

If theatrical doesn't have a strong showing, I have a dvd/est/home entertainment network I can eke out a few million in profit 12-18 months after initial release from.

Worst worst case scenario by year 3 I can grind away at license deals and force profitability if it's a total bomb (unlikely). Most producers tend to lose rights to their films, and after a few years those films' distribution aren't being managed as closely as they should be and those producers then tend to be distracted by their new projects so don't do anything about it. Since distribution is my thing, I get to make sure that doesn't happen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48539355)

who’s Pacino gonna be playing?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48554815)

Pacino plays the mob kidnapper in his older years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5658981&forum_id=2).#48554848)