The Producer's Business Handbook, Second Edition: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer (American Film Market Presents)

The Producer's Business Handbook provides a model for making a successful business of independent filmmaking. It will give you a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and supply you with the information and tools you'll need to successfully engage all related aspects of global production and exploitation. The handbook also provides a global orientation to the relationships that the most successful producers have with the various participants in the motion picture industry. This includes how producers direct their relationships with domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors. It provides a thorough orientation to operating production development and single purpose production companies, from solicitation of literary properties through direct rights sales, and the management of global distribution relationships. Also presented is an in-depth discussion of the team roles needed to operate these companies, as well as how to attach and direct them. For those outside of the US, this book also includes information about how to produce successful films without government funding.This edition has been updated to include comprehensive information on the internal greenlighting process, government financing, and determining actual cost-of-money. It includes new simplified project evaluation tools, expediting funding and distribution.Together with its companion CD-ROM, which contains valuable forms and spreadsheets; tutorials; and samples, this handbook presents both instruction and worksheet support to independent producers at all levels of experience. *New Expanded Edition with Internal Greenlight Materials*The only book to explain the business practices of the industry's small core of consistently profitable production companies*Features a robust interactive CD-ROM providing spreadsheets, forms ready for use, examples, and interactive tutorials Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "extremely valuable spreadsheets available nowhere else, including: the bank financing worksheet, the producer's share analysis and internal greenlight sunmmary, the development and production activity projection spreadsheet, the development and production cash flow projection worksheet, and more. This interactive CD-ROM also provides examples and exercises using the various worksheets provided."--Page 4 of cover Guide to the business aspects of motion picture production. Explains the business practices of the industry's small core of consistently profitable production companies. Interactive CD-ROM provides spreadsheets, forms ready for use, examples and interactive tutorials John J. Lee, Jr. And Rob Holt. Includes Index.