3 The FilmThe Investor Needs to Know the Whole Story
We have a lot of respect for the fact that you can’t make movies without money and that when money comes to the table, that money deserves to have a place in the process as much as anything else in the film-making equation.
—PRODUCER ANTHONY RUSSO
PROJECT SCOPE
If you make good films, investors will come. Everything starts with the story. Over the years, one thing has not changed. To quote the former head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), “A movie-maker’s single indispensable asset—as elementally essential now as it was in the Golden Years—is the Story.”
While the industry is going through many technological changes, who knew a silent film ...
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