The Producer's Business Handbook, 2nd Edition

Foreword

“The play’s the thing,” according to Shakespeare. Please note that the bard did not wax poetic about how the play was paid for or marketed, or whether, at the end of the day, the investors made a dime. If the play’s the thing, the business part of the play is the “other thing.” Understanding business ultimately determines if we get to stick around and enjoy a profitable career at the Dream Factory.

This new edition of John Lee’s incomparable book is a sophisticated and practical guide for filmmakers and potential investors that reveals the unique business disciplines followed by a group of independent film companies that enables them to finance every picture they develop, distribute every picture they produce, assure each picture’s profitability, ...