The Producer's Business Handbook, 4th Edition

Chapter 12Development Financing

Introduction

This chapter discusses the purposes of development financing, the methods and resources to secure it.

The Essential Power of Funded Development

Most producers have a solid understanding about the activities, schedules, and resources required to produce a motion picture. However, the activities, schedules, and resources necessary to complete a project’s development often raise more questions than answers. For example, is each “go” project charged a portion of the overhead to story-search that include reading scripts and listening to pitches that led to the discovery of that project’s story? And what of a project’s final development activities and expenses that are clearly major production expenses? ...