5 Top Reasons to Hire a Professional Line Producer to Create Your Film Budget
Here are the 5 top reasons to hire a professional line producer to create your film budget: 1. Film Financing To start with, you need film finance to produce your movie. Film financing begins with how much money you require. This needs to be an accurate number. Don’t mess around with templates, a sample film budget or online … Read more
VOD, Premium VOD, Pay Per View and the Film Budget
Let’s face it, the movie distribution landscape is changing and it is changing quickly now. The long, slow promise of digital distribution of content is well underway without question. For years the promise has been 10 years, 5 years and another 5 years. It has arrived clearly. In the nick of time … Read more
Co-Productions, Asia, Film Budgets and China
Update: Chinese media conglomerate launches $300 million fund to finance up to 15% of Hollywood tent-pole production film budget costs. Investment would grant China territorial rights for the film and require at least one Chinese talent to be involved. Wall Street is currently shopping the deal. Read the Reuters article. [ … Read more
Film Budgets Aided By Renewal of Section 181 Federal Film Tax Incentives
The most underrated and under-utilized but most advantageous film tax incentive for filmmakers film budgets was renewed on Friday with President Obama’s signing of the new tax laws. Movie producers can now be confident the equity investment in their film budgets will continue under the new Section 744 which extends Section 181 through the end … Read more
