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The Producer's Business Handbook: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer Paperback – 1 November 2010

by John J. Lee Jr. (Author), Anne Marie Gillen (Author)
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all related aspects of global production and exploitation with this revised and updated handbook.

With The Producer's Business Handbook as a guide, you'll learn to create the relationships that the most successful producers have with the various participants in the motion picture industry-this guide provides a global view of how producers direct their relationships with domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors.

You get a thorough orientation to operating production development and single-purpose production companies. You'll also become familiar with the team roles needed to operate these companies, and learn how to attach and direct them. For those outside the US, also included is information on 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 website (www.focalpress.com/cw/leejr-9780240814636/)--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.

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  2. Language
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    Routledge
  4. Publication date
    1 November 2010
  5. Dimensions
    17.78 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0240814630
  7. ISBN-13
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This is the single best work on financing independent films. The landscape of the film business is changing rapidly and this is one of the only books addressing one of the most difficult aspects- financing. There is more to financing a film than developing a business plan and this book shows the practical, in-depth information, efficiently written and presented. -Don Smith, Associate Chair & Associate Professor, Film & Video Department, Columbia College

It is so sharply focused and so easy to digest, I am going to make it the official textbook for my online course in independent film marketing and sales across all platforms. -Sydney Levine, SydneysBuzz on IndieWIRE and IMDb, Online Instructor: UCLA Extension

This is a timely book, detailing a proven method for success and providing relevant data for both investors and filmmakers. -Jillian Alexander, MBA, CM&AA, CHRC,Managing Director, Corporate Development & Strategy, Conduit Consulting LLC, Former VP-Corporate Development, SONY Pictures Entertainment and member SONY US Ventures team

In show business, everyone is in love with the show, but it's the business of making significant money that turns on the big boys and girls inside the tent. Learn what they already know by reading this new edition. -Steve Ecclesine, Independent Producer (12 motion pictures and more than 700 television episodes)

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This is the single best work on financing independent films. The landscape of the film business is changing rapidly and this is one of the only books addressing one of the most difficult aspects- financing. There is more to financing a film than developing a business plan and this book shows the practical, in-depth information, efficiently written and presented. -Don Smith, Associate Chair & Associate Professor, Film & Video Department, Columbia College

It is so sharply focused and so easy to digest, I am going to make it the official textbook for my online course in independent film marketing and sales across all platforms. -Sydney Levine, SydneysBuzz on IndieWIRE and IMDb, Online Instructor: UCLA Extension

This is a timely book, detailing a proven method for success and providing relevant data for both investors and filmmakers. -Jillian Alexander, MBA, CM&AA, CHRC,Managing Director, Corporate Development & Strategy, Conduit Consulting LLC, Former VP-Corporate Development, SONY Pictures Entertainment and member SONY US Ventures team

In show business, everyone is in love with the show, but it's the business of making significant money that turns on the big boys and girls inside the tent. Learn what they already know by reading this new edition. -Steve Ecclesine, Independent Producer (12 motion pictures and more than 700 television episodes)

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 3rd edition (1 November 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0240814630
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0240814636
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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John J. Lee Jr.

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John successfully led the vision, launch and/or expansion of several entertainment and media entities and provided business, funding and distribution services for scores of major studio released motion pictures, television network series and specials, with combined production costs of over $470 million and global rights earnings exceeding $4 billion.

John is an author, teacher, global media and entertainment executive, director, producer and screenwriter. His book, "The Producer's Business Handbook" is published by Focal Press in multiple languages, used by film schools the world over, is a standard professional media reference. Its fourth edition is being prepared for release at the American Film Market 2015.

His passions are his family, writing, producing, new technologies, studying, teaching and surfing.

John began his career in 1968 as a business consultant with the NCR Corporation. John executive produced his first motion picture in 1976 and in 1977 became Business Affairs Vice President for global motion picture sales company Howard Goldfarb Distribution and subsequently in the same position for Heart Entertainment. John led multiple new media companies including the direct broadcast satellite entity Impression Delivery Corporation (acquired by CapCities) and ad sales for Times Mirror Cable Television (acquired by Cox Communications).

In 1996, he accepted a full time faculty position at BYU's Film School, where he initiated their Business of Film curriculum.

In 1999 John founded and served as CEO Entertainment Business Group, a motion picture global finance, distribution and business services entity. (acquired by The Gillen Group).

In 2004, John became the co-founder and CEO of iCommunication Dynamics, LLC, an Internet television technology entity, whose i.TV concept and domain were acquired by i.TV.

In 2008, he became Dean of Whistling Woods International, an ultra-modern international film school in Asia, helping it to become a top ten film school globally and Asia's largest film school.

In 2011 John set-up Entertainment Strategy, through which he develops, produces and globally exploits entertainment.

John is a founder of The San Diego Repertory Theatre, author of fiction and non fiction books, magazine and news articles.

John also helps his wife rescue eager, able, but destitute women and children, providing them education and other means to become self sufficient cultural bridge builders.

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Andrew
5.0 out of 5 stars What distributors want to see.
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Brad Aisa
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for anyone in film business, including writers
Reviewed in the United States on 4 November 2017
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Fantastic book! I'm mostly reading from a screenwriter's perspective, but it gave me tremendous insight into the motion picture production process, especially all the work that needs to take place during development and pre-production. I especially liked the detailed exposition of the many sales markets, and how the deals are developed for those, and on what timeframes. Anyone who is a low-budget producer, and wants to maximize your chances of actually making money from your film and having it distributed needs to read this book--if you only focus on making the film, you will be setting yourself up for failure. And writers too should gain an understanding of the many hurdles encountered during development, and cast their eyes towards the whole process, as they are developing their script.
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Kris
1.0 out of 5 stars Not for iPad
Reviewed in Germany on 9 September 2012
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I have bought many ebooks and read them on my iPad, but this is the first one with a terrible layout. I started reading and the first pages were written in bold and the captions were overdimensional. I scrolled a few pages forward where the font was normal again but when I scrolled to the beginning the font was bold again, even the page I saw before. I get very annoyed reading the text in bold font and wish I could return it to buy the real book. It wouldn't have hurt so much if the kindle price would have been lower. I don't know who is responsible for the ebook version but it should definitely be tested before it is sold.
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Marko P. Joensuu
5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to get your film to production get this
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2011
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This might not be the last book I'll read on film production but I wish it would have been the first. It has given me a road map over a terrain that might be difficult to cross over - the indie version of the development hell - but with the instructions of this book the impossible has become reachable. Rather than giving tips on how to get a film produced, the writers begin from the end goal - how to get your film distributed. It is distribution that secures production and not the other way around. This book has opened my eyes, and I believe that it will save me a lot of time in future. It is no academic treatment nor a scatter gun perspective but gives structured approach on how to work out a realistic business plan that doesn't only work on paper but can work in reality. If you want to produce, buy this book. It will turn out to be your best investment ever - at least, in the area of film.
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