Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on assessing the role of Executive Producers. Author Jeremy Juuso is the founder of Jeremy Juuso Consulting, a firm specializing in the writing of film business proposals as well as educating investors on the basics of the movie business.
"Among the EP batches, films with at least one EP who had previously EP’d two or more films opened a bit better than those with less experienced EPs. (I excluded projects with no EP listed.) The projects with experienced EPs had a median opening weekend per screen average of $4,675, whereas the median for the less experienced EP group was $3,626."
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FOLLOW UP - Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on the demographics of 2010 TV pilot scripters. Author Neely Swanson is the former Senior Vice President of Development for David E. Kelley Productions and presently an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the writing division.
"Most of the Overall Deals go to writers who have created shows in the past, in hopes that lightning will strike twice, as it sometimes does. Again, of the 141 deals mentioned, 73 went to writers who had previously created series; and of those 73, 13 or 18% were women. I judged (and keep in mind, “hit show” is subjective) 33 of the remaining Overalls were given to writers to keep them working on shows that were important to the network or studio, of which women accounted for 8 or 24%."
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Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on Sundance 2010 assessments. Author Gary Rubin has over twenty years of experience in the motion picture and television businesses, having held an array of positions that cross the entire gamut of distribution, acquisitions/ production and management. Prior to forming First Independent Pictures, Rubin served as Executive Vice President, Sales and Acquisitions, for Artisan Entertainment.
"It’s the end of the decade, and that means two things: 1) we are about to be deluged by critics top ten lists for the year and 2) many of these critics will be doing Best of the Decade lists as well. How about a look back over the last ten years through a distributor’s eye?"
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Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on the demographics of 2010 TV pilot scripters. Author Neely Swanson is the former Senior Vice President of Development for David E. Kelley Productions and presently an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the writing division.
"Of the 66 pilots I documented, 13 pilots had at least one female writer as part of the “created by” team; however, of those 66 pilots, only 7 of them were written entirely by women. You can do the math yourself, but this works out to a high of 20% involvement by women when writing alone and/or with men; and just 11% when written by women without male participation."
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Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on Business Plans for Movies. Author Jeremy Juuso is the founder of Jeremy Juuso Consulting, a firm specializing in the writing of film business proposals as well as educating investors on the basics of the movie business.
"Well, if you are deciding on a specialty release in 2010 and don’t care about awards, a good starting point might be to explore holiday weekends. And if you do care about awards, take a look at November and December."
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SUNDANCE REPORTS
Take a look at these great Sundance related blogs recently added by Baseline Research’s contributing film industry professionals.
Past Notable Sundance Acquisitions (free white page download)
The Wisdom of Bringing A Film to Sundance
Films Debuting at Sundance
Make The Most Out of Attending Sundance
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Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on the shifting relationship between feature films and home entertainment. Author Ellen Pittleman is a veteran studio executive, who most recently served as SVP, International Co-Productions and Worldwide Acquisitions for Paramount Pictures.
"The US market can be illustrative in looking at this theatrical/video relationship. US Box Office represented $10.6B in 2009 while home entertainment logged in at $20B in consumer spending. That is compared with the peak 2004 DVD market of $24.9B when domestic theatrical revenue represented $9.45MM."
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Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on the branding behind actors. Author Neely Swanson is the former Senior Vice President of Development for David E. Kelley Productions and presently an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the writing division.
"The marketing department weighs in on the possibility of selling a film project before a greenlight is given. Can’t package, won’t make. Paula Wagner was recently quoted as saying “Studios will make a movie out of Tide (laundry soap) if they think it’ll work.” Of course this has had a dreadful impact on Independent Films and/or the Art Film Market. It takes a giant leap of faith to distribute films like “Precious.” Can you imagine what the marketing meeting on that film would have been?"
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Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on The Best Films of the Last Decade. Author Gary Rubin has over twenty years of experience in the motion picture and television businesses, having held an array of positions that cross the entire gamut of distribution, acquisitions/ production and management. Prior to forming First Independent Pictures, Rubin served as Executive Vice President, Sales and Acquisitions, for Artisan Entertainment.
"It’s the end of the decade, and that means two things: 1) we are about to be deluged by critics top ten lists for the year and 2) many of these critics will be doing Best of the Decade lists as well. How about a look back over the last ten years through a distributor’s eye?"
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Check out this great blog post from Baseline Research on 2009 Independent Film Performance. Louise Levison is the author of Filmmakers & Financing: Business Plans for Independents and publisher/editor of The Film Entrepreneur: A Newsletter for the IndependentFilmmaker and Investors. Ms. Levinson's clients have raised money for numerous low-budget projects including The Blair Witch Project, the most profitable independent film in history.
"The domestic indie box office totaled $3.5 billion matching 2008, a feat that many thought couldn’t be accomplished. With the overall box office estimated at $10-plus billion, the indie segment will be around 33 percent of the total, a slight drop from last year. Once again the film business has shown itself to be recession-proof."
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