- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; Pap/Cdr edition (11 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0240803965
- ISBN-13: 978-0240803968
- Product Dimensions: 25.3 x 17.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The perfect book for teaching functions performed by the producer. The level is exactly right - understandable by beginners & not too simplistic. Very realistic in terms of the producers role. The CD is an invaluable addition.
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The Producer's Business Handbook delivers filmmakers a comprehensive examination of the business of entertainment and provides the information and tools required to engage all related aspects of global production and exploitation. Together with its companion CD-ROM, this handbook presents both instruction and worksheet support to independent producers at all levels of experience. The handbook also provides a global orientation to the relationships that the most successful producers have with the various participants in the motion picture industry. This includes how producers direct their relationships with domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors. It provides a thorough orientation to operating production development and single purpose producing companies, from solicitation of literary properties through direct rights sales, and the management of global distribution relationships. Also presented is an in-depth discussion of the team roles needed to operate these companies, as well as how to attach and direct them. Worksheets and instructions are included for the business processes of development and production financing operations that are used by many of the industry's consistently profitable companies. The companion CD-ROM features extremely valuable spreadsheets available nowhere else, including the bank financing worksheet and the producer's share analysis and internal greenlight summary, the development and production activity projection spreadsheet, the development and production cash flow projection worksheet, and other breakthrough forms. This interactive CD-ROM also provides examples and exercises using the various worksheets provided.
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This chapter presents the ten major motion picture participant categories, reveals independent production companies as creation and production businesses with distribution capacities, and examines story as the heart of the producer's picture universe. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
NOTE: The first edition of this book is called "The Producer's Business Handbook" and not "Motion Pictures Producer's Business Handbook" as Amazon UK calls it!. The second edition of the book acquires a second author, Rob Holt, although the chapter layout is identical.
John Lee's concept is to give you an overview of how you, an independent producer, will relate to your major business players. This includes the US and foreign (or "international") studios, distributors, audiences etc. He paints the whole picture is both outline and detail. He explains how "balanced" producers work and how they ensure that they have distribution deals before committing themselves to development proper. In other words, the moment you are interested in the story then you contact your distributors to find out if they have any interest and comments. Their buy-in is crucial to making your movie a success.
This book describes how the Hollywood producer in the US worked in the late 90's. Since then the world has changed. The collapse of the world economy has caused pre-sales from distributor's to dry up, which means that using this collateral to get bank funding for your film is near impossible at the moment (if you didn't understand all that then you really should read this book). So the name of the game at the present time is to look for alternative models to oil the wheels of the film industry. Nevertheless, if you're a new producer then you really should understand how the system used to work at least.
This book is the hub around which most other books on production revolve. This book contains the central concepts of the independent producing business and will give you confidence if you work hard enough to understand the facts and figures.
The CD-ROM of the first edition was a little messy. Hopefully this improved in the second edition.
John Lee's concept is to give you an overview of how you, an independent producer, will relate to your major business players. This includes the US and foreign (or "international") studios, distributors, audiences etc. He paints the whole picture is both outline and detail. He explains how "balanced" producers work and how they ensure that they have distribution deals before committing themselves to development proper. In other words, the moment you are interested in the story then you contact your distributors to find out if they have any interest and comments. Their buy-in is crucial to making your movie a success.
This book describes how the Hollywood producer in the US worked in the late 90's. Since then the world has changed. The collapse of the world economy has caused pre-sales from distributor's to dry up, which means that using this collateral to get bank funding for your film is near impossible at the moment (if you didn't understand all that then you really should read this book). So the name of the game at the present time is to look for alternative models to oil the wheels of the film industry. Nevertheless, if you're a new producer then you really should understand how the system used to work at least.
This book is the hub around which most other books on production revolve. This book contains the central concepts of the independent producing business and will give you confidence if you work hard enough to understand the facts and figures.
The CD-ROM of the first edition was a little messy. Hopefully this improved in the second edition.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Excellent "Business Side" of the business book.
11 Dec 2002
Format:Paperback
Make no mistake, this is NOT a book about producing a film or running a production. This is a great book about the 'business side' of the film business.
Lots of information on how prodco's are set up, figuring out distribution (although nothing about going the direct-to-video route) deals.
No matter what kind of production company you are setting up you will find information of use in here but it's not about production planning from the sense of scheduling or day-to-day running a prodco.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
BLUE-PRINT FOR SUCCESSFUL FILMMAKING
14 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
Finally, we have a comprehensive guide to the business of making movies the way movies are supposed to be made -- and written by someone who knows whereof he writes. No longer do filmmakers need luck or magic to succeed; The Producer's Business Handbook lays out all the details of show BUSINESS in a straightforward format that's as readable as it is informative. Lee's affable style of writing, which features a refreshing dose of enthusiasm for the ethical integrity still to be found in Hollywood, renders this book the perfect and indispensable blue-print for anyone -- novice or veteran -- hoping to succeed in the business of making motion pictures.
35 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Worthless
10 Sep 2004
Format:Paperback
As a practicing attorney and filmmaker, I found John J. Lee, Jr.'s book to be practically useless. While the table of contents is impressive, his discussion of each topic is cursory and usually limited to a couple paragraphs of very broad and general language. The limited industry data provided is dated and the few documents that are provided, mostly arcane excel spreadsheet forms, are so specifically tailored to extremely large studio multi-picture deals as to be useless to anyone other than a major studio executive without legal counsel (unlikely) or a first-time producer of a multi-million dollar feature and a large legal budget (again, not likely ) or an accountant. For your money and time, there are much better books and materials out there that provide good, solid practical advice and information for independant filmmakers and attorneys alike.
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