Producer's Business Handbook 2nd Ed) by John J. Lee Jr. & Rob Holt

* The only book to explain the business practices of the industry's small core of consistently profitable production companies

* Features a robust interactive CD-ROM providing spreadsheets, forms ready for use, examples, and interactive tutorials

Reviews
"Using clear non-jargon, Lee takes us carefully through every facet of production, big and small, showing clearly the critical role each part plays in helping achieve the whole." - www.penultimateproductions.co.uk

Description
The Producer's Business Handbook provides a model for making a successful business of independent filmmaking. It will give you a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and supply you with the information and tools you'll need to successfully engage all related aspects of global production and exploitation.

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 production 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. For those outside of the US, this book also includes information about 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 CD-ROM, 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.

Contents
Introduction; How the Motion Picture Industry Functions; U.S. Theatrical Distributions; International Territories; Ancillary Markets and Rights; Entertainment Banking; Completion Guarantors; Attorneys, Negotiations, and Entertainment Law; Talent, Agents, and Agencies; Development, Production, and Producing Company Structures; Development Financing; The Team; Production Company's Operation; The Producer's Business; Reports, Data and Producer's Principles

Readership: Producers; others on the business side of the entertainment industry such as attorneys, bankers, investors, etc; film students; directors, writers, and other film professionals who want to know more about how the business aspect of production works.

Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-240-80710-2
ISBN10: 0-240-80710-3
Line Illustrations: 10
Measurements: 7 1/4 X 10 1/4 in
Pages: 216

ISBN: 978-0-240-80710-2

UPC Code: 9780240803968