Having A Little Faith

So the inkling of a big breakthrough on the Family Movie. Been plugging along with it for a bit, now, working towards finding a distributor for the movie. Now in all candor, it’s a good movie, and its also one that I’ve worked my guts out on, for over a year and a half. I’ve put a lot of eggs in this basket, and I want the movie to have a good release for personal reasons as well as for the health of the Studio.

We hired (at gunpoint) an Exec. Producer type who basically held us up. He had the talent we need to make the movie, we needed the talent, his entry fee was that he’d sell the movie for us for a 5 percent commission when we were done. Problem is, when we signed (never actually did a contract) or agreed with him, he was a senior partner in a huge agency. Since then, he’s departed the agency and probably lost a lot of the leverage that he had before. Consequently, its been a struggle, because he doesn’t seem entirely able to do the job he pitched himself for. Ive been working on trying to disconnect the Studio from him, as he seems out of ideas. Sent him a sort of ambiguous email the other nite asking if he had any other ideas. He said he didn’t so I asked if we should move on….

No Reply.

Anyway, using our contacts and not his, we’ve gotten some strong interest in the family movie from a smaller company that has a biz plan pretty similar to ours. They loved the movie, thought it had a lot going for it, and they want to release it theatrtically. They don’t have the cache of a big Hollywood shop like a Lions Gate, but doing this business, they’ve started to make some inroads. They are saavy, but most importantly, they are talking about a decent sized theatrical release for the movie, 200 plus screens. While this isn’t the 800 that we bandied about, it would still be great to have that happen – particularly when we were thinking that maybe we’d be relegated to a video/TV deal instead.

Anyway, they are talking to their financing partners early next week. In the meantime, upon presenting the Chief with the news (he financed a healthy share of the family movie), he was very pleased and inquired after the budget of the first little movie we’re going to do together, a sort-of Russ Meyer horror film, to be directed by my biz partner, BigMan. Gotta see if we can make the budget workable, but all in all, was a very good end to the week.

Had dinner after seeing a show with my Russian model, E. DB and a friend tagged along, then we hit Johns on 12th. Bitter knows the place, took her there with my folks when she was in town. It was the site of her meltdown (which one – heehee), and my terrible behavior.

E told me I was handsome – gonna have her eyes checked.

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