How To Budget A Movie - Sean Reid

You don’t always need a “named actor” to sell a good film.

Great Advice

This guy is smart

Wow! It's a wonder that movies ever get made.

Apparently there's an unwritten rule when approaching stars to be in your movie where you can't offer the role to anyone else until the star passes on it.

Richard E. Grant writes about this in his book 'The Wah-Wah- Diaries' where he sent the script to Ralph Fiennes to potentially play the lead in Grant's directorial debut. And he had to sit on his hands and wait for three or four agonising months while he waited for Fiennes to either commit or turn it down. Because the money was being raised independently he couldn't really move ahead on the picture until he had his star in place.

That book is incredible for directors out there looking for international financing. Grant was saddled with an absolutely incompetent French producer who's ineptitude and very French attitude to acquiring contracts almost killed the film on a daily basis.

So avoid the French if you can.

Keep in mind - with a 5.5$ million budget, the crew is taking a 50%-65% pay cut in order to work on it. That size budget probably classifies it as Tier 1 Low Budget.

This video came out at the best time possible. I’m getting back into filmmaking and budget was one of those hairy tasks I couldn’t wrap my head around. This put it all in perspective. 🙏

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Greatly appreciated insight thank you!

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Thanks for this 🙏