taormina
Hates to Rent
It's my pleasure Pauly.
Corrado Part II
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It's my pleasure Pauly.
10s
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Hate to sound negative, but is Corrado already dead?
It sounds like it's already in the $3.99 discount bin before it's been sold? The change in emphasis here appears as abandonment; that's a shame to get so far and then let the battery die. The DVD market is 3 times the film market, that's nothing to get sour about. A serious push might keep it alive and let it find an audience. A way to look at this, is to figure out how will it build toward a viable career for yourself after five or six projects.
Keep your eye on the ball, don't let your projects become orphans, go find the film a home.
It sounds like it's already in the $3.99 discount bin before it's been sold? The change in emphasis here appears as abandonment; that's a shame to get so far and then let the battery die. The DVD market is 3 times the film market, that's nothing to get sour about. A serious push might keep it alive and let it find an audience. A way to look at this, is to figure out how will it build toward a viable career for yourself after five or six projects.
Keep your eye on the ball, don't let your projects become orphans, go find the film a home.
Rubbersquare
Well-known member
141 tips to go through. this is gonna take longer than BOTH Corrado threads, but well worth it! kudos to you both. :beer:
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taormina
Hates to Rent
Dead? No way!
My prospects for selling have always been good, and there isn't much for me to do now except wait, since it's fate is more or less in the hands of others right now. I always need something to occupy my mind and make me feel productive, so it's a natural now that I'm thinking of my next film.
Corrado is also very, very close to fulfilling my goals for the project. It was never about fame or an audience; Corrado is a product that was intended to get a good DVD distribution deal and return money for it's investors.
It also came out being a good film - what else can I ask for?
10s
Veteran
Oh GOOD! I got worried, thought you had gotten discouraged. There is a ton to learn/know in the distribution-exhibition phase. This is the area that really kills off indies.
best of wishes!
wcmartell
Well-known member
If that's about my site, there are around 360 tips in rotation - and old ones are rewritten all of the time (like Monday's) and new ones are written all of the time. In between, it's reruns - but probably a tip you haven't read in over a year. Gotta do a little screenwriting to earn a living and pay for the website.
- Bill (currently writing the remake of a hit 80s film)
Hey, quick, someone get this guy a martini and some appetizers. Bill Martell in the house! He's got something like 4,000 produced scripts and has a ton of screenwriting/movie info on his site.
Let's put a little something in his martini, oh and Bill, this is my friend Raven, mind if she shares your table?
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taormina
Hates to Rent
If you are referring to Unk's general disdain for mafia scripts, then he's more or less right. There's a profusion of them out there, I've read many. It basically boils down to premises we've seen before and usually endemic to action films.
In action movies, there are usually good guys and bad guys. The bad guys usually are criminals, and it's an easy stretch to associate them with organized crime or the mafia.
Corrado, in relation to this topic, is your average mob type story, although I've been told that it incorporates many different angles (I made it this way). Honestly, I think Unk would think the Corrado's script is probably just average. Corrado isn't really breaking any new ground.
Having said that, Unk is always writing from a position of getting someone to greenlight his material - the difference here is that I greenlight my own material - I don't "get a pass" on my own work.
Another thing about Unk is this; although I like his script advice more or less, it's pure theory to me. He seems utterly devoid of any commercial success or real life experience. I think he blogs more than he works, which is why I prefer Martell - who actually writes scripts that get made into actual movies, on a regular basis.
To be fair, we have no idea who "Unk" really is. While William C Martell is also another source for information, "Unk" may have outstanding credits. We wouldn't know because his identity is kept secret.
You do have a point on what his advice is geared toward: success or being "greenlit. Having your production greenilit, anyway. I tend to agree with a lot of what he says and his approach to the breakdown of script elements, why some may work and why some do not along with a disclaimer on every process being different.
You do have a point on what his advice is geared toward: success or being "greenlit. Having your production greenilit, anyway. I tend to agree with a lot of what he says and his approach to the breakdown of script elements, why some may work and why some do not along with a disclaimer on every process being different.
filmman
Veteran
If you don't have money or if you can't get money, it doesn't matter how well you analyze and even how well you write; those who make movies are the ones who have the money or know how to convince movie investor types to shell out the money. However, the ones who make it are the ones who have a commercial script (like Corrado) and produce a professional film (like the ones playing in your local cinema house.) After this it gets complicated.... 
taormina
Hates to Rent
Check this out...this totally shows how execution trumps genre expectations. I received this today from a distributor I had sent a query e-mail to:
"Thanks for your email. We don’t usually handle films involving the mob and/or crooked cops but your trailer looks very good and you have a nice cast. I’d be happy to take a look at a screener. Please send it to my attention at:"
Execution is key........
"Thanks for your email. We don’t usually handle films involving the mob and/or crooked cops but your trailer looks very good and you have a nice cast. I’d be happy to take a look at a screener. Please send it to my attention at:"
Execution is key........
taormina
Hates to Rent
I used to live in SE Asia, in places where the ONLY DVD's for sale were pirated. A lot of them had that verbiage scrolling by. They'd even show them on ferry boats and charge people to watch. The funniest scroll bys were the ones saying something like "If you're watching this in a commercial venue please report it to 1-800 blah blah". No respect for Hollywood in the developing world.
taormina
Hates to Rent
Very true. At the very least you try to not to make it easy for them, like sending an untagged dvd out.
Nathyn
Low Budget Ninja
Way of the Gun was on eBay for $2.99. I got it and it was tagged. Obviously the video store was selling their screener copies. To this day my screeners say "© TimeCode Mechanics Not for Resale." The irony being it didn't help them much. LOL. This was a VHS screener too which I think is unheard of now.
-Nate
-Nate
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