If you won 20 million dollars in the lottery....

STYLZ said:
If you won 20 million dollars in the lottery....how much of it would you invest in creating your own feature length movie?
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None. Part of the way you validate whether or not what you want to make is any good, is if you can get anyone else to put money into it. And not just one person, but a number of investors. If you can do that, it's probably worth making the film. If not it's likely you're throwing your money down a rat hole.
 
Bruce Watson said:
None. Part of the way you validate whether or not what you want to make is any good, is if you can get anyone else to put money into it. And not just one person, but a number of investors. If you can do that, it's probably worth making the film. If not it's likely you're throwing your money down a rat hole.
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Just because other people give you money doesn't mean it's going to be good. Plenty of films have been funded by investors and it turned out to be money thrown down a rathole.

If you're making a movie, whether it turns out to be a financial success or not, you're making art. Granted the paint brushes are actors and cameras so they are quite expensive, but if you're just thinking of it as "an investment" then you might as well buy stocks, bonds, gold, real estate, etc.

If your theory was right John Carter and the Lone Ranger would have been smash hits.
 
I would invest it in my production company and use my improved financial grounding to garner investment in making movies, tv shows, commercials... but I don't play the lottery. It's a bad bet and generally just a lousy tax on poor people.
 
Gillvane said:
Just because other people give you money doesn't mean it's going to be good.
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I didn't say it did. What it does, is give you a better idea. Two heads are better then one, and all that.

Certainly, getting buy-in doesn't mean it will be a commercial success. If we didn't know that before Ishtar we should know it by now. But getting buy-in does, or should at least help, prevent you from making a complete fool of yourself. If you want to do that, write, produce, direct, and star in (and of course single handedly pay for) your own off-off-off-Broadway play. :D
 
To be fair, you could gauge to some degree how good your movie could be without outside investors, but doing one of those script workshops, i.e., you've written your dream project, think it's perfect, NOW send it to one of those workshops and see what feedback comes back. Keep refining til ready for prime time, or trash the whole thing.

I second the idea that investors does not equal good/financially sound movie. Back when blockbuster was a thing, there were 10 million quirky indies on the shelves that someone must have invested in, none of which were worth watching.
 
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