The Producer's Business Handbook

The Roadmap for Balanced Film Producers
5th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-032-93677-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 962 g

Reihe: American Film Market Presents

The Producer’s Business Handbook, Fifth Edition pulls back the curtain on today’s global motion picture economy—revealing how producers may best navigate streaming, AI, and the new financial models that are rewriting every business rule of film and series production. This edition delivers clear, current guidance on how to finance, package, and distribute content worldwide—showing producers how to access private and institutional funding, Donors and Donor Advised Funds, Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF), partner with studios and streamers, and profit from the industry’s expanding digital and ancillary markets.

With fresh analysis of global streaming, viewer interactivity, and immersive technologies, PBH5 connects readers directly to the opportunities driving the next generation of entertainment.

Packed with updated and downloadable models, deal templates, and working examples, this is the definitive playbook for producers, investors, and students who want to master the business of entertainment—and succeed in its fastest-moving era yet.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee Jr., John J.

Gillen, Anne Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Industry

Chapter 2 Video Streaming and Theatrical Distributors

Chapter 3 International Territories

Chapter 4 Social Media Marketing & DIY (See Hybrid) Distribution

Chapter 5 Ancillary Arenas, Rights, & Products

Chapter 6 Production Financing

Chapter 7 Production Incentives

Chapter 8 Guarantors

Chapter 9 Attorneys, Negotiations, & Entertainment Law

Chapter 10 Talent Agents & Managers

Chapter 11 Production, Development, & Producing Company Structure

Chapter 12 Development Financing

Chapter 13 The Team

Chapter 14 Production Company Operations

Chapter 15 The Producer’s Business

Chapter 16 Reports, Data, & Producer Principles

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John J. Lee, Jr. is a global entertainment finance and distribution executive whose work spans productions totaling over $470M in cost and $4.5B in global rights earnings, and has led the vision, launch and/or expansion of multiple entertainment and media companies with successful exits.

Anne Marie Gillen is an independent Producer, Consultant, and Lecturer who is extensively experienced in development, financing and worldwide distribution. Projects have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, and been nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmys, Independent Spirit and DGA Awards. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America and co-founder of the Social Impact Entertainment Task Force and forged a relationship with the United Nations. As an executive, she served as COO of actor Morgan Freeman’s company Revelations Entertainment, and was Founder/CEO of Electric Shadow Productions financing and producing Fried Green Tomatoes.