Ep 237: How To Find Filmmaker Motivation

What happens when a movie flops? Tom Malloy talks about the impact of box office failures on studios and film investors, why no movie is a guaranteed success, and how filmmakers can stack the deck in their favor with the right genre, cast, timing, and script. Plus, why striking o ...  Show more

Making your movie is one part of the process. How are you going to get it out into the world? Tom Malloy breaks down the five core pillars of independent film: producers, investors and financiers, sales agents, distributors, and exhibitors and streamers. Learn who does what, how ...  Show more

In order to make your movie, you need money. So how do you get over that uncomfortable feeling of asking people to invest in your project? And once you have the financing, how do you get over the fact that your movie is not going to be appreciated by all audiences? In today’s ep ...  Show more

Filmmakers creating trolly news cycles and buying bots to gain online attention… Hollywood myth about keeping your project a secret to prevent it from being stolen... latest cloud storage tools by Blackmagic. In this episode, we talk about… The phenomenon of creating a trolley ...  Show more

“As Hollywood changes post-strike, the only surefire way in the door is to have something great people are excited to make.” If you are a writer looking to break into the industry, you need to know how to write a great script that producers actually want to read. In today’s epis ...  Show more