Hollywood's Private Club You Can't Get Into Unless… (…you qualify for this one-of-a-kind opportunity) "You'll find out how your film, your dream, your script, your concept, your vision and even talent is not enough without this ONE KEY ingredient!"
Dear Filmmaking Friend, This is totally unfair! Why is it that extremely talented people with red-hot desire and a burning vision and creativity seeping out of their pores are starving and struggling to get their movies made – when other people strike up deals seemingly from nowhere? It’s not fair! What do they know that you don’t know? WHO do they know that you don’t know? There's one Golden KEY I've discovered that makes all the difference in the world to make your Hollywood Dream real. This key is so vital that it's important BEFORE you even start writing your script! I'm not kidding. There are only… Three Ways Into Hollywood Have you ever stopped to think how many real ways there are to break into Hollywood and live your dream? Here is what I've seen come up time and again. You are…
Here's a brief look at those three ways in: 1. What do Nicolas Cage, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tori Spelling, Sofia Coppola, Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore and Jason Reitman have in common? They are cousins, sons or daughters of very successful Hollywood insiders. If you're family, you qualify, and I wish you all the best. Talent alone will be your friend here, especially since you're already INSIDE. 2. Luckily discovered are the few, and I mean literally "two or three people" a YEAR who make it by sheer happenstance — a few lucky breaks, they get noticed, the stars align, and a star is born. Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Halle Berry, Hillary Swank, and Dakota Fanning, among others, all qualify in this way into Hollywood. But again, we're talking about two or three a YEAR who become famous doing what they love on film! Compared with the millions trying to get in, you'll see your chances are good you'll get struck by lightning, long before you get lucky enough to "make it" in Hollywood. Now, I know I've focused mostly on ACTORS in my examples because they are just more visible in the public eye. Equally, however, there are many writers, directors, cinematographers, and producers, who have all qualified breaking into Hollywood through family connections or got their lucky break. These first two ways in are like taking a roll of the dice. No, wait! It's worse than that because the odds of you striking fortune and fame in Hollywood, counting on these two methods, is like betting your last dollar on the lottery and hoping for the best! Taking slim-to-no chances with your career, is not a strategy. 3. Being independent means you can follow in the footsteps of Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Tyler Perry, and Christopher Nolan. These folks were no-name actors, writers, directors, and producers (some of them ALL FOUR at the same time!) who started with a Hollywood dream and broke through to success, fame and fortune with a clear strategy and plan to do so. Why You I'll never forget what billionaire filmmaker, George Lucas, once said about doing what you love in Hollywood…
When someone like George Lucas says, "You either have to have unlimited resources or you have to make movies for an audience…" I pay attention. The greatest takeaway from that quoted interview he did, is that if you want to live your Hollywood dream, see your film in theaters or on the shelves of Blockbuster®, and utilize your talent to the fullest extent, you need fame, fortune and money to make that happen. Why? For one reason only: to make the films you REALLY want to make! Quentin Tarantino knows this all too well…starting out as a video store clerk, he was a movie-watching fanatic! He oozed movies. He wrote scripts. He wanted to direct. Tarantino did the wrong thing first. He lost control of one of his first scripts. It was taken and made without ANY credit to him…and he vowed to NEVER let that happen again! What did he do? He wrote another one: Reservoir Dogs. He had a producing partner friend secure the financing for this script by attaching a well-known actor, Harvey Keitel, and was able to raise $1.5 million to produce this film. This launched Tarantino's career! And, of course, he's not alone in becoming a producer in his first successful work. Spike Lee, Robert Rodriguez, Tyler Perry, Christopher Nolan, and many others, all produced their first successes that got them INSIDE Hollywood. This is the Golden Key So how do you get in? Where do you start? Answer: Follow the money! Just back from Sundance in Utah, two of my good friends told me the overall consensus was "it's getting harder and harder for independent filmmakers to get money to make their films." I'm hearing this a lot lately… Last September the bottom dropped out of Wall St. for what became the largest single-day point drop in the Dow Jones on that fateful Black Monday that got investors nervous and gun shy. Since then, we've seen government bailouts for Wall St., the automotive industry, the banking world and other "relief" from bad investments and poorly run corporations. Everyone's running scared and nervous, especially over money. HOWEVER… …from where I sit, the weather is just fine. Clear skies. Money is flowing. Deals are being made. Movies are still being churned out at an unprecedented rate by both studios and indies alike. What makes THEM different? Do they know something you don't? In fact:
The question is… Will Money Flow To You? It would be easy to just give in to the NUMBER one question I get asked literally on a DAILY basis… Know what it is? Before I tell you, I want you to know the kind of activity going on all around you…
I could go on and on but… Here's The Big Secret There are basically only three ways to get your film financed: 1) Studios and Production companies, 2) Hedge Funds, 3) Private and wealthy individuals How many of them do you know personally? Because in this business (as in life), success doesn't necessarily come from what you know, but who you know. With the right connections, the right contacts, the right kind of "insider", you can get anything you need… …including the funding you need for your film production to turn that Hollywood dream into a reality. But unfortunately, like many people, you don't have an "in" yet and that's what makes this opportunity so extraordinary. You now have the opportunity to join the ranks of those who get the results you seek. A bold statement it may be. But let me share a bit of the results our “insiders” have gotten to date. They have…
So let me first introduce you to our Hollywood Insiders who can pave the way to your filmmaking success THIS YEAR!
Remaining under contract with ABC/DISNEY until 2003, he then re-established the ROBBINS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP as a full service production, financing and distribution company, Since then he has produced and has in development more than 25 projects covering all aspects of television, broadband, mobile and internet, including animation, made-for-cable movies, live action teen and reality series, and so much more…
Recent and upcoming highlights include the sequel to the Tom Hanks & Paul Newman "Road to Perdition" (entitled "Road to Purgatory") "Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines" (a bio of the creator of "Tales From the Crypt" and "Mad Magazine" which is to be co-produced and directed by the legendary John Landis), and "Cage of Stars" (based on the best-selling novel by the first Oprah Book Club designee Jacquelyn Mitchard). As Joel says, "Studios are still financing and private equity is still there."
Beginning his career as an attorney, he moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1982 to create a literary management firm specializing in the representation of writers and writer-directors. By 1988, he began producing a number of lower budget theatrical features and films for television, eventually dissolving his management firm to begin producing full time. His films have generated over a billion dollars in worldwide revenue and received multiple Academy Award nominations. His films have also won People's Choice Awards, a Golden Globe and various other awards and noms.
Her prior corporate publicity experience included collaborating with account executives on various high profile projects which included Pixar Animation, producers Ed Pressman for the film "The Crow", Wendy Finerman on the film "Forest Gump" starring Tom Hanks and the launch of DreamWorks SKG. Kim spearheads all the special events and premieres fordominion3 and has worked closely with such designers/stylists as: Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, world-renowned jeweler Harry Winston, Frederic Fekkai and Hugo Boss..
Her clients’ films include “The Blair Witch Project” – the most profitable independent film in history, “Trouble the Water” which is Danny Glover's executive produced OSCAR®-nominated film, “Hoover,” and for companies raising as much as $300 million. Among her corporate clients are Louverture Films (Africa Unite!, Bamako), The Ilya Salkind Company, WhiteLight Entertainment (Academy Award-winner Gerald Molen), Tokuma International Ltd (Shall We Dance and Princess Mononoke), The Pamplin Film Company, and Gener8Xion Entertainment (The Omega Code), among many others.
Mr. Hamilton's first film, Blueberry Hill, was made for $500,000 and sold for $5,000,000 within the first year to MGM. Most recently he produced and co-directed the Paris Hilton Film National Lampoon's Pledge This! and Executive Produced the film The Cellar Door. Mr Hamilton has a strategic associations with the sales company TriCoast International and the distribution company TriCoast Worldwide, which distributes feature films and television shows worldwide. Over the last 25 years, Mr. Hamilton has managed and produced films and TV shows for the studios and independents, with combined budgets of over $100,000,000; the grosses of these productions are well over $1 billion!
She is also involved in various copyright-related matters including errors and omissions reviews in the film and television industry. Christina has extensive experience advising clients with respect to Canadian tax incentives, and structuring clients' productions to maximize the benefits of these programmes, as well as with respect to Canadian and U.S. talent guild and union issues. Prior to joining Heenan Blaikie in 2000, Christina worked in the film and television industry for eight years as a production manager and line producer. The knowledge she gained working in film and television production has proven to be an invaluable asset in advising her clients in all aspects of financing, development and production matters. Christina was an inaugural member of the Toronto Mayor's Film, Television and Commercial Production Industry Committee (Film Board) and the Domestic Development Working Group.
Ms. Pierrepont wrote, directed and produced the underground, anti-apartheid documentary, "Soweto's Burning". She also worked with HBO affiliate Popular Arts Entertainment and served as Vice President of Development for Pilgrimage Productions, a film and multimedia company which was founded by noted Sci Fi author, Robert Scheckley and writer/producer Ron Shusett. She moved into directing with the award-winning festival-hit feature, "Lost In The Pershing Point Hotel", starring John Ritter, Mary Lou Henner, and Michelle Phillips. She was selected as the "Best New Director in America" at the prestigious Director's View Film Festival for directing this film, and then she was hired to write the $100 million dollar action thriller, "Offshore Inc." In late 2005, Ms. Pierrepont launched a new mini-major production partnership with financial backing of $300 million and a co-production and distribution guarantee with Warner Brothers.
After CAA Rubin pursued writing, winning awards from the Scriptapalooza and Nicholl Fellowships screenwriting competitions while still a freelance script reader for Arnold Kopelson, Barbour/Langley, Spring Creek and Dino De Laurentis. After completing his MFA, Rubin returned to the professional world producing and directing segments for Spike TV, Nickelodeon and for national brands Grey Goose Vodka and Jägermeister as well as writing, directing, producing the award winning theatrical film Jimmy And Judy starring Edward Furlong (Terminator 2), Rachael Bella (The Ring) and William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption). The film won best feature in San Francisco, garnered the myspace.com award, and found distribution worldwide through MGM and Starz. Rubin currently resides in the Los Angeles area where he continues his career as filmmaker and commercial director/producer. Now these Insiders are just a handful of key people who can get you started in your film career to ultimately lead you to the money you seek. Remember the number ONE question I get asked on a DAILY basis that I mentioned to you earlier? It goes like this: "This is great Joel but… "Can't You Just Introduce Sure I can. But why would I do that? Remember, these are business people, associates and even friends of mine. There's a certain way to approach them, a certain way to dialogue with them, a certain way to introduce them to a potential investment. Because that's what this is…an investment! These investors trust me to weed out the dreamers from the legit players. Not only is their time valuable but I've got my own reputation on the line every time I introduce someone or a single business deal to them. Just think with me here for a moment… What if I gave out my rolodex to anyone who asked for it? Many would come. Most (almost all) would be sorely disappointed. Would you know what to say? What to have in hand? How to speak the language? It sounds funny but every business has its own language. "It's all Greek to me" as the old saying goes. But unless you speak Greek fluently, sorry… you're a foreigner! And even more so, the more I give out my rolodex, the less impact and trust I would have with my wealthy friends in the future, as more and more people or projects are found unworthy! I'm not trying to burst your bubble here. Just pointing out the reality of my world. And I understand. You just want to make movies. You're creative. You can write, cast, direct, shoot, act, even edit your film, but you need a producer...someone who can secure the financing, keep things on budget on time and get it distributed into theaters, DVD, TV, foreign territories, cable, satellite, airlines and more. Why do you need this kind of help? So investors (executive producers in most cases) can get their money back, plus make a profit. That's why Hollywood is called show "business" and not show "art", even though it is. Okay, I'm getting all worked up here and I almost forgot… I didn't even introduce myself to you! My apologies. Let Me Introduce Myself
Hollywood is my backyard. I play, connect, and frequently enjoy the company of many Hollywood insiders. Just the other day I had meeting with the principals of a movie distribution company that offered to look at any deal that I believe merits their consideration, as a "first look." What that means is that after you work with my insider friends and get the financing you need, you “could” be introduced to this VERY WELL KNOWN distribution company to land your film in the theaters!
To give you an idea of the reality of Hollywood, here's what Screenwriter-Director Lawrence Kasdan of Body Heat, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, The Big Chill, Silverado, The Bodyguard, Wyatt Earp, and French Kiss, among others, had to say… → It's time for you to scale the walls, turn your script into a movie and get the distribution your movie deserves! So, here's what I'm doing… I'm hosting a truly one-of-a-kind series! As you know, getting INSIDE Hollywood is the hardest part, but especially when you're trying to get your script or idea funded, whether it be studio financing or private funding. And this is EXACTLY where most filmmakers fumble the ball! That's why we created this series…to show you exactly the steps you need to take to get the financing you need to make your film. Over four weeks the "Hollywood Dream Team" are going to expose every detail on how you go from struggling filmmaker with an idea or script, to attracting the money you need to get your film made and distributed. Get The MONEY You Need Here is what you'll be learning through a series of LIVE tele-training calls from those very same Hollywood Insiders featured above…
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Hear from the man who has produced some of Hollywood's highest box-office successes!
Kim Dixon is the co-founder of dominion3. Kim previously worked at the bi-coastal publicity firm Clein + White, where she was Senior Vice-President and responsible for all financial, business affairs and special events, including acting as liaison between
account executives and clients.
Strathford Hamilton, an Emmy and Director's Guild nominated Director of prestige films and television shows, is well known throughout the entertainment industry as the director of the team that created the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the most successful children's show of all time, grossing in excess of $800 million for Saban Entertainment.
Randall K. Rubin is an award winning director, producer and writer with a passion for hands on, stylized filmmaking. After completing his BA in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, Rubin broke into Hollywood as a production intern at ABC’s General Hospital, eventually landing a desk at powerhouse entertainment firm Creative Artists Agency.
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