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Day 10 Assignments
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What I learned most about this assignment is doing research on producers who made films in the vein of mine. As I’m still researching, I’m going to submit the following at this time:
Films in the vein of mine: Clueless, Mean Girls, 13 Going on 30
Producers: Barry Berg, Twink Caplan, Robert Lawrence, Adam Schroeder, Jennifer Guinier, Jill Sobel Messick, Lorne Michael, Louise Resner, Tony Shimkin (still researching)
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I’m having a tough time finding recent comparable films. My genre is historical drama, set during the American Revolution.
I’ve tried searching under History and Historical Drama, but I’ve only found four producers that have credits that make them seem like a decent match.
How do I go on from here?
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Sky Canyon’s Target Market
What I learned doing this assignment is that it’s six degrees of Kevin Bacon. This is easier to develop a list than I had thought it would be, once I dug into it. Harder was finding “movies similar to.” So I imagine that some of the producers are not likely, but I cannot pre-judge at this point.
Title: The Millionaire Monk
Genre: Dramatic Comedy
Logline: When a deliberate bad tip crashes the career and marriage of a Wall Street Guru-wannabe, life conspires to land him in a Tibetan monastery where he struggles to find inner peace and teaches the monks to trade the market.
Movies similar:
Bruce Almighty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Truman Show
The Darjeeling Limited
The Holiday
Actors:
Jack Black
Joel McHale
Leslie Ching
Jim Carrey
Priyanka Chopra
Ryan Reynolds
Adrien Brody
Paul Rudd
Owen Wilson
Ben Stiller
Kevin Hart
Producers:
Bruce Block
Jennifer Eatz
Suzanne Farwell
Nancy Meyers
Michael Bostick
James Brubaker
Jim Carrey
Steve Koren
Linda Fields Hill
Mark o’Keefe
Steve Oedekerk
Tom Shadyac
Jonathan Watson
Janet Wattles
Wes Anderson
Alice Bamford
Molly Cooper
Roman Coppola
Jeremy Dawson
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Sam Hoffman
Anadil Hossain
Scott Rudin
Steven Rales
Edward S. Feldman
Andrew Niccol
Lynn Pleshette
Richard Luke Rothschild
Scott Rudin
Adam Schroeder
Stuart Cornfeld
G. Mac Brown
Samuel Goldwyn Jr
John Goldwyn
Meyer Gottlieb
Matt Levin
Jeff Mann
Ethan Shapanka
Ben Stiller
Gore verbinski
Kurt Williams
Peter Czernin
Sarah Harvey
Caroline Hewitt
Jonathan King
Jeff Skoll
Ricky Strauss
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Ron Horton’s target market for “Charley’s River”
“Charley’s River” – Action/Adventure – Charley wants the life on the river, with the lady of his dreams. But, diving into a class 5 rapid on the Colorado river is more than he bargained for.
I learned that I like the process, although I feel it will take some time to compile a list that I fee comfortable with. Finding movies that I felt had things in common with my script proved difficult.
5 Movies that are similar, or could be construed to have a theme similar to mine:
River Wild
White Mile
Dog
Lost City
River Runs Through It
(A couple of these would be a stretch)Finding actors I feel would fill the parts well was much easier.
Charley
Brad Pitt
Ryan Goslin
Zac Efron
Dave Franco
Scott Eastwood
Charlie CarverTed
Liam Hemsworth
Luke BraceySusan
Crystl Faye Horton
Kate Mara
Olivia Wilde
Blake Lively
Alicia Vikander
Felicity JonesMarla
Vanessa HudgrensFelicity
Halley Berry
Isley Nicole Melton
Sanaa LathanI found well over 50 producers, although I’m not sure I was searching exactly correctly. I’d really have to hone this more to feel good about it.
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Lee Skore’s Target Market
(3) What I learned doing this assignment is:
First–your directions were not accurate, and I HAD to set up an IMDb account–then I was able to access information. It’s nice to have all these people’s names, but what do I do with them now?
(4) TITLE: TELLING LIES
LOGLINE: A Nantucket woman’s recurring nightmares turn out to be repressed memories of her parents’ murders and now someone wants to kill her, too, but she only survives if she and the sheriff can solve the mystery of her past.
GENRE: Mystery
(1) List of movies: I don’t know all the budgets for the films below, but they’re similar genres:
Where The Crawdads Sing, Knives Out, The Little Things, Death on the Nile, Malignant, Wind River.
List of actors:
Female leads — Dakota Fanning, Kara Kilmer, Naomi Scott
Male leads — Taylor Kinney, Chris Pine, Jake Gyllenhaal
(2) Producers:
Crawdads: Betsy Dansbury, Rhonde Tollefson, Reese Witherspoon, Jon Wu
Knives Out: Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson, Tom Karnowski, Leopold Hughes, Nikos Karamigios
Little Things: Josh Lieberman, Scott Marder, Christina Pazsitzky, Michael Rotenberg, Tom Segura
Death on the NIle: Kenneth Branagh, Mark Gordon, Judy Hofflund Matthew Jenkins, Simon Kinberg, James Prichard, Ridley Scott, Kevin Walsh
Malignant: a total of 25 executive producers, co-executive producers, co-producers
Wind River: a total of 29 executive producers, producers, associate prducers
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Rod’s Target Market
This lesson verifies that this technique taught in my old ProSeries class if still valid. And it’s a great way to develop and warm market list in a hurry.
As is obvious, I’ve become behind in these lessons due to outside life interference. I thought this would be a good time for this course, but events have overwhelmed me.
I’ve previously developed over 200 warm marker leads for this script but in checking research of the starter films, I’ve thoroughly screwed up. All their budgets are way out of line for this script. I have to start over from scratch and, not wanting to get further behind, I’m going to move on as I know the technique well.
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Title: Abandoned To DieLogline: Left to die, rescued by a man she’s about to trust with her life until she learns he could be more dangerous than the psychopathic killer she’s running from who suddenly attacks, determined to kill them both.
Genre: Drama/thriller
2. Re-takes in the future.
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What I learned doing this assignment is that a lot of these producers are seemingly unreachable. It’s going to be some work to get in touch with them or their people.
Lisa Molenda’s Target Market
Jane the Vegan
A dark comedy series about a vegan who gets turned into a vampire, and struggles to keep her moral code, while needing blood to survive.
Shows similar to Jane the Vegan
1. Barry
Producers of Barry:
Alec Berg
Bill Hader
Aida Rodgers
Elizabeth Sarnoff
Emily Heller
Amy Solomon
Julie Camino
Jason Kim
Arturs Rusis
Kris Baucom
Ben Smith
Davin Michaels
Duffy Boudreau
John T. McCracken
Sarah Solemani
Megan Murphy
Johnny Brady
2. What We Do in the Shadows
Producers:
1.Garrett Basch
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2. Jemaine Clement
3. Ingrid Lageder
4. Paul Simms
5. Taika Waititi
3. Wednesday
Producers:
Kayla Alpert
Gail Berman
Tim Burton
Jonathan Glickman
Carla Gonzalez Vargas
Alfred Gough
Tommy Harper
Nick Lannelli
Kevin Lafferty
Miles Millar
David Minkowski
Kevin Miserocchi
Andrew Mittman
Carmen Pepelea
Steve Stark
Natalie Testa
Todd Williams
4.The End of the Fucking World
producers:
Andy Baker
Dominic Buchanon
Charlie Covell
Jonathan Entwistle
Murray Furgason
Ed MacDonald
Petra Fried
Rhian Griffiths
Liz Lewin
Kate Ogborn
Jenny Frayn
Vaughan Watkins (line producer)
5.The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
producers:
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Hugh Davidson
Larry Dorf
Jessica Elbaum
Will Ferrell
Michael Lehmann
Curt Moritz
Marti Noxon
Rachael Ramras
Brittney Segal
Danielle Weinstock
6. Pushing Daisies
Producers:
Bruce Cohen
Bryan Fuller (II)
Livia Hanich
Dan Jinks
Barry Sonnenfeld
Scott Nimerfro
Peter Ocko
Dylan K. Massin
Gretchen J. Berg
Aaron Harberts
Davey Holmes
Douglas Petrie
Lawrence Trilling
Rina Mimoun
Brooke Kennedy
Mark S. Glick
Adam Kane
Graham Place (II)
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