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Lesson 10
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I learned which people to target.
Title: Black Sheep Squadron
Logline: Maverick World War II fighter pilot overcomes his personal demons to form his own squadron which goes on to become the best in the Pacific.
Genre: War movie
Movies: Top Gun: Maverick, Dunkirk, Inglorious Bastards, Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Flags of Our Fathers
Actors: George Clooney, Ryan Reynolds, John Franco, Tom Hardy Ben Affleck
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, John K. Campbell, Emily Cheung, Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Don Ferrarone, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Tommy Harper, Christopher McGuarrie, Chad Oman, Melissa Reid, Mike Stenson, Ian Bryce, Bonnie Curtis, Keving de la May, Mark Gordon Mark Huffman, Gary Levinsohn, Allison Lyon Segan, Steven Speilberg, John Bernard, Erwin Goldschalk, Jake Myers, Christopher Nolan, Maarten Swart, Emma Thomas, Andy Thompson, Lawrence Bender, William Paul Clark, Christoph Fisser, Henning Mofenter, Bruce Moriarty, Lloyd Phillips, Pilar Savone, Erica Steinberg, Bob Weinstein, Chalie Woebcken, Henry Bates, Michael Bay, Scott Gardenhour, Bruce Hendricks, K. C. Hodenfied, Jennifer Klein, Chad Omen, Selwyn Roberts, Pat Sandston, Mike Stenson, Barry K. Waldman, Randall Wallace, John vA. Americarella, Alistair Burlington, Jeffrey Chan, Riu, Cui, Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich, Stuart Ford, Samping Han, Peng Jin, Perry Kaim, Leming Ke, Harold Kloder, Thilo Kurher, Carsten H. W. Lorenz, Peter Luo, Xuefing Mu, Brent O’Connor, Miguel Pelos, J. P. Pettinato, Gary Raskin, Jarin Rossiter, Marlo Shephard, Zhou Tao, Xeuanxuan Tie, Wes Tooke, Stephan Trojansky, Les Vandermolen, Rong Xiang, Don Yu, Jie Yu, Mandy Yu, Guadong Zhang, Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Tom Moore, Tom Hanks.
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Stephanie O’Leary’s Target Market for TUSK
WHAT I LEARNED from this lesson: You increase your chances of getting viable producers to discover and request your script by researching on IMDB.com. Assemble a list of films that are similar to your own and look up the details on who made them. All listed producers are potential buyers so make a list of them along with their contact info. Also, begin making a list of actors/actresses in those films: they might fit roles in yours or suggest actors who could fill them.
Title: TUSK
Logline: TUSK is about a woman who cannot die, having been forever transformed by a fateful encounter with alien hospitality.
Genre: Cosmic Horror
Comp Films: Drag Me to Hell, Hereditary, Midsommar, The Witch, The Wicker Man (original), The Fly
Proposed Actors: Elle Fanning (Brie), Alexander Ludwig or Joe Alwyn (Chogan), Tilda Swinton (the Keeper/Vet), Ben Barnes or a young Robert Patrick (of TERMINATOR fame) for the role of Ty
POTENTIAL PRODUCER LIST: (Drag Me to Hell) Grant Curtis, Joshua Donen, Joseph Drake, Nathan Kahane, Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi, Cristen Carr Strubbe, Rob Tapert, (Hereditary) Gabriel Byrne, Tyler Campellone, Scott E. Chester, Toni Collette, Beau Ferris, Kevin Scott Frakes, Jonathan Gardner, William Kay, Lars Knudsen, Ryan, Kreston, Buddy Patrick, Jeffrey Penman, Brandon Tamburri, (Midsommar) Patrick Andersson, Thomas Benski, Tyler Campellone, Scott E. Chester, Beau Ferris, Fredrik Heinig, Lars Knudsen, Pelle Nilsson, Jeffrey Penman, Viktoria Petranyi, Szandra Barbara Pozsar, Ben Rimmer, Tintin, Scheyniusm Judit Sos, Philip Westgren, (The Witch) Daniel Bekerman, Thomas Benski, Jonathan Bronfman, Joel Burch, Crian Campbell, Rosalia Chilelli, Chris Columbus, Eleanor Columbus, Mark Gringas, Julia Godzinskaya, Lauren Haber, Alexandra Johnes, Lars Knudsen, Ethan Lazar, Sophie Mas, Lon Molnar, Lucas Ochoa, Jodi Redmond, Michael Sackler, Alex Sagalchik, Lourenco Sant’Anna, Rodrigo Teixeira, Jay Van Hoy. NOTE: The two oldest listed comps (The Fly and The Wicker Man) are included for story comparisons only: all producers for both films are either retired or deceased. Total of viable Producers to pitch to: 55(!)
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H. Vince’s Target Market
Power Players – 2023
Lesson 10: How To Target Your Market
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
Finding a list of possible producers that may be interested in investing in this movie.
TITLE: MENTAL
LOGLINE: It’s getting more difficult waiting for that dangled carrot pay day every time her clinically depressed boss walks in and closes her office door and reigns all his negative energy on her until she’s told she’s been mentally delusional all along.
GENRE: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Make a list of five or more movies that are similar to yours:
The Assistant (2019)
Secretary (2002)
American Psycho (2000)
He Was a Quiet Man (2007)
Falling Down (1993)
and five actors that you might want to play your lead characters:
ALLIE:
Alicia Silverstone
Lily Rabe
Leelee Sobieski
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Mena Suvari
PAT:
Jeffrey Tambor
John Lithgow
J.K. Simmons
James Spader
Stanley Tucci
Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project:
Also used Fight Club and the series Headhunters to help with this list:
1. David Fincher
2. Darren Aronofsky
3. Ernie Barbarash
4. Alessandro Camon
5. Joseph Drake
6. Christian Halsey Solomon
7. Chris Hanley
8. Victoria Hirst
9. Gretchen McGowan
10. Michael Paseornek
11. Edward R. Pressman
12. Jeff Sackman
13. Clifford Streit
14. Rob Weiss
15. Scott Macaulay
16. Abigail Disney
17. P. Jennifer Dana
18. Phillip Engelhorn
19. Avy Eschenasy
20. Leah Giblin
21. Kitty Green
22. John Howard
23. Ross Jacobson
24. Sean King O’Grady
25. Jimmy Price
26. Mark Roberts
27. James Schamus
28. The Level Forward Team
29. Rita Walsh
30. Jamie Beardsley
31. Andrew Fierberg
32. Amy Hobby
33. Joel Posner
34. P.J. Posner
35. Michael Roban
36. Steven Shainberg
37. Frank A. Cappello
38. Jason Hallock
39. Michael Leahy
40. Teresa Zales
41. Mary Harron
42. William S. Beasley
43. Stephen Joel Brown
44. Nana Greenwald
45. Timothy Harris
46. Dan Kolsrud
47. Arnold Kopelson
48. Arnon Milchan
49. Ebbe Roe Smith
50. John Tomko
51. Herschel Weingrod
52. Kirk Baxter
53. Cean Chaffin
54. Jim Davidson
55. Joshua Donen
56. William Doyle
57. Jennifer Erwin
58. Beth Kono
59. Peter Mavromates
60. Charlize Theron
61. Andrea McKee
62. Joe Penhall
63. Mark Winemaker
64. Julie M. Anderson
65. Liz Hannah
66. Courtenay Miles
67. Jennifer Haley
68. Ross Grayson Bell
69. John S. Dorsey
70. Art Linson
71. Arnon Milchan
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Elizabeth Cochrell Lesson Ten – Targeting producers
What I learned from this exercise is that there is no other film exactly like it but many that have the same elements of family relationship troubles, teen runaways, dog stories and inspirational sports movies.
Mother Love
A stripper MMA fighter goes through changes when her depressed teen daughter escapes from the rich and twisted stepparents to be with her.
Sports Drama
1. List 5 similar movies and actors for the leads:
BRUISED
SOUTHPAW
CHICK FIGHT
GIRLFIGHT
STRIPTEASE
MADDIE ZIEGLAR the badazz stripper fighter Michelle.
RAEGAN REVORD as her daughter Rebecca.
TOM BRADY as the philandering stepfather Mayor Frank.
KERRY WASHINGTON or CHRISTINA RICHI as the malicious stepmother Emily.
CLOEY BAILY or JAYLEN BARON as the stripper friend Goldie.
KELI REIS as Michelle’s fight opponent
2. Find 50 or more producers for your project:
THE WRESTLER (1) – Darren Aronofsky Scott Franklin
SOUTHPAW (4) – Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Antoine Fuqua, Alan Riche
CHICKFIGHT (2) – Jordan Beckerman, Ashe Christian
BRUISED (5) – Guymon Cassidy, Brad Feinstein (at Romulus) Mary Aloe, Jean-Luc De Fanti,
Anik Decoste
THE PERFECT ADDICTION (3) – Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer, Aron Levitz (After We Collided)
CATCH THE FAIR ONE (2) – Mollye Asher, Kimberly Asher Zox
STICK IT (2) – Jessica Bendinger, Gail Lyon
THE WEDDING DATE (2) – Michelle Chydzik Sowa
CHARLIES ANGELS (2) – Max Handelman, Doug Belgrad
WHIP IT (2) – Drew Barrymore, Barry Mendel
LITTLE MISS SUNSHIINE (2) – David T Friendly, Marc Turtletaub
BLACK SWAN (2) – Scott Franklin (The Wrestler), Mike Medavoy
LORDS OF DOGTOWN (1) – John Linson
THE LOST DAUGHTER (1) – Charles Dorfman
MARVINS ROOM (2) – Jayne Rosethanthall, Scott Rudin
EVERYBODY’S ALL AMERICAN (3) – Taylor Hackford, Ian Sander (Coach Carter) Laura Ziskin
MARRIAGE STORY (2) – David Heyman, Noah Baumbach
STRIPTEASE (2) – Andrew Bergman, Mike Lobell
SHOWGIRLS (2) – Charles Evans, Allen Marshall
SCANDAL (1) – Shonda Rhymes
HUSTLERS (2) – Jessica Elbaum, Elaine-Goldsmith-Tomas
THE MOTHER (3) – Marc Evans, Misha Green, Benny Medina
STEP UP (2) – Eric Fig, Jennifer Gigbot
GIRL LOST (1) – Robin Baine
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Title: Margaret Doner Target Market
Down to Heaven
What I learned: The number of producers in Hollywood seems endless…and many actors call themselves producers. You have to look at credits carefully.
Logline: What happens when a bride dies moments before her wedding? The groom’s guardian angel inhabits her body and enrages the bride’s ghost.
Romantic comedy – Romance
1. City of Angels
2. Wings of Desire
3. Heaven Can Wait
4. Meet Joe Black
5. Michael
2. With the WGA on strike I felt I should be targeting managers and agents and not producers so I made a list of both producers and managers for myself to target. Managers now, producers post strike, I guess. I have gotten a script request from a manager I put on my list. Even if you are non-WGA you are not supposed to pitch to producers even if they are non-signatory. WGA says if you do they will blacklist you in the future. So, I have decided to stay with managers and agents….and also the WGA says you are supposed to tell a manager who signs you at this time they have to wait to pitch to producers. As I am sure we all agree this is a confusing time for screenwriters. And, the strike does not seem to have an end in sight. I just thought someone should mention the elephant in the room…WGA on strike and the rules they put out for members as well as “pre-members” as they call them.
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