Day 10 Assignment

[Jeff Bryce]

I followed the instructions to find the producers of Notting Hill, but at “more” it takes me to a screen “Become a IMDbPro member today” and wants $12.50/month. The instructions should say to click “All cast and crew”!

[Jeff Bryce]

Jeff’s Target Market

What I learned is (1) there are many producers that are untouchable (big names, and a guy in jail!), (2) seems like anyone can be a producer (one of the films on my list has 22!), and (3) I need to keep changing my logline—have 10-20 to suit the mood of the reader/listener/producer and the god-knows-what/who.

Title: The Best Painkiller

Logline: A doctor takes revenge when a swindler steals money intended for a baby’s life-saving treatment.

Genre: Thriller (crime/drama)

10 movies: Nocturnal Animals (2016), Dark Waters (2019), Mother (2017), Nightcrawler (2014), You Were Never Really Here (2017), Drive (2011), Split (2016), Black Swan (2010), Run (2010), Uncut Gems (2019).

6 actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar Isaac, Natalie Portman, Katrina Bowden, Isabela Merced, Adrien Brody.

It took many hours to do the process of copying & pasting the names to 15 pages. A hodge-podge of 100s of names. Now what? (The exercise is obvious and basic for those in the industry. But I don’t know anyone on the lists of producers.)

[Stephen Maynard]

Stephen Maynard’s – Target Market

What I learned doing this assignment is, this is the easy part. THANKS FOR THAT. Now how to get USPS and e-mail addresses? Will that necessitate the purchase of a month of IMDb pro?

I see IMDb pro, “The essential resource for the entertainment industry” is offering a 30-day free trial. That’s the ticket!

TITLE: PANDORA’S OTHER BOX

LOGLINE: A sexually frustrated slacker grows rich and satiated selling transgenic WORMS that morph old ladies into gorgeous young submissive girls – who eat men’s faces.

GENRE: HORROR

FIVE + SIMILAR MOVIES:

THE THING, THE ENDLESS, REVENGE, HARPOON, THE GREEN ROOM, HIS HOUSE, THEY ARE NOT AFRAID, HEREDITY

FIVE + ACTORS:

Logan Wade Lerman, Elle Fanning, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lucas Hedges, Kristina Pimenova, Johnny Sequoyah Friedenberg.

NAMES OF 100 + PRODUCERS: Got it.

[Phyllis MacBryde]

Phyllis MacBryde – Target Market

In doing this assignment, I noticed that the P.G.A. producers are generally the Senior producers/production companies and they team with non-P.G.A. producers who I assume bring financing or soft money to the table. Following the threads, I also began to notice a few of non-P.G.A. producers cropping up working together on other films. Gathering names is just the beginning. The assignment helped me prioritize who to research further.

Title: CREATING ZINZI

Logline: A white playwright and a Black producer navigate clashing cultures and real-life perils to workshop an American musical in Africa. Working with indigenous artists leads to their shocking multi-cultural awakening and the realization that it is the Ancestor Spirits who will decide the musical’s fate.

Genre: Drama

Actors: Sally Field, Alfre Woodard

Movies with similar budget and cast: Juanita; Hello, My Name is Doris; Queen of Katwe

Producers:

Rebecca Cammarata, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker, Tiana Idoni-Matthews, Stefanie Azpiazu, Anthony Bregman, Monica Levinson, Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell Taylor, Shivan Rawat, Dominique Telson, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jenny Hinkey, Leah Holzer, Stephanie Kluft, Stephanie Allain, Jamie T Surenkamp, Betsy Danbury, Bronwyn Cornelius, Fiona Walsh Heinz, Janet Jeffries, Sofia Rovaletti, Lori McCreary, Morris Ruskin, Adrienne Becker, Dominique Telson

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[Thomas Duffy]

Tom’s Target Market

What I learned from this project is that, while I have used the IMDB list before, it is also a good place to jog your memory to people who might be able to help get you further down the road. I was away from writing for a decade. My old manager, though very high powered, just merged with another firm, and has not read my script, for almost a year. There are other people I might contact that were on the credits I researched. Maybe they can help with a new agent/manager or some might even be interested in producing.

Title: SAVING GRACE

Logline: A NHL practice goalie struggles to make the save of a lifetime to protect his daughter and his team’s season.

Genre: Drama

1A. I have a list of 40 similar films. The most helpful were films in my price range. (Moneyball, The Fighter, Miracle, Friday Night Lights, The Rookie)

1B. Danny – Jesse Plemons, Scott Eastwood, Michael B. Jordan, Wyatt Russell, Lucas Black; Abigail – Jean Smart, Holland Taylor, Dianne Weist, Blythe Danner, Diane Keaton

2. I have a list 100+ producers. Some I have connections/contacts with.

[Jeff Bryce]

Plemons looks like he should be a goalie in the old days when they never wore masks! Nice. Can he skate? Doesn’t matter, does it? Nice choice on the female elders.

[Thomas Duffy]

Jeff, The one thing that helps casting is he’s a goalie behind a mask, so skating isn’t as important.

I worked with Jessie when he was around ten years old on VARSITY BLUES. He’s made quite a career since then. He does have a great mug. I’ll look at your letter tomorrow.

Thanks! Tom

[Jeff Bryce]

Hi Tom,

Very impressive. I’d like to contact you privately too– please email jeff@bryce.ca.

I’ll comment on your most recent posts within the next few days.

I appreciate your interest.

Best, Jeff

[Paul McGregor]

Paul’s Target Market

3. What I learned from this assignment is that it answered the question I was left with after Assignment 9. How to approach the search for producers to contact? It has been really interesting to follow Hal’s method, using IMDBPro to track down producers and actors. The difficult part has been meeting the second criteria: similar in budget.

4.

“Scarred for Life”

Cindy returns from a tour of duty in Afghanistan where a terrorist attack killed her 3 best buddies and left her horribly scarred, but she soon gets the chance to wreak revenge.

Thriller

1. I went for movies that either had a terrorist theme and/or a fighting leading lady and came up with:

The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

American Sniper (2014)

Ava (2020)

Thank You For Your Service (2017)

The Old Guard (2020)

Whiteout (2009)

Agent Salt (2010)

Although they are clearly not all in my budget range.

But this has given me a list of 10 actresses (9 when I have to leave out Angelina Jolie who is probably not available!)

2. I identified 54 producers who have worked on movies with related themes. The search continues….

END

[Jeff Bryce]

The Lesson is using IMDB, not IMDBPro… That’s why I asked: “Now what?” I have 100s of names with no contact info…

[Lelnd Little]

Leland’s Target Market

Five movies similar to Dick & Jane go to War

1. The Last Stand

2. One For the Money

3. Jesse Stone, Night Passage

4. Jesse Stone, Stone Cold

5. Longmire

6. Castle

Five actors to play the lead role, (woman, 6 feet tall, twenty-something)

1. Ireland Baldwin

2. Aisha Tyler (if she can look 20 something)

3. Lais Ribeiro

4. Jourdan Dunn

List of Producers:

From The Last Stand:

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura plus 7 others

From One for the Money:

Wendy Finerman plus 8 others

From Castle:

Armayan Bernstein plus 42 others

From Jesse Stone Night Passage:

Michael Brandman plus 7 others

From Longmire:

Hunt Baldwin plus 11 others

[cara star]

Cara’s Target Market

What I learned from this assignment is that there are a lot more people making historical dramas and art-personality films than I thought.

1.)

Movies: Frida, La Vie En Rose, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Pollack, Shakespeare in Love, A Star in Born, The Notebook

Actors: Ryan Gosling, Rami Malek, Michelle Williams, Lady Gaga, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem, Bradley Cooper, Ed Harris…

2.)

Frida

Julie Taymor

Selma Hayek

Alfred Molina

Mark Amin

Lindsay Flickinger

Brian Gibson

Mark Gill

Sarah Green

Nancy Hardin

Jill Sobel Messick

Margaret Rose Perenchio

Jay Polstein

Ann Ruark

Amy Slotnick

Roberto Sneider

Lizz Speed

La Vie En Rose

Olivier Dahan

Marion Cotillard

Alain Goldman

Timothy Burrill

Axel Decis

Marc Jenny

Oldrich Mach

Catherine Morisse

Marc Vade

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Peter Webber

Colin Firth

Scarlett Johansson

Joep Bannenberg

Bob Bellion

Peter Block

Anna Campeau

Jason Constantine

Jimmy de Brabant

Nick Drake

Philip Erdoes

Matthew T. Gannon

Rebby Gregg

Francois Ivernel

Daria Jovicic

Cameron McCracken

Tom Ortenberg

Andy Patterson

Duncan Reid

Anand Tucker

Shakespeare in Love

John Madden

Gwyneth Paltrow

Joseph Fiennes

Pollack

Ed Harris

Marcia Gay Harden

Joseph Allen

Heiner Bastian

Fred Berner

Petet Brant

Jon Kilik

Cecilia Kate Roque

Candy Trabuco

James Francis Trezza

The English Patient

Anthony Minghella

Juliet Binoche

Chocolat

Lasse Hallstrom

Judi Dench

A Star is Born

Bradley Cooper

Lady Gaga

Basil Iwanyk

Sue Kroll

Niija Kuykendall

Ravi Mehta

Heather Parry

Michael Rapino

Bobby Wilhelm

Lynette Howell Taylor

Robert J. Dohrmann

Bill Gerber

Weston Middleton

Jon Peters

Todd Phillips

The Queen

Stephen Frears

Helen Mirren

The Notebook

Nick Cassavetes

Ryan Gosling

Rachel McAdams

Toby Emmerich

Lynn Harris

Mark Johnson

Avram Butch Kaplan

[Stephen Dexter]

Steve’s Target Market

What I learned doing this assignment is how to go about targeting the right people.

Title: Laredo

Genre: Family, Comedy

Logline: After an insecure, struggling actor rescues a stray dog, he must decide the fate of the old dog nobody wants to adopt, while his long-awaited chance at stardom quickly approaches.

ACTORS FOR THE LEAD:

Andrew Gottlieb

James Marsden

Josh Harnett

Liam Hemsworth

Joel Edgerton

SIMILAR MOVIES:

The Stray

Hotel for Dogs

Patrick the Pug

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Benji

Marley and Me

Puppy Star Christmas

Pup Star

PRODUCERS:

The Stray: Kevin Brailsford, Michelle Davis, Mitch Davis, Parker Davis, Eric. S. Johnston

Hotel for Dogs: Jason Clark, Jeffrey Clifford, Jonathan Gordon, Ewan Leslie, Gerald D. Moon, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman, Lauren Shuler Donner

Patrick the Pug: Flavio Colotta, Vanessa Davies, Paul de Vos, Geraldine East, Patrizia Fersurella, Jonathan Feuer, Peter Hampden, Tom Harberd, Matthew Helderman, Jane Hooks, Nadia Khamlichi, Sue Latimer, Joe Listhaus, Tracey McCarrick, Norman Merry, Paolo Monaci, Ciro Orsini, Adrian Politowski, Emily Precious, Compton Ross, Beata Saboova, James Scott, Tim Smith, James Spring, James Swarbrick, Caddy Vanasirikul

Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Ricardo Del Rio, David Hoberman, John Jacobs, Todd Lieberman, Todd Y. Murata, Steve Nicolaides

Benji: Jason Blum, Marcei A. Brown, Brandon Camp, Joe Camp, Charles S. Cohen, Philip Dawe, Jennifer Dong, Charles Layton, Ben Ross, Couper Samuelson, James Schamus, Beatriz Sequeira, Jeanette Volturno

[mark Morris]

What I learned from this exercise is that there are a number of inter-connected relationships among producers. Some of them work with the same people over various projects. Its “who you know.”

MARK’S TARGET MARKET

SIMILAR FILMS/TV Series

Final Destination

(Producers)

Chris Bender – assoc prod

Richard Brener – Exec prod

Glen Morgan – Prod

Craig Perry – Prod

Art Schaefer – co-prod

Brian Witten – exec prod

Warren Zide – prod

Wayward Pines

M. Night Shyamalan – exec prod

Donald De Line – exec prod

Ashwin Rajan – exec prod

Shawn Williamson – prod

Patrick Alson – prod

Ron French – prod

Cathy Frank – co-prod

Fringe

Bryan Burk – exec prod

Tamara Isaac – prod

Alex Kurtsman – exec prod

Tanya Swerling – prod

Cathy Lingg – prod

Joe Chappelle – exec prod

David Fury – co-exec prod

Andrew Kreisberg – co-exec prod

X-Files

Ken Horton – Cons Prod

Darin Morgan – cons prod

charles Grant Craig – Sup prod

Frank Spotnitz – exec prod

Rob Bowman – prod

Joseph Patrick Finn – prod

Stranger Things

Dan Cohen – exec prod

Shawn Levy – exec prod

Rand Geiger – prod

Justin Doble- prod

Karl Gajdusek – exec prod

Cindy Holland – prod

William Bridges – co-prod

Directors

Andrew Stanton

Andrew Stanton TV Series

For All Mankind

Ronald D Moore

Nichole Beattie

Maril Davis

Ben McGinnis

Ben Nedivi

Steve Oster

Bradley Thompson

Patricia Valenzuela

David Weddle

Matt Wolpert

Seth Edelstein

Tales From the Loop

Rafi Crohn

Nathaniel Halpern

Robert Petrovicz

Legion

John Cameron

Noah Hawley

Regis Kimble

Simon Kinberg

Derek Hoffman

Brian Leslie Parker

Eric Holmberg

Steve Blackman

LIST OF ACTORS

Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Liv Tyler, Felicity Jones, Ryan Gosling

Ryan Reynolds Films/TV

The Adam Project

David Ellis

Dana Goldberg

Don Granger

Shawn Levy

Taylor Kitsch Film /TV

Shadowplay (The Defeated)

David Dvoli – exec prod

Jason Cloth – co-exec prod

Aaron Gilbert – exec prod

Rick McCallum – prod

Battleship

Sarah Aubrey

Peter Berg

Brian Goldner

Duncan Henderson

Producer – Phillip J. Roth (Post Impact)

Liv Tyler Film/TV

Armageddon

Michael Bay

Gale Anne Hurd

Jerry Bruckheimer

Ad Astra

Dede Gardner

James Gray

Anthony Katagas

Jeremy Kleiner

Marc Butan

Jeffrey Chan

Paul Conway

Ryan Gosling Film/TV

Blade Runner 2049

Andrew Kosove

Broderick Johnson

[Gordon Roback]

Assignment 10

Gordon Roback I had not thought of looking up the producers of films starring actors I’d like to appear in my film. I now have a wide range of producers to approach.

Camerone: Action Adventure

Before Camerone they were the scum of the earth. After Camerone the men of the French Foreign Legion were regarded as some of the best soldiers in the world.

Five films similar to Camerone: Fury, The Last Duel, Hyena Road, King Arthur and The Messenger (Joan of Arc)

Four Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Zac Ephron, Chris Pine and Adam Driver.

Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant) (Mexican Director)

Chris Pine – Wonder Woman

Produced by

Fury producers

David Ayer…producer

Bill Block…producer

Jeremy Johns…co-producer

John Lesher…producer

Anton Lessine…executive producer

Alex Ott…executive produce

rBrad Pitt…executive producer

Sasha Shapiro…executive producer

Ethan Smith…producer

Owen Thornton…associate producer

Ben Waisbren…executive producer

Heyena Road Produced by

Jake Gyllenhaal Prince of Persia

Produced by

King Arthur Produced by

Producers: Gods and Kings (Ripley Scott)

Michael Costigan…executive producer

Russell Crowe…producer

Michael Ellenberg…co-executive produce

rBrian Grazer…producer

Ryan Kavanaugh…executive producer

Nikolas Korda…co-producer

Keith Rodger…associate producer

Charles J.D. Schlissel…executive producer

Ridley Scott…producer

Jim Whitaker…executive producer

Kingdom of Heaven – producers

Karim Abouobayd…line producer: Morocco

Mark Albela…co-producer

Bruce Devan…co-producer

Lisa Ellzey…executive producer

José Luis Escolar…line producer: Spain

Teresa Kelly…associate producer

Branko Lustig…executive producer

Henning Molfenter…co-producer

Terry Needham…executive producer

Denise O’Dell…co-producer

Thierry Potok…co-produce

Ridley Scott…producer

Ty Warren…associate producer

The last duel – Producers

The Messenger: Joan of Arc

The Revenant Alejandro G. Inarritu

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Troy Produced by

The Lucky One – Zac Ephron

[Guil Parreiras]

ASSIGNMENT

Guil’s Target Market

What I learned doing this assignment is that by researching producers who have had projects similar to mine in budget and/or genre, I can better focus on a network of connections that may have an interest in my project.

Title: The Filmmaker’s Revenge or The Dreammaker’s Revenge (TBD)

Genre: Crime/Drama

Logline: A jaded screenwriter with a mean streak, a desperate director, a shark producer with a past, and a gullible porn actor are woven into a tale of kidnapping, betrayal and murder.

1) Make a list of five or more movies that are similar to yours and five actors that you might want to play your lead characters.

Movies: Drive, Hurlyburly, The Player, Killing Zoe, Reservoir Dogs, Swimming with Sharks, Suicide Kings.

Actors for the main role: Ezra Miller, Evan Peters, Taron Egerton, Charlie Heaton, Josh Hutcherson.

2) Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project.

Producers:

From Reservoir Dogs: Lawrence Bender, Richard N. Gladstein.

From HurlyBurly: Carl Copaert, Lila Yacoub, Frederick Zollo.

From Drive: Frank Capra III, Garrick Dion, David Lancaster, Bill Lischak, Michel Litvak, Linda McDonough, Jonathan Oakes, John Palermo, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker, Chris Ranta, Peter Schlessel, Adam Siegel, James Smith, Jeffrey Stott, Gary Michael Walters.

From Suicide Kings: Patrick Peach, Wayne Allan Rice

From The Player: Cary Brokaw, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler

and many more…

[Deleted User]

What I learned: That marketing is a lot of work. And even after you get your lists, it’s still a challenge to find your target. Welcome to reality. Thanks.

Karen Crider/ Targeting Markets

Script Title: How to Train Your Tutu,

Genre: Comedy

Concept: A frenzied, teen ballerina practices unorthodox methods to fit into her tutu, so it fits for life, after imbibing doughnuts for months during Covid 19.

Theme: Does the ballerina make the tutu; or does the tutu make the ballerina?

LOGLINE: A frenzied, teenage ballerina struggles to emulate her late mother’s ballet career, against her father’s will, and a devious competitor, hell-bent on taking every competition, including the boy they both love

Actors:

Protagonist—Anna Kendrick

Antagonist– Emily Blount

Protagonist’s Dad– who wants her to be a nurse. (She wants to be a ballet dancer) Henry Thomas

Owner of Syd’s Hock Shop: James Garner

Best friend to Protagonist: Mia Sera

Boyfriend both antagonist and protagonist love —Matthew Broderick.

Protagonist’s brother—A Billy the Kid, immersed inside a Dennis the Menace entity who’s 7y/o.

Ballet teacher-Ashley Judd

Spam—their dog

MOVIES:

#1. Dead Poet’s Society:

Steven Haft

Paul Jungar Witt

Tony Thomas

Connection: Protagonists in both movies are father dominated to become someone they are not.

Peter Weir—Director

Known for

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (I) (2010), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989)

Master and Commander Producers:

Tom Arroe

Co-producer: Alan B. Curtis

Executive Producer: Samuel Goldwin, Jr.

Producer: Mayer Gotlieb

Mayer Gotlieb

Todd Arnow

Alan B. Curtis

The Way Back Producers:

Steven Haft, Duncan Henderson, Paul Junger Witt

Tony Thomas

Joni Lewin

Nigel Sinclair

Peter Weir

Mohamed Khakaf Al-Nazrivoi

Tobin Armbrust

Ed Bogording

Scott Rudin

Niger Sinclair

Jonathan Schwartz

Witness producers:

Edward S. Feldman

Wendy Stites

David Bombyk

#2. Anna Kendrick: The movie, Pitch Perfect

Script Connection: Young characters, artists, comedy.

Producers:

Elizabeth Banks

Paul Brooks

Max Handelman

Jeff Levine

Jonathan Shore

Director: Elizabeth Banks, her movies are not a reflection of mine. No comedy genres.

#3. The Movie, Spin: Stuck in a routine of her controlling parents, a child prodigy struggles to be free.

Connection to: How to Train Your Tutu: same goals as my ballerina with her controlling father.

Producers: Todd Black, Steve Tish- Forrest Gump, Will Gluck- Easy A, Tom Sternberg, Max Minghella.

Director: None listed

#4. The movie, Easy A: A clean cut high school student relies on the rumor mill to advance her social/ financial standing.

Connection to” How to Train your tutu: Both clean cut girls, both high schoolers, both looking to advance their lives in their given area.

Producers: Zanne Divine, Will Gluck, Penn Badgley, Alicia Emmvich, Will gluck,

Will Gluck known for Easy A;

Friends with Benefits, Peter Rabbit, The Michael J. show

Easy A

The Michael J, Show Producers:

Tami Sagher

Michael J. Fox

Will Gluck

Sam Layborne

Paul Matthe

Richard Schwartz

Maggie Bandur

Alex Reid

Leela Dtrachan

Bob Waxler

Lori Zimmet

Dan Rubin

Emily Cutter

Elicea Bessette

#5.The movie, Bad Words:

Bad Words (2013)

89 min | Comedy, Drama

A spelling bee loser sets out to exact revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win as an adult.

Director

Jason Bateman—The Michael J, Show- Comedy/family

Producers

Jason Bateman | Jeff Culotta | Sean McKittrick | Mason Novic

[Lonnie Nichols]

Lonnie’s Target Market

What I learned: I have worked with IMBpro in the past, so this was learning to “tweek” the process. I looked for actors as well as producers and directors this time, with focus on Producers.

Title: Elevator Down

Genre: Sci-fi/Mystery

Logline: A kidnapped boy struggles to escape an underground cult of shape-shifting reptoids who kidnap and clone world leaders, then send them to the surface to take control of world governments and economies.

Movies (comps):

American Horror Stories – most recent

X-file Series – on Ets/paranormal

Star Trek – various

Creature from the Black Lagoon

The Fly

Actors:

Sam: Ben Affleck

Jessica: Nina Arianda

(Jessica/back up): Emma Stone

Detective: Vincent D’Onofrio

Police Chief: Lance Reddick

Senator: Anya Taylor-Joy

I have over 200 producers in my genre from Imbdpro and Linkedin. I have been gathering since Jan of this year.

10/15/21 lesson 9

[John Vanis]

John’s Target Market

What I learned doing this assignment is to do my due diligence. Research is key. Also, the movies I chose have similarities to mine but they have a budget four times larger. I assume it’s because of the talent.

Title: Potty Mouths

Genre: Comedy

Logline: After the moms leave for a bachelorette party, we hear the curse filled thoughts of two infants as they are left with their inexperienced dads for five days.

Similar movies : Bad moms, Good boys, Blockers, Superbad and Look who’s talking.

Actors for Michael: Jesse Plemons, Scott Eastwood, Liam Hemsworth, Nicholas Hoult, Thomas Felton

Actors for David: Jonathan Majors, Tyler James Williams, Dayo Okeniyi

Actors for Baby Billy’s voiceover: Seth Rogen, Mark Wallberg, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel

Actors for Baby Abby’s: Tiffany Tiffany Haddish, Regina King, Leslie Jones, Maya Rudolph

List of producers:

Bad Moms: Oren Aviv, Bill Block, Adam Fogelson, Mark Kamine, Robert Simonds, Daniel Tang, Suzanne Todd, Zhongjun Wang, Zhonglei Wang, Jerry Ye

Good Boys: Lee Eisenberg, Josh Fagen, Brady Fujikawa, Evan Goldberg, Nathan Kahane, John Powers Middleton, Seth Rogen, James Weaver, John Phillips, Dan Clarke, Kelli Konop

Blockers: Chris Cowles, Joe Drake, Josh Fagen, Chris Fenton, Evan Goldberg, David Stassen, Nathan Kahane, Jon Hurwitz, Jonathan McCoy, Seth Rogen, Hayden Schlossberg, James Weaver, Kelli Konop, Spencer Wong, Ariel Shaffir, Kyle Hunter, Brady Fujikawa, Joseph Amarel

Superbad: Evan Goldberg, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Shaune Robertson, Dara Weintraub

Look Who’s Talking (reboot): Adam Fields

[Deleted User]

I learned it is easy to do the research on IMDB, it’s almost like someone did it for me (they did). I learned that there are a lot more producers out there than I thought, and once you find one, finding more is like falling dominoes. I do wonder why a producer of a big movie, wouldn’t take a try at a smaller budget movie if the potential for profit is just as high. (I did not find the link to a video that Hall mention where he did the same search for a Horror Movie. Did anyone else see the link?)

Title: Flint Hill

Logline: When a young boy’s father takes a traveling sales job in a new town, he is left to save his sister and pregnant mother from a dead girl who will kill to be part of their family.

Genre: Horror/Supernatural Thriller

Five or more movies that are similar to yours: The Others, A Quiet Place, Ouija, It, The Conjuring, The Shining

Five actors that you might want to play your lead characters:

Hero: Oakes Fegley, Mason Shea Joyce, Gavin McHugh, Paxton Booth, Christian Convery

Antagonist: Helena Zengel, Honor Davis-Pye, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Juliet Donenfeld, Jadyn Malone

The Mother: Anya Taylor-Joy, Julianne Hough, Amanda Seyfried, Kate Mara, Jennifer Lawrence

Sheriff Ward: Brad Pitt, Nicholas Cage, Viggo Mortensen, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin (I know, none of them would want a bit part, but the next movie in the series has the 50+ something sheriff as the lead character. The movie is his.)

1. http://www.imdb.com 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project.

The Others Producers:

Fernando Bovaira … producer

Eduardo Chapero-Jackson … associate producer

Tom Cruise … executive producer

José Luis Cuerda … producer

Miguel Ángel González … line producer

Emiliano Otegui … line producer

Sunmin Park … producer

Rick Schwartz … executive producer

Paula Wagner … executive producer

<s>Bob Weinstein</s> … executive producer

<s>Harvey Weinstein</s> … executive producer

It producers:

Richard Brener … executive producer

Doug Davison … executive producer

Toby Emmerich … executive producer

Marty P. Ewing … executive producer

Seth Grahame-Smith … producer (produced by) (p.g.a.)

Walter Hamada … executive producer

David Katzenberg … producer (produced by) (p.g.a.)

Niija Kuykendall … executive producer

Roy Lee … producer (produced by)

Dan Lin … producer (produced by)

Barbara Muschietti … producer (produced by) (p.g.a.)

Dave Neustadter … executive producer

Jon Silk … executive producer

Ouija Producers

Michael Bay … producer (produced by)

Jason Blum … producer (produced by)

Stephen Davis … producer (produced by)

Phillip Dawe … co-producer

Andrew Form … producer (produced by)

Brad Fuller … producer (produced by)

Brian Goldner … producer (produced by)

Victor Ho … executive producer

Trevor Macy … executive producer

Couper Samuelson … executive producer

Jeanette Volturno … executive produce

etc.

[Mark Abel]

Mark Abel’s Target Market

What I learned doing this assignment is…

I need more industry connections.

ESCAPEGOAT

Adventure/Thriller

Exiled after his entire audience dies in a theater fire, a reckless escape artist can only alleviate his guilt by solving the ultimate trap within a mysterious, lost oasis

COMPS

-Three Kings

-Now You See Me

-Pirates of the Caribbean

-Sahara

-The Prestige

-Hidalgo

ACTORS/ACTRESSES

-Oscar Isaac, Dylan O’Brien, Timothee Chalamet

-Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Kirby

-Dev Patel

-Essam Ferris

-Hamzah Saman

COMPS’ PRODUCERS (22)

Three Kings

Director: David O’Russell

Producers: Paul Junger Witt, Edward L. McDonnell, Charles Roven

Her

Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay

American Hustle

Jonathan Gordon, Richard Suckle

Now You See Me 1&2

Directors: Louis Letterrier (1), Jon M. Chu (2)

Producers: Bobby Cohen, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci (1&2)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Director: Joachim Ronning

Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer

Sahara

Director: Breck Eisner

Producers: Stephanie Austin, Howard Baldwin, Karen Elise Baldwin, Mace Neufeld

The Last Witch Hunter

Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann

The Prestige

Director: Christopher Nolan

Producer: Aaron Ryder, Emma Thomas

Interstellar

Lynda Obst

Hidalgo

Director: Joe Johnston

Producer: Casey Silver

ACTORS’/ACTRESSES’ PRODUCERS (36)

Oscar Isaac

Ex Machina

Andrew MacDonald, Allon Reich

A Most Violent Year

J.C. Chandor, Neal Dodson

Dylan O’Brien

Love and Monsters

Dan Cohen, Shawn Levy

Bumblebee

Tom DeSanto

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Wes Ball, Marty Bowen

American Assassin

Lorenzo D. Bonaventura, Nick Wechsler

Timothee Chalamet

Dune

Cale Boyter, Joseph Caracciolo, Jr.

Beautiful Boy

Luke Davies, Felix van Groeningan

Hostiles

Scott Cooper, Ken Kao

Saoirse Ronan

Hanna

Marty Adelstein, Leslie Holleran

Vanessa Kirby

Everest

Nicky Kentish Barnes, Tim Bevan

Jupiter Ascending

Grant Hill

Dev Patel

Chappie

Simon Kinberg

The Last Airbender

Frank Marshall, Sam Mercer

Slumdog Millionaire

Christian Colson

Essam Ferris

American Terrorist

Charles Kopelson, John Buffalo Mailer

The Mercenary

Don Hollingshead

Hamzah Saman

Aladdin

Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin

X-Men: Apocalypse

Hutch Parker

Escape Plan

Robbie Brenner, Remington Chase, Randall Emmett, Kevin King Templeton

(58 – total)

[barry Voss]

Barry’s Target Market:

I learned how easy it is to trace through a feature film and identify producers, directors and actors who have attachments to other films and more producers, directors and actors.

Title: A Taste of Cold Steel.

Logline: When a Chicago gangster’s son attempts to reunite with his brother, his efforts threaten the organization; he must die. In confronting his father, a split second changes the son’s life: the brother dies, the father is shot and the son takes over the father’s business.

Genre: Crime-drama.

Similar Movies:

The Departed, Donnie Brasco, Goodfellas, Heat, The Irishman.

Reviewing producers and not actors and directors, I identified 29 producers associated with the above movies.

Five actors to play the lead roles:

Lucas Hedges(son); Walton Goggins(brother); Lance Henriksen(father); Michael Madsen(prisoner); Jason Patric(prosecutor).

[Robert Barhite]

“Eulogy for the Damned”

One-Hour Serial Western

To clear his name, a Black outlaw is forced to join forces with his ex-partner and recruit a gang of murderers before he’s deemed expendable.

What I learned doing this assignment is to keep digging on IMDB for likely producers. Don’t dismiss smaller production companies either.

Make a list of five or more movies that are similar to yours and five actors that you might want to play your lead characters.

Series Comps: Hell on Wheels, Godless, The Son, The Good Lord Bird, Justified, Longmire

Actor – Isaiah Cooper (protagonist): Brandon J. Bell, Jay Ellis, Aldis Hodge, Anthony Montgomery

Actor – Jeb Hesse (antagonist): Dean Winters, Samuel West, Jason Isaacs

Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project.

I expanded the search beyond Western TV series and recent films and am focusing on action thriller series like “Justified” and “Sons of Anarchy.” I have aprox. 200+ targeted producers identified between IMDB and LinkedIn.

[Mike Mercer]

Michael Mercer’s Target Market =

Coming-of-Age Drama-Romance

Make a list of five or more movies that are similar to yours
and five actors that you might want to play your lead characters.

Lady Bird 2017 Comedy Drama $10-Million

Easy A 2010 Comedy Drama Romance $8-Million

Fault in Our Stars 2014 Drama Romance $12-Million

Little Women 2019 Drama Romance $40-Million

Diary of a Teenage Girl 2015 Comedy Drama Romance $2-Million

Perks of Being Wallflower 2012 Drama Romance $13-Million

Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to
100 producers (or more) for your specific project.

Lady Bird 2017 Comedy Drama $10-Million

Eli Bush, Producer

Evelyn O’Neill, Producer (also Little Women)

Scott Rudin, Producer

Jason Sack, Co-Producer

Alex G. Scott, Co-Producer

Lila Yacoub, Executive Producer

Easy A 2010 Comedy Drama Romance $8-Million

Zanne Devine, Producer

Will Gluck, Producer

Alicia Emmrich, Associate Producer

Mark B. Johnson, Co-Producer

Fault in Our Stars 2014 Drama Romance $12-Million

Marty Bower, Producer

Wyck Godfrey, Producer

Michele Imperato, Executive Producer

Isaac Klausner, Executive Producer

Ryan White, Executive Producer

Little Women 2019 Drama Romance $40-Million

Denise Di Novi, Producer

Amy Pascal, Producer

Robin Swicord, Producer

Adam Merims, Executive Producer

Arnon Milchan, Executive Producer

Rachel O’Connor, Executive Producer

Evelyn O’Neill, Executive Producer (also Lady Bird)

Diary of a Teenage Girl 2015 Comedy Drama Romance $2-Million

Miranda Bailey, Producer

Ann Carey, Producer

Bert Hamelinck, Producer

Madeline Samit, Producer

Debbie Brubaker, Co-Producer

Shari Geva, Associate Producer

Amanda Marshall, Executive Producer

Amy Nauiokas, Executive Producer

Michael Sagol, Esecutive Producer

Jorma Taccone, Executive Producer

Perks of Being Wallflower 2012 Drama Romance $13-Million

Lianne Halfon, Producer

John Malkovich, Producer

Russell Smith, Producer

Gillian Brown, Co-Producer

Stephen Chbosky, Executive Producer

Ava Dellaira, Associate Producer

Chris Gary, Associate Producer

James (Jim) Powers, Executive Producer

Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment
is…?” and put at the top of your work.

What I learned doing this assignment is (1) use IMDB Pro.com, (2) find popular, successful movies in Similar Genre, (3) see their Budgets, & (4) Make lists of those movies’ Producers, Executive Producers, Co-Producers, Associate Producers

Post your title, logline, genre, and the answers to #1 and #2
above on the forums.

Title = LOVE YOU FOREVER

Logline = In this coming-of-age drama-romance, Adam – a handsome, fun, affectionate guy – gets into simultaneous loving relationships with six girls who go through intense emotional rollercoasters.

Genre = Coming-of-Age Drama-Romance