Day 10 Assignments

[Warren Goldstein]

Lesson 10 Trust and Betrayal – Friends in High Places

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” Trust and betrayal build tension which is “hope” versus “fear” creating suspense to the story structure. So, by diminishing trust between characters this increases suspense which keeps the viewer on edge and the pages turning.

Make a list of the main characters.

1) Hero: Warren – Clairvoyant college student

a) Basic state – trusted

b) How might they really be trustable, but appear not trustable –

i) Dedicated in a relationship with his utmost desire to please his partner and make her happy, Jodi.

(1) Although he appears at times to be marginally dishonest in that he is only doing the things to attempt to become a doctor but doesn’t have his heart in it, only doing it so he can keep Jodi interested in him for her to marry him.

(2) This he believes is because she wouldn’t be content if he had chosen a different curriculum major other than pre-med or would be attempting to go into a different profession, such as music which he enjoys.

ii) He’s very caring about Jodi’s family but feels he must fudge it a bit around them.

(1) He’s not 100% trustworthy because he wants to rather believe that Jodi’s desire to only marry a doctor is from her upbringing, and because they are critical of him actually able to become a doctor and have too much of a hold over her. She confirms this about her being spoiled when she comments, “I have a car payment?”

(2) They are skeptical and unaccepting of his unbelievable psychic abilities’ endeavors, so Warren tries to hide those things until he turns everyone off when he rightly predicts the death of Jodi’s grandmother the day before it happens.

c) The circumstance that might cause him to switch from trustworthy would be:

i) He proposes to Jodi knowing he can’t afford an engagement ring and uses the excuse to her parents that it’s rather because he and Jodi want to pick it out together, forcing Jodi to save face for them both and go along with his excuse. She often comments to hide her shame of his behavior covering his ass by her saying, “Details, details”.

ii) if someone is skeptical of him, diminishing his self-worth, he must act accordingly.

(1) to defend himself and by putting himself in a better light regardless of how.

(2) He feels it’s all right for him to bend the truth not to cause embarrassment or discomfort in what he does or may do.

(a) When he has the vision of Jodi’s mother being strangled by the Socialite Strangler, he instead refers to his vision rather that it is one of his pool servicing customers than to make Jodi think he’s crazy and dispassionate in telling he about it.

(b) He doesn’t tell Jodi the truth about why he has gone to the police to report a murder and says rather it’s one of his pool cleaning customers instead of to report the murder was to be that of her mother in his vision.

(c) He neglected to tell Jodi at first that he after his first night at the Laughlin piano bar gig that he went back to a cocktail waitress’ apartment even though it honestly was only to drive her car for her while she drove another inebriated cocktail waitress’ car for her to get her home so not to drive dangerously intoxicated.

(d) He doesn’t tell her when he drove the car for the cocktail waitress that he saw her crashing and dying in a car accident. He only tells her about it after learning that girl Loraine died within a few days in a car accident as he envisioned.

(e) He doesn’t tell Jodi he is participating as a subject in his professor’s behavioral science experiment which is relying on his clairvoyant ability to know the future not wanting to upset her after he promised her not to see things for their family or friends.

(f) He doesn’t tell Jodi the truth about why he’s seeing the Professor.

(g) He doesn’t tell Jodi the purpose of which he’s being the subject for the experiment which is to change her mother’s fate because he has already seen her being strangled by the Socialite Strangler.

(h) He doesn’t tell Jodi that in the second session of the experiment, which he’s not telling her about anyway, that he has a vision of himself pushing her to the floor of her parent’s garage.

d) What circumstances might cause them to switch from one to the other?

i) Wanting to hide from Jodi that he is getting more involved with the Professor and is going to partake as a subject in a paranormal experiment.

ii) He believes that he is going to damage his marriage to Jodi.

iii) He believes he will have to attempt making greater efforts to get accepted into medical school.

iv) He will have to hide his prophetic visions from Jodi.

v) He needs to hide the real reason he went to the police to try to get their help.

2) Villain: – Chaplain Peter Anello

a) Basic state – trusted because of his religious principals

b) How might they NOT be trustable, but appear trustable?

i) Being secretive about his past.

(1) Nothing is known about his past other than his military service and he was a former cop and detective and crippled in the line of duty.

(2) He never mentions anything to anyone about his prior marriage.

ii) He as a man of the cloth makes “somewhat” flirtatious comments and attitudes to Detective Sue Hart but hides this using the veil of his religious dedication and goodie goodie manner of speech.

c) The circumstance that might cause him to switch from trustworthy would be

i) Obviously to hide that he is the Socialite Strangler.

ii) For him to attain more information from Warren as to exactly what Warren saw as to recognize who the Socialite Strangler is.

iii) To learn more details as to the circumstances surrounding the vision of the murder of Warren’s mother-in-law.

iv) To find out Warren’s in-laws’ street address so he can show up to retrieve the rake with his blood on it.

v) To find out when his in-laws won’t be there so he can retrieve the rake with his blood on it.

vi) How it would be possible to get into Warren’s in-laws’ garage without anyone knowing.

3) Red Herring Character: – Lieutenant Bill Bono

a) Basic state – Trustworthy

b) How might they appear trustable but may not be trustable?

i) Expecting him to give Detective Hart more help from him.

ii) Expecting him to give Detective Hart more respect publicly because she is a female detective. He says to the Chaplain, “I’m giving her enough rope.” And “She needs to earn her wings.”

iii) Having a devil may care attitude about catching the killer.

iv) Having it seem a bother for him to have to apprehend the killer.

v) Not giving Warren any interest or compassion as to the stress Warren is under while it is his mother-in-law who is to be murdered. He says, “Anyone would be happy knowing their mother-in-law was to get murdered.”

vi) Not respecting Warren’s sincerity and honesty by coming to the police before doing anything on his own to catch the killer.

vii) Trying to make it seem it’s because he’s not a woman that he can’t figure out more about the killer so he turns the case over to Detective Hart so that she might fail, and he won’t have to take the blame.

c) The circumstance that might cause him to switch from trustworthy would be:

i) He would want to hide something he might know from Detective Hart to sabotage her solving the case because he can’t. This is what makes him look like a red herring.

TRUST RELATIONSHIPS

Hero Warren / Villain Chaplain

1) TRUST: Warren eventually trusts the Chaplain but only after the Chaplain contacts Warren on his own to talk with him and having no one else who is showing any compassion or belief as to his visions.

2) DISTRUST: Warren distrusts the Chaplain’s Catholic conservative perspective that Warren shouldn’t communicate with spirits because they might be demonic belittling Warren’s ability to know the difference.

3) TRUST: Warren trusts the Chaplain’s religious education and experience as he quotes scriptures to warn Warren against dealing in the spiritual realm, but…

4) DISTRUST: Warren feels the Chaplain is rather proselytizing because Warren is Jewish.

5) TRUST: Warren respects that the Chaplain had been a detective and has some good insight into criminal behavior and how the police must work.

6) DISTRUST: Chaplain distrusts Warren and that he must test the accuracy of Warren’s visions, “test the spirits” the scriptures proclaim and this all might just be Warren’s imagination or to get dramatic attention drawn to him or fanciful thinking. Or,… are the spirits just trying to trick Warren?

Hero Warren / Jodi – agent of change

1) TRUST: Warren trusts Jodi because she is knowledgeable as a college graduate, responsible, and ambitious coming from a good stable family with good values.

2) DISTRUST: Warren distrusts Jodi because he fears if he doesn’t get into medical school she won’t remain married to him readily losing interest in him.

3) TRUST: Jodi trusts Warren because even him knowing her feelings about psychic phenomena or threats about a serial killer being at large and in the area of her parents’ house he has told her things she didn’t want to hear and wants to believe he will remain honest with her even wanting not to hear certain things.

4) DISTRUST: Jodi distrusts Warren because she thinks he doesn’t really want to become a doctor but is doing so just to please her and to get her to marry him because of that.

5) TRUST: Warren trusts Jodi that she wants to have a secure marriage and to have nice things. He can’t argue with that.

6) DISTRUST: Warren distrusts Jodi because she doesn’t really believe in his psychic ability but her disdain is conditional, such as until he was able to call out all the numbers on a roulette wheel and she thought that was okay and they could become rich with him doing that.

Warren / Professor Keller agent of change

1) TRUST: Warren believes Professor Keller has the knowledge to help to explain how and why Warren suddenly attained psychic abilities more than a decade after having a childhood head injury. He thinks Dr. Keller has all the answers to what is stressing him out.

2) DISTRUST: Warren believes that the Professor wants to help him deal with the dilemma of his vision of his mother-in-law’s future murder not believing that they would actually discover who the serial killer is and to stop it from happening. Rather it’s so that the Professor could have a means using Warren as the needed psychic, to use Warren realizing that there might be dangerous side effects to retro-intention and for Warren to attempt changing causes which lie in the future to only be able to prove his theory that “cause does not have to precede effect” so that he can get published and prove to his colleagues that he isn’t just a misguided dreamer and to save his tenure.

3) TRUST: Dr. Keller trusts that Warren is an authentic clairvoyant after having it proven in the class exercise where only Warren was able to precognitively draw out a picture of a clown’s face prior to an assistant professor randomly choosing a picture in an art book after the picture had been drawn.

4) DISTRUST: Dr. Keller distrusts Warren because he feels Warren might get cold feet and not go through with being used as a psychic for his experiment after spending hours already working with Warren and it might be because of his fear that Jodi would be a kibosh on everything he’s trying to accomplish sticking his neck out by attempting again to go against the established academia.

TRUSTED BUT SHOULDN’T BE

The chaplain

ISN’T TRUSTED BUT SHOULD BE

Lieutenant Bono

• This reply was modified 2 years, 12 months ago by  Warren Goldstein. Reason: forgot to put on TRUSTED BUT SHOULDN’T BE The chaplain and ISN’T TRUSTED BUT SHOULD BE Lieutenant Bono

[John Stimson]

John Stimson’s Target Market

Title: “The Terrorist”

A brilliant and charismatic engineering professor is also a think tank security expert who devises scenarios to protect people from terrorists, like him. He engages law enforcement investigators in an intense game of cat-and-mouse after his bomb destroys the federal courthouse in Seattle, and they’re the mouse.

Genre: Thriller

3. What I learned doing this assignment is you can select potential buyers of your script by targeting the producers who have produced films in your script’s genre and in a similar budget range because that is that producer’s niche.

1. Movies: Collateral, Drive, Nightcrawler, The American, Shattered

Lead actor: George Clooney, Jon Hamm, Kyle Chandler, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gerard Butler

2. Producers similar films:

COLLATERAL producers:

Bryan H. Carroll…associate producer

Gusmano Cesaretti…associate producer

Frank Darabont…executive producer

Michael Doven…associate producer: Mr. Cruise (uncredited)

Robert N. Fried…executive producer (as Rob Fried)

Peter Giulliano…executive producer

Julie Herrin…associate producer

Michael Mann…producer

Julie Richardson…producer

Chuck Russell…executive producer

Michael Waxman…co-producer

DRIVE producers:

Frank Capra III…co-producer

Garrick Dion…co-producer

Joe Fineman…associate producer

David Lancaster…executive producer

Bill Lischak…executive producer

Michel Litvak…producer

Linda McDonoough…executive producer

John Palermo…producer

Marc Platt…producer

Gigi Pritzker…producer

Chris Ranta…production: Odd Lot Entertainment

Peter Schlessel…executive producer

Adam Siegel…producer

James Smith…co-producer

Jeffrey Stott…executive producer

Gary Michael Walters…executive producer

NIGHTCRAWLER producers:

Betsy Danbury…executive producer

Garrick Dion…associate producer: Bold Films

Jennifer Fox…producer

Tony Gilroy…producer

Juliana Guedes…associate producer

Jake Gyllenhaal…producer

David Lancaster…producer

Michel Litvak…producer

Gary Michael Walters…executive producer

Stephanie Wilcox…associate producer: Bold Films

THE AMERICAN producers:

Anne Carey…producer (produced by)

George Clooney…producer (produced by)

Kevin Flatow…associate producer

Jill Green…producer (produced by)

Grant Heslov…producer (produced by)

Enzo Sisti…executive producer

Moa Westeson…line producer: Sweden unit

Ann Wingate…producer (produced by)

SHATTERED producers:

Jeff Abberley…co-executive producer

Martin Bigham…third party producer: Icon Entertainment International

Julia Blackman…co-executive producer

Pierce Brosnan…producer

Bruce Davey…executive producer

Marina Grasic…executive producer

Ron McLeod…co-producer

William Miorrissey…producer

Michael Potkins…line producer

Amanda Scarano…supervising producer: Chicago (as Amanda J. Scarano)

Beau St. Clair…executive producer

David Valleau…executive producer (as Dave Valleau)

William Vince…producer

[Lenore]

SWEETIE HEAVEN: Lenore Bechtel’s Target Market

From this assignment I learned that finding the right director is easy, but finding contact information for them is not. I hope we’ll cover that problem in one of the next lessons.

Logline: How can Meredith sing her own style and not alienate her Sweet Adeline family and remain a virgin and not lose her horny boyfriend?

Or

MUSIC MAN meets STRICTLY BALLROOM as Meredith wants to sing her own style without alienating her Sweet Adeline family and keep her chastity vow without losing her horny boyfriend.

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Five movies similar to SWEETIE HEAVEN:

WORK IT. TALL GIRL 2 . SEX APPEAL. HOLLYWOOD STARGIRL. CRUSH

Five actors who could play Meredith:

Ava Michelle, Sabrina Carpenter, Mika Abdalla, Grace VanderWaal, Angourie Rice

Producers who have produced rom/coms:

Tristram Miall Strictly Ballroom

Alicia Keys Work It

Elysa Koplovitz Dutton

Leslie Morgenstein

Corey L. Marsh Tall Girl 2

Mary Viola

Ryan Bennett Sex Appeal

Mark Fasano

Jeremy Garelick

Micky Liddell

Robbie Brenner

Andres Deane

Joey King

Ellen Goldsmith-Veing Hollywood Stargirl

Jordan Horowitz

Lee Stollman

Scott Aversano The Paper Boy

Scott Rudin

Chris Bender Senior Year

Timothy M. Bourne

Todd Garner

Rebel Wilson

Andrew Rouleau. What If

Danielle Renfrew Crush

Ryan Bennett

Andrew Miano The Farewell

Katie Newman The Last Man on Earth

Will Phelps Big Time Adolescence

Ben Poppleton The Ivies

Tara Riedl Crush

Britta Rowings Fatherhood

Maya Rudolph

Paul Weitz About a Boy

Chris Weitz

Reese Witherspoon

Ric Kidney Legally Blonde

Marc Platt

Albert Berger Election

David Gale

Keith Samples

Ron Yerxa

Gary Barber Four Christmases

Roger Birnbaum

Jonathan Glickman

Julie Ansell

James L. Brooks

Laurence Mark

Paula Weinstein 32

Stokely Chaffin Sweet Home Alabama

Neal H. Moritz

Sandra Varona. Filly Brown

Kip Calendine Valley Girls

Tina Iviev

Biaanca Malinowski

[Melanie Forchetti]

Melanie’s Target Market

What I learned is to have an open mind about getting your project out to a producer. If you look hard enough, you can find cracks in Hollywood’s walls.

Title: Murder, Ink

Genre: Thriller

Logline: A young author discovers a killer is using her latest thriller as a plot for her own death.

Similar Movies: The Little Things, Knives Out, The Woman in the Window, The Girl on the Train, Things Heard & Seen, Night Crawler, The Weekend Away, and Windfall.

Actors for the lead role of “Blake”: Jodie Comer, Cara Delavigne, Lili Reinhardt, Lily Rose Depp, Josephine Langford

Actors for the villain role of “Craig”: Henry Cavill, Jack Whitehall, Cillian Murphy, Sebastian Stan, Ben Whishaw

Knives Out

Rian Johnson

Ram Berman

Leopold Hughes

Tom Karnowski

Nikos Karamigios

The Woman in the Window

Eli Bush

Anthony Katagas

Scott Rudin

The Girl on the Train

Jared Leboff

Marc Platt

Holly Bario

Deb Dyer

The Little Things

Mike Drake

Mark Johnson

Kevin McCormick

Donald Sparks

Night Crawler

Betsy Danbury

Garrick Dion

Jennifer Fox

Juliana Guedes

David Lancaster

Michel Litvak

Gary Michael Walters

Stephanie Wilcox

The Weekend Away

Sarah Alderson

Kari Hatfield

Rukmani Jones

Veselin Karadjov

Charlie Morrison

Andrew Noble

Ben Pugh

Joseph King Salwen

Erica Steinberg

Windfall

Lily Collins (actress too)

Rick Covert

Ravid Duque-Estrada

Stephen Gans

Lisa G. Hannusch

Justin Lader

Robert Patrick Malkassian

Charlie McDowell

Duncan Montgomery

Alex Orlovsky

Jesse Plemons

Elika Portnoy

Lisa Richardson

Jason Segel

Jack Selby

Andrew Kevin Walker

Things Heard & Seen

Stefanie Azpiazo

Sheri Springer Berman

Julie Cohen

Peter Bron

Stephen Lipross

Peter Pastorelli

Robert Pulcini

[Robert Bland]

Bob Bland… TARGET MARKET

Learned? How to use IMDb to garner more producer leads for my project by researching similar movies with similar production budgets and the actors that might play in my particular movie.

Doc Band-Aid. Drama/romance

Logline: Set in the late ‘70s, when a traumatized, homeless vet catches a glimpse of his Vietnamese fiancé who he thought died in the war, he is driven to try for one, last improbable chance at happiness, only to discover that she is unwilling to risk falling in love again.

MOVIES: Manchester by the Sea, Brooklyn, When a Man Loves a Woman, Forest Gump. Silver Linings Playbook. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Blue Valentine. Once. Born on the Fourth of July

ACTORS: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evins, Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Holland, Timothee Chalamet

Blue Valentine. 1M

Doug Dey..EP

Cassian Elwes…EP

Carrie Fix… Co Prod

Ryan Gosling…EP

*Lynette Howell Taylor..Prod

Jack Lechner…EP (The Fog of War)

*Alex Orlovsky…Prod

Scott Osman…EP

*Jamie Patricof…Prod

Rena Ronson..Co EP…..(Promising Young Woman)

Michelle Williams…EP (My Week with Marilyn)

Derek Cianfrance….director

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS…producers

–Rosie Alison…EP…Paddington

–Holly Bario…Co Prod

–Jeffrey Clifford…Prod…. Up in the Air

–David Heyman…Prod…Gravity

–Tom Karnowski…EP…. Knives Out

–Jonathan King…EP…The Light Between Oceans

–Jeff Skoll…. EP…. The Help

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA… 9M

–Declan Baldwin…EP

–Lauren Beck…Prod

–Matt Damon…Prod

–Josh Godfrey…. EP

–John Krasinski

–Bill Migliore…EP

–Chris Moore…Prod

–Kimberly Steward…Prod

–Kevin J. Walsh…Prod

Kenneth Lonergan…director

Gangs of New York

–Alberto Grimaldi

Analyze That

–Len Amato… EP

–Bruce Berman… EP

–Chris Brigham… EP

–Barry Levinson…EP

–Jane Rosenthal… P

You Can Count on Me… 1.2M

–Steve Carlis… EP

–Donald C Carter… EP

–Barbara De Fina… P

–John Hart… P

–Larry Meistrich… P

–Martin Scorsese… EP

–Jeffrey Sharp… P

–Morton Swinsky… EP

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind… 20M

–George Bermann…EP

–Anthony Bregman… P

–David L. Bushell…EP

–Steve Golin… P

–Charlie Kaufman…EP

–Glenn Williamson…EP

Michael Gondry…director

The Science of Sleep… 6M

–George Bermann… P

–Michael Gondry… P

–Frederic Junqua… P

[Mary Emmick]

Mary Emmick’s Target Market – Lesson 10

What I learned doing this assignment is how easy it is to do research to generate a list of potential buyers for my script. It’s important to target buyers based on genre, budget, connections to talent, etc. that are likely candidates for my script.

Title: Don’t Look Away, Isabel

Genre: Drama/Coming-of-Age

Logline: When a teen from a small farm town realizes who her fiancé is she struggles to find meaning and true love as she is confronted with discrimination and disinformation during the time of COVID-19.

Movies similar to mine/Producers

Me Before You (2016)

· Sue Baden-Powell, Executive Producer

· John Bernard, Line Producer

· Sal Jonas MacKinlay, Line Producer

· Alison Owen, Producer

· Karen Rosenfelt, Producer

· Joan Schneider, Line Producer

· Trent Walton, Executive Producer

Everything, Everything (2017)

· Arturo del Rio, Line Producer

· Victor Ho, Executive Producer

· Elysa Koplovitz Dutton, Producer

· Leslie Morgenstein, Producer

Midnight Sun (2018)

· Erika Abe, Producer

· Devin Andre, Producer

· David Boies, Executive Producer

· Katherine S. Chang, Producer

· Jen Gatien, Producer

· Tracey Jeffrey, Producer

· James McGough, Executive Producer

· Alan Ou, Executive Producer

· John Ricklard, Producer

· Zack Schiller, Producer

· Hiroki Shirota, Executive Producer

· Katie Silberman, Producer

· Scott Speer, Executive Producer

The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

· Julie Ansell, Producer

· Oren Aviv, Executive Producer

· James Bitonti, Producer

· Amy Brooks, Producer

· Pete Corral, Executive Producer

· Brendan Ferguson, Executive Producer

· Adam Fogelson, Executive Producer

· Richard Sakai, Producer

· Cathy Schulman, Executive Producer

· Robert Simonds, Executive Producer

· Donald Tang, Executive Producer

· Lisa Walder, Associate Producer

· Zhongjun Wang, Executive Producer

· Zhonglei Wang, Executive Producer

· Jerry Ye, Executive Producer

500 Days of Summer (2009)

· Veronica Brooks, Associate Producer

· Scott Hyman, Producer

· Mason Novick, Producer

· Jessica Tuchinsky, Producer

· Mark Waters, Producer

· Steven J Wolfe, Producer

Lady Bird (2017)

· Eli Bush, Producer

· Evylyn O’Neill, Producer

· Scott Rudin, Producer

· John Sack, Producer

· Alex G. Scott, Producer

· Lila Yacoub, Executive Producer

Some actors to play lead characters:

· Isabel Zuccotti – main actress – Talia Ryder

· Tom Zuccotti- father of Isabel – Sean Penn

· Debby Zucotti – mother of Isabel – Molly Ringwald

· Tyler Cramer – Isabel’s fiancé – young actor (18-21) someone like Ty Sheridan…although he is 25

· Senator Ted Cramer – Owen Wilson

[Laura Hyler]

Laura Hyler’s Target Market Assignment 10 6/7/2022

What I learned doing this assignment is that sometimes, it may make sense to also look at television movie producers as well.

Five Movies that are similar to mine in theme are:

1) Save the Last Dance (2001)- Producer(s)

a. Robert W. Cort

b. David Madden

2) Against the Ropes (2004) Producer(s)

a. Cort/Madden Productions

b. MTV Films

3) Finding Forrester (2000) Producer(s)

a. Laurence Mark Productions

b. Fountainbridge Films

c. Columbia Pictures

d. Finding Forrester Productions

4) Mississippi Masala (1991) Producer(s)

a. Mira Nair

b. Studio Canal Souss (owned by Stephen Swid, NY Fin)

c. Dist. By Palace Pictures (UK) Cinecom Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn

5) Guess Who (2005) Producer(s)

a. Jenno Topping

b. Erwin Stoff

6) Something New (2006) Producer

a. Stephanie Allain

7) Two Can Play That Game (2001) Producer(s)

a. Doug McHenry

b. Mark Brown

c. Paddy Cullen

8) Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996) TV Movie Producer(s)

a. Dan Paulson

b. Chi-en Telemaque

Laura Hyler’s Target Market Assignment 10 pg. 2 6/7/2022

9) Lakeview Terrace (2008) Producer(s)

a. James Lassiter

b. Will Smith

2. Actors that I think that I would like for the lead roles are:

Either Carrie Coon or Rose Byrne as Naomi and Either Lamman Rucker or Russell Hornsby as Kofi.

3) My Screenplay’s title is Fire ‘n Ice and my log line is: A naïve widow must learn how to handle racism, or risk losing the love of her life. The genre is Romantic Drama.

[Gordon Cowan]

Gordon’s Target Market

Title: Hardwired

Log: When mistakenly given a file outlining a wealthy psychopath’s heinous scheme, Gwen must trust her very survival to the deadly assassin who’s sent to retrieve it.

Genre: Thriller

What I learned: Data research the IMDB sites.

Six movies:

(NOTE: Not all found producers are listed below. But I know where to find them. What follows are only the first tier of producers from the listed movie).

1. Black Swan (2010) (1 Oscar win)

Producers: Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver

2. No Country for Old Men (2007)

Producers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin

3. Identity (2003)

Producer: Cathy Konrad

4. Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Producers: Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt

5. Atomic Blonde (2017)

Producers: A.J. Dix, Eric Gitter, David Guillod, Antony Johnston, Ildiko Kemeny, Beth Kono, Kelly McCormick, Nick Meyer, David Minkowski, Jeff Morrone, Anthony Muir, Joe Nozemack, Steven Scavelli, Marc Schaberg, Peter Schwerin, Ethan Smith, Charlize Theron,

6. John Wick (2014)

Producers: Basil Iwanyk, David Leitch, Eva Longoria, Mike Witherill

[Nancy Lucas]

Assignment 10

Nancy Lucas, Target Market

What I learned in this assignment is to dig deeper at the IMBD website to find producers who might be interested in my manuscript.

[I also wish that IMBD had a link to the SCRIPT that you could download. I would pay a premium for THAT !!]

A TROPICAL CHRISTMAS

MADE FOR TV ROMANTIC COMEDY

A big city lawyer re-discovers the magic of Christmas while planning his best friend’s wedding at a vintage beach motel in a small town.

5 movies similar to mine:

Christmas Next Door:

Director: Jonathan Wright, Mr Wright has an EXTENSIVE filmography, and many of them are made-for-tv movies. I feel he would be an excellent person to try to pitch to.

Stars Jessee Metcalf, Fiona Gebelmann

Christmas Under The Stars:

Director: Allan Harmon, who has also Directed The Christmas Calendar

Another Director: John Bradshaw

Stars: Jesse Metcalf ad Autumn Reeser

Christmas Under Wraps

Director: Peter Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan has an EXTENSIVE filmography and nearly all of them are made-for-tv and a good portion are Christmas movies. I feel Mr. Sullivan would be and EXCELLENT choice to try to pitch to.

Additional: J. E. Logan, producer

Stars: Candace Cameron Bure and David O’ Donnell

It Was Always You

Director: Michael Robison. Mr. Robison has an EXTENSIVE filmography- and a very great list of many of them with Hallmark. I feel Mr. Robison would be an EXCELLENT choice to try to pitch to. He has also Directed a number of my favorite movies- and would perhaps, give it the ‘flavor’ needed for a successful Rom-Com

Stars: Erin Krakow and Tyler Hynes

The 9 Lives of Christmas:

Director: Mark Jean While there was not a particular list—his BIO is incredible ‘More recently, Mark has been directing a steady stream of MOWs for Hallmark and Lifetime, consistently delivering highly rated, well-crafted films, on time and on budget.’

‘Mark Jean is a versatile and seasoned television director who has helmed more than 30 MOWs over the last decade, and has directed many hours of episodic television for several major networks. Mark has also made independent features, documentaries, television pilots, and PSAs, as well as an interactive exhibit for a major theme park. He has taught filmmaking at USC School of Cinematic Arts.’

I feel he would make an excellent choice to try to pitch to.

Stars: Brandon Routh and Kimberley Sustad