Day 10 Assignments

[Danielle Dillard]

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)

[Tracy Lawson]

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?

[Sky Canyon]

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

[Ron Horton]

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 Carver

Ted
Liam Hemsworth
Luke Bracey

Susan
Crystl Faye Horton
Kate Mara
Olivia Wilde
Blake Lively
Alicia Vikander
Felicity Jones

Marla
Vanessa Hudgrens

Felicity
Halley Berry
Isley Nicole Melton
Sanaa Lathan

I 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.

[LEE SKORE]

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

[Rodney Cavin]

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.

1.
Title: Abandoned To Die

Logline: 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.

[Lisa Molenda]

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

+13102345617 phone

2. Jemaine Clement

3. Ingrid Lageder

4. Paul Simms

5. Taika Waititi

hello@pikifilms.com

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:

Kristen Bell- representative Scott Winston 212-832–4008

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)