Lesson 10

[Isti Madarasz]

Isti Madarasz’s Target Market

What I’ve learned that there are MANY producers working on films and with actors I’m dreaming to reach out to. And it’s not that difficult to collect their names.

Title: KONTRAKT

Genre: sci-fi

Logline: The story is about a lawyer who has special powers so he can overwrite the laws of nature.

Movies similar in genre and budget:

Ex Machina 15M

The Lobster 4M

About time 12M

Under the skin 13M

Upgrade 5M

Producers connected to them:

Upgrade producers

Rosemary Blight

Jason Blum

Bailey Conway

Phillip Dawe

Stewart Dean

Kylie Du Fresne

Ben Grant

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones

Charles Layton

Michelle Russell

Couper Samuelson

Beatriz Sequeira

Jeanette Volturno

Leigh Whannell

Megan Wynn

Ex Machina producers

Andrew Macdonald

Allon Reich

Annihilation producers

Eli Bush

Allon Reich

Scott Rudin

Endless producers

Justin Benson

Aaron Moorhead

Thomas R. Burke

David Lawson Jr.

Leal Naim

Synchronic producers

David Lawson Jr.

Michael Mendelsohn

About time producers

Nicky Kentish Barnes

Tim Bevan

Eric Fellner

Under the skin producers

Nick Wechsler

James Wilson

Reno Antoniades

Gillian Berrie

Claudia Bluemhuber

Walter Campbell

Florian Dargel

Ian Hutchinson

Alexander O’Neal

Tessa Ross

Birth producers

Lizie Gower

Xavier Marchand

Nick Morris

Kate Myers

Mark Ordesky

Kerry Orent

Jean-Louis Piel

The Lobster producers

Simon Arnal

Caroline Benjo

Julie Billy

Cait Collins

Joost de Vries

Ceci Dempsey

Rory Gilmartin

Ed Guiney

Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

Yorgos Lanthimos

Sam Lavender

Andrew Loweó

Lee Magiday

Leontine Petit

Tessa Ross

Carole Scotta

Milan Ueffing

Derk-Jan Warrink

Actors I can imagine in my movie:

Miles Teller

Robert Pattinson

Paul Mescal

Miles Teller – Spiderhead

Sarah Bowen

Emily Cheung

Agnes Chu

Tommy Harper

Chris Hemsworth

Georgina Marquis

Eric Newman

Rhett Reese

Jeremy Steckler

Geneva Wasserman

Paul Wernick

Bryan Yaconelli

Miles Teller – The Offer

Dexter Fletcher

Leslie Greif

Kevin J. Hynes

Dalia Ibelhauptaite

Alex Kerr

Albert S. Ruddy

Alexandra Ruddy

Michael Tolkin

Nikki Toscano

Russell Rothberg

Barry M. Berg

Amanda Lencioni Barnett

Ernest Lupinacci

Miles Teller

Jan R. Martin

Michael Scheel

Robert Pattinson – The Lighthouse

Chris Columbus

Eleanor Columbus

Robert Eggers

Isaac Ericson

Rodrigo Gutierrez

Sam Hanson

Youree Henley

Caroline Levy

Sophie Mas

Arnon Milchan

Yariv Milchan

Caito Ortiz

Jeffrey Penman

Josh Peters

Lourenço Sant’Anna

Michael Schaefer

Rodrigo Teixeira

Alan Terpins

Jay Van Hoy

Michael Volpe

Paul Mescal – Aftersun

Lia Buman

Mark Ceryak

Kelly Duffell

Ipek Erden

Lizzie Francke

Kieran Hannigan

Tim Headington

Amy Jackson

Barry Jenkins

Ana Leocha

Adele Romanski

Neil Shah

Alex Sutherland

Eva Yates

[John Chabot]

John Chabot’s Target Market

I only did one movie because I found plenty of producers.

YOUR HIGHNESS (2011) 6 producers

Andrew Z. Davis

Executive Producer In Time (2011)

Mark Huffam

Executive Producer The Martian (2015)

Peter McAleese

Co-Producer The Jacket (2005)

Danny McBride

Executive Producer Pineapple Express (2008)

Jon Mone

Executive Producer (as Jonathan Mone) Battleship (2012)

Scott Stuber

Producer Volcano (1997)

David Gordon Green Director Of Your Highness

Another David Gordon Green project: Prince Avalanche

18 producers

James Belfer

Producer (produced by) Like Crazy (2011)

Brad Coolidge

Co-Executive Producer Joe (I) (2013)

Melissa Coolidge

Co-Executive Producer Joe (I) (2013)

Árni Filippusson

Executive Producer Either Way (2011)

David Gordon Green

Producer (produced by) Halloween Kills (2021)

Jody Hill

Executive Producer Observe and Report (2009)

Leo Joseph

Executive Producer Erased (2012)

Todd J. Labarowski

Executive Producer (as Todd Labarowski)

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby:

Them (2014)

Berndt Mader

Co-Producer Booger Red (2015)

Danny McBride

Executive Producer Pineapple Express (2008)

Tobias Munthe

Executive Producer Either Way (2011)

Lisa Muskat

Producer (produced by) Beckett (2021)

Matt Reilly

Executive Producer (as Matthew Reilly) The Fall Guy (2024)

Derrick Tseng

Producer (produced by) Joe (I) (2013)

Alexander Uhlmann

Co-Producer Joe (I) (2013)

Theo Youngstein

Executive Producer Either Way (2011)

Craig Zobel

Producer (produced by) Compliance (2012)

Davíd Óskar Ólafsson

Executive Producer The Valhalla Murders (2019)

James Franco Actor in Your Highness

Another James Franco project: The Disaster Artist

22 producers

Richard Brener

Executive Producer The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Michael Disco

Executive Producer Game Night (I) (2018)

Joseph Drake

Executive Producer (as Joe Drake) Juno (2007)

Toby Emmerich

Executive Producer Frequency (2000)

Ashleigh Erwin

Associate Producer

Untitled Lukas Nelson

Documentary

James Franco

Producer (produced by) Spring Breakers (2012)

Bruce Wayne Gillies

Line Producer (additional photography) Knives Out (2019)

Evan Goldberg

Producer (produced by) This Is the End (2013)

Vince Jolivette

Producer (produced by) Zola (2020)

Nathan Kahane

Executive Producer Juno (2007)

Kelli Konop

Executive Producer Don’t Breathe (2016)

Roy Lee

Executive Producer Barbarian (2022)

Alex McAtee

Executive Producer (as Alexandria

McAtee)

Long Shot (2019)

John Powers Middleton

Executive Producer Extinction (2018)

Dave Neustadter

Executive Producer Mortal Kombat (2021)

Scott Neustadter

Executive Producer 500 Days of Summer (2009)

Hans Ritter

Executive Producer Blue Beetle (2023)

Seth Rogen

Producer (produced by) This Is the End (2013)

Jonathan Watson

Co-Producer Arizona (2018)

James Weaver

Producer (produced by) This Is the End (2013)

Michael H. Weber

Executive Producer 500 Days of Summer (2009)

Erin Westerman

Executive Producer Always Be My Maybe (2019)

[Jane Alcala]

Jane Alcala: Target Markets

“Comediennes” a comedy

Logline: Desperate for viral fame, an ex-parolee turned comedian challenges her parole agent to a TV roast battle.

What I learned: A fast, efficient way of finding producers to query about my screenplay; and why it makes sense to query many producers, even at “lower rungs” of production, as they have the contacts that may be key in finding someone to read script.

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:

“The Big Sick,” “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” “The Farewell,” “The Comedian,” “I Love My Dad.”

1. Using the Targeting process above, go to and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project. I found over 100 producers and saved them to a list.

[Christi Falk]

EDIT: what I’ve learned is that the only producers accessible to me currently are the 1-5 million range. This means the story I’m working on will be for a later date. Bummer.

Christi’s Target Market

What I learned from this assignment is there are very few recent movies I can use for a reference as my genre isn’t often made. I’ve also learned I plunked down 125 bucks Canadian just to be told I need to put more money into IMDB pro to get contact info. Why does this feel like a pyramid scheme?

1. 5 or so movies:

Uncharted 2022 – Made for 120 million USD – WW gross- 407.1 million. Yeay for profit!

The Lady Vanishes- can’t find amounts but it’s okay because it’s over 10 years old. Producers probably long gone.

Lost City 2022 68 million USD budget – WW gross – 193 million.

Laura Croft 2001 – too old to consider producers. Probably dead by now.

2. Producers

Uncharted:

Ari and Avi Arad

David Bernad

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<b textlength=”12″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”18″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Robert J. Dohrmann

<b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Neil Druckmann – Last of us is a credit- CANADA!!!!

<b textlength=”16″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Christoph Fisser – Germany

<b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Ruben Fleischer

<b textlength=”12″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Alex Gartner

<b textlength=”12″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”17″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Henning Molfenter – Germany- has a production company

<b textlength=”12″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”17″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Asad Qizilbash- Last of us- pretty boy, may not have juice

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<b textlength=”16″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Margaret Chernin – intern in 2004 so hopefully she’s fully grown now.

<b textlength=”16″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Jonathan Hook- or JJ – Just did the recent road house remake. Possibly a good option.

<b textlength=”16″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Wow, not alot of producers for this film. I’m guessing its all Sandy B.

K, now Actors:

Minks – Matthew Lilliard – unfortunately, he didn’t make anything that resembles my script so no producers would take my call.

Wentworth Miller- Probably have to go with someone like him for the trans character as Hollywood would rent their garments. Actually, he hasn’t done anything since COvid began. Hopefully not dead.

Suzanne- Christina Hendricks – She did the remake of Crooked House- an Agatha Christie so score! but it was made with a 10 Million budget. So, Can’t use the producers. 🙁

Eustache- Jonny Lee Miller – Did Mindhunters in 2004- cost 27 million and only grossed 21 million. That was a crime!

Duncan – Eddie Cibrian – Perfect for the role but loves the low budget fare 3-5 million.

Russell Crowe- Fits my budget but nothing in the past 10 years that would match the genre so no producers to mine.

This is going to be an uphill battle! Only other thing I can think is Brannagh’s attempts at Christie.

Well, Death on the Nile was 90 million and Haunting in Venice was 60 million. Still over 50 Million as I budgeted. I suppose he could be the foppish Eustache. Yup, will put him first in line.

<b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Death on the Nile:

<b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Kenneth Branagh

<b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”11″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Mark Gordon

<b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Judy Hofflund – Horror producer. Good to know!

<b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Matthew Jenkins

<b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Simon Kinberg

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<b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”12″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Haunting in Venice- I hesitate to use this as it departed from Christie to be a straight up Horror.

<b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”12″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Duplicates are: <b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>Kenneth Branagh, <b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”><b textlength=”11″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Mark Gordon, <b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>Judy Hofflund, <b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Simon Kinberg, <b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>James Prichard and Ridley Scott.

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<b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”><b textlength=”15″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”13″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”><b textlength=”14″ data-testid=”hero__pageTitle”>Genre: Action Adventure

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by  Christi Falk.