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Lesson 10
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Joan Beesley
What I learned from this lesson is:
IMDbPro is an amazing database. However my genre is historical fiction which fits into both Drama or Family. As such, it took a very long time to look at all the titles to find a fit so I ended up doing my research by directly looking up names of films and actor’s work that more closely matched my genre.
The Junkman of Brooklyn
Historical Fiction/Magical Realism
A family saga about the rise and fall of a 3 year old Irish immigrant in 1854 who becomes a
scrap metal czar, salvaging destroyers and submarines for the Navy, then selling the
metal back to them for profit, so passing on the Art of the Deal is easy-peasy, right?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 Dig
Far and Away
The Godfather
Somewhere in Time
Meet Joe Black
Gangs of New York
Cillian Murphy
Pierce Brosnan
Robert Duvall
Brad Pitt
Matt Damon
Daniel Day Lewis
Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project.
Producer Database
Godfather
Albert S Ruddy
310-277698
albertsruddy@ruddyproductions.com
Vice President
alexandraruddy@ruddyproductions.com
Somewhere in Time
Stephen Deutsch
Legends of the Fall
Edward Zwick
Principal (Executive)
310-394-2697 phone
409 Santa Monica Blvd.
Penthouse
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Scent of a Woman
G. Mac Brown
William Morris Endeavor (WME) Entertainment
+1 310 285 9000 phone
9601 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Meet Joe Black
Celia D Costas
+1 424 288 2000 phone
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Ronald Schwary
William Morris Endeavor (WME) Entertainment
+1 310 285 9000 phone
9601 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
The Great Gatsby
Francis Ford Coppola
Executive
+1 415 788 7500 phone
916 Kearny St.
San Francisco, CA 94133- 5107
Field of Dreams
Lawrence Gordon Productions
President (Executive)
(310) 472-4615 phone
12011 San Vicente Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Brian E Franksih
Frankish-Benedict Entertainment
Producer/Owner
323-650-0811 phone
Far and Away
Ron Howard
Executive Chairman (Executive)
+1 310 858 2000 phone
150 S. El Camino Drive
Suite 100
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Cider House Rules
Lila Yacoib
+1 310 273 6700 phone
UTA Plaza
9336 Civic Center Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Harvey Weinstein
Phone: +1 212 941 3800
c/o Weinstein Company
375 Greenwich St
New York, NY 10013
Meryl Poster
Executive
646-856-8511 phone
235 E. 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
Leslie Holleran
Holleran Company President (Producer)
914-715-3127 phone
212-501-7009 alt. phone
490 West End Ave #9D
New York, NY 10024
Richard Gladstein
FilmColony President / Producer
323-380-7265 phone
Gangs of New York
Alan C. Blomquist
Independent Artist Group (IAG)
+1 310 888 4200 phone
10585 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Rick Schwartz
917-974-5004 phone
Graham King
CEO (Producer)
+1 310 315 1722 phone
Santa Monica, CA
Gerry Robert Byrne
Gerry Robert Byrne
917-705-7148 phone
The Dig
Gabrielle Tana
Brouhaha Entertainment
Email: info@brouhahaent.com
99 Kenton Road
London, ENGLAND HA30AN
United Kingdom
Phone: 2123665044
Email: info@magnoliamaefilms.com
920 Lincoln Place
Brooklyn, NY 11213
United States
Anne Sheehan
Redmond Morris
Redmond Morris
+353879673333 phoredmondmorris@icloud.com
Murray Ferguson
Clerkenwell Films CEO (Executive)
+44 (0)20 7608 2726 phone
+44 (0)20 7608 2226 fax
82-84 Clerkenwell Road
2nd Fl
London, England EC1M 5RF
UK
Carolyn Marks Blackwood
2123665044 phone
920 Lincoln Place
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Titanic
Jon Landau
COO (Executive)
+1 310 727 2500 phone
1600 Rosecrans Ave
Bldg 5A
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
James Cameron
Co-Chairman (Executive)
+1 818 565 0005 phone
+1 818 861 3950 fax
2020 N Lincoln St
Burbank, CA 91504
The Lake House
Erwin Stoff
Partner / Manager (Executive)
+1 (310) 888-3200 phone
+1 (310) 888-3210 fax
9460 Wilshire Blvd.
7th Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Sonny Mallhi
Wonder Street424-204-9970 phone
1524 Cloverfield Ave
Suite F
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Roy Lee
Producer (Executive)
+1 323 785 5350 phone
1151 N. Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Dana Goldberg
Skydance Media Chief Creative Officer (Executive)
+1 424 291 3400 phone
2900 Olympic Blvd.
4th Floor
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Doug Davison
2260 E Maple Ave, El Segundo
CA 90245
Oppenheimer
James Woods
(310) 247-2100 phone
9348 Civic Center Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
J. David Wargo
Phone: +1 310 551 1611
10100 Santa Monica Blvd.
Suite 1500
Los Angeles, CA 90067
USA
Emma Thomas
Producer
4000 Warner Blvd.
Building 81, Suite 203
Burbank, CA 91522
Charles Roven
President & Co-Founder (Executive)
+1 310 786 4935 phone
9200 Sunset Blvd
10th Fl
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Christopher Nolan
Directors Guild of America (DGA)
National Board Member
+1 310 289 2000 phone
+1 800 421 4173 alt. phone
+1 310 289 2029 fax
7920 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Helen Medrano
Thomas Hayslip
+1 424 288 2000 phone
+1 424 288 2900 fax
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
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Richard Senne’s Target Market
Title: Precise Strike
Genre: Action/Thriller
Logline: After a deadly bio-weapon attack the sole survivor must evade a psychopath, who needs her blood, before destroying Washington DC.
What I learned doing this assignment is… it takes some time, but there are a whole lot of producers to go to. Many don’t have emails, but that’s ok. Some surprises and I see some recurring names, because they are busy making movies – I want those.
List of movies:
Tomb Raider
Salt
Lucy
Black Widow
Peppermint
50 – 100 producers:
Tomb Raider (2018):
Noah Hughes – Executive Producer
Graham King – Producer
Patrick McCormick – Executive Producer
Denis O’Sullivan – Executive Producer
Alica Vikander – Lara Croft
Alica Vidander – Beckett (2021):
Marco Colombo – Executive Producer
Giovanni Corrado – Executive Producer
Salt (2010):
William M. Connor – Associate Producer
Ryan Kavanaugh – Executive Producer
Ric Kidney – Executive Producer
Mark Vahradian – Executive Producer
David Ready – Production Executive
Angelina Jolie – Evelyn Salt
Liev Schreiber – Ted Winter
Angelina Jolie – Eternals (2021):
Victoria Alonso – Executive Producer
Mitchell Bell (Mitch Bell) – Co-Producer
Kevin da la Noy – Executive Producer
Louis D’Esposito – Executive Producer
Kevin Feige – Producer
Nate Moore – Producer
Laun Cano Nono – Producer
Andreas Wentz – Producer
Liev Schreiber – The 5<sup>th</sup> Wave (2016):
Lynn Harris – Producer
Graham King – Producer
Tobey Maguire – Producer
Patrick McIntire – Consulting Producer
Richard Middleton – Executive Producer
Denis O’Sullivan – Executie Producer
Matthew Plouffe – Producer
Ben Waisbren – Executive Producer
Liev Schreiber – Creed (2015):
Robert Chartoff – Producer
William Chartoff – Producer
Sylvester Stallone – Producer
Nicolas Stern – Executive Producer
Kevin King Templeton – Producer
Charles Winkler – Producer
David Winkler – Producer
Irwin Winkler – Producer
Lucy (2014):
Virginie Besson-Silla – Producer
Marc Shmuger – Executive Producer
Black Widow (2014):
Victoria Alonso – Executive Producer
Mitchell Bell (Mitch) – Co-Producer
Brian Chapek – Co-Producer
Louis D’Esposito – Executive Producer
Jamie Christopher – Associate Producer
Kevin Feige – Producer
Nigel Gostelow – Executive Producer
Scarlett Johansson – Executive Producer
Brad Winderbaum – Executive Producer
Peppermint (2018):
Felice Bee – Executive Producer
Adam Folgelson – Executive Producer
David Kern – Executive Producer
Gary Lucchesi – Producer
James McQuaider – Executive Producer
Eric Reid – Producer
Tom Rosenberg – Producer
Jackie Shenoo – Co-Producer
Robert Simonds – Executive Producer
Renee Tab – Executive Producer
Donald Tang – Executive Producer
Christopher Tuffin – Executive Producer
Zongjun Wang – Executive Producer
Zhonglei Wang – Executive Producer
Richard S. Wright (Richard Wright) – Producer
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What I learned doing this assignment is that I don’t have to pay $2500 for a studio database to access contact information for producers; IMDBpro has most of it. I also learned that I haven’t “exhausted the market” just yet based on Hal’s comprehensive method for building a list of producers to target. Also, if you’re pitching to a Drama producer, then you have a “Drama” script. If you’re pitching to a Comedy producer, then you have a “Comedy” script. Pitching my script as a “Dramatic comedy” (which I had been doing before) could be a hard sell because it’s two genres essentially. Response rate to query emails can average as low as 5-7% (I’m 0 for 50 this week). Snail mail might stand out since it’s not used as much anymore. Otherwise, I might have to psych myself up to (gasp) pitch by phone.
Logline: Based on the timely Chicago Tribune “Best Book of the Year,” STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER tells the comedic mostly-true story of an Asian refugee who’s trying to survive high school in the awesome 80’s. Through junk food and pop culture, it chronicles an awkward yellow girl’s quest to become a normal American teen when the kids are all white.
Genre: Comedy
Similar movies:
BOOKSMART
THE FAREWELL
MID90S
EIGHTH GRADE
THE WAY WAY BACK
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
SUPERBAD
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
THE DUFF
(I’ll spare everyone the deep-dive I did on each movie and their lists of producers)
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PP 10- Aurora’s Target Market
I learned that with IMDB pro it is easy to get the contact info on all these producers. To my surprise there were so many that I tried to pick from only the highest rated series and films. I was also surprised to see that in many cases different producers were used in various episodes of the series, creating more opportunity for contact with producers of similar experience.
Five+ Similar Faith-Based Historical Drama TV miniseries and feature films
Risen (2016)
The Passion of Christ (2004)
Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)
The Bible Miniseries (2013)
AD The Bible Continues Miniseries (2015)
Eyewitness Bible series (2018)
The Bible Collection (1998-1999)
The Chosen Series (2018- )
Potential Producers for my project
Bruce Davey (I), Mel Gibson, Steve McEvrety –Producers of The Passion
Patrick Aiello (II), Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon- Producers of Risen
LightWorkers Media (Roma Downey)- Exec Producer of The Bible (2013)
Sean Daniel, Duncan Henderson, Joni Levin- Producers of Ben Hur (2016)
Gina Cronk, Jonathan Curling, Roma Downey (12 episodes) AD The Bible Continues (2015)
Matilde Bernabei, Lorenzo Minoli producers of The Bible Collection films (1998)
Chosen Series: Dallas Jenkins Executive Producer, (showrunner), Earl Seals Co-Executive Producer, Co-Producer, Derral Eves Executive Producer, Chad Gundersen Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Ryan Swanson Executive Producer, Chris Juen Producer, Co-Executive Producer,
Ricky Ray Butler Co-Exec Producer, Tyler Thompson Exec Producer, Adam Drake Associate Producer, Co-Producer,
Kerri Navarro Co-Producer, Line Producer, Jamie Elliott Co-Producer, Ralph E. Portillo Co-Producer, Justen Overlander Associate Producer, Mark Sourian Supervising Producer, Justin Tolley Producer, Brad Pelo Executive Producer, Matthew Faraci Executive Producer, Carl Bechtold Co-Associate Producer, Darrel Bonner Associate Producer, William Clapp Co-Associate Producer, David Eisenbrandt Co-Associate Producer, Steve Emerson Co-Associate Producer, Christopher Garabedian Co-Executive
Producer, Everett Hellmuth Associate Producer, Brian Herrman Co-Associate Producer, Jerry Jenkins Associate Producer, Matthew James Leader Co-Associate Producer,
Connie Nofziger Associate Producer, Kurt Nofziger Associate Producer, Troy Rubright Co-Associate Producer, Ryan Shay Associate Producer, Cynthia Smith Associate Producer, Ryan Heidemann Associate Producer, Monica Zaragoza Co-Executive Producer, Chris Juen Producer, Co-Executive Producer.
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