Lesson 10

[Paul Hallasy]

ASSIGNMENT_Lesson 10
Paul Hallasy’s Target Market
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.
80 for Brady
Bros
Trainwreck
Wayne’s World
Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss
Simon Pegg
Paul Giamatti
Jared Leto
Wanda Sykes
Tilda Swinton
2. Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project.
3. Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put at the top of your work.
4. Post your title, logline, genre, and the answers to #1 and #2 above on the forums.
All the Bands in the ‘80s
80 for Brady, but younger and with music
comedy

[Brian Bull]

BRIAN BULL – Target Market

What I learned today is… There is no shortage to the number of Producers out there. It is relatively easy to find the names of Producers.

TITLE – THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

LOGLINE – Deep in the Louisiana Bayous, a vengeful fisherman must catch the catfish he blames for his younger brother’s death before he loses his family or his mind.

GENRE – DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

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

Hunter Hunter
Ondine
The Shallows
Sweetheart
The Wretched

ACTORS
Paul Walter Hauser
Ethan Suplee
Bobby Moynihan
Tyler Labine
Josh Gad

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

HUNTER HUNTER:

Neil Elman (produced by)
Juliette Hagopian (produced by)
Shawn Linden (produced by)

Peter Bevan – Executive Producer
Neil Elman – Producer
Juliette Hagopian – Producer
David Brown Massey – Assiociate Producer
Hannah Pillemer – Executive Producer
Mariana Sanjurjo – Executive Producer
Fernando Szew – Executive Producer
Tony Vassiliadis – Executive Producer
Jennifer Weston – Executive Producer
Toma’s Yankelevich – Executive Producer

Shawn Linden (directed by)

Camille Sullivan
Summer H. Howell
Devon Sawa
Nick Stahl

ONDINE

Ben Browning (produced by)
James Flynn (produced by)
Neil Jordan (produced by)

Ned Down – Executive Producer
Michael Maher – Executive Producer
Morgan O’Sullivan – Executive Producer (Octagon Films)
Peter Rawlinson – Executive Producer

Neil Jordan (directed by)

Colin Farrell
Alicja Bachleda
Dervla Kirwan
Alison Barry

THE BOAT

Joe Azzopardi (produced by)
Winston Azzopardi (produced by)
Roy Boulter (Produced by)
Colin Azzpoardi – Line Producer
Rita Galea – Executive Producer
Sol Papadopoulas – Executive Producer
Galea Yolanda – Executive Producer

Winston Azzopardi – Director

Joe Azzopauri – Actor

The SHALLOWS

Lynn Harris – Producer
Matti Leshem – Producer

Jaume Collet-Serra – Executive Producer
Douglas C. Merrifield – Executive Producer

Jaume Collet-Serra – Director

Blake Lively – Actor
Oscar Jaenada – Actor
Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo – Actor
Joseph Salas – Actor

SWEETHEART

Jason Blum (produced by)
J.D. Dillard (produced by)
Alex Hyner (produced by)
Bill Karesh (produced by)
Alex Theurer (produced by)

J.D. Dillard (directed by)

Mark David Katchur – Co-Producer
Phillip Dawe – Co-Producer
Couper Samuelson – Executive Producer
Beatriz Sequeira – Executive Producer
Janette Volturno – Executive Producer

Kiersey Clemons – Actor
Emory Cohen – Actor
Hanna Mangan Lawrence – Actor
Andrew Crawford – Actor

THE WRETCHED

Brett Pierce (produced by)
Drew T. Pierce (produced by) (as Drew Pierce)
Ed Polgardy (produced by)
Chang Tseng (produced by)

Travis Cultreri – Co-Producer
Willis King – Executive Producer
Lanier Porter – Executive Producer
Leman Porter – Executive Producer

ACTORS

Paul Walter Hauser

Sophia Banks – Executive Producer
Simon Beltran – Executive Producer
Amanda Freedman – P
Andrew Hevia – EP
Juan de Dios Larrain – EP
Roger Lolly
Sara McFarlane – EP
Constanza Munoz – Co-P
Daniel Ragussis – Assoc. P
Divya Shahani – EP
Juan Pablo Solano – EP
Arun Thaper – EP
Damiano Tucci – EP
Tiziano Tucci – Ep

Ethan Suplee

Alexander Akoka – Ep
Pastor Alvarado III
Shpetim Beja – CP
Thomas Benski – EP
Nicolass Bertelsen – EP
Len Blavatnik – EP
Barry Brooker – EP
Michael Clofine – EP
Casey Fuller – EP
Gina Gammell – EP / LP
Robbie J. Gottlieb – EP
Vince Holden – Ep
Eric Hollenbeck – AP
Peter Kaufman – EP
Riley Keough – P
Brian A. Loschiavo – EP
Christian Mercuri – EP
Jeff Molyneaux – EP
Douglas Nyback – CP
Gerry Pass – CP
Pia Patatian – EP
Clara Sansarricq – EP
Ryan Schemmel – EP
Edward Storm – EP
Jennifer Storm – EP
Olivia Tyson – EP
Roman Viaris-de-Lesegno – EP
Stan Wertlieb – EP
Ryan Zacarias – P

Bobby Moynihan

Alex Brown – EP
Josie Craven – CP
Jessica Elbaum – P
Will Ferrell – P
Ted Gidlow – EP
Lauren Levy Neustadter – P
Brenden O’Brien – EP
O’Shea Read – CP
Nicholas Stoller – P
Ashley Strumwasser – CP
Conor Welch – P
Reese Witherspoon – P

Tyler Labine

Rumi. M. Arystanbekova – EP
Jonathan M. Black
Craig Cross – EP
Shane Dodson – EP
Luke Edwards – P
Jeremy Elliott – CP / LP
Brandon Evans – P
Brett Forbes – P
Chris Fredricks – EP
Mitchell Grobman – C-EP
James Huntsman – EP
Tims Johnson – EP
Tony Keily – EP
Will Keir – AP
Joey Keir – P
Jeff Kranzdorf – EP
Gregory Morse – EP
Michael O’Leary
Richard Ochoa – EP
Patrick Rizzotti – P
Anne-Marie Schiller – EP
Suzanne Schiller – EP
Todd Slater – EP
Richard Stafford – AP
Narbeh Tatoussian – CP
Jason Winget – EP

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[Carly-Ann Giene]

Carly's Target Market

What I learned doing this assignment is that there are a lot more accessible resources than I previously thought.

Title:Dredge

Genre:Horror

Logline: A desensitized crime scene cleaner is thrust into a living nightmare when his wife gets possessed on the job in Detroit.

Comps:
Sinister, Hereditary, Barbarian, It Follows, Evil Dead Rise

Actors:
Donald Glover, LaKeith Stanfield, Bryan Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, John David Washington

Hereditary:
Brandon Tamburri – AP
Buddy Patrick – P

Sinister:
Bailey Conway – AP
Rick A. Osaka – AP
Jeanette Volturno -AP

Barbarian:
Danny Chan -EP
Roy Lee – P
Arnon Milchan – P
Michael Schaefer – EP

It Follows:
Erik Rommesmo – P
Alan Pao – EP
P Jennifer Dana – EP
Luke Daniels III – EP
Robyn K. Bennett – Co-P
Joshua Astrachan – EP

Evil Dead Rise:
Romel Adal – EP
Macdara Kelleher – EP

[Kenneth Johnson]

Kenneth Johnson – Target Marketing
I learned with this assignment that there is actually a very good use for IMDb Pro. I’m not just throwing money down the toilet with Thijs subscription.

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 Six Triple Eight”
“Saving Private Ryan”
“We Were Soldiers”
“Red Tails”
“Hacksaw Ridge”

Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project.
“The Six Triple Eight”
Carlota Espinosa
carlotaespinosa19@gmail.com

“Saving Private Ryan”
Gary Levinsohn
+13104804444 phone
glevinsohn@mutualfilm.com
Mark Gordon
The Mark Gordon Company
Phone: +1 310 943 6401
Fax: +1 310 943 6402
1447 Cloverfield Blvd.
Ste 200
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce Productions
Producer
818-532-9100 phone
14331 Ventura Blvd.
#1000
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

“Hacksaw Ridge”
Nick Guerra (Icon Productions – {Mel Gibson})
nickguerra.com
Suzanne Warren VP of Production
+1 (310) 550-9900 phone
10880 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 1150
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Gabe Videla
D’Artagnan Entertainment
CEO & Executive Producer (Producer)
dartagnanentertainment.us
213-507-0708 phone
805-496-5271 fax
gabevidela@aol.com
Buddy Patrick
Windy Hill Pictures
Founder
windyhillpictures.com
5707 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
Bill Mechanic
Pandemonium
President and CEO (Executive)
+1 (310) 550-9900 phone
10880 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 1150
Los Angeles, CA 90024


“Red Tails”
Ales Komarek
Partnership Pictures
EP / MD (Producer)
partnershippictures.com
+420 602 558 775 phone
ales@partnershippictures.com
Chas. Floyd Johnson
Belisarius Productions
Co-Executive Producer (Executive)
310-461-1361 phone
1901 Avenue of the Stars,
2nd Fl. ,
Los Angeles, CA 90067