How Are We Different?
Three ways:
- Extremely low expense caps. Here is the game that most agents and distributors play: they know that your movie is only worth a limited amount of money in today’s market. They give you a “good” percentage split, normally 80/20 with you getting 80%. They then hide deep into their contract an expense cap of $25,000 thousand dollars (I have even seen expense caps of $50,000 and $100,000!!!). When they make their first sale on your movie, say for $10,000 dollars, they keep their 20% fee ($2,000 dollars) an then they keep your $8,000 dollars and apply it against the $25,000 hole that you started off in. You now owe them, on paper, $17,000 dollars more! After a year or two you may dig your way out of this hole. They have now kept the first $30,000 in sales from your movie (their sales fee plus their $25k expense cap). Then they simply stop selling your movie. They sign up somebody new and rip them off next. Odds are they will never send you a dime. They’ll tell you “Your movie didn’t make money”. But it did. It made them money! It didn’t make you money. So how am I different? I have an expense cap of only $2,500 dollars, just 10% of industry average. I do have some real expenses that I have to cover in order to sell your movie, but I’m here to do just that – to sell your movie and make you money. Not to steal from you in the form of fake expenses!
- I’ve been in this business for 15 years. I’ve produced thirty movies of my own, and I’ve helped many others produce and make money from films. Over time I have learned which distributors to sell to, and which to avoid. I bring your movie to the distributor who make the most sense for your film. I only deal with distributors who have long reputations of actually paying their clients, I will not deal with distributors who rip film makers off. I know this game, and I know all the distributors – good and bad.
Submit your finished feature film by sending a trailer and poster to Joel@BeYourOwnHollywood.com