Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook - Softcover

Erickson, Gunnar; Halloran, Mark; Tulchin, Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0825637236 ISBN 13: 9780825637230

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books, 2010

Synopsis

In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent filmāfrom the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie. This all-new second edition has been completed updated.

About this title

From the Author:

Balancing the inevitable tug between art and commerce is your job, but without film commerce, your art will never come into existence, much less reach an audience. The advice here reflects custom and practice in the entertainment industry here [in the Los Angeles area]. The emphasis is on the deals that need to be made. We give you an idea of the nature of various deals, point out the critical issues, and provide parameters that deals typically fall within and how they are documented. We hope this book can raise the level of sophistication of independent producers and result in more and better independent films being financed, produced, and distributed.

About the Author:

Gunnar Erickson currently practices entertainment law with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. He has been active with the UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium and taught Entertainment Law at Pepperdine Law School, as well as frequenly spoken and written about entertainment matters.

Mark Halloran is a principal of Halloran Law Corporation. In his studio days, Mark was Vice President, Feature Business Affairs at Universal Pictures, and Business Affairs Councel at Orion Pictures. In private law practice, Mark was a founding partner of Alexander, Halloran, Nau & Rose, and Erickson, Halloran & Small. Mark specializes in entertainment financing, production, and distribution, and acts as an expert witness in film, television, and music litigation. Mark is co-author of The Musician’s Guide to Copyright (Charles Scribner’s Sons) with Gunnar Erickson and Ned Hearn and the current The Musicians Business and Legal Guide (Jerome Headlands Press/Prentice Hall). He is co-chair of the SC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, and serves on the Board of directors of the Los Angeles Chamber Singers.

Harris E. Tulchin is founder and Chairman of Harris Tulchin & Associates Ltd., with affiliated offices worldwide. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Hastings Law School and has specialized in entertainment production, finance, and distribution, communications, and multimedia law since 1978. He has lectured extensively at forums such as UCLA, the American Film Institute, Independent Feature Project, The Sundance Producer’s Conference, the Cannes, Toronto, Los Angeles Independent, Hollywood, Venice, Edinburgh (Scotland) and numerous other Film Festivals and has published numerous articles on entertainment law. He has served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel for Cinema Group for United Artists; Director of Business Affairs at MGM Television; and Counsel for American International Pictures and Filmways Pictures. In addition, Mr. Tulchin acts as an expert witness in entertainment litigation, is an American Film Marketing Association arbitrator, serves as a producer’s representative on scores of completed films, as well as film projects, and has served as Executive Producer of nine feature films, including the critically acclaimed "To Sleep With Anger," distribution by Song and Goldwyn, and "Guy," financed and distributed by PolyGram.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0825637236
• ISBN 13: 9780825637230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416