I need $300k (secured against my Calabrian tax credit, so you're really just cash flowing) by this Friday to close the senior loan and go into production.

Given the timing, you might be the only hope the world has to see Katie Holmes touch herself while negotiating her son's ransom.

Let's go dude.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48802707)

Happy to set up meet and greet with Al + Katie, credit and premieres etc. If you want, I'll bring you to a party in Cannes in May.

Need cash by Friday or else the communists win.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48803489)

$300k or $500k can literally make or break a $20m success a producer worked a decade to cobble together.

So this year, we go to Italy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48803708)

*stylized Studio Ghibli version of cup falling over and burning penis*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48803463)

DeNiro movie bombed b/c Warner Brothers is a fucking clown show under David Zaslav -- it's a total dumpster fire over there.

This is based on the John Paul Ghetty III story where the grandson kidnaps himself and the Italian mobster actually cut his ear off after Ghetty refused to pay the ransom.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48803736)

Down to $200k.

Let’s close this shit out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48803792)

Bulk of what I do, though, is secure pre-sales in international territories to secure the production loan against so a film can go into production.

We're not all scum and a lot of us are in it for the right reasons and there's a crowd of us that work on our own, and a few shops, and a hell of a lot of scammers and scumbag leeches from petty criminals to legit evil monsters you really never want to be alone in a room with. It's wild. But where people are desperate, folks will show up to take advantage.

I'm trying to actually make good films people want to see again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48803799)

I will go see your film in the Cinema.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48803816)

CSLG could end this all now and just wire the cash but instead I have to beg from another equity investor in Hollywood. AGAIN.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48804352)

Long story - there's a lawyer in the family and I had a bit of a connection to the entertainment industry pre law school. After undergrad I helped a director put a short film together he wanted to submit to a major film festival. Luckily it was good and he won the young director award. So we were on the beach after the win in Cannes and I said to myself yeah, I'll try to make this work somehow.

Went to law school and networked the shit out of the industry. Worked at a firm that gave me way too much responsibility way too early and hardly paid me, for the privilege of access and to learn how the industry actually worked. Yadayada, made film + tv / repped talent then moved to Paris with wife for a year still repping talent and handling film and tv work while she got an MA. After her degree we wanted to stay. Then I got a break to go in-house at an international major, then years later got another break to go to a prestige independent shop.

I've done enough deals throughout the world at this point that if I have a good script in my hand with at least 2 name talent attached (and hopefully a decent director), I can secure at least $500k-$2m+ in international pre-sales at a major market for a producer who can then bank those deals and take out a production loan against them. And so it goes, an Al Pacino film is born.

At the end of the day the industry is who you know. I forced my way in, but when youre in, youre in unless you Harvey Weinstein yourself like a dumbfuck pig. There's a fuckton of horrible individuals preying on dumb money and ignorant hopefuls. And there's a ton of really great people who love making great films and tv who want to tell great stories and entertain people while not abusing folks.

I literally decided one day to switch from being a lawyer and to make a go of it. Fucked off from my fancy prestigious gig to hang my own shingle. It's terrifying and I still do a bit of law to make a bit of money, but so far I'm building a pretty solid business. Things are looking pretty good after the film is released next year. The next 5 months will be tight because film market cycles and chasing payments etc. means July is likely when the next real batch of fees come in. Only up and running a year so I need another year until my cashflow evens out, but even with the stress and having $300k drop out at the last minute and having to beg CSLG to close my production loan by Friday, it's so much more gratifying than just billing at a law firm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48805693)

Are 85 of the top 100 people in Hollywood Jewish?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48805785)

But if you're going to smash hot, nubile actresses of legal age whose career you stand to make ķor break, you're best bet is to be really, really good looking. Like over the top, noteworthy good looking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48805541)

we closed a handful of sales earlier this year and going into production May 5th.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5703092&forum_id=2:#48806445)