Getting Paid (Part 3 of 4)
Interchangable Terms: When negotiating a profit provision in a contract, the definition of profits must be well worded, clearly defined and negotiated very carefully. Net profits, gross profits,...
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Box Office Bonuses: While back end points are based on a percentage of the profits, box office bonuses are usually a flat rate, based upon Daily Variety’s weekly box office chart. They work as...
View ArticleInterview with Brandon Martinez- Head of the New Media Department at Abrams...
Brandon Martinez is the head of the New Media Department at Abrams Artists Agency, a top 10 bi-coastal talent & literary agency. AND he happens to be my New Media agent and he kindly took some...
View ArticleHey, that guy booked my commercial – part1
I was thinking about a lot of misconceptions that other actors have about session runners who also act and that they have a perceived “unfair advantage” when it comes to booking jobs over other actors....
View ArticleEXCUSES AND APOLOGIES…
I have touched on this topic before, but just the other day in a casting I heard all the excuses and apologies I have heard in the past. So, just to recap because it is a new year… I know it is polite...
View ArticleIn the MIND of Casting!
Vocational training. Yes, you heard me…vocational training. Here is another one: apprenticeship. There are lots of ways to say, or discuss, education…but at the end of the day when it comes to ALL...
View Article@AFM, 2012 – HELLO MOVIES!!
I’m going to write this with the mildly certain presumption that “most” folks reading this have not even been to the American Film Market, annually hosted by the Loews Hotel, down by the ocean. So with...
View ArticleConsistent Repetition = Success!
Do it again! Do it again. Again, again and again. Allow me to remind you that Coca-Cola is the most successful soft drink in the world, and they don’t change their logo every 2 years, 5 years or 10...
View ArticleAccountability Phopia: Value of Power Groups!
Yes, phobia, that weird thing that we have in our language that is listed as such: pho·bi·a (pho·bi·as), strong fear or dislike; an irrational or very powerful fear and dislike of something such as...
View ArticleAmazon Orders Comedy Pilots!
Recently, as there seems to be almost every week, another conglomerate gets into the game of monetizing or investing in the ability and future reality of content creation. So now Amazon, not so long...
View ArticleEinstein: Techno-idiots continued!
Here it is again, but with a different point with regards to the famous Einstein quote: “I Fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”...
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