At this point, we needed at least one actor or actress, a writing group, and a title for our movie. Right out of the gates, we went to the sci-fi writers, willing to give then 5 million from our budget, that was cut to 20 million since general production costs were twenty million. We overheard another group offer them an upwards of 12 million for their script, and immediatly walked away; we simply couldn't afford that. Then, the dark dreamers writting group approached us with a deal of a script for 3 million, and we couldn't say no to the award winning writing group. From this point on, our main goal was to find at least one actor/actress. We seeked after the buffer dude, and offered him what was left of our budget, decideding to have no special effects or anythign in our movie, and we also offered him 15% of the profits. Our writers even decided to give us the script for nothing just so we could sign this big name actor to our show. He turned us down. Later, he turned out to be a flop, so we were glad that we didn't sign him.
Then, we found our match, Gloria Morningstar. She said she wanted 8 million, and we were shocked, since our last offer had been 20 million plus 15% of the profits. We signed her on immediatly. We now had a script, that called for one character, and an actress to fill that one role our script called for. After tallying everything up, we found out that we had a production cost of 47 million dollars. The thing that killed us was a news report that cause shooting in the U.S. to increase by several million dollars. We were not sure if we were allowed to be over budget, but we had a few things to back our overage decision. First, the overseer said that it was a free-for-all with no rules, so that would mean we could go over budget if we wanted to interpret it that way. Also, with our writers, the dark dreamers, we had a guarenteed 10 million dollars in DVD sales. So, we actually had a budget of 50 million, and would in that case have 3 million left over. We felt rather justified in our decisions, and decided to keep them as they were.
Although we had signed our actress, there was another uprising on the news wire. If and actor or actress was signed to more than one producing company, it would cost each company an additional 5 million dollars. That extra 5 million was definatly not something we could afford, so we had to do a little "manipulation" of our actress. Thankfully, she had not signed he contract, or the scratch piece of paper, so we were still able to make a last minute stipulation. If she signed elsewhere, we would lose 5 million, so therefor, she would take a pay cut as well. Gloria was looking to be launched into stardom, and she was already on our side, so she decided to not be wooed away to another theatre. We were very thankful of her decision.
Then, we found our match, Gloria Morningstar. She said she wanted 8 million, and we were shocked, since our last offer had been 20 million plus 15% of the profits. We signed her on immediatly. We now had a script, that called for one character, and an actress to fill that one role our script called for. After tallying everything up, we found out that we had a production cost of 47 million dollars. The thing that killed us was a news report that cause shooting in the U.S. to increase by several million dollars. We were not sure if we were allowed to be over budget, but we had a few things to back our overage decision. First, the overseer said that it was a free-for-all with no rules, so that would mean we could go over budget if we wanted to interpret it that way. Also, with our writers, the dark dreamers, we had a guarenteed 10 million dollars in DVD sales. So, we actually had a budget of 50 million, and would in that case have 3 million left over. We felt rather justified in our decisions, and decided to keep them as they were.
Although we had signed our actress, there was another uprising on the news wire. If and actor or actress was signed to more than one producing company, it would cost each company an additional 5 million dollars. That extra 5 million was definatly not something we could afford, so we had to do a little "manipulation" of our actress. Thankfully, she had not signed he contract, or the scratch piece of paper, so we were still able to make a last minute stipulation. If she signed elsewhere, we would lose 5 million, so therefor, she would take a pay cut as well. Gloria was looking to be launched into stardom, and she was already on our side, so she decided to not be wooed away to another theatre. We were very thankful of her decision.
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