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Excellent, good to know, Time2focus. We are shooting a 3-4 minute sizzle reel at this time - I just finalized the storyboards this week with the production co shooting it - and a link will go with the longline for people to get the "feel" of the series Universe. Including some key props and...

I'll take that as a compliment.

All right, sci-fi lovers, would you curl up with a Romulan ale for 60 Earth minutes with this one... COLUMBIA (TV Sci-Fi Drama Series) A psychiatrist must confront the possibility a young woman tormented by schizophrenia is suffering from the psychological effects of faster-than-light travel.

Gotcha, I assumed it was going to eventually be 'Ask the accountant.' Our lawyer is $500 bucks an hour and our account is $299 bucks an hour. It helps to know enough to maximize the time in those meetings.

One would think there would be many on this forum who are deducting expenses as professional entertainers.

Anybody know the guidelines for determining what falls under the IRS description of conducting business as an individual artist? What can and cannot be deducted throughout the day? At what point does Angelina Jolie the taxpayer become separate from Angelina Jolie the entertainer doing her job...

Looks like a fun project! Remember, investors at any level are herd animals. They will only go where many others before them have gone before. The advice I have gotten about crowdfunding is you should have at least 20% of the funds you are attempting to raise, so people see the project has a...

Contrary to popular opinion, being a good filmmaker does not necessarily make one a good storyteller. There is an ENORMOUS difference to be kept between filmmaking and quality screenwriting. Film school teaches the fundamentals of translating a Story into a visual performance, it is a quantum...

My favorite take-away from Aaron Sorkin... "Don’t do anything you’ve done before, because you’ll be bored. Don’t do anything for money, or you’ll be bored."

Watched the Hollywood Reporter roundtable discussions - they have them for different genres. But really got a lot out of the TV drama showrunner's roundtable. I think as the clear line of demarcation between TV and film has disappeared with the decreasing quality of films and the increasing...

Same boat - only I have no intention of selling my business. I am first and foremost a writer and know virtually nothing of filmmaking, but because I also operate my business full-time, film school is out of the question (although, I have and will continue to attend weekend workshops). For a...

Boom. Thank you.

To recap the adventure from last time, I am trying to put together a sizzle reel for a sci-fi TV series to pitch investors/crowdfunding for a pilot. My plan was to wing the sizzle reel and wait until I found the series a home before forming a production company to produce it. Fast forward to...

Awesome! SkyCopeland for the win, again! Thank you! Exactly how I figured, but my old manager tried to get me to make films into individual LLC's for some reason I never really fully understood.

Thanks. I am co-owner of a C-corp for my day job, I understand how an LLC works. Any investors in your small business will generally require it to be a C-corp for tax purposes - your company needs to be a C-corp to be on "Shark Tank" or get listed on "RockthePost", for example. Generally, an...

Is this the most common approach to attracting investors just for specific projects without giving them a piece of your production company?

Oh, very interesting!

Gotta choose!

If you had a choice for a lead role between equally qualified actors/actresses, which would you prefer: Legit IMDb TV/film credits or big social media following - as in, say, 100,000+ subscribers on YouTube and 200 Million + views?

Ha ha. Yeah, probably. I am petitioning him to move the twisted film to be the 'X' at the end of Helix. So the addition of a true N might happen. We could also get busy with other stuff and it end up looking the same as it does now.