Paying Your Bills as a Film Producer
Jul 1st, 2009 by Peter D. Marshall
“Being a producer is much like being an actor — you get paid once a film is in production. Everyone’s heard of starving actors, right? Well there are a lot of starving producers too.
If you set up a film at the studio, you may get a paltry development fee (usually $25k) that you usually end up splitting with a producing partner or two. But for argument’s sake, you are very much like an actor — working diligently toward being on set with the hope of a good pay day.”
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