Hello Everyone, I hope you are well? I read that a first time screenwriter can get up to a quarter of the budget of the movie for his script, is this true?
Screenwriting : What percent of the budget should the screenwriter get for the script? by Marc Anthony Greenland
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Dan MaxXx , I'll post if I can find it, though I think it was referring to small budget films.
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Colette " By Films" Byfield... thanks for the tip.
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Percentage? That's cute.
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Marc Anthony - you're in Zimbabwe posting a financial question; basically to a US (I said basically) bunch of screenwriters of which very few have any idea about the hard-core financing & expenses involved in movie making. I think you'll get better answers closer to home.
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2-3%. There's a total of 5% for costs before the film is funded, usually.
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If they have eight hundred million Instagram followers (and super-sexy pitch decks), have made seventeen films, or if the screenplay itself is the fucking Rosetta Stone of spectacularly innovative specs leaping off the page into an orgiastic spectacle of magnanimous proportions?
Is that a YES to all of the above? Congrats!! Move forward two spaces!
Ars longa, vita brevis. And this is me being not jaded but encouraging, don't catch me on a bad day.
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I am happy with 2 to 2.5 depending on how much benefit I see for myself.