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Hi guys!

I'm a filmmaker who has three web-series projects and a producer has asked me about the conditions for an exclusive on the three projects for X months. I understand that he reffers to X months looking for financial support.

I have my movie company since a year ago and I'd never have to value this kind of things. Does anybody know how much should I ask for this? $2000? $5000? $10000? More??? Less?

Thank you very much!
 
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giantslayer said:
Hi guys!

I'm a filmmaker who has three web-series projects and a producer has asked me about the conditions for an exclusive on the three projects for X months. I understand that he reffers to X months looking for financial support.

I have my movie company since a year ago and I'd never have to value this kind of things. Does anybody know how much should I ask for this? $2000? $5000? $10000? More??? Less?
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What will it cost you to give this producer an exclusive? That is
how much you could charge.

How much will the entire project cost - all three web-series? You
could ask for 10% of that for the exclusive.

Or...

You could ask the producer what he thinks is fair and then negotiate
if you feel his offer in unfair.
 
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Hi guys!

Thank you very much for your answers. I was also asking more people and I'm gonna give you some details, if someone has the same doubt.

As we are not talking about the next Blockbuster... this is for a tv series (neither web-series, I was wrong). About $2000 is not a big amount per project and year... it's a reasonable amount of money.

More money could have been a problem.

So I repeat: 1 TV series project (don't think on blockbusters as GoT), 1 year of exclusivity in order to look for investors = $2000. It's OK.

Hope this can help other people in the future! :)
 
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I understand that you won't show anyone the 3 series for a year, so the producer can try to raise the money he needs?

I have no idea what is a fair deal for that.
Where did you base your number on?
 
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giantslayer said:
So I repeat: 1 TV series project (don't think on blockbusters as GoT), 1 year of exclusivity in order to look for investors = $2000. It's OK.

Hope this can help other people in the future! :)
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That's $40 per week. A TERRIBLE deal. $40 a week for a full year. You
can't show it to anyone, you can't talk about it with anyone. If the
producer fails to find financing you now have a "failed" project that you
can do almost nothing with.

But a deal that way too many people would gladly take.

Good luck with your TV series.
 
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What happens if this producer is impossible to work with, is full of crap, is a dead beat, etc, etc? You want to be able to fire someone for any reason. If you are the one putting up the money then this should be non-negotiable.
 
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giantslayer said:
Hi guys!

I'm a filmmaker who has three web-series projects and a producer has asked me about the conditions for an exclusive on the three projects for X months. I understand that he reffers to X months looking for financial support.

I have my movie company since a year ago and I'd never have to value this kind of things. Does anybody know how much should I ask for this? $2000? $5000? $10000? More??? Less?

Thank you very much!
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Movies are reserved at a minimum of hundred of thousands and up in the millions. Television are in the tens of thousands into the hundreds of thousands. I suspect that the producer is a low end producer. But at that level we pay out a retainer of 8500 a month and 30% of money raised.
 
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