Victory Multimedia

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If you have $1500 to make a thousand copies of your movie, and want it to get to Netflix, then consider signing with Victory Multimedia.

Victory is one of the leading indie distributors with Netflix. If you sign with Victory, you're almost guaranteed an order from Netflix.

Victory will sign ANYTHING. They won't watch your movie. They don't care about content (exception hardcore porn). If you want to sign with them, just ask.

The catch is YOU do all the work. You create a one-sheet, send out promo copies. You have to have the dupes made. They have to be glass mastered DVDs not DVD-Rs. They will charge you $10 per copy if you send out DVD-Rs. You pay shipping and handling. You do EVERYTHING, using their contact sheet, and following their instructions.

So, if you're having no luck with regular distribution, try Victory. You'll get your movie out there. Plus, my one check gave me back most of the money I spent on dupes.
 
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If you have $1500 to make a thousand copies of your movie, and want it to get to Netflix, then consider signing with Victory Multimedia.
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NetFlix typically only orders 60 copies and they pay only a 1 time price of wholesale to rent those copies out as many times as they can.
FilmBaby will get you into NetFlix as well.
Personally I don't think it's worth it. NetFlix cannibalizes your paid copy sales. The whole culture of renting for dirt cheap sucks for filmmakers.
 
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Yet another story about a non-paying traditional media distributor. I've heard so many it's making me nauseous. I've been saying for years there is NO NEED for indie traditional distributors in this new Internet distribution age. Even if there was a need, the risk of a traditional distributor screwing you over is by itself too much risk. From my unscientific experience I'd say 50% to 75% of indie media distributors skip out on their tab.
 
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What is Victory Media's excuse for not paying anyway? When you talk to them do they claim that a retailer never paid them? If so have you demanded an accounting and some documentation showing that they never got paid? Usually these distributors never do show you any documentation or they feed you some bullsh*t about "Yeah. I've been working on it. I'll have it for you hopefully soon" because they don't want you to know that they've been paying themselves a "salary" the whole time. How convenient that you can run an unprofitable business but create a job for yourself out of the whole scheme. If they owe you less than $5,000 (or more but you don't mind only collecting no more than $5,000) then take them to small claims court. That's the limit in California. That would be BETTER than having to deal with the Superior court system, which requires a lawyer to know how to navigate the system. Again I know nothing about this particular company. I just know that these types of horror stores are sooooo typical.

Coincidentally I just heard a horror story about a book distributor today. A bunch of indie book authors apparently got screwed.
 
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I forgot I started this thread. YES STAY AWAY.

I let Victory go last year in February. According to them in June. This past month where I used to live kept getting calls for me to call them. Nasty calls. So, I e-mailed the jackass Randy and told him I don't live there anymore. He e-mails back that I owe them roughly $250. We went back and forth emailing with him threatening to take me to small claims court. I told him I'd sue him also. That was the last I heard from him. He's a dick.

Sorry. YES ABSOLUTELY STAY AWAY.
 
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Blade_Jones said:
How the hell would you owe THEM $250?? Did they do the manufacturing or did you manufacture and then ship them DVD's?
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I must have signed a fucked up contract. I don't honestly know. But, I THINK, and I really could be wrong on this is: They paid me for certain sales. Some of those DVDs came back to them, so I have to give them back the money they paid me for the sales. BUT, I called and asked this specifically, and was told NO over a year ago.

So, again I have really no idea. But that guy RANDY is the biggest dick in the world. I posted on here years ago about the very first conversation we ever had. He's one of these ARROGANT Hollywood shitheads who think they're better then everyone else. I couldn't get a word in, every time I'd start to speak he'd say "Do you have a question? What do you want? Spit it out." This was how our first conversation went.
 
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I've dealt with several businesses (if you want to call them that) like this before. Basically, they know that if they owe you less money than it will take you to sue them, you're stuck.

I see a lot of posts reviewing bad businesses, but many posts were singling out this guy Randy as a cancer to indie films, preying on the weak, and displaying sociopathic personality traits. That's rare. Sometimes you read about a few guys having trouble with some service personnel, but outside of New Jersey, you rarely get pages of reviews on how one guy is such an ass that he will crash your project, steal from you, badger you, then wreck his own company's public image.

Whoever this Randy guy is, he sounds like an enemy of indie filmmakers, and the human race in general.
So..... a republican I'm guessing.
 
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preying on the weak, displaying sociopathic personality traits. That's rare.
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True, con artists are the people you LEAST expect, but there are lots of dishonest people out there though. The bottom line is don't trust ANYONE with money or in charge of money. Have a bullet proof contract "with teeth" from the get go if you insist on signing with these brick and mortar distributors.
 
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