I wrote this a few months ago for a potential investor who had never invested in a film before in order to acquaint them with the process. It seemed only natural to put this up to help educate those interested in traditional movie investing.
Given the amount of traffic my other post about investing in movies and trying to clear the air about the reality of independent filmmaking these days, I realized there were quite a number of salient points which were not included in the original. Included here is a followup to that post with some in-depth information for potential investors, laying it all out as to why things aren’t what they think they are these days versus 5-8 years ago.
Right now seems to be as good a time as any to talk about the state of the economy and its effect on filmmaking. I’ve heard it all from both sides of the fence now, both good and bad.
