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DEA - banned for life · 02-09-2011, 07:44 AM

Chris Mallick interview
http://thefilmstage.com/2010/08/09/i...es-middle-men/

What was the biggest challenge you faced in making this film?

CM: I guess the biggest challenge was getting passed the idea that this was an indie film which means we’re probably not gonna get paid or talking to the agencies and saying we want Luke Wilson for this movie. We sent him a script. They loved the script, they hated the idea that it was an indie film even though Luke has done a lot of independent. They hated it because indie filmmakers have a bad reputation in Hollywood. You got people who say they’re gonna do something and they don’t. They contract for things and don’t perform. They get people on set and then can’t pay payroll. And so I addressed that after talking with CAA and I said it seems to me the way to take the guessing out of the game, is to just give you the money. And so what we did was every actor we hired we escrowed their full fee on the day that we made an offer and we said, ‘Here it is,’ so A) It’s real and B) It’s within your control. If your client likes this, we want to make the deal and you can see the money is there and that seemed to take a lot of the guesswork out of it, that seemed to take away the parts that were the most difficult in the production. But other than that, once we got past that and got a great reputation of paying and performing and doing what we said, the rest of it was kinda cake actually.

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02-09-2011, 07:44 AM
DEA - banned for life V.I.P. Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: InYour Head Posts: 7,886	Chris Mallick interview http://thefilmstage.com/2010/08/09/i...es-middle-men/ What was the biggest challenge you faced in making this film? CM: I guess the biggest challenge was getting passed the idea that this was an indie film which means we’re probably not gonna get paid or talking to the agencies and saying we want Luke Wilson for this movie. We sent him a script. They loved the script, they hated the idea that it was an indie film even though Luke has done a lot of independent. They hated it because indie filmmakers have a bad reputation in Hollywood. You got people who say they’re gonna do something and they don’t. They contract for things and don’t perform. They get people on set and then can’t pay payroll. And so I addressed that after talking with CAA and I said it seems to me the way to take the guessing out of the game, is to just give you the money. And so what we did was every actor we hired we escrowed their full fee on the day that we made an offer and we said, ‘Here it is,’ so A) It’s real and B) It’s within your control. If your client likes this, we want to make the deal and you can see the money is there and that seemed to take a lot of the guesswork out of it, that seemed to take away the parts that were the most difficult in the production. But other than that, once we got past that and got a great reputation of paying and performing and doing what we said, the rest of it was kinda cake actually. doh.