No, not those things!
Maybe I shouldn’t have… but I figure my movie making career is dead anyway… and libel requires a lie, right? What’s a little negative feedback on IMDB anyway?
After I graduated from film school I worked for a few months on “Payment by Deferment” on a horror flick. I was warned by my tutor to “keep an eye” on the movie’s producer… and indeed, found him to be … second-hand-car-salesman-like…
So, about a year later, I get an email - Please sign this VOLUNTEER contract if you want your name in the credits… I spoke to the production manager (who had hired me) and she said they’d done it to her too - instead of Deferment (ie payment if/when the film makes a profit), we now either had to agree that we in fact were only unpaid volunteers, or not get a credit.
My name is on the film… though frankly I wish it wasn’t. They couldn’t get a distributor before production… Couldn’t get one after… Only got into 1 film festival and still didn’t even get a straight to DVD deal… Instead, about 5 years later it hit iTunes at $20… The film has no redeeming features, and that’s coming from a self proclaimed King of B-Grade Movies.
Do Not Pay To See SLEEPER (dir. Dru Brown, prod Judd Tilyard)
(Sorry to those from MacTalk… I’m sure I’ve blubbered on about this over there a billion times already…)
cheers
cosmic