Produced By . . . ─ Balancing Art And Business In The Movie Industry

Produced by... is a well-written, A-to-Z guide to producing movies, whether they are large-budget studio-backed productions or low-budget and mid-budget independents. Logically organized to follow a film's usual timeline from conception to birth, this completely revised and updated edition of Lazarus's The Film Producer, includes thorough discussions of: DEVELOPMENT Acquisition of materials, choosing and working with writers, working with agents, working with studios, financing outside the studio system PREPRODUCTION Roles and duties of the film crew and the producer's team, budgeting, casting, shooting schedules PRODUCTION Managing the movie and its budget, choosing and working with a director, production politics POSTPRODUCTION Postproduction process, postproduction budget and schedule, editor's cut, director's cut, resolving creative disagreements MARKETING Understanding the many facets of domestic and foreign distribution, developing and implementing marketing strategies, doing market research, previews, advertising, using the Internet....and many, many other essential topics.

Paul N. Lazarus III is Program Director for the University of Miami's Motion Pictures and Video-Film Programs.