And, just to keep me floating on the ceiling, another person from the prodco here who is interested in making the romantic comedy script e-mailed me yesterday and then again this morning... she'd started reading it yesterday and said she was "loving" it and then said so again this morning. She's the assistant to someone else important at the prodco, and since I now have one of the owners behind it, I probably didn't have to have her doing what she's doing (which was reading it to get it worked through a different person at the same prodco), but it's nice to have multiple people at the same place behind it.
So, ultimately, what does this mean? It's all a little ephemeral right now, but there are a couple of different things that could happen there.
1) It gets made through this production company.
2) It gets made through an association with a production company formed by the owenr's husband, who is the one who just made the bigger deal with the guaranteed distribution deal.
If it's the first option, they could be thinking more MOW, because that's an easier thing since the financing comes into them through the networks and it's more of a sure thing. However, they are talking theatrical release right now. We will see.
If the second option happens, then they would definitely be going after a (bigger) theatrical release.
I expect in order for the first one to happen for a theatrical release, the distribution deal memo I have in place would have to be refined and a contract signed in order for them to feel secure about moving forward with the bigger theatrical budget they mentioned. Obviously, those conversations haven't happened yet, and I am going to touch base with them at the end of next week, so I doubt there'll be more news until then.
This feels a lot firmer than previous conversations and potential deals. I am going to think positively about it, that this is a movie and it will be made.
Posted by toni at September 3, 2004 02:59 PM