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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
Hollywood...it an't a business, it's a club.
Studio Execs, Producers, Agent and Managers in Hollywood are in collusion and have created a closed system in order to control the "talent" i.e. writers, actors, directors. There is a belief that artists can't be businessmen, so they need someone to hold their hand through the legal crap.
You cannot submit material (or your reel) to the Producers and Studio Execs without a representative and you can't get a rep unless you have a credit. It is this closed system that justifies the otherwise useless position of Manger/Agent.
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So how does a rookie with no credits, get credits? I know it's extremely difficult to accomplish, but there MUST be some ways to get 'in the club' for someone with no credentials or else there'd never be a new writer. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get people to start looking at your scripts? (Or if that's too personal, how have you seen other fresh faces actually break through the barrier and sell a few scripts or land a big role? ) I know Josh Hartnett didn't really know anyone when he went out there (My mom & his grandma were co-workers). He went into a cattle call audition for H2O and after a couple readthroughs, he was calling home telling people he was pretty sure he had the part. I don't even know if he had an agent at that point or not, but if he DID have one, how would he have gotten one without prior credits to his name?
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If you have an idea for a movie and then the movie gets made, you have not been ripped off. I hear this over and over from "writers" who only come up with ideas but never commit anything to the page. Creative synchonicity is real and happens all the time. If you have an idea, chancers are there are at least a dozen others who have had the same idea. That's how you get two Asteriod films ion one year or two volcano films etc.
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I always thought that was 1 company trying to rush out a sub-par movie that is similar to an upcoming blockbuster from another company in hopes of tricking moviegoers (or renters) in to mistakenly grabbing or seeing the wrong films. I've even noticed several instances that the packaging looks really similar. But you're saying it's far less sinister than that and it's really nothing more than 2 writers and 2 different companies that all have the same idea at one time? I wish I could think of some examples, but I usually don't bother with the ones that look like a cheap imitation. Oh, oh, oh... I got one... Right after Swingers came out on video, some obscure Emilio Estevez flick went straight to video with a nearly identical package with a red & yellowish background and a sharp dressed guy holding up a martini glass. It seemed like their only purpose was to try to trick people into thinking they were renting Swingers.