Okay. Am I an idiot? I called the manager of a very low level celebrity - she was just on a reality show, so she's a little bigger now. I told him I would send him over a pitch. I sent him an e-mail with a little information about me, a brief description of the project and said if he thinks his client would be interested, I would send over a confidentiality agreement. Is this just amateurish? Did I embarrass myself?
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Depends how low level the celebrity. I once got a low level celebrity to agree to do a short I made on the basis of swapped numbers on napkins and buying her a drink. You'd never get Tom Cruise that way, but I expect you'd get everyone from I'm A Celebrity not named 'Baldwin' for not a great deal more.
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John Goodman did a short flim for free, because the guy making the film ran into him at a neighborhood bar in New Orleans. True story, I was there.
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Yeah, finding actors in bars, old school friends, anything can help. I just signed on to produce a movie; the writer/co-producer went to school with Kelly Preston and Jim Simpson, an award-nominated director better known as Sigourney Weaver's husband. We've already signed on an award-winning cinematographer that he met at a film festival; and we're pretty confident of getting Kelly, John, Jim and Sigourney to sign up.
This business is about who you know as much as what you know.
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