CHEAT SHEET

The Buyers
(Territories)

Studios (Corporate Parents and Divisions)

Disney (The Walt Disney Company)

Walt Disney Pictures, Lucasfilm, Marvel Entertainment, Pixar,
Dreamworks

Fox (21st Century Fox)

Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Faith,
Fox International Pictures, Fox Searchlight, Fox World Cinema,
and New Regency

Paramount (Viacom)
Paramount Pictures, Insurge, Paramount Digital Entertainment

Sony (Sony)
Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Classics, Affirm Films,
Sony Worldwide Acquisition Group, and TriStar Pictures

Universal (Comcast)
Universal Pictures, Focus Features, and
Universal Pictures Acquisitions Group

Warner Brothers (TimeWarner)

Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema, and DC Entertainment

Major Independents
CBS Films (CBS)
Millennium Entertainment (NuImage)
Lionsgate
MGM and UA
Miramax?
Relativity (Rogue Pictures)
The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films

Animation
Blue Sky Studios (20th Century Fox)
Dreamworks Animation (20th Century Fox)
Illumination (Universal Pictures)
Paramount Animation
PIXAR and Walt Disney Animation (Disney)
Sony Pictures Animation

Independent Buyers with Financing

2929 Entertainment
(Magnolia Pictures, HDNet Films, Truly Indie, Landmark Theatres)
(Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner)
Alcon Entertainment (Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Fred Smith)
Content Media Corporation (Jamie Carmichael, John Schmidt)
Dune Entertainment (Greg Coote)
Endgame (James Stern)
Gold Circle (Paul Brooks)
Groundswell (Michael London)
Hyde Park (Ashok Amritraj)
Image Nation (Mohamed Mubarak)
Indian Paintbrush (Steven Rales)
Lakeshore Entertainment
(Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, David Dinnerstein)
Legendary Pictures (Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni)
Magnet Media Group (Maggie Monteith and Jeanette Buerling)
Media Rights Capital (MRC) (Asif Satchu, Modi Wiczyk)
Morgan Creek (James G. Robinson)
Myriad Pictures (Kirk DAmico)
Panaroma Medic (Marc Butan and Megan Ellison)
Participant Productions (Ricky Strauss and Jeff Skoll)
QED International (Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Elliot Ferwerda)
Reliance Entertainment (Mukesh Ambani)
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (Jim Tauber, Carla Hacken)
Skydance (David Ellison)
Tornante (Mike Eisner)
Vulcan (Paul Allen)
Walden Media (Michael Bostick and Philip Anschutz)
Yari Film Group (Bob Yari)

Networks / Broadcast / Cable / Internet (Buyers)

21st Century Fox

Fox, Fox News, FX, FBN, Hulu (stake), MundoFox, MyNetworkTV,
National Geographic

Amazon

CBS
CBS, The CW, Showtime

Comcast
NBC, MSNBC, Telemundo
A+E Networks (A&E, Biography, History, Lifetime (with Hearst and Disney/ABC)),
Bravo, Chiller, Daily Candy, E!, Fandango, G4, Golf, Hulu (stake), iVillage, Oxygen,
Sleuth, Sprout, Style, SyFy, USA, Versus, Weather

DirecTV

Discovery Communications
Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, OWN (50/50 with Harpo), Science,
The Hub (50/50 with Hasbro), Military, Planet Green

Netflix

PlayStation

TimeWarner
CNN, HBO, The CW, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT

Viacom
BET, CMT, Comedy Central, Epix (with Lionsgate & MGM), Logo, MTV, Nickelodeon,
Spike, VH1

Walt Disney Co.

ABC, ABC Family, A+E Networks (A&E, Biography, History, Lifetime (with
Hearst and Comcast)), Disney Channel, ESPN, Hulu (stake), SOAPnet

WGN

Xbox RIP for now

Only a matter of time for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and YouTube

Television Studios (Parents)

CBS Television Studios (CBS)
Universal Television (Comcast and General Electric)
Universal Cable Productions (Comcast and General Electric)
Twentieth Television (21st Century Fox)
Sony Pictures Television (Sony)
Warner Brothers Television (TimeWarner)
ABC Television Studio (Walt Disney Co.)

The Sellers

The Agents

Top 2

Big 2

Mini-Majors
APA, Gersh, Paradigm, Resolution, Verve

Departments
Mopic Lit, Mopic Talent, TV Lit, TV Talent, Finance, Books, Games,
Music, Commercials, Corporate Consulting, Sports, Theatre,
New Media/Digital, Professional & Personal Appearances

Boutique Agencies
Above the Line, Don Buchwald & Associates, Featured Artists Agency,
Fortitude, Gage Group, Innovative, Metropolitan, Original Artists,
Paul Kohner, Melissa Read, Brant Rose, Rothman Brecher

CAA, WME
UTA, ICM

The Managers

Mini-Major Managers
3 Arts, Affirmative Entertainment, Anonymous Content, Authentic,
Benderspink, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Caliber Media,
Circle of Confusion, The Collective, Echo Lake, Energy Entertainment,
Evolution Entertainment, Fuse Entertainment, Generate, Gotham Group,
Handprint Entertainment, Industry Entertainment, Intellectual Property
Group (IPG), Kaplan-Perrone, Key Creatives, Leverage, Link, Madhouse
Entertainment, Magnet Management, Management 360, Mosaic Media
Group, Nine Yards Entertainment, Principal Entertainment, PrincipatoYoung, The Schiff Company, Thruline, Underground,
Untitled Management

Boutique Managers
Arlook Group, Artists Talent Management, Art/Work,
David Baird (Kinetic), Bryan Brucks, Angela Cheng Caplan,
Sukee Chew (Hopscotch), DMG Entertainment, Elevate Entertainment,
Exile Entertainment, Judi Farkas, FilmEngine, Marisa Gasco-Johnston,
Alan Gasmer, Adam Goldworm (Aperture), Melanie Greene,
Heroes & Villains Entertainment, Insignia Entertainment, Seth Jaret,
Levity Management Group, Luber/Roklin, Brian Lutz,
Manage-ment (Dan Halstead), Media Talent Group (Geyer Kosinki),
MXN (Mason Novick), New School Media, New Wave Entertainment,
Oasis Media Group (David Lonner), The Pitt Group, Protocol,
Glenn Rigberg, Roar, The Safran Company, Todd Sharp (Bedlam),
Brian Sher (Category 5), Scenario, Larry Shuman, Silent R (Jewerl Ross),
Smart Entertainment, Chad Snopek, The Syndicate, John Tantillo, Tom
Sawyer Entertainment, Underground, Gary Ungar (Exile), Zero Gravity

Script Competitions & Labs

Screenwriting Competitions / Fellowships / Labs (Studio Radar)

Academy Nicholl Fellowship

The Black List

ABC Television Writing Fellowship Program

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
(Film Festivals: Film Independent, Hamptons, Sundance Institute)
(Film Schools: AFI, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, USC, UCLA)
Disney Feature Writing Fellowship Program
Film Independent
(Fast Track, Filmmaker Labs, The Sloan Producer Grant)
Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship
Twentieth Century Fox Emerging Writers Program
Sundance Institute
(Directors Lab, Producers Lab, Writers Lab, Episodic Story Lab, Cinereach)
Universal Emerging Writers Fellowship
Warner Workshop

Amazon Studios
The Humanitas Prize

American Zoetrope
Austin Film Festival
Cinequest Film Festival
Cinestory
Creative World Awards
Eddie Bauer Screenwriting Competition
Fade Ins Greenlight My Movie
Final Drafts Big Break
The Hamptons Film Festival
Kairos Prize
Scriptapalooza
Script Pipeline
Slamdance
Writers Storm

Misc.

Subscriptions
Daily Variety
Fade In
Hollywood Reporter
Studio System
Online Interveiws
Craft Truck
Emmy Legends
The Insiders on TheLipTV
Websites.com
Hollywood Journal
Imdb and ImdbPro
Blacklist
BoxofficeGuru
BoxofficeMojo
Comic Toolbox
Daily Variety
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Done Deal Pro
Drews Scriptorama
Filmtracker
Hollywood Reporter
HollywoodWireTap
IndieWire
Inktip
Itsonthegrid
JohnAugust
Los Angeles Times Entertainment/Company Town
New York Times Movies
Screenwriters Online
Script Magazine
ScriptSales
Script Shadow
SimplyScripts
The Numbers
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TV Tracker
VirtualPitchFest
Vulture
Wordplayer
The Wrap

Books Suggested Readings

Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business by Frank Rose
Ask the Pros: Screenwriting by Howard Meibach
Bankroll: A New Approach to Financing Feature Films by Tom Malloy
The Big Deal by Thom Taylor
The Business of Media Distribution by Jeff Ulin and Chris Simpson
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
Film Festival Secrets by Christopher Holland
Global Hollywood by Toby Miller
Good in a Room by Stephanie Palmer
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta
Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
I Liked It, Didnt Love It by Monika Skerbelis & Rona Edwards
Keys to the Kingdom by Kim Masters
The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans
The Little Stuff Matters Most by Bernie Brillstein
The Mailroom by David Rensin
Marketing to Moviegoers by Robert Marich

The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Dreamworks by Nicole Laporte
The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys & Sells the New Hollywood by Thomas R.

King

Outside the Box Office by Jon Reiss

Ovitz by Robert Slater
A Passion to Win by Sumner Redstone

Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting Youll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

Story by Robert McKee

Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing & Design by Flint Dille and John Zuur Platten
The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media by Bruce Block

The Writers Journey by Christopher Vogler

Youre Lucky Youre Funny by Phil Rosenthal

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Indies

Film Festivals & Markets

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Palm Springs, Rotterdam, Santa Barbara, Slamdance, Sundance

Berlin, Cinequest, Florida, True/False
Cleveland, Dallas, New Directions/New Films, Sedona, SXSW, Vail
Ashland, Dead by Dawn, Fantastic Planet, Hot Docs, MipTV, Newport
Beach, San Francisco, Sarasota, Sonoma, Tribeca, Worldfest Houston
Cannes, Edinburgh, Krakow, Santa Cruz, Seattle
Breckenridge, Dances with Films, DISCOP, E3, Los Angeles, Maui,
Nantucket, Silverdocs, Transylvania, Waterfront
ComicCon, FantasiaFest, Karlovy Vary, LA Outfest
Hong Kong, Locarno, Melbourne, Sundance Next Weekend, Telluride,
Traverse City, Venice
Athens, Fantastic Fest, Montreal, New York, San Sebastian, Temecula,
Toronto, Vancouver
Austin, Busan, Chicago, Hamptons, Hawaii, Heartland, Hollywood,
London, Milano, MipCom, Offshoot, Orlando, Rome, Shriekfest,
Screamfest, Sitges, Tokyo, Woodstock
AFI, AFM, Lone Star, Starz Denver, Stockholm, Torino
Anchorage, Dubai, Santa Fe
Google Oscar Qualifiers and Film Festivals

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The Studio Independents

Focus Features, Fox Searchlight, Insurge, Paramount Digital,
Sony Classics, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisition Group
Mini-Major Independents
ATO Pictures, CBS Films, Cinedigm, Exclusive Releasing, Millennium,
Lionsgate, MGM/UA, Miramax, Open Road (Regal/AMC), Paladin,
Relativity (278 Films), The Weinstein Company (Radius), Wreckin Hill
True Independents
A24, After Dark, Anchor Bay, Breaking Glass, Cinema Guild, Cinema Libre,
Cohen Media Group, Devolver, Drafthouse Films, eOne, Film Arcade, FilmBuff,
Film Movement, First Run Features, Freestyle Releasing, GoDigital,
Gravitas Ventures, House Lights Media, IFC Films, Inception Media, Indican,
Ketchup Entertainment, Koch-Lorber, Launchpad Releasing, LD Entertainment,
Level 33, Lightning, Magnolia/Magnet, Maverick, Monarch, Monterey Media,
Mouse Trap Films, MPI, MTI, New Video, Oscilloscope,
Osiris (Paragon Pictures), Palm Pictures, Participant Media, Phase 4,
Picturehouse, RLJ Entertainment (Image), Random Media, Roadside Attractions,
Rocky Mountain Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Screen Media Films, Senator,
SnagFilms (IndieWire), Strand Releasing, Tribeca Films, Uncorked,
Vanguard Releasing, Virgil Films, Vision Films, Viva Pictures, Wellspring,
WWE, Xlrator, Zeitgeist
DIY
Distribber, Gathr.org, Tugg.com, Vimeo

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Producer/Film Sales Reps

The Majors
CAA, Cinetic, Gersh, ICM, Paradigm, UTA, WME

Boutiques
Circus Road Films (Glen Reynolds, Sebastian Twardosz)
City Hall Film (Dan OMeara)
Eastgate Pictures (Ronna Wallace)
Emerging Pictures (Ira Deutchman)
Film Sales Company (Andrew Herwitz)
Integration Entertainment (Amy Steuer)
Lantern Lane (David Garber)
Pierce Law Group (David Pierce)
Preferred Content (Kevin Iwashina)
Reder & Feig (Noor Ahmed and Glenn Feig)
Submarine Entertainment (Josh Braun)
Traction Media (Maren Olson)
Harris Tulchin Entertainment
Turtles Crossing (Susan Jackson)
XYZ Films (Nate Bolotin, Nick Spicer, Adam Tertzakian)

Foreign Sales Agents

Affinity International
Aldamisa International
ArcLight Films
Bleiberg Entertainment
Celluloid Dreams
Cinema Libre International
Cinetic International
Cineville
Content Media Corporation
Crystal Sky Worldwide
Epic Pictures Group
Fabrication Films
Film Nation
Fortissmo
FremantleMedia
GK Films International
Goldcrest Films
Granada
Hanway Films
Hyde Park International
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Icon International
IM Global
Lakeshore Entertainment
Lightning Entertainment
The Little Film Company
Mandate International
MarVista Entertainment
Meyers Media Group
Morgan Creek International
Myriad Pictures
Peace Arch Entertainment
Porchlight Entertainment
Regent Entertainment
Reliant Pictures International
QED International
Shoreline Entertainment
Sidney Kimmel International
Summit Entertainment
Visit Films
Voltage Pictures
W2 Media
Wild Bunch
Yari Film Group

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Good Quotes

Die Hard is an action film about a guy trying to save his marriage.
Carl Ellsworth, screenwriter
You dont get in a car and randomly start driving.
Alex Litvak, screenwriter
Were tasters for a living. We read poison.
Adam Novack, agent @ WME)
Were not in the filmmaking business. Were in the marketing business.
JC Spink, producer
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
Agents are not good at starting fires but were great at spreading them. We just need
something to spark it.
Rob Lazar, agent @ Resolution
If you cant explain it simply, you dont know it well enough.
Einstein
Its not fast-talking. Its fast-moving.
Youssef Delara, filmmaker
No is only No for Now.
Sheldon Candis, filmmaker
CAA is an ecosphere of specialists in all facets of the entertainment industry
Dina Kuperstock, agent @ CAA

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I dont have a magic wandI have a phone.

Dave Boxerbaum, agent @ Paradigm

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