Brad Pitt and a Transparent Producer

Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:

Brad Pitt's need for speed, Sean Bean's life expectancy, Coherence 2, HBO's dream scenario, and a transparent producer.

Let’s go!

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A TRANSPARENT PRODUCER

Transparent. Amazon.

Many filmmakers believe that if they bring on a "producer" to their project, their career will take off.

But the issue is there’s a massive amount of confusion around not only which is the right producer to bring on but which producer should be brought on first.

Amongst the many options:

• Executive Producer

• Producer

• Co-Producer

• Line Producer

For indie filmmakers, the most valuable type of producer to bring in at the start of the process is one with line-producing skills.

A producer with line-producing skills will take the script and create a budget and schedule, which becomes a critical document to get the film financed.

But finding someone who investors trust to do this is very difficult.

Blair Skinner, a long-time industry producer with line-producing skills is sharing her expertise on budgeting everything from 250K indies to $20M studio projects.

Her top credits include:

• Transparent (Amazon)

• Slender Man (Screen Gems/Sony Pictures)

• Generation (HBO Max)

• The Lost Husband (Netflix)

Blair Skinner is offering a program to anyone who has a script and needs to create a schedule/budget so they can seek funding with this information.

Her program is also tailored to those looking to become a producer, line producer, UPM, production supervisor, or creative producer.

Blair Skinner stated: