SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: 411 – Making A Feature for $40K in 10 Days!
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with returning guests Mark Stolaroff and Adam Mervis. They talk about how they let nothing stop them from making their contained drama ‘The Last Days Of Capitalism’ (2020) in a Las Vegas suite with 40K and only 10 days. This should be an inspiring case study for filmmakers as it shows how you can make a movie with limited resources.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with returning guests Mark Stolaroff and Adam Mervis.
They talk about how they let nothing stop them from making their contained Drama The Last Days Of Capitalism (2020) in a Las Vegas suite with 40K and only 10 days. This should be an inspiring case study for filmmakers as it shows how you can make a movie with limited resources.
Adam Mervis is the Writer/Director of The Last Days Of Capitalism and also wrote 21 Bridges (2019) starring Chadwick Boseman, J.K. Simmons, Sienna Miller and Taylor Kitsch.
Mark Stolaroff is the producer of many movies including DriverX (2017) and has worked on Christopher Nolan's first movie Following (1998).
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Mark Stolaroff on IMDb
- Mark Stolaroff on Twitter
- Mark Stolaroff on Facebook
- Mark Stolaroff website
- Adam Mervis on IMDb
- Adam Mervis on Instagram
- The Last Days Of Capitalism Trailer
- The Last Days Of Capitalism on IMDb
- The Last Days Of Capitalism on Instagram
- SYS 256 with Mark Stolaroff
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.
