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If the millions are yours you can certainly do as you wish with them tho.

• dylan604 4y ago
  the old adage in show business was to never spend your own money. with the plethora of streaming options, that has been turned on its head. look at all of the shows where the lead talent is also an executive producer (the ones that write the checks).
  • rtsil 4y ago
    Most of these are either vanity credits, or just a way for the star to participate in the profits beyond salary and royalties.
    • dylan604 4y ago
      Or you have a project that as an actor you really want to perform a certain role so you show your commitment by putting up some money to get the project rolling. One of the common ways for financing media projects is where someone is willing to match someone else's contribution. The slimey parts come in when the original funding that is matched is guaranteed to be paid back first before others are paid, but that's not unique to the film industry
    • yamtaddle 4y ago
      I assume this is why everydamnthing has like 20 producers now.
  • klodolph 4y ago
    Writes the checks ≠ spending your own money. The executive producer is in some senses a liaison between the people providing the money and the people spending the money. I may be mixing this up. I know that “producer” and “executive producer” are somewhat different roles depending on whether you’re doing TV or film.
    • CalChris 4y ago
      Studio = Yale Investment Office, limited partner Producer = VC, general partner leading a funding Writer = Startup CTO, founder Director = Startup CEO It's a little different because studios greenlight and producers generally don't. But there are a lot more startups than movies or tv shows. Well, maybe studios don't greenlight development deals (seed startups).
      • dylan604 4y ago
        Depending on the studio, they can be much more than a limited partner. They can be providing the facilities to office out of for pre-production and development, the actual production work using their soundstages and other properties, and to do post-production.
      • gamblor956 4y ago
        No, sorry, you have it all wrong. Investors = Investors Studio = VC, etc. Executive Producer = CEO, COO, CLO, anybody with decision-making power Lead Writer = lead designer, i.e., the Johnny Ives Writer = designer Director = project manager or product manager Producer = the weird old guy who let you use their house during your ramen phase, that investor who thinks he cofounded your startup because he gave you a bunch of money, the salesperson who landed the really big client and was given the recognition for it
        • dylan604 4y ago
          Wow, I think this is probably one of those things trying to be funny but just isn't. Maybe you're just totally misguided on what a producer does, which may be the joke you're trying to make that nobody knows what a producer does. The producer would be closer to the president of the board while the director would be the CEO. The producer and director work closely to get the project off the ground, with the director have say on who is hired for the key roles (the lead person for each craft). These keys then can staff out around them and the director rarely interferes unless there's just something personal going on. Who the creator/founder equivalent is really differs between projects. Sometimes, the producer has the idea and staffs around it. Sometimes, the director has the idea and also acts as a producer or just staffs the producer out to someone. Sometimes, it's the studio's idea and staffs everything out.
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