I almost burst into tears when my media instructor told me that the production company we pitched to isn’t a thing anymore and the hours I spent researching was basically for nothing. Nothing at all. But, luckily not much needs to change, just the production company.
Next Wave Films, unfortunately, doesn’t exist? Even though I literally spent a ton of time looking up movies and what their style of film was but it’s fine I’m fine. Even though Next Wave seemed like the best path for us, we obviously had to switch to on that, you know, existed. Thankfully, we found one that appeared to work for us well enough since it’s had many independent films with a low budget like what we wanted to go for.
The production company we have decided to go with now is MGM, which stands for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Now, this is a production and distribution company, so it doubles as both. Through my research, however, in November 2010, MGM filed for bankruptcy. So at that time, it would not have existed. Though, within December of that year, it came out of bankruptcy.
MGM mostly co-produces with other large production companies (Fox, Sony, Warner Bros. etc.), though still a production company on its own. Our original selection for production company may stay the same, but it could go through the outlet of simply staying with MGM throughout the entire process. Other mystery movies coming through this production company is Murder At The Gallop, Sherlock Jr., The Mystic, The Mystery of Mr. X, Mystery Street, and The Mysterious Lady. They were all considered independent films and earned back most of their money. These movies are considered much older than what we have to work with, but we want a somewhat older feel, so looking at how these successful movies did back then, we have hopes through MGM that they will provide the same feel we want. Finding this production company in a quick manner has made things easier for us since no we can really focus on trying to edit and finalize our title sequence. If only I had known that Next Wave wasn’t a thing this literally wouldn’t have happened but it’s fine, I’m fine. Everything is back on track now and we will now be able to focus on the main task at hand: finishing this. Seeing this fiasco has shown me how careful real movie producers have to be when choosing a real production company.
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