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Originally Posted by Helmhood
If you want some feeback from a business end, with regard to how my film "Babysitting Without a Net" (see thread below) is doing, feel free to pm me or e‑mail me!
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Without asking to see your tax returns or anything, I think a lot of us would like to know: did you recoup your investment yet?
People who don't have much money - well - just don't have much money. And people who do have money didn't get that way by throwing it away. The bottom line is that no matter how much you like this stuff, I'm sure you can't keep producing it if it's hemorrhaging money.
So how's about a ballpark here? Losing your shirt? Breaking even so you can keep up the hobby as long as your interest holds? Or is there a potential money‑making industry here?
I understand no one in any business wants to give away proprietary information, but I seriously doubt that anybody in the adult film industry is going to compete with your work anytime soon. And as has been mentioned here, mainstream film makers will avoid this like the plague. Although the comparison is a twisted one, there is about as little chance that Hollyweird will start mass‑producing ENF films as there is that they will rush to steal a piece of Mel Gibson's billion‑dollar "niche" market. Even if they tried, they'd screw it up beyond recognition.
Oh, and call me a maniac, but if there are studios out there with the facilities and people in place; and there are producers (e.g, you) who don't mind having their names associated with this kind of project ‑‑ then why the heck don't you people MAKE A DEAL??? Why would a studio need to set up a shell organization when there's already somebody out there? On the books, you can basically "rent out" their services under your name. The studio's name doesn't have to be on the project at all. And there's no reason a producer has to finance the whole thing out of his pocket; the compensation can include any amount of profit sharing the parties want.