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Comment on 4 Movies That Every Rep Should (And My Intern Must) See by DiamondDNice

DiamondDNice — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:20:00 +0000

Glengary Glen Ross is a top notch cast with top notch performances!

Go to lunch!!!

Comment on Getting Out Of Getting In Your Own Way by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:41:00 +0000

So true about the opportunities coming when you least expect them and your not ready for them. Its spontaneous and one has to make an immediate decision. Have to be ready at all times.

Mary Grace

Comment on The Film Industry Is In A Pickle by FresnoReal Estate

FresnoReal Estate — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:45:00 +0000

Community involvement is a possible secret. If the industry gets a feel for what the current mainstream of the society is struggling with, the subject matter of the film produced will touch people directly and create a buzz, and generate revenue. That will attract investment.

Comment on It’s Not Business, It’s Personal by Tweets that mention It’s Not Business, It’s Personal | DealFatigue -- Topsy.com

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:37:18 +0000

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Tweets that mention Lingua Franca | DealFatigue -- Topsy.com — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:51:53 +0000

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Comment on 4 Movies That Every Rep Should (And My Intern Must) See by Eric Schiffer Fanatic

Eric Schiffer Fanatic — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:58:53 +0000

Great list! Definite classics.

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Tweets that mention Rep Zen | DealFatigue -- Topsy.com — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:51:48 +0000

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Comment on Performance Anxiety by Steven Corn

Steven Corn — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:30:51 +0000

For most deals, it seems that the greatest fear is ending up with no deal. My late father, whose financial acumen may not have been the best, left me with a great quote (which I believe he created): “The most money I ever made were from deals that I never did.”

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Tweets that mention Performance Anxiety | DealFatigue -- Topsy.com — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:05:55 +0000

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Comment on Quantum Mechanics by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:45:54 +0000

Steven, well said!

Comment on Patching Up Negotiations by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:41:52 +0000

Steven,

You're right. You absolutely need to know what the other party's goals are. There's nothing wrong with asking either. On this, many are quite forthcoming assuming they know the answer for themselves.

Comment on Waiting For The Dough by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:39:59 +0000

Sorry for the delay in responding. I enjoyed speaking with you as well. Great to hear you were inspired.

Comment on Quantum Mechanics by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:47:00 +0000

I will be out of the office until November 30th. If you have an urgent matter, please contact me on my cell phone.

Steve

Comment on Patching Up Negotiations by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:43:00 +0000

I will be out of the office until November 30th. If you have an urgent matter, please contact me on my cell phone.

Steve

Comment on Quantum Mechanics by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:45:54 +0000

Steven, well said!

Comment on Patching Up Negotiations by stevencorn

stevencorn — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:43:40 +0000

I will be out of the office until November 30th. If you have an urgent matter, please contact me on my cell phone.

Steve

Comment on Patching Up Negotiations by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:41:52 +0000

Steven,

You're right. You absolutely need to know what the other party's goals are. There's nothing wrong with asking either. On this, many are quite forthcoming assuming they know the answer for themselves.

Comment on Waiting For The Dough by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:39:59 +0000

Sorry for the delay in responding. I enjoyed speaking with you as well. Great to hear you were inspired.

Comment on My Intern’s Reading (and Viewing) List Part I by Tony Milano

Tony Milano — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:45:44 +0000

Riveting…and around 1:18 the intensity in the bull moose connection really begins to soar…great teaching skill to your intern. Sign me up!

Comment on Quantum Mechanics by stevencorn

stevencorn — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:59:42 +0000

A quantum leap means going from one state of existence to another without transitioning between them. That's a hard trick to do in any business. And yet, it is necessary. But it requires overcoming one of the most powerful business force ever: inertia.

Comment on My Intern’s Reading (and Viewing) List Part I by Tony Milano

Tony Milano — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:45:44 +0000

Riveting…and around 1:18 the intensity in the bull moose connection really begins to soar…great teaching skill to your intern. Sign me up!

Comment on Patching Up Negotiations by Roger Goff

Roger Goff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:58:49 +0000

I think you're exactly right, Peter. With all due respect to Steven's comment, if anyone in our business is looking only at their short term interests, they are going to have a short career. This is excellent advice and perspective.

Comment on Patching Up Negotiations by Dana Kaminski

Dana Kaminski — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:13:24 +0000

Well, Peter I still think it's hard to find common ground when one side is getting so superbly ripped off, re the SAG issue. Example set aside, I love the ideas you are discussing here in this post. I would really like to hear you go a bit further. This is not my usual “area”.

I think it is an Achilles Heel for most creative folk. Very weak in this area. I would like if you write a post on this for actors. The new media is also the un-represented media…agents aren't negotiating there for actors as they always were in traditional media. Actors, and other creatives, usually need to learn 2 things: how to stick up for themselves, and paradoxically, how to be confident enough to be able to trust, and participate, in a real negotiation.

Comment on Patching Up Negotiations by stevencorn

stevencorn — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:23:32 +0000

You are assuming that Pumpkin Guy has a long term interest. I remember seeing a large sign at a local pumpkin patch/Christmas tree lot asking for investors in late September. This was visible from the freeway. If you feel that you business may be a one time shot, then why not gouge? Not everyone is looking at the long road. Many are looking at the short term gain and that's it. So, to put this comment in the proper context, when negotiating on the down side of supply and demand, it's critical to know if the other party has long term interests or not.

Comment on Waiting For The Dough by JoyKecken

JoyKecken — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:46 +0000

Peter, it was great meeting you at the DGA meeting last night. I was so inspired by your talk that I went to Insomnia and wrote till 1am. Love the blog. Countdown to 18 months. See you at AFM!

Comment on Waiting For The Dough by rogergoff

rogergoff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:15:28 +0000

Unfortunately, Peter, I don't think much will change by AFM — at least not for the better. If anything, it appears that the purse strings have been drawn even tighter since Toronto. However, AFM is certainly a different type of market than Toronto. It is a lot of smaller films looking for smaller deals, and there should be some activity at that end of the market. They have to put something on the screens and inexpensive content is the name of the game right now.

I actually think the current environment is putting efficient filmmaking and good storytelling at a premium. No one (except Michael Bay) gets to throw $150 million of special effects at the screen to see what happens. That means they actually might have to make an engaging film that relies on a good script, good acting and a solid marketing campaign. None of that bothers me.

Comment on Twitter Impersonator by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:43:48 +0000

Before Kayne West but I published it after his rant. For more, click here - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/kayne-west...

Comment on Twitter Impersonator by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:43:48 +0000

Before Kayne West but I published it after his rant. For more, click here - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/kayne-west...

Comment on Twitter Impersonator by steven corn

steven corn — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:24:49 +0000

Did you write this before or after the Kayne West rant?

Comment on SAG’s Thaw by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:38:12 +0000

Pam,

Many thanks for your correction. My bad is all the more severe since I googled the term for the correct spelling before publishing my post. Apparently, there's a number of us out there misspelling German expressions. Just goes to show you can't rely on the Internet for everything!

Comment on SAG’s Thaw by pam munro

pam munro — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:16:42 +0000

Alas, SAG seems suicidal – it's working on a very old paradigm & refuses to wake up to the new digital era! (P.S. it's “Sturm und Drang” German for “Storm and Stress” – the title for part of the Ger. Romantic movt.)

Comment on SAG’s Thaw by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:12 +0000

Pam,

Comment on SAG’s Thaw by pam munro

pam munro — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:16:42 +0000

Comment on Twitteriffic by katherine stephens

katherine stephens — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:51:17 +0000

your notes are always educational and amusing…I believe what you have to say because you don't take yourself so seriously.

Comment on Twitteriffic by katherine stephens

katherine stephens — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:51:17 +0000

your notes are always educational and amusing…I believe what you have to say because you don't take yourself so seriously.

Comment on Grass Roots Licensing Of Youtube Fare by katherine stephens

katherine stephens — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:24:57 +0000

II had missed your posts and now I know why…Your ability to take disparate ideas and merge them into a clear productive overview is interesting and instructive. many thanks…keep em coming

Comment on Grass Roots Licensing Of Youtube Fare by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:32:53 +0000

You might also consider looking at “Homestar Runner” as well since they are quite popular. They've got t-shirts and DVD versions of their shorts for sale on a website.

Frankly I don't see a future where the major players (studios, networks, etc) are completely absent or irrelevant. It will, however, become more common for them to recruit successful interest based entertainers.
-Jonathan

Comment on Grass Roots Licensing Of Youtube Fare by katherine stephens

katherine stephens — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:24:57 +0000

I had missed your posts and now I know why…Your ability to take disparate ideas and merge them into a clear productive overview is interesting and instructive. many thanks…keep em coming

Comment on Grass Roots Licensing Of Youtube Fare by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:32:53 +0000

You might also consider looking at “Homestar Runner” as well since they are quite popular. They’ve got t-shirts and DVD versions of their shorts for sale on a website.

Frankly I don’t see a future where the major players (studios, networks, etc) are completely absent or irrelevant. It will, however, become more common for them to recruit successful internet based entertainers.
-Jonathan

Comment on Technical Difficulties by FH

FH — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:51:59 +0000

Great to have you back in the blogsphere, Peter. I feared you'd abandoned us for Twitter!

Comment on Technical Difficulties by FH

FH — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:59 +0000

Great to have you back in the blogsphere, Peter. I feared you'd abandoned us for Twitter!

Comment on The Negotiation Culture: When Is It OK To Lie? by Eric

Eric — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:57:20 +0000

My career as a negotiator has been in a wide open world of commerce where I rarely negotiate with the same person twice and there is a lot of opacity.

My negotiation mentor when I was innocent, good hearted and naive, informed me thus: "All negotiators lie."

I'd like to say there is room for further discussion on this issue, but that's my best and final offer.

cheers

Comment on The Negotiation Culture: When Is It OK To Lie? by Eric

Eric — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:57:20 +0000

Comment on Getting Out Of Getting In Your Own Way by Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:33:16 +0000

i did read this and it had quite the effect on me!

Comment on Getting Out Of Getting In Your Own Way by Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:33:16 +0000

i did read this and it had quite the effect on me!

Comment on Lennon Reloaded by katherine stephens

katherine stephens — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:20:46 +0000

Not your more fully realized comment. If memory serves..Your reference is not posted of your picture on cover of Lawyrer…?The one laptop per child was the brainchild of ?…If you sent $200….A child would receive a free laptop in an undeveloped world and you would receive the second laptop for yourself.The idea of such a cheap laptop was 'stolen' by one of the big companies to sell to the public…which they did. No charitible contrubution to anyone…ALL FOR ME…sound familiar. I don't know how it was finally settled and no time to do the research but laptops were sold to governments for very little money. My facts are not dead -on accurant but the gist is there. Would love to read YOUR take on the facts.These computers were small with limited memory and ran on batteries that could be recharged in the community.A fabulous idea especially for now. Its the leading edge. of tomorrow…needs more publicity.

Comment on Lennon Reloaded by katherine stephens

katherine stephens — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:20:46 +0000

Comment on Negotiation Culture Redux: Lying Makes Sammy Run by uo gold

uo gold — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:48:30 +0000

hey thanks for sharing.interesting thing.

Comment on Negotiation Culture Redux: Lying Makes Sammy Run by uo gold

uo gold — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:48:30 +0000

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Comment on The Film Industry Is In A Pickle by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:12:36 +0000

One thing that might have been understated is the transition of the film short from a calling card for new talent to a new conduit for mainstream and established talent – due to the internet and the widespread popularity of the short on youtube, funny or die, and platforms like the ipod and mobile phones.

Comment on The Film Industry Is In A Pickle by Enci

Enci — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:04:27 +0000

Oh, and your comment about short films: I wish that movie theatres would actually screen a different short every week before the feature presentation. I'm sure it would bring new customers, it would bring back repeats and it would help talent to be recognized. (Not only the obvious talent but all below the line talent as well) This would certainly help strengthen the economy and also help investors.

If anybody out there has a movie theatre, I would love to partner with you in this endeavor! Yeah!

Comment on The Film Industry Is In A Pickle by Enci

Enci — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:59:36 +0000

Interesting blog. I think that the film industry is going to become more creative and there will be more quality films due to private funding. There are many filmmakers who cannot leave the country to shoot oversees but they will find ways to create and be independent. We already saw a lot of inspiring and creative films that were created during the strike. I'm looking forward to more!

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Comment on The Film Industry Is In A Pickle by Peter Kaufman

Peter Kaufman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:12:36 +0000

Comment on The Film Industry Is In A Pickle by Enci

Enci — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:04:27 +0000

If anybody out there has a movie theatre, I would love to partner with you in this endeavor! Yeah!

Comment on The Film Industry Is In A Pickle by Enci

Enci — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:59:36 +0000

Comment on Advertisers Now Investing In Indy Films by Artificial

Artificial — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:40:29 +0000

in exchange for participation in the back end and producers points, and that seems to be alright for producer's credits & points, and they are after all – financiers and investors, just like a exec. producer would be

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Comment on Box Office by fred Hogge

fred Hogge — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:12:05 +0000

It's a strange thing, this whole “critically acclaimed” business. All too often, I find reviewers writing about the film they'd like to have seen rather than the movie in front of them. I, too, was underwhelmed by Dark Knight, and spectacularly disappointed by Wall*E – which I read was profound but turned out to be twee. There's no accounting for taste, which is why I feel that, however we dress it up as sensible decision making, any picture we make is still just another game of roulette.