Sacramento Script Writer Shares His Plan
Last week I had a chance to meet with an incoming class member of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy. It's always such a privilege to meet these young people who are so full of ideas and hope and energy. During our discussion, he mentioned his father was raising money to make a movie. I offered the Sacramento Executive forum as a place for his father to preview his plan and recruit local talent to assist. So, what follows is the plan synopsis his father sent. If the movie turns out half as well as this bright, charming young man, it should be an Academy award winner!
Sasquatch Entertainment LLC, is proud to be part of the Northern California film-making community. The goal of Sasquatch Entertainment, a new independent film company, is to produce profitable, feature length films in Sacramento, using local talent to fulfill that endeavor.
It wasn’t until seven years ago that the owner of Sasaquatch Entertainment, David W. Keon put his lifetime passion for films into action as a screenwriter. David has written three screenplays and has five others (2 Thrillers, 2 Comedies, 1 Drama) in development phase. In early 2004, one of his screenplays, (Money For Nothin), a big-budget, action buddy-cop film caught the attention of Hollywood and was optioned by The Donners Company (Lethal Weapon, X-Men) and had interest as well from Todd Phillips Company (Starsky and Hutch, Old School), C-2 Pictures (Die Hard3, Terminator) and Davis Entertainment (The Firm, Behind Enemy Lines).
David started Sasquatch Entertainment after rebounding from his Hollywood disappointments, heeding the words of many within the industry, “you have the talent to produce your own works”. David took this advice to heart and used his schooling from The Hollywood Film Institute to do exactly that and formed Sasquatch Entertainment, LLC in late 2005.
With the average cost of a Hollywood studio production sitting around $40 million, the door has swung wide open for the fast growing independent film market. Based in Sacramento, Sasquatch Entertainment will play a major role in this ever expanding marketplace and supply film audiences with quality, enjoyable entertainment.
Presently, Sasquatch Entertainment has numerous projects at various stages of development. One such project titled “Xtra space,” has moved from the development phase into pre-production. The four phases of filmmaking are development (script), pre-production (cast, crew, budget and funding), production (filming) and then post production (editing, marketing and distribution). Principal photography (filming) is tentatively set for early 2007. “Xtra space” should carry a PG-13 rating.
“Xtra space” Short Synopsis: Two enterprising college grads, with a dream of launching their video game development company, temporarily take over management of a self-storage facility. Complications arise when one of them discovers, a local gang operating an illegal casino down the street, suddenly needs a new place of operation. Will our strapped for venture capital college grads cross the line and risk everything to outsmart the local cops and their cliché abusing, tyrant boss?.
During the shooting of the film, Sasquatch Entertainment will select a young person from the local community to apprentice in whatever area of production his or her skills and desires dictate. It is my hope that, in sharing the storytelling skills of filmmaking, we will encourage others to tell stories of their own someday.
"Xtra space" is a motion picture budgeted to be produced at $400,000.00 for theatrical exhibition in the United States and Foreign Market(s). The U.S. domestic box office totaled $8.99 billion in 2005. Analysts project $25 billion worldwide revenue for films in 2006, growing to $31 billion by 2010. The market for independent films has expanded tremendously in the last few years with worldwide gross revenue of $23.24 billion in 2005..
In 2005, comedy films debuting for the first time at the American Film Market amongst those companies registered by AFMA, composed 37% of the total number of films. As the world moves away from pictures containing graphic content, the marketplace needs films that entertain and stir the emotions without the use of violence and gratuitous sexual content..
Using a conservative, selective revenue projection, an assumption of general industry distribution agreements, Sasquatch Entertainment projects domestic gross revenue of approximately $8.5 million with a producer / investor income of $1.78 million (Domestic only) for "Xtra space"..
At this time, Sasquatch Entertainment is seeking production partners and investors. Inquiries requesting detailed information regarding the project can be emailed (sasquatchent@aol.com) or sent directly to David W. Keon at 5951 West Oaks Blvd., Rocklin, California 95765 .
Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive
