Latest Studio Update - July 24th 2007
I just answered to an old thread and since that old thread will be
fading back to the place that all old threads go ... figured it'd be
a good idea to start a 'new old thread'!
The question was ... who won the 'Name The Studio' prize?
The answer ... nobody.
Why? ... for a plethora of nightmarish legal reasons ... unless we were
willing to go with something like, The Hot Slap Monkey Love Studios!
My suggestion, for some obscure reason, didn't get past the owners.
... I withdrew it quickly.[:o)]
Ah - we just had this conversation with Doug Wilson, Sig and his
wife Deb, up in McMinnville the other day, over dinner.
Well, what we thought was going to be the easiest part of starting
a big motion picture studio has turned out to be the most difficult
- to date - of everything that they (the three owners) have had to
do.
Some of the names submitted by the forum guys and gals were good
enough to get the owners excited! I figured that it'd end there!
Nope! ... not even close.
It seems that ALL of the really good ones are already taken - just about
all of them are already in use/copywrited & trademarked OR are owned
by speculators who would be willing to sell them for a huge amount of
money.
It's turned into a 'lawyer thing' - exactly what we tried to avoid in the first
place! It seems that EVERYTHING needs to be SUPER CONTRACTUAL - or -
somewhere down the line you'll be likely to find yourself in constant
litigation ... complete with orders to stop and desist all over the place.
I could tell you more but that's pretty much the long and the short version.
At the moment we (they) are in negotiations with an owner of a name that
we (they) like. Nothing can go ahead on the name/advertising/websights/
linked spin-off businesses, etc., until that is resolved.
The multi multimillion dollar retrofit is the easy part - all one does is fund,
build - fund, build, etc.
This has been an 'eye-opener' for me - the days of plopping over a small
suitcase of hundred dollar bills, sealed with a handshake is something of
the early part of the LAST century. The phrase, "Our people (lawyers) will
talk to your people (lawyers) - and we'll get back to you! " I hear all the time.
Part of my job has been to cruise around on the net and find some really good
'head-huntable' outsourced professionals - mostly in London, Toronto and the
Lower 48. There are also a number in/around Calgary, AB (where the vast
majority of horror films and westerns are now made.
I found one guy who has really helped me meet others - up in WA and after a
couple of months of talking to him, my wife and I went up to Mt. Rainier to
see/officially hire him - "bring him onboard,' as they say - a big contract was
involved (had to bring a Notary along that night) and all that BS had to be
followed to make 'it legal!'
Anyway, as of now, we are still the Motion Picture Studio Without a Name (yet).
As soon as they tell me - I'll tell you.
... it's as simple as that ... no mystery there, fer sure!
Everything else is going well - a production date has been moved ahead - for
about half of the physical studio - from Aug./Sept. to Dec./Jan. By then all the
retrofit should be done ... hopefully! That too is very complicated but usually
money makes short business of it and even the worst problems go away quickly.
[:D]
fading back to the place that all old threads go ... figured it'd be
a good idea to start a 'new old thread'!
The question was ... who won the 'Name The Studio' prize?
The answer ... nobody.
Why? ... for a plethora of nightmarish legal reasons ... unless we were
willing to go with something like, The Hot Slap Monkey Love Studios!
My suggestion, for some obscure reason, didn't get past the owners.
... I withdrew it quickly.[:o)]
Ah - we just had this conversation with Doug Wilson, Sig and his
wife Deb, up in McMinnville the other day, over dinner.
Well, what we thought was going to be the easiest part of starting
a big motion picture studio has turned out to be the most difficult
- to date - of everything that they (the three owners) have had to
do.
Some of the names submitted by the forum guys and gals were good
enough to get the owners excited! I figured that it'd end there!
Nope! ... not even close.
It seems that ALL of the really good ones are already taken - just about
all of them are already in use/copywrited & trademarked OR are owned
by speculators who would be willing to sell them for a huge amount of
money.
It's turned into a 'lawyer thing' - exactly what we tried to avoid in the first
place! It seems that EVERYTHING needs to be SUPER CONTRACTUAL - or -
somewhere down the line you'll be likely to find yourself in constant
litigation ... complete with orders to stop and desist all over the place.
I could tell you more but that's pretty much the long and the short version.
At the moment we (they) are in negotiations with an owner of a name that
we (they) like. Nothing can go ahead on the name/advertising/websights/
linked spin-off businesses, etc., until that is resolved.
The multi multimillion dollar retrofit is the easy part - all one does is fund,
build - fund, build, etc.
This has been an 'eye-opener' for me - the days of plopping over a small
suitcase of hundred dollar bills, sealed with a handshake is something of
the early part of the LAST century. The phrase, "Our people (lawyers) will
talk to your people (lawyers) - and we'll get back to you! " I hear all the time.
Part of my job has been to cruise around on the net and find some really good
'head-huntable' outsourced professionals - mostly in London, Toronto and the
Lower 48. There are also a number in/around Calgary, AB (where the vast
majority of horror films and westerns are now made.
I found one guy who has really helped me meet others - up in WA and after a
couple of months of talking to him, my wife and I went up to Mt. Rainier to
see/officially hire him - "bring him onboard,' as they say - a big contract was
involved (had to bring a Notary along that night) and all that BS had to be
followed to make 'it legal!'
Anyway, as of now, we are still the Motion Picture Studio Without a Name (yet).
As soon as they tell me - I'll tell you.
... it's as simple as that ... no mystery there, fer sure!
Everything else is going well - a production date has been moved ahead - for
about half of the physical studio - from Aug./Sept. to Dec./Jan. By then all the
retrofit should be done ... hopefully! That too is very complicated but usually
money makes short business of it and even the worst problems go away quickly.
[:D]
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Oh, well - time to dump my Hot Slap Monkey Love stock [:(] 0 -
[8D]--You mean A1-A2 , don't have the overall answer and the Legal connections ???
--Gosh, you know there were never questions asked before, so what's the problem???
--Sorry , just being "outside" and I'm, sorry--
----JIMBO0 -
Zip, take a poll for us..I'd like to know how many people in your group thought you could set up ANYTHING including a Christmas party without a gaggle of lawyers being involved..[:D][:D] 0 -
Dammit, I'M A1.
A10 -
[8D]-Big Doug, I think you two wanted to remain aloof from the rest of this forum (A1,A2), but remember, we all like (both) of you , you don't need that-military designation --
---A3(s1) out---0 -
A2 - our secret's out - RUN !!
A10 -
LOL ... if you guys knew the TRUE ORIGIN and TECHNICAL DESIGNATION of 'A1'
and 'A2' ... you'd probably be in complete agreement!
There is only ONE who holds the KEY to THAT secret and we (A1 & A2) are
powerless to disclose, redefine, or shed ourselves of that curse so firmly placed.
ONLY if SHE steps forward to either redub, or release, us of that aforementioned
CURSE it will be something that A1 and I must carry throughout the remainder of
our natural/unnatural lives ... and perhaps throughout the remainder of all time!
... not even a cadre of winged lawyers - with cloven hoofs, of course - could alter
our miserable designations!
Other than that, everything is pretty swell, eh, A1?!
A20 -
[8D]--I hope , you two remember what "ALOOF"--
--And "Need to Know" means--
JIMBO0 -
jimbowby, you must seek the 'Sig Oracle of the Mount!'
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