Inside the Untold Journey of Creating a Hit Movie Far from Hollywood Lights with Adam Burke and Jud Nichols
Adam Burke
Yeah. You know, we had meetings with a handful of distribution companies after we sent screeners out and just emailed a ton of people. We talked about maybe going to the film markets. We talked about doing the festival route. And I don’t think there’s a right way or a wrong way to do it. It’s just a matter of how long you want to be in that cycle. We knew that if we were going to do the film festival thing, we were pushing distribution back by a minimum of six months. And I think both of us were kind of thinking that could be fun, but it also puts six months between us and the next project. And we are excited to start something new. And so, then when X4 said, we want to pick you guys up, and this is what we’re offering. And we had a few different offers on the table. In fact, we were, the day before, almost assigned with a different group. But this guy, Ryan, that runs X4, he was just, like Judd said, super straightforward. And he gave it to us straight and said, this is what we’re going to do. And they’re putting some money in for marketing, which was part of our deal with them, which was great. And a lot of distribution companies weren’t willing to do that. And then coaching us through a lot of the steps. So, they weren’t just like, I’m familiar with an aggregator, like a film hub, or some of these companies basically take your product, they package it, they push it out to these streaming platforms, and you never hear from them. And that was our biggest concern. And he basically said, we’re a smaller boutique place, and we don’t take on 500 films. This is how we do it. And this is how we roll it out. And this is how we see a rollout for you guys. And they were fans. We talked to a couple of these people, and they would say – oh, well, your film would be good here because there’s no drugs or violence in it. We’re like, what are you talking about? And there’s things that the whole place that they go to is like rooted in psychedelic drugs. There are tons of drugs throughout this thing. So that was discouraging, to see that some of these people were trying to pitch you without even having any idea what your movie was about.
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