***Hosting your Screenings at a Movie Theater - The Specifics***

With both the "Screen It Yourself Package" and the "Filmmaker Presentation and Screening" if you sell tickets to your screenings you share ticket proceeds 50/50 with Lane Wyrick, and you can also profit from DVD sales. Getting a split of ticket sales is a great benefit for you, especially if you are screening the documentary at your place of business, at house parties or any other venue that has the ability to screen a DVD and has enough seats for your audience.

When screening at a Movie Theater, the split of ticket sales is slightly different since the theater will usually require either a "4-Wall" rental fee or a split of the ticket proceeds. Here are the two typical arrangements:

4-Wall Rental - Movie theaters will often allow you to use their facilities if you pay them a rental fee for a single screening or evening. When they sell tickets, the rental fee is required by the theater to be paid in full before you see any money from ticket sales (usually rental fees are in the $300-$500 range). After this rental fee is paid, then they share 100% of the rest of the money. So if the rental of a theater is $400 and you are charging $8 per ticket, the ticket admission from first 50 people will go to the theater ($8 x 50 tickets = $400). After this has been covered, then you would split the remaining funds 50/50 with Lane Wyrick (Director/Editor of "A Friend Indeed"). If there are not enough tickets sold at your screening to pay for the theater's rental fee, it is your responsibility to cover the shortfall and pay the theater the difference. Theater rental can be risky, but if you have a local person or business sponsor the rental fee and you do a lot of promotion of your screening, you actually will make more money, especially if you have a good turnout.

Split Deal - The other possibility is that the theater would just take a percentage of ticket sales without charging any other fees. Since the ticket proceeds would be divided three ways and usually the theater gets 50%, the likely scenario with a split would be 50% theater / 25% to you / 25% to Lane Wyrick (we share equally the portion that the theater gives after first taking out their share).

Note that in both of these circumstances (the "Screen It Yourself Package" and the "Filmmaker Presentation and Screening"), you are able to receive $6 for every DVD sale that is made, so it is a great benefit to find a theater that will allow sales of DVDs after your screenings.

If you find that you would rather just have "A Friend Indeed" screened at a movie theater in your town and you would like Lane Wyrick to deal directly with an independent film friendly theater (leaving you out of the profiting from ticket and DVD sales) please let me know what theater you have in mind. This arrangement would be handled only if the theater is willing to make a straight split deal (no 4-Wall arrangements), and would usually occur only if your were able to show that there is enough interest in your community to attend this screening of "A Friend Indeed" so that the theater could safely count on a good ticket sales (ticket prices have to be $5 or higher for this arrangement as well)

Please call me (Lane Wyrick) at 1-877-852-9485 or email me at Lane@BillSackter.com if you would like to talk about the possibilities and have your questions answered about how this can all work to your benefit, allowing you to bring "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story" to your city!!!