Simple, what started off as a DVD release for The Long Run turned into a slight fad as of late.
As a result, I'm introducing a new branch for the Movie Simulation universe:
You can release your films onto DVD, following these strict guidelines:
The awards season for your film MUST have passed, otherwise it will be too early to release.
You must add an American Age rating (G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17), keeping in mind that the rating will have a deciding factor on how well your DVDs sell.
You must give the following outline-
Film: (Can be a film series in the one pack, or a collection of the sorts, eg. "The MohadGlub Collection", in which case you should specify the films in brackets.)
Edition: (Standard, Collector's, Special, Anniversary, etc. Also remember that a multi-movie package requires one disc per movie.)
Discs: (Any number, though it will affect the production price.)
Production Cost: ($2.50 per disc.)
Sell Price: (At least twice the production cost... I mean, hey, you want a profit, right?)
Shipment: (A number of DVDs to ship. Starting bet should be around 10,000. What isn't sold after that gets put on the shelf. This is the big part, where you could lose money.
Cover Description: (Post a picture if you like.)
Back Cover Text: (Write up the text promoting the story or the edition.)
Special Features: (Any special features herein. You have a limit of three featurettes and a commentary track for the one disc, anything beyond requires two or more discs.)
Distributor: (Universal, Paramount, Village Roadshow, Warner Video, etc.)
Well, you post your current budget with it also, and I'll give or take money from it depending on how well the DVDs cost.
I gave you the information there on selling DVDs. First releases and special editions might cost more (up to $30 or even more), and after a while will go down (unless it's an old film. ie. The Long Run would probably sell now for about $10, two-disc version and all).
The new budget I provide for you will go straight back to the main movie game.
could someone explain the american ratings? We Brits have:
U- Universal (anyone can watch)
PG- Parental Guidance (young kids have an adult)
12A- (Anyone younger than 12 is accompanied by an adult)
15- restrictive to people of 15 or above
18- restrictive to people of 18 or above
Film:
MATT (PG-13)
MATT2: The Resistance (PG-13)
MATT3: The Apocalypse (PG-13)
Edition:
Special Edition
Discs:
3 per pack. (1 for the film, 2 for extra footage)
Production Cost:
$10 (7.50 for the disks, extra for the case, packaging and booklet)
$25 (22.50 for the disks, extra for the case, packaging and booklet)
Sell Price:
$20 for each Movie
$50 for all three Movies in a Collector’s pack
Shipment:
20,000 for each film,
10,000 of the Collectors Pack (with all three in a special cover, at a cost of $50)
Cover Description:
Very similar to the special edition Lord of the Rings packs. Cardboard foldout case for the discs, with separate cardboard sheaths for each movie and then into a stronger cardboard case for the whole set of three collectors pack. Designed with the style of the film in mind, with concept art etched unto the backs and used to decorate the inside, as well as sketches from the film to be situated behind the disks.
Back Cover Text:
(None on the actual box as it is a collectors box and it is presented in a manner that doesn’t need a back blurb etc)
Paper slip on the back held on by the cellophane vacuum wrap with information about what is inside and the promotional offer.
Special Features:
Production notes and documentaries, ‘makings of’, as well as concept art, 30 minutes of deleted scenes for each film and interviews with all cast and the director, producer etc. 300 collectors packs (randomly distributed) have a special edition signed inside cover and discs signed by all the cast and the director. The Cardboard pack has an embossed finish. Inside booklet with a personal foreword from the director.
That's not a distributor. If you were looking for something more official then 20th Century Fox, or Village Roadshow, or Paramount, or something like that would be better suited.
But I've never heard of Entertainment In Video, the only smaller companies I can think of are MRA and Magna Pacific.
i thought they did the Lord of the Rings, but then I might have gotten mixed up in all the small writing. I'm not very familiar with urrm... DVD distributors.
Could this please be restricted to special DVD sets/packs/editions?? Otherwise everyone will be releasing standard DVD's just to make money.
If its kept to something like a collectors bundle or a special edition that would only be done for sparing films, it will keep this as a noevlty that you can do once you have an extremely successful film.
We'll all assume such standard DVDs come out anyway, but for those who want to scrape up an extra buck (people low on cash), this is a decent way to get a little extra.
Here's your evaluation.
DVD Evaluation:
MATT Trilogy
Individual-Edition Sales- 15500 copies of 20000 sold.
Profit- $110,000
Collector's Pack Sales- 6500 copies of 10000 sold.
Profit- $75,000
Overall profit- $185,000
Current budget for MohadGlub- $2,617,740,000
Discs:
2 per pack. (1 for the film, 1 for extra footage)
Production Cost:
$7.50 (5 for the disks, extra for the case, packaging and booklet)
Sell Price:
$20
Shipment:
10,000
Cover Description:
Upper- Text- Winner of 4 Academy Awards Including Best Director.
Upper Left- Sam Niell with fedora and avator shades in a smart 1800 style suit.
Centre Right- Ralph Fiennes holding a lit stick of dynamite with a smug grin.
Lower centre- Scene from film of Fiennes running from Sam Niell.
Centre- Text- Sam Niell Ralph Fiennes
SMOOTH CRIMINAL
Lower left- Text- “Fiennes further proves himself glorious as a villain” –Seiken
Lower Right- PG-13
Back Cover Text:
Still image of Fiennes leaping over a bank counter incorporated into the background.
Upper Right- Blurb
Centre Right- Special Features list
Lower Centre- Cast
Lower- information, rating, barcode, and hologram.
Special Features:
Disc 1- Director and cast commentary.
Disc 2- Making of featurette
- Interview with cast and director
- Theatrical Trailer
- 10 minutes of deleted scenes
- Directors Gag-reel
- ‘Making the 1800’ featurette
Production Cost:
$8.50 ($6 for discs, $2.50 for case, packaging and booklet)
Sell Price:
$22
Shipment:
12,000
Cover Description:
Upper Text – SIX
Centre Right – Tall Skyscraper building with SWAT team closing in.
Centre Left – Picture of Samuel L. Jackson with his arms raised.
Centre Text – Samuel L. Jackson, Charlize Theron
Lower Left – “It keeps us on the edge of our seat” – Seikan
Lower Right – PG-13
Back Cover Text:
Still image of Samuel L. Jackson placing a gun on the floor.
Upper Centre – Blurb
Centre Left – Special Features List
Lower Centre- Cast list
Lower – Crew information, rating, barcode.
Special Features:
Disc 1 – Commentary by Director Freakyfriend2001 and Samuel L. Jackson
Disc 2 – ‘Creating SIX’ the Making Of
- Interview with director and cast
- 8 Deleted/Extended Scenes
- Blooper Reel
- Web Links
- Filmographies
Production Cost:
$10.00 ($7 for discs, $3.00 for case, packaging and booklet)
Sell Price:
$25
Shipment:
10,000
Cover Description:
Upper Text – Time Will Tell
Centre Background image – Picture of time machine glowing white.
Lower Centre Text – Harrison Ford, Christopher Walken
Lower Left – “With the fantastic direction of Freakyfriend2001, he turned it into a classic movie” - Irnbru
Lower Right – PG-13
Back Cover Text:
Centre Right – Picture of Christopher Walken with goggles on, laughing.
Upper Centre – Blurb
Centre Left – Special Features List
Lower Centre- Cast list (small font)
Lower – Crew information, rating, barcode.
Special Features:
Disc 1 – Commentary with director.
Disc 2 – “How to tell time” The Making of Time Will Tell
- ‘Creating the machine’ featurette
- ‘Creating the past’ featurette
- Commentary with Harrison Ford and Christopher Walken
Disc 3 – ‘Past and Present’ featurette
- Interview with director and cast
- Special effects featurette
- Time Will Tell premiere video
- Clips of various films which were influences
- 20th Century Fox: Coming Soon! Clips
- Filmographies
- Web Links
- Desktop wallpapers and screensavers (insert into CD-ROM drive)
Discs:
2 per pack. (1 for the film, 1 for extra footage and extra features)
Production Cost:
$10.00 (5 for the disks, extra for the case, packaging and booklet)
Sell Price:
$30
Shipment:
20,000
Cover Description:
Upper Text- Golden Globe Winner for Best Director.
Centralised theme – The 3 scientists surrounded by the evil which they have created.
Centre Text- Nicolas Cage, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank
I n t r I c a t e
Lower left- Text- “An Epic that outdoes anything we’ve ever seen before.” - IrnBru
Lower Right- 15
Back Cover Text:
Welcome to the year 2500, where AI systems will take over on a massive scale. Become part of this highly advanced futuristic theme with many of the special features provided.
Upper Right- Blurb
Centre Right- Special Features Listing
Lower Centre- Cast.
Lower- Information, rating, barcode, and hologram.
Special Features:
Disc 1- Director commentary.
Disc 2- The making of featurette
- Interview with cast and director
- Premiere Preview including exclusive interviews with IrnBru, freakyfriend2001, MohadGlub and many more.
- Theatrical Trailer
- Extended trailer
- AI Prototype Lab (Still Image Gallery)
- Creating Mono-Tech
- Forum / Fan-Club Futuristic Application
Each Dvd comes with a special fold out style box with a free large poster of the futuristic city with cast looking up at the camera while AI takes over the city behind them.
Discs:
2 per pack. (1 for the film, 1 for extra footage)
Production Cost:
$7.50 (5 for the disks, extra for the case, packaging and booklet)
Sell Price:
$27
Shipment:
15,000
Cover Description:
See Next Post.
Back Cover Text:
Still image of Maggie Quigley shooting at enemy troops and Statham lifting them using telekinesis.
Upper Centre- Text- Your Mind Is The Ultimate Weapon.
Upper Right- Blurb
Centre Right- Special Features list
Lower Centre- Cast
Lower- information, rating, barcode, and hologram.
Special Features:
Disc 1- Director and cast commentary.
Disc 2- ‘Game to Film’ Featurette
- ‘Becoming a Psi-Op’ Interview with Jason Statham
- Interview with director IrnBru
- Theatrical Trailer
- 30 minutes of deleted scenes
- Directors Gag-reel
- ‘Becoming Physic’ Interview with special effects dept. featurette
- World Premier
Distributor:
Paramount
Back Cover Text:
"From the multi Academy Award nominee, Shortcartoonist, comes a film of retribution, where second chances bring hope to lost souls, but where second chances can bring pain. Starring the Academy Award nominee Adrian Brody, Harrow's Prophecy is a thrilling tale of the lengths a man will go to bring meaning into his life, at the possible expense of others, and how a lost life can flower into a thing of meaning. Would you chase the uncertain?"
Special Features:
-Commentary by Shortcartoonist and star Arian Brody.
-Filmography
-Trailers
