Celebrity Endeavors

[pooh72]

Does anybody have any info on these guys. Damon Banks is the guys name I keep emailing to.

[StainedGlass]

I'm curious about this company too. They requested one of my scripts. Did you find out anything Pooh72?

[cmmora]

I checked out their website. They said that they do not represent writers. They do...


The company does represent production entities seeking to develop projects for financing and distribution. This includes both independent producers and larger studios.


Stainless did you submit a package?

www.celebrityendeavors.com/index.html (http://www.celebrityendeavors.com/index.html)

cmmora

[StainedGlass]

Not yet. Tomorrow. I'll keep you posted on what happens.

[StainedGlass]

Update. I had a nice little conversation with Damon Banks. He seemed like a nice guy and gave answers to all the questions I asked .... I think. We talked for about fifteen minutes and I must confess .... I still have no idea what exactly his company does!

All I do know is that they are NOT managers or agents. From what I could decipher I think they have a script consultant service that they will "point you towards" after giving you notes. Now he didn't exactly come out and say that they had a script consulting service that you have to use but it was kinda implyed in a roundabout sort of way.

So after the script is in it's best shape they will then go about shopping it around. Apparently they don't get any money up front .... I think. I guess they only get paid after the script sells (well, if you don't count the script consultant service :) ).

I politely declined and thanked him for his time and that was the end of it .... I think.

Have any of you guys ever had a conversation with someone in the business and afterwards felt like you've been mindf**ked?

[shelly]

Sounds eerily like a conversation I had with Damon Banks a week ago. Said that his readers had liked my script and that a decision would be made in a few days about going forward.

Then someone from their finance and distribution department called me. Sounded good until I got the email saying pretty much what Stained Glass recounted, that they eagerly wanted to develop the project but needed the script to be looked at by "readers that they trusted." He said that they had taken on two writers this quarter and wanted me to be the third.

It started to feel like a hustle when they started pressuring me with all these artificial deadlines about making financial arrangements with these third party readers who supposedly work only by referral. I really became suspicious when they sent me a paypal link to the the supposed readers... WITH the payment going directly to celebrityendeavors.com.

I'm with Stained Glass... I'm still not 100% sure what they do. Maybe if I'd heard of them it would feel less like a hustle. They're in the agents and managers section on Done Deal but they're more of a packaging entity from what I understand, putting together budget, cast list, and all other components to submit to a studio. They supposedly work off of commission that will be built into the film's budget, and they also get the writer a producing credit.

To see how sincere he was I sent him a polite email saying that since his readers had already taken a look at the script then I would much rather work directly with them in developing the story until we all felt comfortable enough to send it out -- the way you would with a REAL producer -- instead of paying a third party, at which time he promply became uninterested.

[MississippiFlash]

More and more companies are finding ways to try to extract cash from spec screenwriters. When we foolishly send them money, we're help fund lifestyles, business operations--and other projects.

[Carlton Redford]

No need to wonder what they do; it's unmistakable.

The pheremones emitted by these kinds of creatures are strong enough to be sniffed through cyberspace.

Reading about such despicable parasites I've thought from time-to-time about submitting a logline mentioning the adventures and jeopardies facing undercover bunco squad personnel -- citing the authenticity I've brought to the script from my putative 22 years with the district attorney's office.

Wonder how anxious they'd be to request the script?

-- Carlton

[Hairy Lime]

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