First You Get The Money Then You Get Movie Making Juice
and anyone involved with the project.
The filmmaker stands to lose credibility even if it isn’t their fault that the anticipated money to make a movie never comes to be. Investors can pull out last minute for different reasons. It takes time to plan and schedule a production. Financial situations can and do change for movie investors during that time causing money to dry up because shifts in the stock or real estate market etc.
Signed cast and crew can feel resentful because not only is there no longer a paying film gig, but also time was wasted thinking about a movie that never happened. This is worse if they passed up a solid offer to work on another film that did have money to make.
Cast and crew missed out on getting exposure and a payday agreeing to work on movie that was never real in the first place. Without money to support a film production all
