Placements
1. Speaking Part Placements (corporate, personal, institutional) in movie, graphic novel, and MMOG in scenes taking place throughout story. Limited to 1-2 lines unless audition reveals a professional actor capable of handling a bigger role. (For example, a well-known personality such as Donald Trump could appear in the film, for the fee indicated.) Not more than ten in the film. Options at $1,000 and pre-production fee at $40,000. Post-production fee $100,000. First million sales free, $5 per 10,000 tickets sold thereafter.
2. Non-Speaking Close-up Face Placements (corporate, personal, institutional) in movie, graphic novel, and MMOG in scenes taking place throughout story. Sold in increments of 12 frames of screen time in movie, display space in graphic novel, placement in MMOG. Possible upgrade on shooting set (but no guarantees) if person is found by director to be able to handle a bigger role. Ditto, but $20K pre-production and $30K post-production.
3. Enhanced Product Placements (Scenes with the movie's stars taking place in your branded bookstore, gold/currency exchange, shooting range & pharmacy) in movie, graphic novel, and MMOG Ditto, with $100K pre-production and $250K post.
4. Branded Product Placements (corporate or institutional) on Aurora Trading floor. Sold in increments of 12 frames of screen time in movie, display space placement in graphic novel, placement in MMOG. Based on $100,000 per placement, or $100,000 per 12 frames of screen time in the film. Option priced at 1%, 40% pre-production, 60% post-production.
According to: http://www.slate.com/id/2138753/
"The going rate for a single product inclusion in an independent movie usually ranges from $50,000 to $250,000." Some existing television shows are produced entirely by product placement fees, so basic cable advertisements are all profit. (See for example the Food Network show "Chopped.")
We offer options for $100 to guarantee discount pricing on product placement in the graphic novel and poster. We offer options for $1,000 to guarantee discount pricing in the film and in the online game. These option fees are not refundable.
We offer end-note advertising pages in the trade paperback of the novel at $1,500 per quarter page. (These can be sold now since we can modify the on-demand publication.)
On completion of deliverable product, the buyer pays on the following schedule: posters $500 each; graphic novel $5,000; trade paperback $8,000; film $60,000; game $20,000. The first million sales are included. For distribution in excess of one million copies sold, the buyer pays $2 per ten thousand copies for the poster, $3 per ten thousand copies for the graphic novel; $4 per ten thousand copies for the trade paperback; $5 per 10,000 tickets sold for the film; $4 per ten thousand subscriptions sold for the game. The option buyer gets a 10% discount in each case. Some fees marked post-production are required prior to film release during the post- production stage of the film (editing and special effects). Notice that as product placements increase, we can dramatically decrease sales prices using this formula. We make it up on back-end distribution fees to the product placers.