Amanda the businessperson

So, I'm sensing Americans really want to buy the RP orgies. Here's a little bit of business thinking. - My thinking: it is fair to buy me out. I've put in a shit-ton of work, but the Tina production has come to an impasse because none of their ideas about the story are ones that I can get behind. I'm not using my Shipwrecked songs in the Tina story, and I own every note and every bar. Regardless of any criminal charges regarding drugs, or anything else, I own the IP underlying the Tina story, Portrait of a Knight (with my bro), and a 50-50 split on These Words Are Meant For Someone with Emanuel. These scripts aren't the result of drug enterprise, so regardless of if I went to jail over Jake or Ethan (or whoever else) buying drugs off me, I'd still get the money. - I own Shipwrecked on Islands too. I'm only producing one of these stories, and it is Shipwrecked. The rest of you can negotiate with me for the Tina story, buy me out, and accept that regardless of my social media pranks this is a business negotiation. - Even if we sold the orgy for $5 million (and I highly doubt we'd get that much), we'd only make 20% of the money each.

That's fair to say. The rest is you lot trying to manipulate me.

I'm not bendable. Supervising my wanks will never convince me - that's my mind palace, not my real life. Frankly, I'd rather pay Angie for a session than the current deal. -

What I was going to type was POAK has real back-end deals. We actually wrote contracts.

And we'd more or less copy-and-paste those for all the other projects.

POAK, we own 50% of, but for These Words it'd be a different split. 25% each for all 4 (me, Manny, Lauren, Barbara), and maybe 2-3% for Ethan for shooting one of the angles.

As for the Dakumentary - well, I'd say Dakta and Gary should get 50%, and then we'd split the rest. - As for the Tina story: I intend to publish the book, and I'd expect at least $20,000 for the screenplay. $50,000 would be great. 😀 It's entirely mine. And $20,000 would fund at least a year of writing: Shipwrecked requires me to deep dive into NZ Wars drama, and it'd be nice to have my rent and food costs paid. Personally, I reckon Jordan Rivers would be great as Tina. I'm just done with the idea: the script was the therapy for me, and everyone else is trailing my dust. 🤣🤣 Hell, Tarantino sold Natural Born Killers, plus the Coens, John Sayles and Carrie Fisher made serious money as ghostwriters, so it's not that unusual. - Despite the backseat drivers, you have to actually type the screenplay to own it. Anyone from the States would agree with that: I wish we had the WGA here, so screenwriters wouldn't get screwed in NZ. VUW and Red Scare do not own the Tina story - I do. They should come to the negotiating table, accept my IP is my own, and their notes have pissed me off so much that I decided to scrap the project and publish an earlier draft. $50,000 is no skin off their nose if it's a $1 million movie. Or even $500,000 for the pilot, and I would expect royalties if it became a series.