Film Friends,
A brief story while I reminisce: I recently visited Los Angeles, and I hiked into the Santa Monica Mountains and ended up at the MASH hit television series outside location site MASH was my favorite TV series in England and when I joined Fox I saw MASH was shot in stage 9, at the 20thCentury Fox studios in LA.
I joined the TV division and was given certain financial control responsibilities for MASH and I remember so well being driven to the mountain shooting location of MASH, what a thrill!!
MASH was my favorite TV series when I lived in England and now to be on set with Alan Alda etc and be there during shooting was unbelievable – that was back in 1980.
Just a little souvenier I held on to from my work with M.A.S.H.
I learned so much about production and how TV series worked and financed and how important the international sales revenue was to the overall success of the project. For independent films the international market and its revenue potential is equally important. Often money generated from the sale of films abroad account for over 60/70% of total revenue – so never neglect foreign.
