I don't have any answers for this hypothetical but I will point out that June is in the right for celebrating the lesser losses from her second film. If she's bankrolling these films and is progressively losing less money, she likely assumes that she'll one day reach a break even and be profitable. -at this rate it may take 20 movies, but hey... she's committed to being in the industry. Now, you work in a highly subjective industry and obviously such projections are dangerous but still, I can see why she considers it a "success" -perhaps not "resoundingly" so. But if I were someone working for her, I would fight for my money without losing site of the fact that this women clearly has unwavering aspirations, seems to be losing less money each film and may one day prove a viable revenue stream for me. But then, even a blind squirrel can lose slightly less money than they did the first time. Long story short, I've had a few drinks and the words are wobbly :) You're a smart guy, you don't need my advice.Poky Stick, the 2nd of June's films, was made for approximately $150k and managed to sell in the US market for $50k. Because June's first film was made for approximately $400k and sold for $5k, this was a resounding success as far as June is concerned.
Oh, certainly. One can certainly see where she's finding reason to celebrate. Even more important, "Dance Wolf" is basically their Great White Hope - it looks the best, it sucks the least, and is most likely to actually turn a profit. The problem from the other side of the equation is that Poky Stick sucks less than her last film because Tom and I put serious time into it, and that Dance Wolf is going to be vastly better because it has the entire post team from "Fishing Days." In other words, the reason for her optimism is us - so we all get a little cranky when our expertise in the matter is selectively ignored. The other major aspect is that Junes efforts, far from allowing her to asymptotically approach profitability, are threatening an "extinction-level event." She's making mistakes of a magnitude that she could easily blow herself out of the industry forever without ever being able to claw her way out of the hole... and as I said, conditions had worsened to the point where she was no longer willing to hear us when we raised red flags.I don't have any answers for this hypothetical but I will point out that June is in the right for celebrating the lesser losses from her second film. If she's bankrolling these films and is progressively losing less money, she likely assumes that she'll one day reach a break even and be profitable.