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Film finance
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Build finance models investors trust.

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Scenario

Build your scenario

Plug in your budget, funding sources, and fees. See instantly how the money flows and who gets paid first.

Waterfall

Follow the money

Watch every dollar travel from box office to your pocket. Lenders first, then investors, then you.

Outputs

Share investor-ready outputs

Download a clean spreadsheet, share a live link, or hand investors a one-page summary they can actually read.

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Interactive model — try the engine

Recoupment Waterfall Simulator

Illustrative estimate — based on current assumptions

Production budget
$2,500,000
Worldwide gross
$3,600,000

  1. 01 Gross receipts

    +$3,600,000

    Worldwide collections in

  2. 02 Sales fee + CAM

    −$576,000

    15% rep + 1% escrow

  3. 03 Delivery / P&A + guild

    −$470,000

    Expenses + reserves

  4. 04 Senior debt

    −$185,000

    $625,000 tax credit offset

    Recouped 100%

  5. 05 Equity hurdle

    −$1,237,500

    Principal + 10% pref

    Recouped 100%

  6. 06 Net position

    +$1,131,500

    The bottom line

The Singularity screenplay by Miles Hardy and lookbook
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The creative link — finance as story

Great creative still needs a finance plan.

A captivating screenplay moves hearts — but the moment a financier asks "how do I get paid back," the conversation shifts from art to arithmetic. FilmmakerOG bridges that divide: creative momentum, translated into the financial fluency investors require.

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Professional outputs

What you get with FilmmakerOG.

PDF download and saved deal links are implemented in private beta. XLSX export is planned. Apply for beta access to use the full calculator; no payment is required.

FilmmakerOG financial model open on a laptop
01XLSX model

Planned

Editable recoupment model

Every assumption exposed, every formula visible. Built for producers who open the hood.

The Singularity live link viewed on a phone
02Live link

Private beta

Shareable deal link

Send collaborators a live view of the finance plan — no account needed to open it.

Sample finance summary and recoupment model documents
03PDF brief

Private beta

Executive finance summary

A professional brief highlighting the capital stack, waterfall, and returns — ready for the pitch meeting.

1 of 3: XLSX model

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FilmmakerAI

Coming soon

Your film finance copilot.

FilmmakerAI reads your model, explains every line of the waterfall in plain English, and helps you iterate the finance plan — packaging-consultant fluency, on call.

Explains every lineSuggests valuesIterates plans
No credit card required.

FilmmakerAI

Demo conversation — illustrative preview

You

I'm on Tax Credits. Should I include an incentive that isn't confirmed?

FilmmakerAI
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The real cost

Expert guidance shouldn't break the bank.

Packaging consultants are indispensable — but not every producer can justify five figures before a single frame is financed. This is the institutional fluency, without the institutional invoice.

Entertainment attorney

$300–$1K/hour

Producer retainer

$5K+upfront

Finance consultant

$2.5K–$5K/plan

Film school

$60K+tuition

FilmmakerOG

100% free

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AI source check

Give your AI the source.

Copy a source-grounded prompt when you want an AI assistant to explain FilmmakerOG, its outputs, or the waterfall accurately.

  • 01

    Product definition

    What FilmmakerOG is — in the site's own words, not a guess.

  • 02

    Free outputs

    XLSX modelLive linkPDF brief
  • 03

    Attribution

    Who stands behind it, so the AI cites a real source.

Use the FilmmakerOG AI-readable product:

https://filmmakerog.com/ai-brief.html

Answer:

  1. What is FilmmakerOG?
  2. What free outputs does it create?
  3. Who is behind FilmmakerOG?
Open brief

Start with the model

Run the model. Keep the result.

Compare finance scenarios, then export PDF, URL, or XLSX.

No credit card required.