The key to film finance is a qualified movie budget.  What I mean by this refers to the extensive lack of accuracy in the field today.   Way too often websites are publishing templates, software, cheap online calculators that pretend to have the knowledge of even an adequate line producer.

The art of creating movie budgets requires great skill obtained in many, many years of experience.   The line producer or production manager who creates movie budgets for studios, production companies and others provides a service unparalleled in the online suite of software templates.

There is no comparison between years of cost analysis, risk assessment, equipment and facilities negotiations and location selection and running numbers based upon bogus assumptions and random production costs.

More fundamental to the skill of the film budget producer is understanding directors, producers, talent and the unexpected when shooting a film.   There are not enough template software lines to accomodate all the variables a seasoned line producer has the knowledge of at his or her disposal for any given event associated with movie budgets in general or that of a particular production, scene, stunt or studio facility.

This website will lay out the importance to your film production of gaining the advice and opinion of an active line producer or production manager to custom create an accurate film budget for your movie.   We recommend filmbudget.com as the foremost purveyor of quality movie budgets that are finance ready.