How to Attach a Bankable Movie Star to Your Indie Film | Steven Luke

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Today on the show we have writer, producer, director, actor, and Filmtrepreneur Steven Luke. Steven and I discuss how he attaches bankable movie stars like Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Chuck Liddell, James Cromwell, Thomas Jane, Sam Worthington, Tom Berenger, Ron Perlman, and Billy Zane to his independent films. We also discuss his misadventures in film distribution, how he presells his films and if he actually makes any money with film distributors.
Steven also has a Filmtrepreneur mind when it comes to his film productions. He has found his niche, war films. Understanding his niche market he uses the films he produces to advertise his company Man the Line. It is the internet’s number one source of recreating war!
Man the Line is a small South Dakota business offering original militaria and quality reproduction uniforms and headgear for collectors, reenactors, and film productions. By doing this Steven has created additional revenue streams for himself by using his films. This is the Filmtrepreneur way.
His most recent works include "Souvenirs" starring Academy Award nominee James Cromwell and "The Deep End," for which he earned a Best Actor recognition at the 2011 Fischgaard Short Film Competition.
Steven's work in the short film 'Paper People,' has also earned him the Best Actor in a Short film, for the 2012 Best Actors in a Film Festival. When not in front of the camera, Steven utilizes his skills as a historic military technical adviser and supplier for the motion picture and television industries.
Enjoy my conversation with Steven Luke.
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[@crystalfoxfilms]

Also, it’s great conjecture but as an indie filmmaker it’s almost impossible to even REACH any top talent without a bigger budget. How are you supposed to get through the impenetrable wall of the agents and reps??

[@crystalfoxfilms]

Okay. At this point let me just highly recommend your PLEASE up the volume of every single guest you have on. Your volume is fine but every guest is like half your volume. So when I turn up the volume to hear the guest, your volume is almost unbearable lol

[@robertruffo2134]

As usual, amazing interview - and thank you again for your channel. However, as is weirdly often the case, your subject's volume is many DB less than yours. Not a difficult fix (as I'm sure you know) so hard to understand why you let this be. There are many auto-leveler plugins that don't introduce the artifacting that compression does. They just robo-make volume keyframes. Or you could just add an adjustment layer to his track. I mean, you know this right? I don't get it. Would take 5 minutes to fix.

[@MarineFriesenOficial]

Totally agree! Watch all your content! But at the car, this was tough!!! Like, alex super loud, and steve this “bad mic room” eq! Lov the content

[@themightyflog]

Have some money

[@them2mproject]

Does it help to have a relationship with a solid sales agent that is willing to give you sales insight for a project, so you can use it as leverage to attract more bankable talent?

[@ManTheLine]

of course it does

[@robertruffo2134]

@@ManTheLine It helps in this way and many others