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HOW DO I FIND A NAME ACTOR....("Who to Call? What to say?")
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You have an actor in mind that you want to contact. But how do you get his/her number...At least his/her agent or manager's contact details. First ask, "is your actor/actress a (A) Celebrity Movie Name, a (B) Recognizable TV Name, or (C) a nobody that you saw in a movie that you think is dynamic."
There are 4 routes.
1. FILM COMMISSIONER
2. SAG
3. IMDB
4. Production Company
First, and always, contact your local film commissioner. Give him or her the
name of the person you want to get in touch with or merely send your script to...Doing this you will quickly discover that your Film Commissioner will be little-to-no help, with respect to celebrity actors, except to say "why don't you call SAG".
Therefore, third, to circumvent the agent, If the actor, you're looking for is a celebrity, then you should realize that all Big-Name actors have a production company. Will Smith has an agent & a production company. Tom Hanks has an agent & a production company. Queen Latifah has an agent & a production company. Thus...forget about the agent and go direct to the actor's production company.
It is always better to get to the name direct. Thus, call his/hers production company and ask to speak with their Development Executive (I'll explain this conversation in a later post)....that's the person at the company who actually reads scripts.
Now, to find the production company of a celebrity-actor along with his/her Development Executive you go to a site that is www. IMDB .com. But wait, not www. IMDB .com, which is a good site for research, you just want their phone numbers and addresses then you subscribe for one month and go to www. IMDBpro .com. This is where you get names, addresses and phone numbers.
SIDE POINT: A company, Hollywood Creative Directory, that publishes whos-who directories (one for Producers, one for Distributors, one for Agents) that were nicknamed the Creative Directories and were updated yearly, went out of business 4 months ago. Their website was www. HCDonline .com. However, you can still go to Amazon and buy their used last year's directories for $49-$89, which are still 90% applicable, and get all the famous actors, directors, producers, dealmakers & power brokers contact details.
BACK TO: To find your local film commissioner, they all belong to the "Association of Film Commissioners" whose website is www. AFCI .org.
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