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No, Pants. For a short script, that is really bad advice and you should stop pushing it.
For starters, on a site like this you can get 2-3 emails from "producers" every month, and at $250 bucks an hour, getting a lawyer every time your inbox went "ding" would be ridiculous.
For seconds, even if one of those emails did pan out, you would never recoup the money spent on legal fees.
Before signing anything for a feature, yes, it is definitely wise to seek council.
But hiring an attorney because a few film school graduates calling themselves a production company have sent you an email about your 8-page short?
No. It is just silly.
You are right, but then it's also silly to be discussing points and money for the same 8 page short.
You are right, but then it's also silly to be discussing points and money for the same 8 page short.
No, it isn't. You go get a lawyer, you're automatically paying out all that money at an exorbitant amount. Asking for points costs you nothing. The only thing that would cost you in that regard is if you didn't ask for them, and then by some small chance the short did end up making money and all your left with is your dvd copy in one hand and your dick in the other.
Making money on a short is rare, I've already stated this, but why not give yourself that security? You can discriminate based on the situation and who's producing it, sure, but overall I can't see why it's not a good idea to ask for it.
No, it isn't. You go get a lawyer, you're automatically paying out all that money at an exorbitant amount. Asking for points costs you nothing. The only thing that would cost you in that regard is if you didn't ask for them, and then by some small chance the short did end up making money and all your left with is your dvd copy in one hand and your dick in the other.
Making money on a short is rare, I've already stated this, but why not give yourself that security? You can discriminate based on the situation and who's producing it, sure, but overall I can't see why it's not a good idea to ask for it.
My point is, and maybe I should have been more clear before, to get a lwayer for the sole purpose of knowing what to do and ask for. I'm not saying get a lwayer every time some "production company" contacts you about your script. As far as shorts go, make the lawyer a one time thing and PAY ATTENTION to what they do and say. That way you won't need to get one every time. I would much rather pay $250 once and get some of that knowledge where I can do it on my own, instead of getting screwed (and not in the good way) by not asking for enough or forgetting to ask for something. That's all I was trying to say.
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