IMDB

Oroloro Entertainment now has a preliminary listing on IMDBPro:

http://pro.imdb.com/company/co0344369/

Test

We've found the perfect location for our camera and editing test. The B-roll looks great!! We've found two actors willing shoot on Sunday.  It'll take a day or two at most to edit and post , which will run under 2 minutes. The purpose is to see how ell the Pentax k-x works (in my hands) and if it's viable enough to shoot a longer teaser for our film MEGABALLS.
We've also located some very good candidates for the 'hero' house - the home of the brothers Mastelucci; three in the Victorian Brooklyn section just south of Prospect Park, and one near the Brooklyn Promenade.

Location...location...location

We continue our pre-scouting of locations for our comedy film, Megaballs, today. The photos of ideal locations will get posted to the applicable page on our web site.

We are planning is to shoot a 'teaser' for the project. It's a very simple scene that should intrigue viewers (and financiers), which we'll shoot/edit/post soon. This is not a trailer but rather a simple 1-minute shot that sets the overall comic tone of the film. In fact, we were so pleased with the teaser scene that we've incorporated it into the full screenplay.  If we raise the funds we'll shoot in NYC and make work for SAG actors here.

We've also applied to post our projects and company on IMDB. Once accepted we'll add the names of those involved with the individual films and with the company.

Welcome Elizabeth Wentworth!

            We're very pleased to welcome Elizabeth Wentworth to our Oroloro entertainment team. What's more memorable than her impressive history is her positive attitude and infectious spirit. I'm sure we'll all agree that Elizabeth will be a great asset to our film development and production efforts.

            Elizabeth Wentworth is a recognized leader in film and television development and proudly served as Broward County’s Film Commissioner for 20 years, where she was responsible for the growth and retention of the film and television business in Greater Fort Lauderdale.  Encouraging a continuous flow of “on location” film projects to infuse the community with new money was her main responsibility.  But  equally important to any film commission’s success was  designing, implementing and enhancing an ongoing program of “film friendly”  initiatives aimed at  government entities, property owners, and the community–at- large.  

            A few of the feature film projects and their executives that she had the pleasure of assisting were Cape Fear, Martin Scorsese and Barbara DeFina; Striptease, Mike Lobell and Andy Bergman; Donnie Brasco , Mike Newell; There’s Something About Mary, Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly; The Hours, Stephen Daldoy and Scott Rudin ; In Her Shoes, Curtis Hanson; Confessions of a Shopaholic, PJ Hogan; and Marley and Me, David Frankel.  Current television series that Wentworth worked to bring to Greater Fort Lauderdale are USA’s Burn Notice and A & E’s The Glades.  
          
            Wentworth is an untiring advocate in the development of Florida’s Film and Entertainment Industry Financial Incentive Program, working with industry members and the Film Florida organization to convince legislators of the importance of passing and increasing Florida’s film incentive. 

            A twenty-year board member of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Elizabeth is well versed on the advantages and intricacies of exhibiting independent features at Film Festivals.   Her film festival knowledge was further developed through the participation in national and international film festivals:  Cannes, SXSW, Tribeca, IFP New York and the Miami Film Festival.  Enhancing her industry expertise, she annually exhibited at trade shows such as the American Film Market, Show Biz Expo, NATPE and Association of Film Commissioner’s International’s Location Expo.

            Wentworth’s background includes expertise in the interrelated areas of community, government, industry and media relations.  As an executive with the City of Hollywood (FL) and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce she successfully crafted programs that increased the organizations’ effectiveness. Her expertise includes defining goals and using collaboration with the total community to achieve results.  

Quotes

(Originally Posted June 23, 2010)

We thank actor Keith Randolph Smith for his quotes on our new comedy screenplay, MegaBalls. We may reconsider our overall strategy to produce MegaBalls first (at a budget of $350-$500k)...and then pursue the higher budgets needed for Love of a Lifetime and our other films. We also thank Rachel Kadushin (Best Friend Productions) for her helpful critique of MegaBalls, allowing to us fine-tune the screenplay.
    And...we're now working on an idea for short film just to keep the creative juices flowing while, at the same time, we continue our quest for funding all of our projects.

Venture Plan Evloving

(Originally Posted September 20, 2010)

    We keep updating and improving our Venture Plan to better lead us to funding. After reviewing with persons of experience we found one item was missing from the plan, "Revenue Projections."
    We had reliable research to provide "Film Comparables" of box office results for other films in this budget/genre/rating, but failed to show the projections specific to our project. We were confident that Love of a Lifetime had a good market , so we reached out to a business associate who is an active film sales representative with years of experience.
    Based on the sales rep's generous guidance we've been able to create revenue projections on our minimum/maximum budgets and add them into our Venture Plan (while eliminating some of the comparables).
    We are pleasantly surprised that our expectations were lower than the projections. The sales rep made it clear that these are "very conservative...and based on a very limited success at the box office." In simple speak, the numbers reflect all sales possible for all markets after a small theatrical release, which is our goal....and sales could easily exceed the 'conservative' projections.

MPAA Update

(Orginally posted February 28, 2011)

The 2010 MPAA Theatrical Statistic Reports are out, and we're pleased the data supports our claims regarding trends for films such as ours. The data is great - and our revenue projections are solid.
You may download the report from the MPAA Site - click here.