The $989,769.46 Movie

Posted by Scott Von Doviak

 


My fellow Americans, this is a Canadian ten dollar bill. If you must know, that’s John A. Macdonald’s picture on the front. He was the first Prime Minister of Canada. This concludes the educational content of this post. The point is, if you have one of these colorful bills in your wallet, Casey Walker has a proposition for you.

Walker, a Canadian TV director, is currently prepping the feature film Free For All ... But You! According to The Times of London, it’s a romantic comedy about “a man who falls for a woman but is rebuffed because she is already committed to an ‘eight-sided relationship’, meaning that she can have guiltless sex with seven other people.” If this sounds like a can’t-miss premise to you, this is your lucky day: you have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor as an investor.

Walker is selling individual frames of Free For All for $10 apiece in hopes of raising a million dollars for his production budget. (A million Canadian dollars, of course; as of this writing that equates to $989,769.46 American.) “I knew I had to come up with a more creative and realistic way to raise funding than having a bake sale, donating my body to science or trying to find ‘Angel’ investors who would just hand me the money,” Walker explains on the site. You can sponsor as many frames as you want, and your name will be listed as a producer on the film’s official website. Be advised, however, that “the more you buy, the higher your name will appear in the final credit roll. People purchasing more than 5000 frames will get an Executive Producer credit and get a credit at the opening of the film.”

As of this morning, there are only 127,514 frames remaining for sale, so you’ll want to get on the phone with your accountant right away.


Comments

Casey Walker said:

Hey Scott, thanks for the support, hope to see your name up on the site soon!

Cheers

Casey

February 11, 2008 9:35 PM

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