November 10, 2023
Excerpt from Creative Producing: a Pitch-to-Picture Guide to Movie Development by Carol Baum
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One of Carol's superpowers as a successful producer is her relationships with WRITERs. She is credited for starting the careers of David O’Russell, Noah Baumbach, and Mike White, in addition to being Former VP at 20th Century Fox and Co-President of Sandollar Productions (founded by Dolly Parton and Sandy Gallin). This is an excerpt from Carol Baum's new book: Creative Producing: a pitch-to-picture guide to Movie Development . It is available wherever you buy books. Here we delve into Do's and Don'ts for talking to Writers , with some incredible stories along the way. Chapter 5 - Script Development, pages 49-52. Carol Baum has produced thirty-four movies, seventeen of them independently. Before becoming an independent producer, Baum was co-president of Sandollar Productions, Dolly Parton and Sandy Gallin’s production company, for ten years, where she produced such hits as Father of the Bride ; the Academy Award-winning HBO documentary Common Threads : Stories from the Quilt ; Tidy Endings ; I.Q.; Jacknife ; True Identity ; Buffy the Vampire Slaye r; Gross Anatomy ; Shining Through ; Straight Talk ; and Kicking and Screaming . As an indie producer, Baum made, among other movies, including The Good Girl ; You Kill Me ; and Boychoir . She has produced five television movies for Hallmark and several documentaries. Her roots are in New York City, where she spent her early career in publishing, working for both Bantam Books and Random House and scouting for the English publisher Corgi. While in New York, she developed Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives , Stephen King’s The Shining , and Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil . When she relocated to Los Angeles, Baum became a studio vice president at Twentieth Century Fox and a senior vice president at Lorimar, where she developed Taylor Hackford’s An Officer and a Gentleman . Following her stint as an executive, she produced David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers . Baum currently teaches producing in the Film and Television Production Division at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is also a mentor for the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC. Guest: IMDb Website Wikipedia Carole's book Creative Producing: a pitch-to-picture guide to movie development is available wherever you buy books. Host: Instagram: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneMiller Twitter: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneM Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mentorsonthemic Website: www.michellesimonemiller.com and www.mentorsonthemic.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/24mmichelle Click here to join our Mailing list. Mentioned on this episode: Best Podcasts for Actors (Backstage) 6 Must Listen to Podcasts for Actors (TheaterArtLife) 30 Best Acting Podcasts (Feedspot) Join me at this virtual panel brought to you by SAG-AFTRA Actors with Podcasts for Actors