When producer Effie T. Brown ("Dear White People") signed up to produce the indie movie being shot during "Project Greenlight" Season 4, she had no idea she'd be front and center on the show. She had produced four films for HBO, including "Real Women Have Curves" and "Rocket Science," so HBO exec Ginny Nugent knew her well, and told her that while she might be on camera, the focus would be on the director of the movie, Jason Mann. "It became apparent that the entire series was about me and Jason," she told me in a phone interview. "If I would have known that I would never have done this for free!" Brown was paid the SAG day rate for the first day of shooting the series along with her producer's fee plus two points on the back end for the movie: "It was a shitty deal. I only got paid to do the film.
- 10/12/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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