Telepathy Film Productions LLC.

Film Financing for Films & TV

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Telepathy Film Production  is a Limited Liability Company ("LLC" or "The Company") engaged in the development and production of the independent motion picture The Pick Up. T.F.P principal objective is to make an entertaining and ground-breaking horror film that will be

commercially exploitable to a mass audience.  

T.F.P will work with an industry producer that can execute an independently financed motion

picture where the Domestic Theatrical Distribution is controlled, thereby increasing the motion

picture's value with subsequent licensing and sales worldwide. 

T.F.P will achieve financial returns through the copyright ownership and exploitation of a feature

length motion picture by supplying the escalating demand for U.S. independent film product

budgeted in the $3 million dollar range. T.F.P will be lucratively positioned after the initial 18

month term for a future merger, buy-out of the investment by another distributor or an expansion

of the one-off venture. 

T.F.P will achieve critical success by delivering competitive content at a lower common

denominator. The established Hollywood Studios' overhead costs and climbing average

production budgets of $50 million continue to place the studios in the predicament of not having

enough production funding to satisfy the demand of motion pictures by the theatre chains and

their customers. The Studios' marketing and distribution expenses have escalated to an average

of over $100 million per motion picture. 

THE PRODUCT

T.F.P will own the rights to the original screenplay "The Pick Up". The script follows in the

footsteps of horror geniuses Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Wes Craven (Scream,

Nightmare on Elm Street, Hills Have Eyes), and John Carpenter (Halloween, Fog). "R-Rated"

horror films are very popular at the box office. The commercial success in recent years of films,

such as Hostel, High Tension, Wolf Creek, and Blair Witch Project continue to prove this. It has

historically been true that in hard economic times, entertainment prevails. People want to be

entertained and forget their troubles. We strongly feel that horror films offer thrills and guilty

pleasures. This entertainment will continue to draw audiences to the theater. M.K.F believes in

making a cost-effective film on a smaller budget that can generate a substantial return on an

investment by entertaining audiences worldwide. 
 
 
 
 

SYNOPSIS* 

LOGLINE: Brandon Williams, the son of a mass murdering and hunting aficionado, discovers that

he takes after his dad. To his chagrin then happiness, he hunts down deer and human prey. His

last “hunt," a gorgeous woman named Bonnie, proves to be the hardest as she fights his gunfire

with more gunfire. Will the hunter get caught by his game? 

Brandon Williams, an avid hunter/Wall Streeter, has decided to go to his get away home for the

weekend. On his way for some R&R, he passes a man in a clown costume standing by his

broken down car. Telling his wife that “some of my best friends are clowns," Brandon picks up a

kids-party clown named Frank. They travel on a country road; only to nearly literally run into a

gorgeous, financially strapped, housewife (BONNIE) who is bloodied but does not know how she

got bloodied. As the two strangers bond with Brandon, the three decide to put their problems

behind them and head to the cabin. They get to the vacation house (which comes complete with

priceless paintings) where Frank discovers an one-armed homeless man lurking by the vacation

home’s shed. Brandon tells him that it is a harmless vagrant named Vincent the Vagrant who

takes shelter around the vacation home. Later, Bonnie’s memory is jarred when she realizes it

was Frank who shared a drugged drink with her at her nephew’s birthday party. After the party,

the two went into the woods for some hanky-panky, only for Bonnie to groggily trip and fall on a

rock. An intoxicated Frank had panicked and had left her there. Now, the two make up, where

Frank tells Bonnie on a deck that he wants to rob and kill the very wealthy Brandon. Frank then

declares he was joking. Unfortunately, Vincent the Vagrant was sleeping under the outside deck,

overhears most of the conversation and leaves before he hears that it was a joke.

As Brandon takes Frank out to hunt deer with him, Bonnie decides to rob Brandon of the

priceless paintings. She has second thoughts of being a thief and decides against it—but not

before finding a shoebox holding newspaper clippings and evidence of two mass murdering

“Human Hunters" in the vicinity of the vacation home. One was in 1974. That murderer was

Brandon’s dad. Bonnie strongly believes the recent murderer is Brandon. Before Bonnie can warn

Frank, Frank becomes the prey of Brandon. Brandon overtakes Bonnie and reveals that he killed

and skinned Frank like he was a deer because Vincent the Vagrant is really Brandon’s uncle—

who told him of Frank’s (false) “murderous robbery plot." Bonnie now becomes the prey—and is

bagged and shot by Brandon—who really proves to be his Dad’s son. 

“The Pick Up” is an original and terrifying screenplay written by Robert A. Trezza and Mark

Daponte. The film has many qualities that will attract a vast world wide audience. For example, it

is categorized as a psychological horror with a dash of romance. The mixture of these key

ingredients make for a highly marketable money maker. To explain, below are a few of reasons

explaining why a horror film is one of the best attractions for cinema release. 

The decision makers in the key target audience of 18-25 year old males tend to take their girlfriends to these types of films because…. 

a: They want the girls to get scared, so they can both become mentally, and (more importantly),

physically closer. 

b: They go out in groups to get the thrill of a good scary movie. 

c. A higher percentage of females would rather watch ANY kind of romance on a silver

screen...and "The Pick Up" pays off by showing REAL people with REAL feelings. The film's

characters are not the cardboard cut-up kind that exist in most horror movies solely to add to the

body count. 

They are on the screen to drive the story to a horrifying ending--to the delight of all of our

investors and all of the horror fans.These fans are plentiful, alive and very well. Our key personnel etc. etc. (Bill Moseley and Michael Beryman) have a solid core, built in audience already. Simply do a Google search for them and/or any horror film at random and you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Horror is a big industry--with big fan clubs translating into big profits! 

“The Pick Up” pays off in the romance department—and gives the guys what they want: horror.

Older people like an intelligent horror film which has a well written story. In fact, this film was written with the question of “What would Alfred Hitchcock do in this situation?” always lurking in theauthors’ minds. In short, the horror film market is the biggest one in terms of making profit for its investors—which is the main reason out of many that there is an excellent chance to maximize your returns. 

Here are some basic costs and VERY tidy profits for some random horror movies: 

The Fog (1980)--budget $1 million, profit to date is $20 million. 

Wrong Turn (2003)--budget $10 million, profit to date is $15 million. 

Dawn of the Dead (2004)--budget $28 million, profit to date is $84 million. 

The Fog (2005)--budget $18 million, profit to date is $16 million. 

The Hills have Eyes (2006)--budget $15 million, profit to date is $41 million. 

For a film to be called a success, it doubles its budget in profits. Thus, “The Pick Up’s” budget is

only $3 million—which means the investors will receive higher returns. Once you’ve read the

script and compare it to other super-money-makers “out there,” and with the right marketing and

advertising, this film can easily make $20 million—and beyond! 

Again, we already have two well known actors within the horror genre attached to the project.

Once funding is in place, we can then get another known star for the lead role and a “name”

director who can bring this scary script to life. 

The film will place great emphasis on quality film making. We wouldn't waste our time (and your

money) on the usual Hollywood cliché-filled fare. Our intention is to bring fresh quality stories

written by fresh talent and give our audiences a movie that they'll tell their friends about—who will

tell their friends about. We want to make an audience shiver in fear—so we can all laugh our way

to a bank. 

Below is an estimate of our returns for 2009—the year the film would be released. 

The Pick Up (2009) 

BUDGET

• $3,000,000 

BUDGET BREAKDOWN 

Script $75,000 

Cast $800,000 

Crew $800,000 

Equipment $350,000 

Locations $250,000 

Props costumes $50,000 

Catering $145,000 
 

Accommodations $100,000 

Legal $125,000 

Travel allowance $30,000 
 

Car, bus hire $10,000 

Emergency Float $265,000 

TENTATIVE SHOOTING SCHEDULE SPRING 09 

March 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (shoot days). 7, 8, (break) 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (shoot days), 14, 15 (break), 16,

17, 18, 19 20 (shoot days) 21, 22 (break) 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 (should be final shoot days all goes

well). 

USA 

Latest gross: $16,901,126 (19 August 2009) 

Weekly BO return

(millions) 

Weeks in release 

Date                          Rank              Sites          Average       Weekend/Daily              Gross

2009 Jul 22 (1)             8       1,757    $4,022    $7,067,335     $7,067,335 

2009 Jul 25                   7   1,757     $478      $840,296  $7,907,631 

2009 Jul 26              8      1,757     $399      $701,174      $8,608,805 

2009 Jul 27             8      1,757      $340      $598,654      $9,207,459 

2009 Jul 28            10      1,757     $303       $532,675      $9,740,134 

2009 Jul 29 (2)            12      1,757    $1,592      $2,797,808    $12,537,942 

2009 Aug 5 (3)            14      1,157    $1,148      $1,328,338    $15,410,827 

2009 Aug 12 (4)          25      478      $649        $310,682      $16,444,686 

2009 Aug 19 (5)          28      196      $1,223      $239,787      $16,901,126 

DISTRIBUTION: RENTALS AND LICENSING WINDOWS

The distribution of a motion picture involves the licensing of the picture for distribution or

exploitation in various markets, both domestically and internationally, pursuant to a release

pattern. These markets include the theatrical exhibition, non-theatrical exhibition (which includes

airlines, hotels and armed forces facilities), home video (including rental and sell-through),

presentation on television (including pay-per-view, pay, network, syndication or basic cable) and

marketing of the other rights in the picture and underlying literary property, which may include

publishing, merchandising and soundtracks.

The domestic and international markets generally follow the same release pattern, with the

starting date of the release in the international market varying from being concurrent with the

domestic theatrical release to being as long as nine months afterwards. 

THE INDUSTRY: OVERVIEW

Independent films can vary widely in budget, from as low as $30,000 to as high as $50 million,

but their similarity is a freedom from the homogeneity of studio production. By definition, an

independent film is one that is financed by any source other than a U.S. studio. With their ability

to take more time and their need to plan budgets more carefully than studios tend to do with their

big-budget films, smaller companies are able to give greater attention to their lower-budgeted

films. Unlike studios, the independent production companies are able to avoid substantial

overhead.

The success of 1999's low-budget film The Blair Witch Project, which has earned more than $200

million in worldwide revenues to-date, has signaled a new day for independent films. It has

revolutionized how studios and distributors look at the production and marketing of films.

A current example from 2004 is Napoleon Dynamite. This small independent movie was

produced for $400,000.00, and at last count the film has made 42 million at the box office. This

does not include ancillary markets like DVD, cable, TV, and foreign rights. 

GENRE FOR SUCCESS

The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself. Films from the genre are designed to elicit fright,

fear, terror, disgust, or horror from viewers. In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters,

sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into everyday world. Horror film characters include

vampires, zombies , monsters, serial killers, and a range of other fear-inspiring characters. Horror

films often draw inspiration from characters and stories from classic literature, such as Dracula,

Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde. In recent years, major studios and respected directors have made forays into the genre.

More recent generations of critics have analyzed horror films. Some horror films draw from other

genres, such as science fiction, fantasy, dark comedy, and thrillers. The genre still proves to be a

box office powerhouse by producing very high profit with low budgets. 

FILM                                              BUDGET                                             GROSS 

Texas Chainsaw Massacre  $84k      $31m 

Halloween     $325k       $47m 

Friday the 13th     $700k       $38m 

Nightmare on Elm Street   $1.8m       $26m 

Blair Witch Project    $35k       $240m 

Cabin Fever     $2m       $21m 

Open Water     $130k       $39m 

Saw      $1m       $55m 

Cry Wolf     $1m       $10m 

Wolf Creek     $1m       $16m 

Total      $7.5m       $523m 

* Data gathered from IMDB and only shows box office gross 

THE CAST 

Maggie: Candice Prentice LOI

Brandon: Michael Copon LOI

DJ (voice): TBA 

Man (voice): TBA 

Frank: Bill Moseley LOI – his star has been getting brighter with each appearance in such A—listed

fare as “Grindhouse,” “Devil’s Rejects,” and “House of 1,000 Corpses.” He has gone from

supporting acting roles to now currently starring in a Corbin Berenson horror vehicle called, “Dead

Air.” 

Bonnie: Chelan Simmons LOI

Vincent: Michael Berryman LOI – his credits wouldn’t fit on two pages, but the more notable ones

include “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “The Devil’s Rejects,” and “Weird Science.” His very

recognizable face transcends all genres; from “Star Trek 4” to starring in two Motley Crue videos! 

Mrs Gelfo: TBA 

Brandon (boy): TBA 

Bill Davis: TBA 

Emily: TBA 

Kevin: Michael Placencia Attached

Judy: TBA 

Brandon (teen): TBA 

Pamela: TBA 

PRODUCER(S)  

Telepathy Film Productions  

Lead producer Caccius V. Weathersby 

Telepathy Film J.D.Valenti (Burn OFF,The Pick Up) 

Michael Copon (Scorpion King 2, Bring it on again 4,We

Got the Beat- producer, lead actor.

Rob Walker (Circus and Killer Weekend)

Ray Stoney- Sylvia Son Inc.

Co-Producers

Dan Gillin, Writer,Producer Paradise,Road to Knowwhere.

Joshua Deon Adams, Who's Making the Rules, The Pick Up 2009 

Dan Gillin  

WRITERS 

Since teaming up in 2006, Mark Daponte and Robert Trezza have churned out two scripts. By

themselves, Robert Trezza is the CEO of RTS, an office and residential cleaning service. He has

also written and optioned a screenplay ("All Out Of Love") for Tonic Films New York, NY and

optioned “The Young Dead” for Twin Pines Productions, Phoenix, Arizona. Besides “THE PICK

UP,” he and Mark have written and “Burn OFF,” which is scheduled for a 2009 release and to be helmed by Larry Cohen (It's Alive and Phone booth). 

Mark DaPonte is a copywriter for an advertising company in New York City. When he isn’t sinking

down to a three year old’s level to make his three year old son laugh, he can be found supplying

his witticisms for J. Walter Thompson, a New York City advertising company for their animated

website nurserytv.org and for the website “The Edge,” under the pseudonym of “Mark Malish.” He

has had short works performed by a Los Angeles and Sacramento theater companies, wrote for a

comedy sketch group in Seattle (Night Shift) that put his work on a DVD and put him on the

Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) and was a BBC sponsored, Send-a-Sketch Runner up!