You need not use the A-list actors before your movie can sell. All you'll need is to 'package' the movie well, make it marketable, and it will sell.
Before your movie is released, after it has been produced, here are 11 (eleven) tips to help you market it and make huge sales.

(1)Write a short story, and use it to announce on social media of a possible movie-shoot based on that short story.
Your audience will sure read the short story; and this will make them imagine what the scenes and the characters in the short story would look like if they were to be seen on a tv screen; and I bet they will long to see the movie produced if it would be possible. And after you release the movie, they will love to grab a copy; that's because you have created the suspense already!

(2)Don't use Youtube yet.
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