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He;s not 18. He's 27. He's old enough to be married and have 2 or 3 children.

Of course not. You're 11 years older and she's but a kid. You shouldn't even be in a 'relationship' with her.

Focus, guys. Focus on the topic!

OBJ doesn't know any more about us than Bush knows about us. If you don't like a topic, just ignore it. Kapish?

Why do you want to sell? Just asking since people might want to know the answer.

rufaai:
Dollar at N115 what a great fall! - Whats wrong with the American economy?

In a nutshell, President GW Bush and his expensive war.

The Nigerian movie market is full of melodramas. Why can't we have more action movies and intelligent comedies?

The naira is not gaining any value; it's the dollar that is losing value.
Try comparing the naira to the pound, and you'll understand. There's nothing to celebrate.

Is the "report as spam" button really that hard to click?

Moved to TV and Movie production section.

Yes o. I mean in Nigeria. It takes almost a day to download one episode of a sitcom. How many hours of browsing does that translate to? Yet at the same time you can buy a pirated season DVD (24 episodes) for 400 naira.

He makes the decision. They bear the pain. Welcome to the world of politics and war.

A guideline that tells me whether what I offered is too much or too little. 25,000 per episode seems to be neither, right?

Digital piracy is not very important in the absence of cheap broadband. Physical piracy is much more appealing.

The thing about lossy compression is that you lose a little more each time you recompress.

Of course it doesn't work, because the UPS isn't perfectly efficient. You're basically just discharging your battery.

For someone like me who is producing a sitcom, how much do you think I should offer my writers? Just a guideline?

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Ookay sir. Let's agree to disagree so we don't bore others.

Meanwhile, I am creating a sitcom. That's an opportunity for any writer.

We need to have more websites and magazines on the professional Nigerian film and TV industry

I just created one today. This one. You can create yours too. Problem solved.

We need Movie villages

Solution: get some money from your uncle who is an Igbo trader and start a movie village. Problem solved.

We need to organize local Screenwriting competitions

Gather some money together and start a screenwriting competition with a huge prize. Problem solved.

We need to have agents, who act as intermediaries between screenwriters and producers.

Solution: Become a very good agent. Problem solved.

Its just a matter of time, folks. Need i say, we now have Nigeria's first film studio (Studio Tinapa).

Exactly. All we need apart from hard work is to have some patience. Good things need time to develop.
I've been trying to become a producer for a year or two, and i'll never give up. Sooner or later, I'll get there.

can we all youths rally round him

He doesn't need us to really around him. Our politicians will do whatever they want to do whether we like it or not.

Hmm, the problem is overspending because if you spend 50 million on a Nigerian movie, you can never make a profit.

Ookay. Still, I wish to know how we can benefit from the opportunity since we are not involved with their unions.

She's thinking about the $100,000 of course.

I agree with you. There's life beyond romance and domestic drama. I for one would go for comedy.

Are Nigerian TV producers, directors and production assistants afraid of the Internet? I'm asking this because I'm a member of one forum for Nigerian producers and the forum is as quiet as a graveyard.

The administrator (whom I respect) claims that it's because you guys are too busy making movies to have the time to post on forums. Is this true? Or is there another reason why you guys hardly post? Fear of offending people?

Hello,

Someone told me that MNet pays writers about 60,000 naira per episode for some of the series it sponsors.

Sleekymag said, "some writers earn as much as 75k per episode" but the money is shared with assistant writers.

krisbobo said, as a TV writer, "you will make between 10-15k per episode" which seems a little more achievable.

Can you guys shed more light on this issue?

Thanks!

@jideosik: Oh, please, which one is checks and balances again? We are talking about people working harder and you're talking checks and balances. Checks and balances will not write an award-worthy script.

For an great script to be written, someone somewhere has to stay up late for weeks rewriting and rewriting until his/her fingers are sore! There's no magic to it sir, the check and balance we need is just hard work.

Ookay. As long as the local unions don't go on strike, I am happy with them.

So how can we take advantage of this strike? Is this a good time to hire an American writer on the cheap? Is this a good time to sell a script to an American producer (since their own writers are busy striking instead of working?)

I find the writer's strike very hilarious. I hear it's affected shows like '24' and 'Desperate Housewives'

The battle is between the Writer's Guild Of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture
and Television Producers (AMPTP), a similar body representing the big studios. The writers
want to be paid each time a movie based on their work is purchased online.

Personally, I hate unions. I really do. A union dominated industry is not robust. Can't we all negotiate our contracts individually? Having said that, only a union can fight a powerful union like the one the producers have!

For more information, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike Cool!