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Martini Shot

Kick the Can

Hosted by Rob Long Feb. 24, 2010 Arts
A "first look" deal is a deal between a producer or writer-producer and a studio or network that stipulates, essentially, that in exchange for a certain sum of money, the producer or writer-producer guarantees the counter-party (in this case, the studio or network) that they’ll have dibs – or "first look" – on any project or script that the other side comes up with.   What it doesn’t specify, of course, is what a "look" is, or what "first" means...

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