Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of Beyond The Lights
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Nneka Samuel
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There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Sell
Gina Prince-Bythewood thought that her feature film Beyond the Lights would be an easy sell, but that wasn’t the case at all. She pitched the project to numerous studios and only one said yes. But it wasn’t quite the yes she thought she’d get. Here’s what Bythewood told Flavorwire about the lengthy process: “I went out with it, and I got turned down by everybody but one studio — and that studio just optioned it. They didn’t even say they were going to make it, they just said, ‘We’ll pay you not to take it anywhere else, and we’ll see if we can find somebody to put in here that we’re excited about.'”
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