business capabilities

1. knowledge of banking industry

2. knowledge of movie insurance

3. able to find co-production partners to spread risk

4. contacts at studios and networks

5. understand technologies you've never heard of

6. ability to obtain cinematographers, editors and film composers

7. can package screenplay, actors, and director

8. know prop people, special effects people, makeup artists, hairdressers, stunt people, and location scouts

9. access to domestic soundstages but able to set up foreign shoots in Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere

10. knowledge of product placement

11. knowledge of merchandising

12.able to negotiate rights

13. understand marketing campaigns, key art, and coming attraction trailers

14. willing to send reps to trade shows and film festivals

15. understand ages, eras, periods, and anachronisms

16. understand literary and movie genres

17. understand architectural, interior decorating, clothing, dance, and art styles

18. underatand choreography

19. management experience and management education

20. know experienced wardrobe people as well as seamstresses of historically accurate costumes

21. have studied marketing and accounting