Contract for Deferred Payment and Profit Sharing Agreement
Description of and Assignments of Interest of Profits
____________________ (hereinafter referred to as "NAME"), doing business as ________________
(hereinafter referred to as the "company") for the production and distribution of the feature length
motion picture tentatively entitled ______________________ (hereinafter referred to as the "film"),
shall serve in the capacity of its producer.
The leading actors/actresses in the film will be _____________________; the crew will consist of
________________________________ .
The tentative budget for the production of said film, exclusive of costs related to distribution or
promotion, is $_____________, and _____________ agrees to contribute $____________ of that
amount either personally, or raised from other sources to be repaid out of the profit percentage
assigned by _________________. Further, [NAME], as the producer of the film, anticipates that a
capital amount of at least $__________ will be required to complete the production of the film, and an
additional [$AMOUNT3] will be required to promote and/or distribute the film. These amounts and
________________________'s $______________ contribution will be the investment for the
production and distribution of the film.
The shooting of the film will take [NUMBER] days and commence on or about _________________ and
be completed on or about __________________, with the locations and periods broken down as
follows: _____________________________________________________________.
The editing period thereafter is expected to take approximately ____________ months, coming to
completion on approximately _______________________.
The first moneys received by the company for the film will be applied to payment of all outstanding
accounts payable for the production and distribution of the film until paid in full, next to the
repayment to the investors of the entire amounts of their contributions actually expended for the
production and distribution of the film, and thereafter, all moneys received by the company for the
film will be paid by the company as follows:
Producer (_____________________) ‐ ___%
Investor (________________) ‐ ___%
Leading actor in the film (_______________) ‐ ___%
Supporting actor in the film (___________________) ‐ ___%
Writer for the film (_____________________) ‐ ___%
[CAPACITY] (____________________) ‐ ___%
TOTALING ‐ 100%
The afore listed percentages will be payable to each of the persons set forth in parenthesis after each
of the positions only in the event each of these persons actually performs the customary services for
his/her position through the completion of the production of the film. Any person not providing such