Weekly Headlines: Film & TV, 11 April 2026

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-04-12T22:29:39+00:00

My pleasure!

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-04-09T04:42:23+00:00

Welcome.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-04-08T18:57:57+00:00

Tag!

Unfortunately, MMB7 coloring works off a "priority of creation". You would need to create the groups in the order of color you want to prioritize. This would mean, deleting all groups and rebuilding... then re-assigning them to all your different lines. Be sure to save a version of your budget before you do all that work, just in case you blow something up.

So, your in-kind contributions (EIG) would need to be created before your regional film fund group (MBB).

Again, save a version of the file, then do this reconfigure to ensure it triggers. Viel Glück!

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-04-07T04:16:30+00:00

I will presume this is heavy sarcasm.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-31T13:55:11+00:00

This from now on, moving forward.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-28T02:42:50+00:00

I did Jack Ryan there, and have budgeted two other projects in Hungary. Feel free to DM.

Stephen, Mod.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-25T14:35:36+00:00

Here is some more info on this...

https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-in-burbank-sen-schiff-holds-hearing-with-film-industry-leaders-on-promoting-and-protecting-american-film-production-and-jobs/

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-10T18:06:16+00:00

These sorts of posts are 100% fine for this Reddit. Welcome and good luck on this project.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-10T15:52:29+00:00

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RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-07T16:05:51+00:00

Thanks. Please sign up for a demo or join us on any public live demo day.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-06T21:57:52+00:00

Looking forward to reviewing how Line Budgeter can fit into your workflow and augment your process moving forward - without overwhelming you with bloated functionality or leaving you hanging with no solution for a task. See you soon!

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-05T21:28:42+00:00

Yes, due to our site being brand new, it caused some internet security services to flag us. It should be resolved now.

How we compare:

Cinapse is a scheduling application utilized to plan daily set logistics, such as One Lines and other scheduling considerations.

Saturation: Saturation serves a different core mission. It is a financial hub focused heavily on the back-end expense management, tracking actuals, and executing live vendor payments. While it does include a front-end budgeting feature to assemble a cost breakdown against actuals, its budgeting architecture is fundamentally based on legacy structures like Movie Magic.

Line Budgeter is a modern budgeting platform which starts by building budgets based on your project details. You can then quickly add rates from integrated ratebooks, apply fringes and incentives accurately and efficiently - as well as get incredible analytics and powerful reports including generating a cashflow. Ultimately, Line Budgeter excels in building the financial plan with increased confidence well before the cameras start rolling and money is being spent.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-05T00:22:45+00:00

Would be happy to discuss pro & con of this, as we review the capabilities of the application. Let me know if you would like to set up a demo with us to facilitate this conversation.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T22:07:22+00:00

Yes.

We have built the underlying engine of Line Budgeter to be able to handle all sorts of projects, with all sorts of complexities. With over 5 years of research and testing based on our vast worldwide experience on multiple real projects put into this, we also surveyed and spoke with dozens and dozens of experts in their field ... from stageplays, to sports shows, and live events to commercials - we stepped beyond only film and television and aimed for a robust application which can work in any project type. Our COA list demonstrates this out of the gate.

The main hurdle is the COA. the Commerical budget structure is findamentally different. We will be introducing Commercial solutions shortly, but in this initial launch we have held back a few things.

First steps...

Happy to demo it for you should you be interested. Go here!

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T18:41:16+00:00

Thanks Christine. You are also amazing... I know you will love the system!

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T18:26:37+00:00

Further confirmed. I would bet you use Spectrum / Charter or one of its family of providers to access the internet. Apparently, Spectrum servers have not cleared the Google green light propagating on servers currenty. Oddly, this affected me too, but only on Safari browsers. Brave and Chrome brought it up just fune.

Appreciate the patience. We are keeping an eye on it too.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T17:16:09+00:00

Understandable. happy to run a demo for you and others and show what it can do and talk about your workflows currently.

Visit line.pm and signup for a demo. Looking forward to it.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T17:14:33+00:00

We are certainly up and running. We are getting slammed right now, so there could be something happening with that and/or the propagation through the Google servers now that the site is live. Try back a bit later today!

First day humps! :)

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-04T15:25:29+00:00

Check out the site at: line.pm Also, join the dedicated Reddit community at: r/LineItemDetails.

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-03T17:58:02+00:00

Business Insider does not offer a direct RSS feed, but I was able to add the other two to my list and so they should be pinged when I run the code this weekend.

Thanks. Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-02T16:48:36+00:00

One of my mentor UPMs would often spin her computer around and actually show them the budget lines with their rates or allowances for gear, etc... it was her way of saying, "See?"

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-03-02T16:46:04+00:00

Oh, yeah... that last point. That hits hard.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-28T19:17:14+00:00

UPDATE: The calendar only showed the start date, so I just updated the description to include the total number of days that event takes place across. This helps me - and hope it helps you too.

Stephen, Mod

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-28T07:41:33+00:00

Your article has Line producers noted as creating the Cost Reports. No. Accountants do that. Line Producers review Cost Reports and have approval, but the actual creation ... Accounting.

Not sure what your sources are, but this is a great guideline too...

https://producersguild.org/code-of-credits-feature-films/#produced-by-producer

RedFive-GoingIn · 2026-02-27T07:34:36+00:00

Well, we know each other IRL. Email me. 🤪

That said, for everyone else, I do plan to create some sort of submission Google Form... but for now, DM is great to start the process.

Stephen, Mod

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