Although they, too, invest in shows, they are originating projects less often than they used to and mostly want musicals up and running again because their earnings are based on a percentage of the gross, not on a production's net profit.
It's why she's taking matters into her own hands and originating more projects.
Directed by Raphael Parry, the production originated with Project X in Dallas.
Russell is said to have been unhappy at plans to cut the salaries of the producers who originated the project by half.
He originated the project and, as a senator from New York, used the powers of his office to push for it relentlessly, year after year.
Much of the money for the company initially came from Sheldon and Anita Drobny, wealthy Chicago Democrats who originated the project but sold much of their stake to Evan Cohen, a New York investor.
"If the outcome of diversity is to give white men more work writing about black women like me, we've failed; we need to be be the ones originating the projects - telling our stories".
Screenwriter David Sherwin – he originated the project with another writer, John Howlett, who subsequently backed out – went to Tonbridge School; Anderson himself was a pupil at Cheltenham College, where If … was largely filmed.
Lonergan didn't originate the project but, once he got involved, he transformed it into an exemplary emblem of his artistry, marked it with his own inner world — and, with the success that it's aptly enjoying, it should raise his standing in the industry and enable him to find financing for even more daring and personal projects.
WA and JK originated the project idea.
