Making it in Hollywood

John Zaozirny, Bellevue Productions

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 836 John Zaozirny

John Zaozirny oversees the feature film production slate for Bellevue and the Literary Management Team. 

His clients’ writing and directing credits include INFINITE, PARALLEL, ELI, BAD MATCH, BETTER WATCH OUT, HEAVY TRIP, OFFICE UPRISING, JOLT, and SPLINTER amongst others. His clients have written feature scripts that are set up at Warner Bros, Paramount, Fox, Lionsgate, New Line, Focus Features, Fox 2000, Sony, Universal, amongst others. As well, his clients have had 26 scripts on the last 7 Black Lists, the annual list of the best unproduced feature scripts, including BLONDE AMBITION, the number one script on the 2016 Black List, HEADHUNTER, the number one script on the 2020 Black List, and CAULIFLOWER, the number one script on the 2021 Black List.

His clients have also written on TV shows such as SHANTARAM, FBI INTERNATIONAL, BOSCH: LEGACY, MR ROBOT, TRAINING DAY, TINY PRETTY THINGS, HAWAII FIVE-O, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE and HAND OF GOD, amongst others. He also reps the writer of the Eisner nominated comic book LITTLE BIRD. 

As a producer, John’s feature film projects include CRISTO (set up at Warner Bros, Black List 2010), WARDEN (set up at New Line) CAPSULE (set up at Fox, Black List 2013), BLONDE AMBITION (set up at Universal, Black List 2016), and LIONHUNTERS (set up at Warner Bros, Black List 2017.) He was an executive producer on the feature films ALWAYS WATCHING and PARALLEL and produced ELI, which was released by Netflix. He most recently produced INFINITE, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Dylan O’Brien, which was released by Paramount Plus.

Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with John Zaozirny about making it in Hollywood.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

- How there are two types of managers, managers who occasionally produce and producers who occasionally manage and why John wants to be the former.

- Why having a passion for screen writing can help inform who you work with as a manger.

- How you need to be really driven to be a successful screen writer.

- Why being a screenwriter is really about compromise and collaboration.

- How being a manger means representing your clients and having your clients represent you.

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