                   Welcome to THE MOVIE PRODUCER

MENU CHOICE 1:

What you are reading now.


MENU CHOICE 2:

HALL OF FAME

As written, in there you'll be able to see whose the best of the best.
In the shareware version you just see the top 10 revenues.


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THE MOVIE PRODUCER sets you up as a big cheese producer. The ressources
of Hollywood are at your disposal. Name stars are clamoring to do your
pictures. Scripts are flooding in.

What will you do? Which script will benefit from your magic touch?
Which stars will you employ? How much money will you spend?
What will be the result? Will you gain money or lose it? Was your
casting astute enough to capture some Pride Awards? Will you get rich
or go to the poorhouse?

Here's your big chance to find out the answer to these compelling
questions. As they say in the biz, "Break a leg."


SCRIPT

At the beginning of the game, you will be handed the scripts to three
different movies. Read the descriptions, the potential and the cost of
the scripts carefully and decide which of the three you want to produce.
When the movie has already been produced you can decide to produce a
sequel.

PLEASE NOTE: The registered version of The Movie Producer has much more
movies.


CASTING

After selecting a script, you must hire actors to star in your film.
A list of twelve available actors and actresses and their salary
demands will apprear on the screen. You must hire two actors and two
actresses (two first and two second roles).

When casting consider the fact that an actor has many different points
such as potential, apparence, experience and fanclub.

The potential give you an idea of what an actor may do. In other words
thats an idea of how an actor is at his best. No one has the guarantee
to be exceptional (remember "The last action hero" with Arnold).
Also, remember that the potential of a movie is ESSENTIAL, nobody would
pay for a movie that hasn't actor performances.
The potential of an actor cannot grow even thought he makes a lot of
succesful movies. The only way to increase it is that the actor wins
a PRIDE for his performance. BTW It won't give you something, he will
just cost you more but when you will employ him he will give you more
bucks.

The apparence of the actors is important for the box office. There's al-
ways many young girls who would pay just to see Tom Cruise on the sceen.
This factor is important but remember that the apparence always cost a lot.

The experience give you an idea of the experience of the actors, it is
useful to have some experimented actors in your movie because their
presence give them the possibility to use they potential more efficiency.

The fanclub is the last factor. This one is simple, when you sign an
actor you can be sure that all people that are in the fanclub will go
to the cinema to see the movie. Then, it imply ca$h for you.

PLEASE NOTE: In the registered version you have more actors/actresses in
the database.

REALISATION

After hiring some actors you must choose a realisator. He can be of a
big influence or not on your movie. It depends, lets luck to decide.
You have just to think about Spielberg who transform all of his movies
into an oscar or a box office hit. Their salary are linked with their
factors and some of those stats change when you produce a new movie
under their name. Or when they win a price for their works.

PLEASE NOTE: In the registered version you have more actors/actresses in
the database.


PRODUCTION

It that section it is simple: you just select which of the choices fit
the most with your expectations. You may select it from a really big
selection. See it by yourself.


PUBLICITY

The principle of the publicity is simple, it help your movie to stay
longer on the market. But if you can put your movie at the cinema or
at the video club it will probably just increase your deficit. BE
CAREFUL!!!


LUCK

You have not choice there. You must live with the computer decision.
Two items are selected their. The first one is about the budget. As
you know it is not easy to come EXACTLY on the budget, you should be
prompted about the final budget there. The second one is about the
popularity of your movie. It could be good for your box office entries
if your main actress start to date a famous baseball player or at
the opposite it could be bad for you if she's caught with cocaine.


CRITICS

Each month the critics of three different newspapers will talk about
three different movies (if they decide they can talk about the same).
Those critics can be important because they can bring you or steal
you some public. Remember that it is not everybody who read the
journal, they shouldn't steal you ALL of your public.

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In this section you'll be able to play only three times per day. And
it almost always pays to go there.

ATTACK AN ANOTHER PLAYER

You will have some options:

- BET WITH AN ANOTHER PLAYER.
    You'll bet with a player of your choice an amount of $$$ that you
    choose from 0 and 1000000. But your odds are 2:5. When you are
    challenging a player it could be useful to gain cash and to steal
    him cash.

- DO A BAD PUBLICITY FOR A MOVIE THAT YOU HAVEN'T DONE.
    When you are well ranked on the box office you can use this to make
    the movies of the others player to fall in popularity and to help
    your movies to have a better exposure and to stay a more few times
    in the top.




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There you see what are the movies that will be released at the cinema
the next month if no more change occur. (Please not than a month in
the game equal to one day where at least someone play.)

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You see what are the movies that are available at the Video Club. When
a movie isn't acceptable for the cinema it goes directly to there.

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You see what are the movies that are available at the television. The
television choose which movie will be at their antenna from the library
of movies that aren't at the Video Club or at the Cinema.

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There you see who won the PRIDES (a PRIDE in equivalent to an OSCAR.).
When someone win something there he saw his stats upgraded.

MENU CHOICE 9:

You see there what the critics say this week. Their opinion is linked to
the potential of the movie but sometime they may say that the movie was
good when it wasn't or the opposite. It change the statistics of the
movies that they rate.

MENU CHOICE A:

You may see there from the actors/actresses database what are their
current stats.

MENU CHOICE B:

You see there the statistics of the other players in the game.. BUT
if you want to see the TOP PLAYER option you must ask your sysop to
register. This option is unavailable in the shareware version.
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