— LEX NOVA LAWYER
You keep asking if I’ll write a book. I did.
Chain of title. Option Agreements. Investor structures. Distribution deals. Everything I break down in ninety seconds — now in one place, in depth, in my voice.
The Business of Make Believe
The Movie is the Easy Part
Coming November 2026
EXHIBIT A
SAMPLE – AS WRITTEN
“Producer shall retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Underlying Property, subject to the reversionary interests set forth in Section 4(c), provided that no such reversion shall be deemed to have occurred absent written notice delivered in accordance with Section 11 hereof.”
AS I’D TELL YOU —
“You get your script back if the deal falls through. But only if they actually tell you in writing. No letter, no rights back — even if the option’s long dead.”
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DOCKET NO. 001
Inside the book
01
The Entity Before the Idea
Why the Film LLC exists, what it actually protects, and the formation mistakes that surface eighteen months later — usually right when a distributor asks for your chain of title.
02
What You Sign Before Anyone Knows You’ll Succeed
Option agreements, work-for-hire, and the five-thousand-dollar contracts that end up controlling a hundred-million-dollar franchise a decade later.
03
Raising Money Without Losing the Film
What “securities” actually mean for a $20K raise, which exemption applies, and the investor agreement clauses nobody reads until the waterfall is running.
04
The Deal Isn’t Done When You Think It Is
Distribution, delivery, assignment clauses, and what happens to your film when the company you signed with gets acquired by someone else entirely.
A NOTE, OFF THE RECORD
You asked for this more than thirty times. I kept saying I didn’t want to spend a year writing something that sits on a shelf.
Then I realized the thing you were actually asking for didn’t exist (not really). Not the whole picture, start to finish, in plain English, from someone who does this for a living. So I wrote it.
Three hundred pages.
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— Reena
Tell me you want it.
Takes five seconds. I’ll handle the other three hundred pages.
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