Oliver Trevena
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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is the return on that gonna come back it's tough you know um so i think looking at it from a business it would be be a lot of that it'd be like what story what story do you want to tell where's the script how good's the script who's telling who's directing it who's doing it's it's exactly the same package it's it there really are so many similarities when you think about when you start a brand and you've got the president and the team of people around it and then it's the same thing
You know, if you've got a good team and you've got a good package and you've got a path to profitability,
invest whether it's a movie whether it's you know man wipes um whatever it is you know i think i think it just it has to make sense and obviously nothing's ever going to make there's risk with everything you know um and that's just the nature of the beast and that's because the world we live in who knows what's around the corner you know they're another covid then shipping costs go through the roof and then your margins slashed no one knows there's risk
But that's the exciting thing about investments is there is risk. Of course, there's risk. If there wasn't risk, there wouldn't be any investments. Everyone would just put their own money in, you know. So it's exciting. But yeah, I would I would ask him a lot of the same questions as I'm asking someone who's making a product.
have you ever thought about or would you consider taking on passion projects in between 100 yeah i've got i mean there's a couple of things that i'm working on right now um i guess i'm just more um i like to be transparent right so if i'm sitting with an investor or someone that's going to put money into my movie and it's a passion project i'm saying exactly that yeah i'm saying mate this is a passion project read the story if it resonates with you as well i believe we can make something amazing here but obviously
it's not a story that suddenly brings in sales because it's not, you know, a Blumhouse horror film. Sure. Um, I think just transparency, if you, if you're transparent and you, you communicate, no one can ever, you know, bite back at you for that, you know?
And I think that's the, you'll find your people, you'll find your people that are like, you know, I'm just trying to think of something like very passionate. Just say it was like a, Story of a footballer, right? And it was, you know, half the world still doesn't know. I mean, the world knows football, but, you know, over in the US, as in soccer, it's still trying to get there.
So as as much as it's a big sport, people try soccer movies a lot and sometimes they just don't work. But if I found this story of a soccer player and I wanted to make this story, I deep down, I know there's a risk there because. It's still not, you know, the soccer movies have never taken out. But if it was my passion and I sat with someone and said, look, mate, I know you love football.
You know, you've got a few hundred million. Are you prepared to lose a few million? Maybe I say, yeah, maybe we take a shot. A hundred percent believe you've got to do with most things in life or life in general. You have to have a balance of the stuff that.
pays your rent and the stuff that makes you happy, you know, because otherwise what happens is, and I've been there, I don't know why that just made me a bit, get a bit emotional because I've literally been there where you're too busy thinking about the money stuff and you, and even if you're lucky enough to get the money stuff, you're fucking miserable.
Because you're lacking that soul, the passion, the things that we as kids dream about, the things that really wake us up in the morning. And I don't mean wake us up in the morning with an alarm. I mean the stuff that jumps us out of bed, yeah, without any fear attached.
Yeah, exactly. And I think that's the stuff that for me, I've been on both paths. I've been on the path where I've chased money and got what I dreamed of.
and realized it did fucking nothing for me and i was miserable and i was sad so i am always conscious of juggling in life enough that i can still live the life that i want and have the success but i'm not going too far down that path where i forget what actually makes me feel good and what actually makes me feel alive and i think to you know reason we're here today when i walked into the the toy drive i was blown away because
And that, you know, the give back stuff and the paying it forward stuff people bring up to me all the time. Be like, why do you do so much of that? And I'm like, because I am a self-obsessed prick if I am not treating that. And by treating that, I mean, it's the most simplest thing. It's not not therapy. Therapy is good. It's not I'm not saying it's not, but it's not therapy. It's not.
Anything like that, it's just doing something for someone else without wanting anything in return. That is it. That cures my overthinking. It stops the self-obsessed mind. It stops the fear of, am I good enough? Is my business good enough? It cures all that because you're suddenly doing something else for someone else that has a lot less for you and they're probably smiling and happy.
you know so that for me is the balance in life that i'm always constantly trying to get and don't get me wrong i'll have a few weeks where i completely veer off track and i'll have a moment i'll be like what am i doing what am i spinning about you know it's mind-blowing and it is you know that's the other thing it's we're always a work in progress just when you think you've got it figured out something happens in life
slaps you around the head and and i'm like where did all that you know all those life courses and therapy and everything and all those books i read and now i'm suddenly a 13 year old again spinning about the most stupid you know so um understanding that it's always still a work in progress speaking of the toy drive we have to go back out there but one final thought so we're going into 2025 there's
I would say pick something that you're ready to give your everything to and is going to make you happy even if it takes you a long time to make money from it. That's what I'd say.
Just my name at Oliver Trevina. That's it.
I just finished one in Budapest, a comedy that I produced that we're really excited about. Parrish Jackson, Rory Culkin, Crispin Glover, amazing cast. Mark Boone Jr., Will Peltz. I'm excited about that. And then next year have two more movies start in January and February that I won't say because we haven't announced them yet. I don't know the timing of this thing, but it's exciting.
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