The Budget Topsheet

The first page of every film budget for fifty years: the whole picture summarized by account: above-the-line, below-the-line, post, other. Standardized so a financier, a bond company, and an insurer can each read any production's money in thirty seconds. The shape IS the trust. I keep estimates and actuals as separate spines under it (a plan is not a receipt), and lock versions the way the industry expects revisions to be locked.