Reports
The three reports a distributor asks for: title, copyright, and script clearance. None of them are ordered yet, and the order you place them in decides whether your file closes on time.
The three reports
$2,850- Title report Whether anyone else is releasing something under this title, and whether the title is free to use. Not ordered, $950 Back Sep 17
- Copyright report Who owns the underlying work, and whether the chain reaching your production is complete. Not ordered, $950 Back Sep 17
- Script clearance report Every name, brand, address, phone number, and piece of art in the script, and which ones need a release or a change before you shoot. Not ordered, $950 Back Sep 25
What script clearance actually produces
Script clearance comes back with more than a yes or no. It comes back with a list: a phone number that turns out to belong to somebody, or a brand on a coffee cup nobody cleared. Everything on it is something the art department can still fix before a camera rolls, which is the reason fifteen business days belongs in prep and not in delivery, when the same list shows up after the scene is already in the can.
How they’re made
A researcher builds each report and an attorney reviews it. Software checks the names in the script against public records, and every report comes back in the format underwriters already read. The title search runs against a commercial trademark database. No underwriter has accepted a Mula report yet, and nothing on this page says otherwise.
If a report comes back flagged
Script clearance came back with a finding.
FlaggedNobody’s fault. It’s the reason the report exists.
A scene uses a real street address on a mailbox in frame, close enough to a real one that it needs to change. Caught now, it’s a prop swap before the truck rolls. Mula flags the exact line and the exact fix, and nothing else in your file waits on it.