Budget and schedule for line producers

Where Cinewright helps

• The budget follows the board: formulas, globals and schedule-linked values
• While a strip is dragged, what dropping it there would do to the budget and the shoot days
• Fringes with cutoffs and dated rate changes, and built-in crew and cast rate packs
• Financing plan with confirmed, applied-for and hoped-for sources, and the gap
• 141 incentive programmes in 70 jurisdictions with official sources (figures taken October 2026; check against current rates)
• Cost reports with estimate to complete, variance and reasons; cash flow week by week
• Budget approval with signatures, and the Producer’s Package as one PDF
• Department heads approve budgets, timecard hours and POs on their phones

From the office to the set

1. PlanBreak down the script, build the board and the budget on the Mac.
2. ReviewTake the board and the budget to meetings on iPad with CW Office.
3. ShootProgress and actual times come back from set each day.
4. ReportCost reports and the wrap book from the same production.

Apps for this role

• Budgeting and Scheduling (Mac)
• CW Office (iPad)
• Cinewright Reader