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As a fan of entertainment, you've probably thought, 'hey, I can do that.'

Making a movie, especially, seems so easy these days. You just grab your camera and film!

But it is far from that easy, and Movie Money Confidential explains the importance of merging your vision with good business sense.

Once you look at the credits for any film, you see the many roles you need to pull off a successful -- and, frankly, unsuccessful -- production.

Movie Money Confidential is a documentary inspired by the bestselling book, Filmkakers & Financing by Louise Levison.

Levison formerly taught film financing at UCLA, and she's got more than one successful business plan for independent films in the bag.

Specifically, Levison created the business plan for the Blair Witch Project, which was the most successful independent film ever made.

Watching Levison discuss her plan for that movie doesn't sound like she's discussing entertainment at all,...

At 94 the legendary Ernest Borgnine doesn't want to be called "Mr. Borgnine," preferring "Ernest" or even "Ernie." Speaking in his signature gravelly voice, Borgnine is matter-of-fact about his achievements, still delighted and slightly awed that he has been able to make his living doing what he loves most: acting. He continues to be enthralled with movies, though he is no admirer of much of what is produced today and is dismissive about acting methods. "I learned to act by just sitting on a park bench and watching people go by," he says. "I follow what the author has written and take it from there. I don't have a method. You work with your head and your heart and then you create a character."Whatever his method—or perhaps more precisely, non-method—it has worked for him. For more than six decades, the Oscar winner has rolled up more than 200 movie and TV credits,...