A Small Business Blockbuster Original

Make a movie. Not another ad.

Cinematic commercials that make your business impossible to forget, and impossible to scroll past. A fresh one every month, for one flat price. Star in it yourself, or let your business do the talking.

From $1,995 / month  ·  cancel anytime.

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Super Bowl spot
$10,000,000
For thirty seconds. Plus production.
Local production crew
$3k to $15k
For one spot. One time. Often forgettable.
Your blockbuster
$1,995 / mo
A new cinematic film every month. Cancel anytime.
Act I  ·  The problem

Nobody watches ads anymore. They watch movies.

The attention economy is a knife fight. Every app on every phone is engineered by thousand-person teams to keep eyeballs locked. Meanwhile the local business owner is handed a playbook from 1994: stand in front of the truck, smile, say the phone number.

It does not work. It cannot work. You are not competing with the shop across town. You are competing with the most-watched humans on Earth, on a feed built to bury you.

The way through is not a better ad. It is to stop making an ad at all. Make something people choose to watch. Something they text their brother. Something the bartender pulls up and says, you gotta see this.

Act II  ·  Why it works

You are not buying a video. You are buying memorable.

The real battle is for a position in your customer's mind. Most ads never win one.

And memorable is not a vanity metric. It is sales. A forgettable ad has to be seen again and again before it even registers, because there is nothing about it worth remembering. A story is different. People remember stories far longer than they remember slogans, logos, or phone numbers. So the next time someone needs a plumber, a dentist, a roofer, a slice, they do not scroll a list of strangers. They think of the one with the unforgettable movie, and they assume that business must be the best in town. Memorable is who gets called, recommended, and chosen over the cheaper guy.

80%

of people can recall a video ad they watched in the past month. Most cannot recall a single banner or text ad from yesterday.

Stop

the scroll. A moving story holds attention far longer than a static photo or a line of text. People do not watch ads, but they will watch a movie to the end.

#1

is the only position that matters: first in mind when a customer is ready to buy. That is what a movie buys you that a banner never will.

Act III  ·  The process

From your vision to premiere.

01
Scene 01

Tell us your story

You have a story, we know you do. Your business, your obsessions, the movies you have seen forty times. Share it your way, on your time. No calls required, no meetings, no homework.

02
Scene 02

We write your movie

A genre. A concept. A log line that makes you laugh and slightly worried. Predator times plumbing. Fast and Furious times pepperoni. Bring an idea, or we invent one with you.

03
Scene 03

We direct the whole film

Script, storyboards, motion, edit, score. The real craft of filmmaking, start to finish. You approve along the way, and we revise until it is right.

04
Scene 04

A new one every month

You get the whole reel in every format, plus social cuts ready to post. Then we do it again next month. Your feed never goes stale, and the stranger scrolling past finally stops on you.

Act IV  ·  The craft

This is filmmaking. Not a prompt.

01

The shooting script

Every film starts with a real script. Story, beats, tension, the line that lands. The same blueprint a studio writes before a single frame exists.

02

Storyboards for every scene

We board the film shot by shot, sometimes painstakingly, so the vision is locked before we generate anything. This is where a good idea becomes a real movie.

03

Directed motion, shot by shot

We generate and direct the motion from each board, frame by frame, making sure every shot translates the vision perfectly.

04

The edit

Scenes get cut together with real pacing and rhythm, the difference between footage and a film people cannot look away from.

05

Score, voice, and sound

Music, professional voiceover, and sound design, layered until it feels like something that belongs on a screen, not buried in a feed.

The same process as a major studio. The same craft, directed by a real storyteller. We just compress the time and the cost.
★   Now showing   ★   The following previews have been approved by the Motion Picture Association of Small Business   ★
B

Rated B for Blockbuster

Cinematic commercials for small businesses, dramatic lighting, and a story your customers actually remember.

A

Rated A for Attention

Algorithmic warfare and the quiet death of boring local ads.

$

Rated $ for Affordable

One flat price, zero retainers, an audible gasp from your accountant.

R

Rated R for Reel

Contains bold genre homages, a healthy dose of tonal absurdity, and zero boring stock footage.

Act V  ·  Now playing

The debut feature.

Bill, owner of Chiarillo's, in a steaming boiler-room jungle holding a wrench, lit like an action movie
Feature 001  ·  Action / Horror homage

Pipe Predator

Bill has been fixing toilets in this town for twenty years. Now he is in a steaming boiler-room jungle, a wrench in one hand and something ancient hunting him through the pipes. It is absurd. It is the best thing anyone in his feed has seen all week. It is already a meme at the bar, and the next person who needs a plumber will remember exactly one name.

Starring Bill  ·  Chiarillo's Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing

Watch the full film
★★★★★
"That was the most amazing thing I ever saw. I can't get over it. I want more."
Bill  ·  Owner, Chiarillo's Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing
The box office

Choose your run.

The Feature
Most popular
One cinematic film a month. Stay fresh.
$1,995 / mo
  • One new 30-second spot every month
  • All formats: widescreen, vertical, square
  • Captions plus one social cutdown
  • Movie-poster still
  • First cut within 14 days
  • Unlimited revisions until you love it
Start your film
Double Feature
Two films a month. More to post, more often.
$3,995 / mo
  • Two new spots every month
  • Everything in The Feature
  • Richer social kit: three cutdowns per spot
  • Scroll-stopping hook edits
  • First cut within 10 days
  • Unlimited revisions
Start your film
The Franchise
A new drop on demand. For agencies and multi-location.
$5,995 / mo
  • Three new spots every month
  • The full social kit, every format and cutdown
  • Text-on-screen versions with your offer
  • Priority turnaround: first cut in 48 to 72 hours
  • Unlimited revisions
Start your film
Month to month. Cancel or pause anytime, no contracts.
One film in production at a time. Simple monthly billing, nothing hidden.
Pick a plan above and we will get your first film started.
About the studio

I have spent my career fighting for the small guys.

I am Mark. I have spent years building organizations that champion small and independently-owned businesses, the kind of work that does not make headlines but keeps main streets alive.

The problem was never that small businesses are not good enough. It is that nobody sees them anymore. Small Business Blockbuster is my answer: cinematic commercials, the kind once reserved for Fortune 500s, for the plumber, the pizza shop, the gym, the dentist.

This is not an agency, and I am not a faceless order form. When you email, I email back. I write and direct every film personally.

Before you ask

The fine print, in plain English.

Yes, and here is the honest breakdown. The imagery and motion are AI-generated. The music and sound are either AI, stock, or real recordings. The voice might be my own voice work with an AI voice layered over it, another voice actor's, or your voice, depending on what the film needs. But none of it is push-a-button. Every image and every sound is painstakingly plotted through a visioning process that I run. Each piece is assembled, directed, and finished by a human, me. AI is merely the camera and the setting. The filmmaking is still done completely by hand.

No. The truth is AI video today has the occasional quirk, a background or character that might change slightly from frame to frame (known as 'drift'). It is rarely enough to bother people or even be noticed. That is just where the technology is right now. But you do not win attention with flawless, you win it with engaging and memorable. Our job is to make the consistency unnoticeable, and we are good at it, so the greatness of the film overwhelms even eagle-eyed viewers. Every film we deliver is cohesive, easy to follow, and impossible to scroll past. The memorability, the laughs, and the emotion are never disrupted by the state of the technology. That is the promise that actually matters, and what we deliver.

Only if you want to be. Some owners love starring in their own movie, Bill certainly did. For others, the story, the product, or a character carries it. Your call, either way.

No. No crew, no set, no camera, no day off work, and no standing meetings. We work from your vision on your schedule. If you want a quick fifteen minutes to make sure I am a real human first, just ask by email and we will set it up.

First cut within 14 days on The Feature, within 10 days on The Double Feature, and within 48 to 72 hours on The Franchise. Then we refine until you love it.

We revise until you do. Unlimited revisions on every tier. That is the whole point of a subscription instead of a one-time gamble.

Yes. You get every format plus the social cuts to post anywhere, for as long as you like.

Anytime. Month to month, no contracts. Pause when you do not need a new spot, come back when you do. We work with businesses across the United States.

Roll camera.

Tell us your vision, we do the rest. One flat price, a movie that makes your business the first name people think of. Cancel anytime.

Start your film
Questions first? Email hello@smallbusinessblockbuster.com and I will write back, usually same day.