Tapping experts in an industry experiencing major disruptions, The Movie Business Book is the authoritative, comprehensive sourcebook, covering online micro-budget movies to theatrical tentpoles. This book pulls back the veil of secrecy on producing, marketing, and distributing films, including business models, dealmaking, release windows, revenue streams, studio accounting, DIY online self-distribution and more. First-hand insider accounts serve as primary references involving negotiations, management decisions, workflow, intuition and instinct. The Movie Business Book is an essential guide for those launching or advancing careers in the global media marketplace.
ventory, or went under with bills unpaid, this became the wholesaler's problem, not the studios'. ... Blockbusters were bigger than most video stores (averaging about 4,500 square feet), brighter and more professionally managed.
A straightforward business and legal guide for novice movie producers covers a wide range of topics, including intellectual property laws, financing, and production challenges, in a guide that also provides in-depth coverage of ...
Stand by for hours of blissful immersion in the world of film - the world's "seventh art". The Movie Book is your detailed guide to 100 seismic films, from Intolerance (1916) to the groundbreaking Boyhood (2014).
26. Among the sports reels then in production were Sports Parade (Warner), Sportscope (RKO-Pathé), Sports Review (Fox), and World of Sports (Columbia). 27. “How About a Little Game?” 71. 28. Richard Meran Barsam, “This Is America: ...
This book is about how to work with people in the film industry, about who they are, what they do, and what they need.
She made Slumdog Millionaire the belle of the Oscars in 2008, beating the bigger and better-financed Paramount entry, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a David Fincher–directed love story about a boy who ages backward.
In this updated edition of the industry staple, veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market segments—film, television, and online/digital—providing you with an insider’s perspective ...
Silverstein: Haine: Silverstein: Haine: Yes, but all of those are subsequent. The main thrust does not change, the director's right, the director as an artist. Everything else changes and technology just follows.
He came away with a unique understanding of adaptations--an understanding he shares in this book: which stories make good source material (and why); what Hollywood wants (and doesn't); what you can (and can't) get in a movie deal; how to ...
It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.