Variety Deal Memo
Title | Variety Deal Memo PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Motion picture industry |
ISBN |
The global newsletter of theatrical and post-theatrical rights and markets.
Hollywood's Road to Riches
Title | Hollywood's Road to Riches PDF eBook |
Author | David Waterman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674044924 |
Out-of-control costs. Box office bombs that should have been foreseen. A mania for sequels at the expense of innovation. Blockbusters of ever-diminishing merit. What other industry could continue like this--and succeed as spectacularly as Hollywood has? The American movie industry's extraordinary success at home and abroad--in the face of dire threats from broadcast television and a wealth of other entertainment media that have followed--is David Waterman's focus in this book, the first full-length economic study of the movie industry in over forty years. Combining historical and economic analysis, Hollywood's Road to Riches shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world's film business. At the same time, the book asks how the economic forces leading to this success--the forces of audience demand, technology, and high risk--have combined to change the kinds of movies Hollywood produces. Waterman argues that the movie studios have multiplied their revenues by effectively using pay television and home video media to extract the maximum amounts that individual consumers are willing to pay to watch the same movies in different venues. Along the way, the Hollywood studios have masterfully handled piracy and other economic challenges to the multimedia system they use to distribute movies. The author also looks ahead to what Internet file sharing and digital production and distribution technologies might mean for Hollywood's prosperity, as well as for the quality and variety of the movies it makes.
Marketing to Moviegoers
Title | Marketing to Moviegoers PDF eBook |
Author | Marich, Robert |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9780809387144 |
Framing Piracy
Title | Framing Piracy PDF eBook |
Author | Shujen Wang |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780742519800 |
Framing Piracy examines film distribution--legal and illegal--in the largest, mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc (VCD, DVD) and online piracy, this book tackles issues of politics, globalization, and technology. It features a wealth of original research, new distribution data, and interviews with film distributors, government officials, and film pirates. With changes afoot in China upon its entering the World Trade Organization, this timely book shows that such transformations have far-reaching implications for policy, theory, and practice.
Man Enough
Title | Man Enough PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Baldoni |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0063055619 |
A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new book, beloved actor, director, and social activist Justin Baldoni reflects on his own struggles with masculinity. With insight and honesty, he explores a range of difficult, sometimes uncomfortable topics including strength and vulnerability, relationships and marriage, body image, sex and sexuality, racial justice, gender equality, and fatherhood. Writing from experience, Justin invites us to move beyond the scripts we’ve learned since childhood and the roles we are expected to play. He challenges men to be brave enough to be vulnerable, to be strong enough to be sensitive, to be confident enough to listen. Encouraging men to dig deep within themselves, Justin helps us reimagine what it means to be man enough and in the process what it means to be human.
The International Film Business
Title | The International Film Business PDF eBook |
Author | Angus Finney |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 113629502X |
The International Film Business examines the independent film sector as a business, and addresses the specific skills and knowledge it demands. It describes both the present state of the industry, the significant digital and social media developments that are continuing to take place, and what changes these might effect. The International Film Business: describes and analyses the present structure of the film industry as a business, with a specific focus on the film value chain discusses and analyses current digital technology and how it potentially may change the structure and opportunities offered by the industry in the future provides information and advice on the different business and management skills and strategies includes case studies on a variety of films including The Guard (2011), The King’s Speech (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Cloverfield (2008), Pobby & Dingan (aka Opal Dream, 2005), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), The Reckoning (2002)and The Mother (2003), and company case studies on Pixar, Renaissance, Redbus and Zentropa. Further case studies on films that failed to go into production include Neil LaBute’s Vapor and Terry Gilliam’s Good Omens. Taking an entrepreneurial perspective on what future opportunities will be available to prepared and informed students and emerging practitioners, this text includes case studies that take students through the successes and failures of a variety of real film companies and projects and features exclusive interviews with leading practitioners in all sectors of the industry, from production to exhibition.
The Frodo Franchise
Title | The Frodo Franchise PDF eBook |
Author | Kristin Thompson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2007-08-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520247744 |
In this study of Peter Jacksons film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Kristin Thompson demonstrates the impact the trilogy has had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema, and looks at how the trilogy is regarded as one the most important films ever made.