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Unveiling the hidden economics of Hollywood's success.
This book uncovers the behind-the-scenes workings of Hollywood, showing how the major studios rake in massive profits not just from movie tickets, but also from various other industries related to their films. From video games to theme park rides, Hollywood's money-making strategies are brilliantly unraveled. With intriguing insider stories and profiles of influential visionaries, The Big Picture offers an eye-opening journey into the hidden economics of the entertainment industry. If you're curious about the complex and fascinating world of Hollywood's evolution, this book is a must-read.
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ISBN: 9781400063536
Authors:
Edward Jay Epstein
Publisher: Random House
Date of Publication: 2005-02-15
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 291 readers)
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During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, virtually all the American motion picture industry’s money, power, and prestige came from a single selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media universe controlled by six corporations–Sony, Time Warner, NBC Universal, Viacom, Disney, and NewsCorporation. These conglomerates view films as part of an immense, synergistic, vertically integrated money-making industry.In The Big Picture , acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein gives an unprecedented, sweeping, and thoroughly entertaining account of the real magic behind how the studios make their money. Epstein shows how, in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of the major films turn huge profits, not from the movies themselves but through myriad other enterprises, such as video-game spin-offs, fast-food tie-ins, soundtracks, and even theme-park rides.The studios may compete with one another for stars, publicity, box-officereceipts, and Oscars; their corporate parents, however, make fortunesfrom cooperation (and collusion) with one another in less glamorous markets, such as cable, home video, and pay-TV.But money is only part of the Hollywood story; the social and political milieus–power, prestige, and status–tell the rest. Alongside remarkable financial revelations, The Big Picture is filled with eye-opening true Hollywood insider stories. We learn how the promise of free cowboy boots for a producer delayed a major movie’s shooting schedule; why stars never perform their own stunts, despite what the supermarket tabloids claim; how movies intentionally shape political sensibilities, both in America and abroad; and why fifteen-year-olds dictate the kind of low-grade fare that has flooded screens across the country.Epstein also offers incisive profiles of the pioneers, including Louis B. Mayer, who helped build Hollywood, and introduces us to the visionaries–Walt Disney, Akio Morita, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Ross, Sumner Redstone, David Sarnoff–power brokers who, by dint of innovation and deception, created and control the media that mold our lives. If you are interested in Hollywood today and the complex and fascinating way it has evolved in order to survive, you haven’t seen the big picture until you’ve read The Big Picture .
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Unveiling the hidden economics of Hollywood's success.
This book uncovers the behind-the-scenes workings of Hollywood, showing how the major studios rake in massive profits not just from movie tickets, but also from various other industries related to their films. From video games to theme park rides, Hollywood's money-making strategies are brilliantly unraveled. With intriguing insider stories and profiles of influential visionaries, The Big Picture offers an eye-opening journey into the hidden economics of the entertainment industry. If you're curious about the complex and fascinating world of Hollywood's evolution, this book is a must-read.
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