The big picture : the fight for the future of movies / Ben Fritz.
Publisher: Boston : Eamon Dolan, 2019Description: 320 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43896ISBN: 9781328592743 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc | Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century | Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Media StudiesDDC classification: 791.43 FRI LOC classification: PN1993.5.U65 | F75 2019Summary: The stunning metamorphosis of 21st-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film Ben Fritz chronicles the dramatic shakeup of America's film industry, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He offers us an unprecedented look deep inside a Hollywood studio to explain why sophisticated movies for adults are an endangered species while franchises and super-heroes have come to dominate the cinematic landscape. And through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others, he reveals how the movie business is being reinvented. Despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book Prize at the 2018 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
"Ben Fritz crafts an electrifying and essential book that carefully chronicles how Hollywood tradition is collapsing and new models are fueling the future. A must-read."--Ava DuVernay, director of A Wrinkle in Time, Selma, and 13th
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film
Ben Fritz chronicles the dramatic shakeup of America's film industry, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He offers us an unprecedented look deep inside a Hollywood studio to explain why sophisticated movies for adults are an endangered species while franchises and super-heroes have come to dominate the cinematic landscape. And through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others, he reveals how the movie business is being reinvented.
Despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film. The Big Picture shows the first glimmers of this new golden age through the eyes of the creative mavericks who are defining what entertainment will look like in the new era.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The stunning metamorphosis of 21st-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film Ben Fritz chronicles the dramatic shakeup of America's film industry, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He offers us an unprecedented look deep inside a Hollywood studio to explain why sophisticated movies for adults are an endangered species while franchises and super-heroes have come to dominate the cinematic landscape. And through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others, he reveals how the movie business is being reinvented. Despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- A Note on Sources (p. ix)
- Introduction: Groundhog Day - How Franchises Killed Originality in Hollywood (p. xiii)
- Part 1 How Hollywood Got Here
- 1 The Odd Couple: Lynton and Pascal's Glory Days at Sony (p. 3)
- 2 Reality Bites: How Everything Went Wrong for the Movie Business (p. 21)
- 3 Inception: The Secret Origin of the Superhero Movie (p. 37)
- 4 Revenge of the Nerds: The Rise of Marvel Studios (p. 53)
- 5 Spider-Man: Homecoming-Why Sony Gave Up Its Most Valuable Asset (p. 75)
- 6 Star Wars: The Decline of the A-List (p. 83)
- 7 A Star Is Born: Netflix, the New Home for Movie Stars (p. 101)
- 8 Frozen: Why Studios Stopped Making Mid-Budget Dramas (p. 111)
- 9 Trading Places: How TV Stole Movies' Spot atop Hollywood (p. 125)
- Part 2 Where Hollywood Is Headed
- 10 The Terminator: Disney, the Perfect Studio for the Franchise Age (p. 143)
- 11 The Producers: Creativity Meets Franchise Management (p. 165)
- 12 The Shop Around the Corner: Amazon Saves the Indie Film Business (p. 187)
- 13 Apt Pupil: China's Shifting Relationship with Hollywood (p. 201)
- 14 Field of Dreams: Studio Defectors and the Future of Nonfranchise Films (p. 221)
- 15 The Last Picture Show? (p. 231)
- Afterword (p. 243)
- Acknowledgments (p. 257)
- Notes (p. 261)
- Index (p. 279)
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