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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"By the author of the bestseller Hello, He Lied, a veteran producer takes a witty look at the new Hollywood. Lynda Obst returns to dish on the experts, tastemakers, and moguls of today's Hollywood and the movies they make. She describes how the movie business has lost its MO--and is now losing its talent to network and especially cable TV.With the collapse of the DVD market, the movie industry was crippled. The business reacted by producing tentpoles...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns to her beloved Shopaholic series with Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky's husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour. Becky can't wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete with celebrity sightings, yoga retreats, and shopping trips...
7) Producing
Series
Behind the silver screen volume 7
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone gets a project financed (though their day-to-day participation in the project may be negligible). The job title, regardless of the actual work involved,...
Publisher
Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Film about the confusion between real life and reel life that consumes a film maker. By mixing interviews with real people and erotic scenes of a haunting young woman, the audience is kept guessing about which is reality and which is a dream.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"With the sin and scandal of Hollywood as their birthright, Jenny Haven's extraordinarily beautiful daughters also inherited their mother's passion for living. When Jenny dies suddenly, under mysterious circumstances, the Haven sisters' grief is tempered by the hope that her millions will nourish their budding commercial enterprises. Instead, their movie star mother appears to have died penniless, and now each daughter must create her own success,...
12) The cottage
Author
Language
English
Description
A gleaming Rolls-Royce pulls through the gates of the magnificent Bel Air estate known as The Cottage. The man behind the wheel is Hollywood's ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is legendary, Coop exudes old-fashioned glamour. But Coop is broke. And with no major roles coming his way, he is faced with the prospect of selling his beloved home, or at least renting out parts of it. His...
13) Almost paradise
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Traces the lives and marriage of Nicholas Cableigh, a well-born, successful actor, and Jane, articulate, intelligent television talk show participant.
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Author Cones breaks financing options down into six main areas: gifts and grants, investor financing, domestic government subsidies and tax incentive programs, lender financing, international finance options, and studio or industry financing. Beginning with the forms of financing most likely to be accessible to independent feature film producers, Cones proceeds to other forms that become increasingly available as the producer's career matures. He...
15) Industrial networks and cinemas of India: shooting stars, shifting geographies and multiplying media
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
16) Silver nitrate
Author
Language
English
Description
"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Trist̀n, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Trist̀n discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...