The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System Author: Anne Thompson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DB361MY | Format: EPUB
The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System Description
"This chronicle of 2012 is a slice of what happened during a watershed year for the Hollywood movie industry. It's not the whole story, but it's a mosaic of what went on, and why, and of where things are heading."
What changed in one Hollywood year to produce a record-breaking box office after two years of decline? How can the Sundance Festival influence a film's fate, as it did for Beasts of the Southern Wild and Searching for Sugar Man, which both went all the way to the Oscars? Why did John Carter misfire and The Hunger Games succeed? How did maneuvers at festivals such as South by Southwest (SXSW), Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and New York and at conventions such as CinemaCon and Comic-Con benefit Amour, Django Unchained, Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables, The Life of Pi, The Avengers, Lincoln, and Argo? What jeopardized Zero Dark Thirty's launch? What role does gender bias still play in the industry? What are the ten things that changed the 2012 Oscar race?
When it comes to film, Anne Thompson, a seasoned reporter and critic, addresses these questions and more on her respected daily blog, Thompson on Hollywood. Each year, she observes the Hollywood machine at work: the indies at Sundance, the exhibitors' jockeying at CinemaCon, the international scene at Cannes, the summer tentpoles, the fall's "smart" films and festivals, the family-friendly and big films of the holiday season, and the glamour of the Oscars®. Inspired by William Goldman's classic book The Season, which examined the overall Broadway scene through a production-by-production analysis of one theatrical season, Thompson had long wanted to apply a similar lens to the movie business. When she chose 2012 as "the year" to track, she knew that box-office and DVD sales were declining, production costs were soaring, and the digital revolution was making big waves, but she had no idea that events would converge to bring radical structural movement, record-setting box-office revenues, and what she calls "sublime moviemaking."
Though impossible to mention all 670-plus films released in 2012, Thompson includes many in this book, while focusing on the nine Best Picture nominees and the personalities and powers behind them. Reflecting on the year, Thompson concludes, "The best movies get made because filmmakers, financiers, champions, and a great many gifted creative people stubbornly ignore the obstacles. The question going forward is how adaptive these people are, and how flexible is the industry itself?"
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- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: Newmarket for It Books (March 18, 2014)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DB361MY
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This is a fast-moving, totally fascinating look at the movie industry today -- how it works, what it is happening now, and where it may be heading in the highly competitive digital future. Thompson knows her industry, writes beautifully and leads us through the pivotal events of the $11 billion year with style and verve
By Rebecca G. Morris
Anne Thompson's first book, The $11 Billion Year, looks at the movie business through the time-slice of one year, 2012. And what a year it was, with brobdingnagian tentpole failures (John Carter, Battleship) and billion-dollar giants (The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises), full of executive churn and industry-wide recalibration, of changing consumer behavior and the game-changing moment, as when Netflix committed to House of Cards.
Thompson begins her year-long chronicle at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Moving through the year, she shares the movie business’s steady calendar, against which disquiet plays: after Sundance, South by Southwest, then Cannes, Comic-Com, fall festivals, holiday movies and Oscar races. Among the many virtues of this book is Thompson’s ability open a window on the entertainment industry for people who buy tickets and love film, and simultaneously share insightful analysis for those of us who toil in its fields.
Whether you just love movies or work in the business. this book is a must-read full of insider details, fresh insights and big-picture understanding.
By Adam Leipzig
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