"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." -Marilyn Monroe In 2015, it'll be 100 years since Hollywood became the centre of American cinema and, while it has always presented itself as a place of glamour and home to the beautiful and ta
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
โ Scribed by Epstein, Edward Jay
- Book ID
- 107342685
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A fully revised edition of the popular guide to Hollywood finances, updated to reflect even newer films and trends
In a Freakonomics -meets-Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood's "invisible money machine," probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and flops, while he answers a surprisingly difficult question: How do the studiosmake their money?
In this, a revised and updated edition The Hollywood Economist , we learn:
**+ The future of Netflix: Why the "next big thing" now seems in such deep trouble...
+ What it costs to insure Nicole Kidman's right knee...
+ How Hollywood manipulates Wall Street, including the story of the acquisition of MGM... wherein a consortium of banks and hedge funds lost some $5 billion... while Hollywood made millions.
+ Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a contract genius...
+ The fate of serious...
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