The Big Picture
The Fight for the Future of Movies
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Format: Book
Description: xxv, 278 pages ; 24 cm
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film
In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China.
Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He dives deeply into the fruits of the Sony hack to show how the previous model, long a creative and commercial success, lost its way. And he looks ahead through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others to discover how they have reinvented the business. He shows us, for instance, how Marvel replaced stars with "universes," and how Disney remade itself in Apple's image and reaped enormous profits.
But 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 our movies will look like in the new era.
In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China.
Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He dives deeply into the fruits of the Sony hack to show how the previous model, long a creative and commercial success, lost its way. And he looks ahead through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others to discover how they have reinvented the business. He shows us, for instance, how Marvel replaced stars with "universes," and how Disney remade itself in Apple's image and reaped enormous profits.
But 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 our movies will look like in the new era.
Contents:
Introduction: Groundhog Day--how franchises killed originality in Hollywood -- Part 1: How Hollywood got here -- The odd couple: Lynton and Pascal's glory days at Sony -- Reality bites: how everything went wrong for the movie business -- Inception: the secret origin of the superhero move -- Revenge of the nerds: the rise of Marvel Studios -- Spider-Man: Homecoming--why Sony gave up its most valuable asset -- Star wars: the decline of the A-list -- Frozen: why studios stopped making mid-budget dramas -- Trading places: how TV stole movies' spot atop Hollywood -- Part 2: Where Hollywood is headed -- The Terminator: Disney, the perfect studio for the franchise age -- The producers: creativity meets franchise management -- The shop around the corner: Amazon saves the indie film business -- Apt pupil: China's shifting relationship with Hollywood -- Field of dreams: studio defectors and the future of nonfranchise films -- The last picture show?.
Subjects:
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. -- History -- 21st century.
Motion picture studios -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. -- History -- 21st century.
Motion picture studios -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780544789760
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PERFORMING ARTS Movies Fri | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
"An Eamon Dolan book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.