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Review : A peek into the Hollywood machine, it's smart, informative and entertaining
If you've ever found yourself scratching your head in confusion, about why in the world "Hollywood" does anything...then THIS is the book for you! I've loved books and movies since...forever, and I want to thank Lynda Obst for writing Sleepless in Hollywood just for me.
Like a lot of people, I follow movies, I track trends in films. I go to small film festivals, I see movies people have never heard of. Why? Because I love old and new Hollywood, and I love the industry. Let me be honest, I'm a movie junkie. I've spent years slamming my head onto hard surfaces trying to understand why some movies just never happen, why some are made and clearly shouldn't have been and have wondered why on earth "they" are marketing tent pole films to China and Russia? really? yeah, go figure.
After reading Sleepless in Hollywood, I "get it!" I really understand. Obst, drawing on her years of producing and making properties happen, has written an honest, easily understood,...
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Description : The veteran producer and author of the bestseller Hello, He Lied takes a witty and critical look at the new Hollywood. Over the past decade, producer Lynda Obst gradually realized she was working in a Hollywood that was undergoing a drastic transformation. The industry where everything had once been familiar to her was suddenly disturbingly strange. Combining her own industry experience and interviews with the brightest minds in the business, Obst explains what has stalled the vast moviemaking machine. The calamitous DVD collapse helped usher in what she calls the New Abnormal (because Hollywood was never normal to begin with), where studios are now heavily dependent on foreign markets for profit, a situation which directly impacts the kind...
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