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Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book Prize at the 2018 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
"Ben Fritz crafts an electrifying and essential book that carefully chronicles how Hollywood tradition is collapsing and new models are fueling the future. A must-read."—Ava DuVernay, director of
A Wrinkle in Time,
Selma, and
13th
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film
Ben Fritz chronicles the dramatic shakeup of America's film industry, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He offers us an unprecedented look deep inside a Hollywood studio to explain why sophisticated movies for adults are an endangered species while franchises and super-heroes have come to dominate the cinematic landscape. And through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others, he reveals how the movie business is being reinvented.
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 entertainment will look like in the new era.
- 320 pages
- English
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 254–55
actors. See talent
After Earth, 26–27, 94–96
Ali, 90
Alice in Wonderland, 143, 160
The Amazing Spider-Man, 26, 38, 75–78, 212
The Amazing Spider-Man 2, 38, 75, 77–78, 79, 113, 201–2
The Amazing Spider-Man 3, 75–76, 81
Amazon Studios
audience, 197
flops and impact, 198–200, 252–53
formation of, 191–92
independent film financing by, xxiii, 187–90, 198–200, 252–53
Netflix versus, 195, 196–97
originality mission of, 190, 191–92, 194–97, 200
Amblin Partners, 216, 223, 235
AMC, 134–35, 203, 216
America Online (AOL), 14
American Hustle, 117, 120
Anderson, Paul Thomas, 119
Angels & Demons, 86–87
animated movies
China’s release of, 213
Disney live-action of, 143–44, 160–62
DreamWorks, 70
Lego, 166, 171–74
Pixar, 152–53, 157
Annapurna Pictures, 116–22, 253
AOL. See America Online
Apollo 13, 208
Apple iPod, 152, 154
Arad, Avi
as Marvel competitor, 73
Marvel film logo by, 53
Marvel resignation by, 65–66
Marvel vision of, 44–45
Marvel World pitch to, 54–55
Marvel’s slate deals and, 62–63
Artisan Entertainment, 54
AT&T, 236
audience
actor loyalty decline, 83–88, 93–99
actor loyalty success, 88–93, 106–7
Amazon Studios, 197
binge-watching by, 129–30
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- A Note on Sources
- Introduction
- How Hollywood Got Here
- The Odd Couple
- Reality Bites
- Inception
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Star Wars
- A Star Is Born
- Frozen
- Trading Places
- Where Hollywood is Headed
- The Terminator
- The Producers
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Apt Pupil
- Field of Dreams
- The Last Picture Show?
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
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