The Hollywood Economist 2.0 by Epstein, Edward Jay -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction: Why We Don’t Understand Hollywood Part 1: The Popcorn Economy

Ten Years Ago, I Learned the Real Secret Is the Salt Why Do Most New Movie Theaters Have Fewer than 300 Seats? Sex in the Cinema: Asset or Liability? The Vanishing Box Office The Reel Silver Lining

Part II: Star Culture

The Contract’s the Thing—If Not for Hamlet, for Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Stars Come in Two Flavors: $20 Million and Free The Angst Question in Hollywood: What Is Your Cash Breakeven? The Sad Lesson of Nicole Kidman’s Knee—Or What a Star Needs to Get a Part The Starlet’s Dilemma There Is No Net The Video Windfall Nobody Gets Gross “I Do My Own Stunts”

Part III: Hollywood’s Invisible Money Machine

Why Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Is Considered a Masterpiece of Studio Financing Money-For-Nothing from Germany How Does a Studio Make a Windfall out of Being on the Losing Side of a Japanese Format War? Romancing the Hedge Funds Ending Up on the Wrong End of the Deal Ever Wonder Why New York Looks Like Toronto in the Movies? The Foreign Mirage Pushing the Pseudo Reality Envelope The New Civil War among the States The Rise and Fall of Pay Television For Whom Does the Movie Business Toll?

Part IV: Hollywood Politics

In the Picture Paranoia for Fun and Profit: The Saga of Fahrenheit 9/11 The Saga Continues Plus Ça Change: Paramount’s Regime Change Tom Cruise, Inc. The Studios—Required Reading An Expert Witness in Wonderland

Part V: Unoriginal Sin

Audience Creation Teens and Car Crashes Go Together The Midas Formula Market Testing Villains Why Serious Fare Went Small Screen

Part VI: Indie Film

The Oscar Deception Can Indie Movies Survive? How to Finance an Indie Film

Part VII: The Politics of Streaming

The Quest for the Digitalized Couch Potato The Samurai Embrace The Rise of the Tube Moguls The Last Days of the Video Store And the End of Theatres? Downloading for Dollars

Epilogue: Hollywood: The Movie Appendix I

Appendix II