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The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System

The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System

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ISBN10: 0062218018
ISBN13: 9780062218018
Publisher: Newmarket Pr
Published: Mar 4 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.09
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.31
Language: English

This chronicle of 2012 is a slice of what happened during a watershed year for the Hollywood movie industry. It's not the whole story, but it's a mosaic of what went on, and why, and of where things are heading.

What changed in one Hollywood year to produce a record-breaking box office after two years of decline? How can the Sundance Festival influence a film's fate, as it did for Beasts of the Southern Wild and Searching for Sugar Man, which both went all the way to the Oscars? Why did John Carter misfire and The Hunger Games succeed? How did maneuvers at festivals such as South by Southwest (SXSW), Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and New York and at conventions such as CinemaCon and Comic-Con benefit Amour, Django Unchained, Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables, The Life of Pi, The Avengers, Lincoln, and Argo? What jeopardized Zero Dark Thirty's launch? What role does gender bias still play in the industry? What are the ten things that changed the 2012 Oscar race?

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