Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476727759 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 movie-making machine. The calamitous DVD collapse helped usher in what she calls the New Abnormal (because Hollywood was never normal to begin with), and studios are now heavily dependent on foreign markets for profit, a situation which directly impacts the kind of entertainment we get to see. Can comedy survive if they don’t get our jokes in Seoul or allow them in China? Why are studios making fewer movies than ever—and why are they bigger, more expensive, and nearly always sequels or recycled ideas?Obst writes with affection, regret, humor and hope, and her behind-the-scenes vantage point allows her to explore what has changed in Hollywood like no one else has. In a new introduction, she describes the tumultuous seasons that followed and predicts the crises still to come.Over the past decade, producer Lynda Obst gradually realized she was working in a Hollywood that was undergoing a drastic transformation. This candid, insightful account explains what has happened to the movie business, and explores whether it’ll ever return to making the movie
She has produced more than sixteen feature films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Contact, The Fisher King, Adventures in Babysitting, Hope Floats, and two films with Nora Ephron, Sleepless in Seattle and This Is My Life. She is now producing television as well. . Lynda Obst,author of the bestseller Hello, He Lied, was an editor for The New Yo
Rick Spell said Required Reading to Understand Hollywood. it's really frustrating as a movie lover to have so many weekends with nothing for me to see. This happens to many as they age and don't care for the youthful, tent pole, special effects movies that are now offered. The movies that are created to spin off sequels. THIS BOOK EXPLAINS THIS TREND! And it does it from the point of vie. "MUST READ, BEYOND EXCELLENCE, INSPIRING HOLLYWOOD INSIDER BOOK" according to Jon Stevens Alon. Just as her first book "Hello, He lied" is the best book written about a studio producer navigating the political games played and survival in Hollywood, Lynda Obst's second book is beyond excellent. Former NY Times reporter, she writes with an impressive powerful competence and first class stylization re her transformation from a. Janet said A Book Worth Owning if You're At All Interested in Hollywood and Film and TV's Future. Lynda Obst's second book is a gem. If you really want to know the inner-workings and future of Hollywood, this book is the one to read. I learned a great deal about how studio's select projects and where there motivation is coming from -- International money and audiences. As a screenwriter, this book gave me insight into why cert
Written in warm, conversational prose, Obst’s tales from the movie front together offer an engrossing look at the state of the entertainment industry today. As DVD revenues began to disappear, thanks to the rise of digital streaming and piracy, the studios saw their profit margins cut drastically and looked to other forms of revenue, such as international box-office numbers. From Booklist Obst’s Hello, He Lied (1996) was both a survivor’s guide to Hollywood and a memoir; her latest outing mixes her firsthand account of navigating the changing movie- and television-making business with the perspectives of other industry bigwigs. The producer of hit movies such as Sleepless in Seattle and Contact, Obst left a