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THE Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Trade; Reprint edition (10 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812973828
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812973822
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars An authoritative, mesmerising read, 24 April 2007
If you want to understand how Hollywood became what it is today then this book ticks all the boxes: it tracks Hollywood from its beginnings in the early-20th century and the early part of the book focusses on the development of the big six media corporations in the world and who runs them and why TV and DVD are now far more important to the bottom line than straight theatrical release.

Some of the real examples of Hollywood's incredible loss-making ability are startling: one studio's 'greatest success' actually lost over US$60m, and you learn that the drivers of money and power are not the strong but actually it all boils down to children: what they want and don't want fuels the whole industry.

Fascinating stuff and very easy to read...five stars, no questions asked.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good in parts - but worth the money for the Sexopoly analysis, 15 April 2009
By S. N. C. Lovell "Nicholas Lovell" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood (Hardcover)
The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood is billed as the story of "the real magic behind movie making: how the studios make their money".

It mostly succeeds, but if fails by being in thrall to the movies themselves, rather than the studios and conglomerates that make them.

There are three core parts to the book:

- A fascinating insight into the power-structures, history and objectives of the six companies that dominate the movie business (described by Epstein as the Sexopoly) which demonstrates the myriad ways in which the movie studios ensure that they maximise their revenues at the expense of other partners.

- A description of the movie-making process from idea through greenlighting to pre-production, principal photography and post-production that covers the same ground as (but without the wit of) William Goldman's seminal Adventures in the Screen Trade.

- A concluding section that analyses the non-financial drivers of the movie industry (politics, power, self-esteem) while simultaneously predicting the rapid decrease in importance of movies to the business of Hollywood.

I recommend this book highly for the Sexopoly, a biting analysis of the business of Disney, Paramount (Viacom), Warner Bros. (Time Warner), Fox (News Corporation), Sony and Universal (NBC Universal).

If you are more interested in the making of movies, Adventures in the Screen Trade is better and the third section, while interesting, lacks the precision and analysis of Epstein's unique insight into the financial makeup of the sexopoly.

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