A backstage glimpse of the realities of the new Hollywood focuses on the film releases and strategies of the summer of 1998, showing why "Godzilla" was fated to fail and how Spielberg triumphed

The Gross

Humor & Entertainment

Bart, Peter

Movies

St Martins Pr

The Gross is an all-access pass to the movers, shakers, and fakers who make Hollywood run. Tinseltown is an edgy place where risk-taking is a way of life—and the risks now run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Summertime, when the studios unfurl their most expensive and effects-laden "tent-pole pictures," has become the only season in which Hollywood makes money, and so, as this book illustrates, the summer season provides an ideal microcosm for scrutinizing the mega-budget-driven revolution that has forever changed the movie business. Bart interviews all the key players, including studio executives, producers, directors, and stars, to show how creativity and commerce hang in a dangerous balance in the new Hollwood.

The Gross: The Hits, The Flops: The Summer That Ate Hollywood

St. Martin's: Griffin

An insider's view of the decline and collapse of MGM/UA reveals how the failure of several major film projects mired the studio's 1983 comeback and eventually broke the company

Fade Out : The Calamitous Final Days of MGM

Anchor

Drawn from three decades of observation and experience, two of Hollywood's major players present a revelatory and raucous look at the art and business of modern filmmaking, discussing the inevitable "shoot out," which entails standoffs, confrontations, scandals, and dilemmas as writers, directors, producers, stars, and agents push forward their own agendas. 35,000 first printing.

Shoot Out: Surviving the Fame and (Mis) Fortune of Hollywood

Business & Money

Guber, Peter

Industries

Putnam Adult

Hollywood calls it the "shoot out"... the point during the making of a movie when star-fits and power struggles turn into standoffs, walk-outs, and clashing egos. How a film ever gets made is a wonder. Leave it to two industry icons to unreel the true story...

Shoot Out: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood

TarcherPerigee

Destinies

Denne B. Petitclerc

BANTAM BOOKS

For almost a century Variety has been the single most authoritative and influential publication devoted to the entertainment industry. Here Variety's editors go into the past and cover the great events of show business history with characteristic style and with more than 100 revealing photos.

Variety History of Show Business

Hamlyn

An insider's view of the decline and collapse of MGM/UA reveals how the failure of several major film projects mired the studio's 1983 comeback and eventually broke the company

Fade Out: The Calamitous Final Days of MGM

William Morrow & Co.

This is a behind-the-scenes view of moviemaking during one season in 1998. When movies cost hundreds of millions to make and market, the magnitude of the wagers is astonishing. Says the author, "The business of entertainment is itself marvelously entertaining".

History

Blackstone Pub

In Hollywood, reality always teeters on the verge of ction. Outlandish paydays encounter outsize egos; fading beauties ght desperately to retain an illusion of youth; moguls plot and feud while bitter enemies air-kiss over lunch at the Ivy. The stakes are higher than anywhere else, and the dreams are crazier. No one else can capture the insanity like Peter Bart, the editor-in-chief of the showbiz bible, Variety. Bart has presided over the follies and iniquities of the business for many years, observing the ups and downs of the players with detached, knowing amusement. As Cindy Adams recently proclaimed in the New York Post, 'If Peter doesn't know it, it never happened.' Dangerous Company resonates as though it came from some of Hollywood's best and juiciest behind-the-scenes gossip. A literary agent covers up a surreal screenwriting scandal in order to close on a commission. A studio lawyer tries to reconcile a director-producer rift using an unspeakable secret about their children as leverage. And a stranger brokers a suspicious deal that lands him facedown in his own pool. Fascinating and pitch-perfect, full of masterfully crafted twists, Dangerous Company reads like Nathanael West crossed with Roald Dahl. And just to keep us on our toes, Bart throws in a few clues that may lead us to believe that what we're reading is, well, maybe not ction after all.

Dangerous Company

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Miramax

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The Gross

The Gross: The Hits, The Flops: The Summer That Ate Hollywood

Fade Out : The Calamitous Final Days of MGM

Shoot Out: Surviving the Fame and (Mis) Fortune of Hollywood

Shoot Out: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood

Destinies

Variety History of Show Business

Fade Out: The Calamitous Final Days of MGM

The Gross

Dangerous Company