The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits (Paperback)

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This year-by-year, behind-the-camera look at Hollywood's most successful movies, from 1939 to the present, offers intriguing details for the trivia buff, glamour and gossip for the star seeker, and all the facts for the film and media maven. From Gone with the Wind to Apollo 13, this entertaining guide presents the complete story behind the top five releases at the box office for each year. 328 photos.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns; Rev Sub edition (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823083241
• ISBN-13: 978-0823083244
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,139,176 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Awesome facts, not-so-great writing., May 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hollywood Book of Box Office Hits (Paperback)

I give Susan Sackett a lot of credit for doing the research for this book. She had to sit hrough a minimum of five movies for every year since 1939. Imagine! Some of the behind the scenes stuff is great, but her writing gets stale very fast, and you can't help but feel sorry for her having to come up with hundreds of different ways of saying the same things over and over. It's like a guy trying to write movie reviews for every Jackie Chan film out there (in one scene he kicked someone's butt, and then in the next scene he kicked someone else's butt ... zzzz). Still, there is no way you can deny Sackett's pension for details when it comes to such things as a film's box office take, Oscar nominations, and Oscar wins. It's worth the price for that alone. And, it's great to read about movies from long ago, some of which I never heard of (despite being a huge movies fan). The trivia you can cull from this book is priceless. Did you know that 1966's "Hawaii" was the lowest-grossing #1 movie ever, taking in only about $16 million? Things like that kept me interested enough to give Sackett a medium review of three stars.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Useful, July 6, 1999

By A Customer

If you are a young movie maniac person and want to see some of the old good movies than this is the book for you.