What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line by Art Linson |
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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...
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Peter Bart, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Variety, played a key role in developing such films as The Godfather, Harold and Maude, True Grit, and Rosemary's Baby at Paramount Pictures. He has also been president of Lorimar Films and Senior VP for MGM/UA.
Peter Guber, founder and head of Mandalay Entertainment, has also held executive positions with Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment. He co-founded Casablanca Record and Film Works, formed Polygram Pictures, and was co-owner of Guber-Peters Entertainment Company. His credits as a producer or executive producer include such films as Taxi Driver, Batman, and Philadelphia.
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...
About the Author
Peter Bart, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Variety, played a key role in developing such films as The Godfather, Harold and Maude, True Grit, and Rosemary's Baby at Paramount Pictures. He has also been president of Lorimar Films and Senior VP for MGM/UA.
Peter Guber, founder and head of Mandalay Entertainment, has also held executive positions with Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment. He co-founded Casablanca Record and Film Works, formed Polygram Pictures, and was co-owner of Guber-Peters Entertainment Company. His credits as a producer or executive producer include such films as Taxi Driver, Batman, and Philadelphia.
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Warner Bros, New York, William Morris, Los Angeles, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Holy Grail, Heaven's Gate, Jack Nicholson, Jurassic Park, Blair Witch, Castle Rock, Joe Roth, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Twentieth Century Fox, Harrison Ford, United Artists, Bruce Willis, Gone With the Wind, Rain Man, Saving Private Ryan, The Deer Hunter, The Patriot, Tom Cruise New!
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vision keeper, star casting, box office results, development hell, studio chief, movie god, dream merchants, filmmaking process, production chief Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Warner Bros, New York, William Morris, Los Angeles, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Holy Grail, Heaven's Gate, Jack Nicholson, Jurassic Park, Blair Witch, Castle Rock, Joe Roth, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Twentieth Century Fox, Harrison Ford, United Artists, Bruce Willis, Gone With the Wind, Rain Man, Saving Private Ryan, The Deer Hunter, The Patriot, Tom Cruise New!
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- Independence Day by Dean Devlin on page 69, page 212, and page 229
- Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg on page 81, page 82, and page 148
- Sleepy Hollow: A Novelization (Includes the Classic Short Story) by Peter Lerangis on page 203, page 236, and page 237
- The Great Gatsby (Textplus) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald on page 35, and page 67
- Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas on page 216, and page 239
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- The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood by Edward Jay Epstein on 5 pages
- Hollywood's New Radicalism: War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush (Cinema and Society) by Ben Dickenson on page 92, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hollywood's Road to Riches by David Waterman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer by Tom Shone in Back Matter
- Jack: The Great Seducer by Edward Douglas in Back Matter
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