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Wasser, Frederick. Wyatt, Justin. High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood. If someone looked good to me, I'd have him tested. If a person looked good on film, if he photographed well, we could do the rest.
Robinson were idealized. Studio PR execs kept an eye out for scandals and covered them up with the cooperation of law enforcement and local press. Many things these employees created were ersatz, but they were ersatz to last.
Sets, props and costumes were often used for multiple movies as were studio backlots which commonly included urban, Old West and residential street fronts. Of course, factory efficiency is pointless without consistent high demand for products. For the dream factories, demand came from extensive distribution chains that included Europe, which by the late s accounted almost 40 percent of revenue.
The Big Five evolved the practice to where theaters were asked to purchase packages of 20 or more films not yet produced based on listings of film titles, their stars and brief plot descriptions. Studio star systems were consequently critical because star power figured prominently in selling packages.
Of course, big stars do not guarantee good cinema. The best films in an unseen package might be the cartoons. Occasionally B films proved more popular than the feature films. So fond was George Lucas of s B action films that he produced the homage Indiana Jones franchise.
Still, B movies had no marquee value for theater owners. Nor did studios such as Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, whose films were distributed by The Big Five, like their A-budget films buried in blocks of cheese. Enter the fan campaign, and ta-da! Netflix recently told the Hollywood Reporter that 25 million accounts in the U. Is that a lot? Enough to persuade Netflix to commit to a episode fourth season.
Maybe on Netflix it can. Global recorded music revenue grew 7. Popular apps including TikTok and Snap, as well as fitness company Peloton, are also proving the value of licensed music, even for consumers who came of age in, or were born after, the Napster era.
Could that be changing? The Atlantic. The company recently bought assets including Outkick and TMZ. I remember when reserving tickets online was considered a newfangled innovation Faughnder writes about Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Co. Anousha Sakoui is an entertainment industry writer for the Los Angeles Times, covering Hollywood and labor issues. Company Town. Film crew workers remain divided over new contract as voting begins. Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a gaffer.
Spotify to buy Ohio audiobooks firm, expanding audio ambitions. If you cut open a berry—more technically known as a pome—the inside looks a lot like the core of an apple, and birds love them. Last year a large flock of Cedar Waxwings, Bombycilla cedrorum, descended on our mini Toyon grove. One of our gardeners noted that it only took these birds a matter of two weeks to clear out every last morsel. To Angelenos of the early s, Toyon was better known as California Holly.
The shrub closely resembles another winter evergreen, European Holly, Ilex aquifolium. Both have green leathery leaves with spiky edges and bright red berries that fruit in winter, and consequently were used to adorn people's homes as yuletide decorations.
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