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Call No: 210.31(73) FRI
Author: Fritz, Ben
Source: US
Place: Boston
Publisher: Eamon Dolan Book/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: xxv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject: SONY CORPORATION; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; AMAZON; NETFLIX; IMAX; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; WARNER BROS.; FRANCHISES; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015)
Summary: "The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film. In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China. Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He dives deeply into the fruits of the Sony hack to show how the previous model, long a creative and commercial success, lost its way. And he looks ahead through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, IMAX, and others to discover how they have reinvented the business. He shows us, for instance, how Marvel replaced stars with "universes," and how Disney remade itself in Apple's image and reaped enormous profits. But despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film. The Big Picture shows the first glimmers of this new golden age through the eyes of the creative mavericks who are defining what our movies will look like in the new era." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
ISBN: 9780544789760
Contents: A notes on sources ix -- Introduction: Groundhog Day-How franchises killed originality in Hollywood xii -- Part 1: How Hollywood got here -- The Odd Couple: Lynton and Pascal's glory days at Sony -- Reality Bites: How everything went wrong for the movie business -- Inception: The secret origin of the superhero movie -- Revenge of the Nerds: The rise of Marvel Studios -- Spiderman: Homecoming- why Sony gave up its most valuable asset -- Star Wars: The decline of the A-list -- A Star is Born: Netflix, the new home for movie stars -- Frozen: Why studios stopped making mid-budget dramas -- Trading places: How tv stole movies' spot atop Hollywood -- Part 2: Where Hollywood is headed -- The Terminator: Disney, the perfect studio for the franchise age -- The Producers: Creativity meets franchise managment -- The Shop Around the Corner: Amazon saves the indie film business -- Apt Pupil: China's shifting relationship with Hollywood -- Field of Dreams: Studio defectors and the future of nonfranchise films -- The Last Picture Show?

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL

PhysDes: Article
Subject: SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, Peter Medak, 1983); NEVER CRY WOLF (US, Carroll Ballard, 1983); BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL
Summary: Article, and photographs, of Ivan Genit's trip to Australia on behlf of Buena Vista International. Mentions Buena Vista films whcih have done well in Australia.

Author: Petty, Susannah
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL
Summary: Vice President, Alan Finney, outlines new direction for Buena Vista International, following its split form Roadshow Film Distributors.

Author: Murdoch, Blake
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; VILLAGE ROADSHOW
Summary: Buena Vista International (BVI) will no longer release its films in Australia and New Zealand through Village Roadshow.

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS(AT, J.J. Abrams, 2015)
Author: Mason, Max
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS(AT, J.J. Abrams, 2015)
Summary: Report on the hype of the upcoming STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and how the film has presold tickets worth over a millon dollars in Australia

Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Author: Zion, Lawrie
Subject: DVD, FILMS ON; WIDE-SCREEN; DISTRIBUTION. DVD; WARNER BROS.; BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; COLUMBIA TRISTAR; GARRA, MICHELE; PEARL HARBOR (US, Michael Bay, 2001)
Summary: Very in depth article on DVDs in Australia and how distributors release different types of DVD in Australia compared to the USA. The author questions whether there is any value in bonus discs. A debate on whether DVD should be sent to rental in a 'vanilla' version and then sold months later with extra discs.
Notes: accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007).
Quotations: Too many look at here.

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WALT DISNEY ANIMATION AUSTRALIA
Author: Chenoweth, Neil
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: WALT DISNEY ANIMATION AUSTRALIA; BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; TAXES. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Medium length front page article on Disney's corporate restructure that turned a $1 share trade into a $1.3 billion profit less than a month later.