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Sleepless In Hollywood
Lynda Obst
Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business
Simon & Schuster
June 2013
On Sale: June 11, 2013
304 pages ISBN: 1476727740 EAN: 9781476727745 Kindle: B00A6CUF2U Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The veteran producer and author of the bestseller
Hello, He Lied takes a witty and critical look at the
new Hollywood. Over the past decade, producer Lynda
Obst gradually realized she was working in a Hollywood that
was undergoing a drastic transformation. The industry where
everything had once been familiar to her was suddenly
disturbingly strange. Combining her own
industry experience and interviews with the brightest minds
in the business, Obst explains what has stalled the vast
moviemaking machine. The calamitous DVD collapse helped
usher in what she calls the New Abnormal (because Hollywood
was never normal to begin with), where studios are now
heavily dependent on foreign markets for profit, a situation
which directly impacts the kind of entertainment we get to
see. Can comedy survive if they don’t get our jokes in Seoul
or allow them in China? Why are studios making fewer movies
than ever—and why are they bigger, more expensive and nearly
always sequels or recycled ideas? Obst writes
with affection, regret, humor and hope, and her
behind-the-scenes vantage point allows her to explore what
has changed in Hollywood like no one else has. This candid,
insightful account explains what has happened to the movie
business and explores whether it’ll ever return to making
the movies we love—the classics that make us laugh or cry,
or that we just can’t stop talking about.
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