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George Lucas’s Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success (Paperback)

Hear George Lucas about the book on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122279258

See George Lucas about the book on The Daily Show on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/118885/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-george-lucas

BOOK INFORMATION VIA AMAZON:
By meticulously compiling the details of how movies have been made and financed since the medium′s inception, chronicling their performances at the box office, and offering expert commentary about the most important trends of the last one hundred years, the authors of this book have given readers a singularly unique perspective on the film-making industry and a superlative blueprint for future successful filmmaking ventures.

Taking us decade by decade, this book focuses on the revenues, costs, production and distribution of 300 of the most critically and financially successful movies of all time from the business′s origins through 2005. Its numerous essays examine trends in war, noir, bio-drama, biblical, epic, musical, western, disaster, crime, and action adventure films, as well as the advent the summer movie, auteur filmmaking, and the revolutionary advances that have been made in film technology over time. Furthermore, its full complement of charts, graphs and diagrams presenting such things as salary histories, awards and honors, the number of principal photography days required, advertising expenditures, domestic versus overseas profits and more, also include conversions of past movie-making dollars into current dollar values for easy and relevant comparisons.

The ideal resource for filmmakers of every kind, this book evidences that blockbusters have not only been made on relatively low budgets before, but that they have been made time and time again through varying economic climates.

George Lucas′s Blockbusting is indispensible reading for all who love and contribute to the film business.

• Paperback: 976 pages
• Publisher: It Books; Original edition (January 5, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061778893
• ISBN-13: 978-0061778896

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Jack Kirby’s family wants a piece of the pie in Marvel’s Hollywood success

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Los Angeles Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/09/jack-kirbys-family-wants-a-piece-of-the-pie-in-marvels-hollywood-success.html

MTV:
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/09/21/jack-kirbys-family-seeks-rights-to-marvel-characters/

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