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  • The Big Picture

  • The Fight for the Future of Movies
  • By: Ben Fritz
  • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
  • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (52 ratings)

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The Big Picture

By: Ben Fritz
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
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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.

©2018 Ben Fritz (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Great book about the entertainment industry

Great book about the entertainment industry great from narrator and author, please do a sequel

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The best summary of the modern state of Hollywood

A really interesting and comprehensive look at the state of modern Hollywood - if you have any interest in how and why the movies we see are made, this is for you

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Interesting topic marred by annoying narration

The narrator has seemingly never had to read words in a foreign language or heard anyone pronounce Warner Brothers. The mispronunciation of Warner Brothers really started to gate the further I got into the book

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A valuable perspective on modern Hollywood

A very good and informative look at modern Hollywood and the change technology has forced upon an antiquated industry.

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Amy pascal biography

This is seriously just a biography of Amy pascal and Sony pictures. Misleading title. Very narrow approach, not a big picture at all.

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I Don’t Like Change

Nutshell: Ben Fritz has a very specific notion of what Films are and now that reality is drifting away from that, he is scared.

It is clear Fritz has been seduced by the Hollywood Producers he studied for writing this book (Amy Pascal in particular). He conveys most things Hollywood from their point of view, which is as interesting as it is irritating.

It is clear Fritz has very little respect for Writers, TV, Comic Book Movies, and a variety of other popular genres and feels like there is a massive crisis because things he doesn’t like are popular.

He talks at length in the final summation of the great power of Cinematic visuals in a conventional Cinema, but is blissfully unaware most Cinemas no longer have a projectionist and the only fundamental difference between watching a movie at home or in a Cinema is the Price and the size of the screen. He thinks it’s important to sit a room full of people you don’t talk to and will never talk to, because of Cinema’s conventions. He ignores the fact that social watching occurs on Social Media, but then he doesn’t like social media very much either.

In short, there are some very interesting ideas here, but it’s also drowned out by the Writer’s constant fear of change.

The reader reads the entire Novel like it’s a children’s book. So if you enjoy being patronised for hours on end, this will be right up your street.

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