The $11 Billion Year - From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing

Chronicling the making and marketing of movies released in 2012, from low-budget indies to studio blockbusters, a reporter who has written about Hollywood for more than twenty-five years covers every aspect of the billion-dollar global motion picture industry.

About the author

Anne Thompson, who launched Indiewire's daily film blog Thompson On Hollywood for Variety in 2007, has covered the Hollywood beat for more than twenty-five years, writing for monthly, weekly, bi-weekly, and daily publications. For seven years she wrote the Risky Business column for the LA Weekly (and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate), followed by Filmmaker magazine and The Hollywood Reporter, where she also founded their first blog, Riskybiz, in 2005. Before that, she was West Coast Editor for Premiere, Empire, and Film Comment, and Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly. She has also reported on film for the magazines Vanity Fair, More, Wired, Sight and Sound, Filmmaker, and New York, as well as for the newspapers the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the London Observer, and the Washington Post. Thompson currently hosts Sneak Previews at UCLA Extension, moderates and participates on industry panels, and does media interviews, especially at Oscar time, for such networks as MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN. Born and raised in Manhattan, she now lives in Los Angeles. The $11 Billion Year is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Thompson, Thompson Anne
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2014
• EAN: 9780062218018
• ISBN: 978-0-06-221801-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Economic history, Transport industries, History of specific companies / corporate history, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Hospitality and service industries, PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / History & Criticism, FILM STUDIES: BUSINESS, ECONOMICS: HISTORY, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Corporate & Business History, ECONOMICS: CONSUMER, PERFORMING ARTS: Business Aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Industries / Entertainment, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Industries / Transportation, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Industries / Service, Economics / History, Economics / Consumer, Film Studies / Business