You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743400542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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His book is a great education, even if you're avoiding the 'Hollywood system' Medavoy is critical of himself in this book, blaming his ego (at least once in his career) for a lack of clear judgement. His book is a great education, even if you're avoiding the 'Hollywood system'. Medavoy has been a guest speaker to UCLA Extension students in the past, donating his personal time to sha. "Great history of the movies from the 70s till now" according to Rick Spell. If you like movies over the past Great history of the movies from the 70s till now If you like movies over the past 30 years, you'll love this book. It's well written by an intelligent man who saw the industry from a perspective few do, as studio head. The man that writes the checks. Medavoy is pretty blunt about how movies get made and how he managed to make bad movies as well as good.T. 0 years, you'll love this book. It's well written by an intelligent man who saw the industry from a perspective few do, as studio head. The man that writes the checks. Medavoy is pretty blunt about how movies get made and how he managed to make bad movies as well as good.T. A solid memoirthat lacks something Robert Wellen Medavoy is a character I've read about before, most notably in Hit and Run, one of the most fascinating Hollywood books ever written. He has been behind many fantastic movies and worked with some terrific characters. However, this book misses it's mark--it is really worth 3.5 stars but I rounded down. Ther
15)Forecast: Anyone interested in the marketing of motion pictures will seek this book out.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Rising as a top agent, he packaged such films as The Getaway and Jaws, and his client list included Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and Jane Fonda. "I had two requirements for my clients," he writes, "that they be talented and that they be passionate about their work." Medavoy moved into production by joining United Artists in 1974, and his insider anecdotes of those productions (Rocky, Apocalypse Now, Coming Home and New York, New York) are revelatory. (Feb. In 1990 he became chairman of Tri-Star, a stint that was followed by more successes in the mid-1990s with Phoenix Pictures. Other chapters detail his efforts to garner Hollywood support during Gary Hart's and Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns. Cofounding Orion in 1978, he worked with leading talents like Woody Al
Born in Shanghai and raised in Chile, Medavoy has taken the hard road to the highest echelons of Hollywood power, rising from the mailroom, never losing sight of his convictions, and staying true to the art of making movies. Recalling his many successes (and claiming just as many failures), Medavoy takes the reader into the eye of Hollywood's biggest storms: the madness on the set of Apocalypse Now; the political fallout of Mississippi Burning and The People vs. Larry Flynt; and the Woody Allen scandal that rocked Husbands and Wives, plus close encounters with colleagues like Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman, and Steven Spielberg. Name any one of the most highly regarded films of the last four decades and chances are better than good that it's got producer Mike Medavoy's prints somewhere on it: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Amadeus; The Silence of the Lambs; Apocalypse Now; Philadelphia; Rocky, the list is endless. It's a look at the last forty years in a business that is everybody's second business.. YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR NEXT ONE explores in detail what Medavoy calls a terrifying business for the faint of heart.' He traces how the making and marketing of movies has changed now that the Hollywood stud