Shoot Out: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood

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The stakes have never been higher, nor the obstacles greater. Anyone setting out to create film, music, TV or any other product of our popular culture faces not only the intense competition of the marketplace, but also an intimidating landscape dominated by multinational corporate leviathans. The process of navigating these minefields requires both passion and strategic know-how, not only creative fervor but also consummate cool. The purpose of this book is to analyze this landscape and set forth these strategies. The term "vision keeper" will crop up frequently in these pages. It is intended to describe those filmmakers, writers, musicians and random innovators whose imaginations galvanize those around them. What they see and think rallies others to their side and mobilizes the resources needed to bring that vision to reality. This book is not intended to present a stratagem on "how to" make movies, but "how come" movies get made and sometimes, frighteningly, why. ISBN:9780399528880