"This chronicle of 2012 is a slice of what happened during a watershed year for the Hollywood movie industry. It's not the whole story, but it's a mosaic of what went on, and why, and of where things are heading."
What changed in one Hollywood year to produce a record-breaking box office after two years of decline? How can the Sundance Festival influence a film's fate, as it did for Beasts of the Southern Wild and Searching for Sugar Man, which both went all the way to the Oscars? Why did John Carter misfire and The Hunger Games succeed? How did maneuvers at festivals such as South by Southwest (SXSW), Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and New York and at conventions such as CinemaCon and Comic-Con benefit Amour, Django Unchained, Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables, The Life of Pi, The Avengers, Lincoln, and Argo? What jeopardized Zero Dark Thirty's launch? What role does gender bias still play in the industry? What are the ten things that changed the 2012 Oscar race?
When it comes to film, Anne Thompson, a seasoned reporter and critic, addresses these questions and more on her respected daily blog, Thompson on Hollywood. Each year, she observes the Hollywood machine at work: the indies at Sundance, the exhibitors' jockeying at CinemaCon, the international scene at Cannes, the summer tentpoles, the fall's "smart" films and festivals, the family-friendly and big films of the holiday season, and the glamour of the Oscars®. Inspired by William Goldman's classic book The Season, which examined the overall Broadway scene through a production-by-production analysis of one theatrical season, Thompson had long wanted to apply a similar lens to the movie business. When she chose 2012 as "the year" to track, she knew that box-office and DVD sales were declining, production costs were soaring, and the digital revolution was making big waves, but she had no idea that events would converge to bring radical structural movement, record-setting box-office revenues, and what she calls "sublime moviemaking."
Though impossible to mention all 670-plus films released in 2012, Thompson includes many in this book, while focusing on the nine Best Picture nominees and the personalities and powers behind them. Reflecting on the year, Thompson concludes, "The best movies get made because filmmakers, financiers, champions, and a great many gifted creative people stubbornly ignore the obstacles. The question going forward is how adaptive these people are, and how flexible is the industry itself?"

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

Thompson, Anne

History

Newmarket for It Books

Business & Money

Industries

Newmarket Pr

Purpose and Pattern is a response to the need expressed by a great many teachers and students for a description of the English language that explains how contemporary English is spoken and written and why it is spoken and written in this way. The text is descriptive rather than prescriptivein its approach; that is, it presents the English language as it is currently being used rather than as a set of ironclad rules.The text moves forward through the function of words as parts of our speech to their patterns in sentences, paragraphs, and essays. As the students' knowledge of the patterns of the English language develops, so do the choices available to them for the expression of their ideas and emotions.Those who study this text will discover the freedom that comes with an understanding of how language can serve their needs for expression.

Purpose and Pattern

Literature & Fiction

OUP Canada

In recent years, further education colleges have been asked to play an increasingly important role as providers of higher education programmes. Following the recommendation of the Dearing inquiry that colleges be accorded a special mission in sub-degree higher education, they have become key partners in the design and teaching of new-style Foundation degrees. In so doing, they are expected to meet employer demand for higher-level skills and broaden the social base of undergraduate education. Aimed at senior managers and higher education coordinators and tutors, this book is a guide to institutional strategy and good practice in the provision of higher education in further education. It addresses issues of organisation, planning and funding as well as staffing, teaching and quality assurance.

Managing Higher Education in Colleges (Essential FE Toolkit)

Education & Teaching

Parry, Gareth

Blackie, Penny

Higher & Continuing Education

Continuum

The Town Hall and the Tower: Beccles Charter Weekend Anthology 2017

THOMPSON, John

Taylor, Hugh

Richards, Melissa

Beccles, Belle

Bennett, Lorraine

Rainbird, Marion

Walker, Claire

Nunn, Karen

Short Stories & Anthologies

Woodlark Publishing

Pull on your PJs and curl up with Hooty to read a "tail" about friendship and beauty. This Seuss-like story in rhyme with bright illustrations for kids of all ages takes a humorous swipe at our airbrushed society. A lonely little hen named Emma embarks on a makeover, thinking it will guarantee friendship. She goes to a makeover artist named Raider who promises to give her whatever she pays for. At his Bird Body Shop he nips and tucks and snips and liposucks, transforming the hen into a birdie bod hotty. Now renamed Hooty McTooty, the chicken is voted Miss Poultry with banner and crown and tours the country with limo top down. But even though she's named cover bird of the Barnyard Gazette, she still has no friends, for Hooty McTooty had gotten a little too uppity snooty. She discovers that true beauty is more than feather deep; it's love that you give, it's joy that you reap. This delightful "tail" will make you giggle as you watch the transformation of the self-absorbed Hooty McTooty into a caring hen with friends who make her happy and happy again. "Colorfully delightful and carries the story line at an easy pace." Jewel Sample, Flying Hugs and Kisses.

Hooty McTooty Discovers True Beauty

Children's Books

Hermanson, Trish

Humor

Crouton Press

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Döblin, Alfred

Translator

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Picture Book of Autumn: Forests and Landscapes at Fall for Alzheimer’s and Seniors with Dementia- Colorful Photos with Large Print for Elderly People ... them Feel Calm (Nostalgia Coffee Table Books)

Self-Help

Memory Improvement

Independently published

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