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"I'm dazzled by the surreality of [Hollywood] –
it's lack of subtlety, its boldness and venality."
— producer Lynda Obst

"Avarice, corruption, jealousy, envy and general moral bankruptcy
... are the hallmarks of the Hollywood entertainment industry."
— producer/writer Steven Bochco

"There are six stages that go into the process of filmmaking: inspiration, entanglement, panic,
search for the guilty ones, punishment of the innocents, and rewards for the non-participants."
— director Jeremy Paul Kagan

"Hollywood is a jungle where everybody is either predator or prey."
— Wm. Bradford Huie [1910-86]

"The trouble with the motion-picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry;
and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art.
It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise."
— Garson Kanin [1912-99]

Industry  Directories

	"Writers Guide To Hollywood Producers" Fade In Books spiral-bound [10th edition 8/2008] out of print/sold out
	"Annual Agency Guide" Fade In Books spiral-bound [10th edition 8/2008] out of print/sold out
	"Hollywood Creative Directory" H.C.D. 11x8¾ pb [64th edition 10/2008] for $40.92   H.C.D. 10½x8½ pb [60th edition 5/2007] out of print/used
	"Hollywood Representation Directory" H.C.D. pb [36th edition 11/2008] for $40.92   H.C.D. 10¾x8½ pb [35th edition 4/2008] for $40.92 H.C.D. 9½x7½ pb [33rd edition 5/2007] out of print/used
	"Hollywood Distribution Directory" H.C.D. 10¾x8½ pb [19th edition 9/2008] for $40.92   H.C.D. 10¾x8¼ pb [18th edition 9/2007] for $43.76
	"Hollywood Film Writers Directory" H.C.D./Lone Eagle 10¾x8½ pb [11th edition 8/2003] for $54.75 H.C.D./Lone Eagle 10¾x8½ pb [10th edition 9/2002] out of print/used
	"Hollywood Music Industry Directory" H.C.D. 10¾x8¼ pb [5th edition 3/2008] for $40.92 H.C.D. pb [4th edition 1/2007] for $33.46 also see Magic Lantern's Film Music Page

New Mexico Film Industry Page

Books  About  The  Movie  Industry

	"Boffo!: How I Learned To Love The Blockbuster & Fear The Bomb" [2006] by Peter Bart Miramax Books 9x6 pb [6/2007] for $13.73 Miramax Books 9½x6¾ hardcover [6/2006] for $26.95 "Boffo!: Tinseltown's Bombs & Blockbusters" documentary [H.B.O. June 2006] H.B.O. Home Video widescreen color DVD [11/2006] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • H.B.O. film site
	"So You Want To Be A Producer?: Finding Your Story, Obtaining The Rights, Developing The Script, Hiring Your Cast & Crew, and Distributing Your Movie" [2005] by Lawrence Turman Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [9/2005] for $11.62
	"The Mailroom: Hollywood History From The Bottom Up" [2003] by David Rensin Ballantine pb [2/2004] for $10.47 Ballantine 9.4x6½ hardcover [2/2003] for $17.47 New Millennium UNABR audio [2/2003] for $27.97 New Millennium UNABR audio CD [3/2003] for $41.97
	"Women Who Run the Show: How A Brilliant & Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood, 1973-2000" [2002] by Mollie Gregory St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2002] for $18.87
	"The Bad and The Beautiful: Hollywood In The Fifties" [2002] by Sam Kashner & Jennifer MacNair W.W.Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2002] for $18.87
	"Class Struggle In Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds & Trade Unionists" [2001] by Gerald Horne Univ of Texas Press 9x6 pb [2/2001] for $18.36
	"Is That A Gun In Your Pocket?: Women's Experience of Power In Hollywood" [2000] by Rachel Abramowitz Random House 8x5¼ pb [4/2002] for $11.17 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2000] for $18.87
	"Tender Comrades: A Backstory of The Hollywood Blacklist" [1999] by Patrick McGilligan & Paul Buhle Griffin Trade 8¾x5¾ pb [2/99] for $15.96 Magic Lantern's Hollywood Blacklist Pages
	"Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths From The Hollywood Trenches" [1996] by Lynda Obst Broadway Books 8¼x5¾ pb [10/97] for $10.47 Little, Brown 9½x6.4 hardcover [9/96] out of print/used TimeWarner audio [1/97] out of stock/used A.M.C. tv documentary [Jan 2002] video not available; full credits from IMDb
	"A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How To Produce Movies In Hollywood" [1993] by Art Linson Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/93] for $10.80 Grove Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/93] out of print/used

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Reference  &  Technical  Page
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Arts & Crafts: Film Technology • Editing • Sound • Grips & Electrical

Industry  Humor

Why didn't the Assistant Director have any fun at the wh*rehouse? Hear about the Polish actress? Why don't producers like to read scripts? Why does the Teamsters logo have a horse on it? How do you know an agent is lying? Why aren't there any obituaries in 'the trades' for grips? How do you know when it's almost lunchtime on a movie set?

Films  About  The  Movie  Industry

movies about the Television Industry

"Movies About The Movies: Hollywood Reflected" [1997] by Christopher Ames Univ Press of KY 9x6 pb [3/98] for $19.95 Univ Press of KY 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/97] for $32.50 covers "What Price Hollywood?" [1932], "A Star Is Born" [1937], "Stand-In" [1937], "Boy Meets Girl" [1938], "Sullivan's Travels" [1941], "In A Lonely Place" [1950], "Sunset Boulevard" [1950], "The Bad & The Beautiful" [1952], "Singin' In The Rain" [1952], "The Star" [1952], "A Star Is Born" [1954], "Pennies From Heaven" [1981], "Purple Rose of Cairo" [1985], "The Player" [1992], "Last Action Hero" [1993] and others

"A Star Is Born" [1937]

"A Star Is Born" remake [1954]

"The  Bad  and  The  Beautiful"
[M.G.M./Loew's Dec 1952]

A studio head calls together a director, a screenwriter, and a leading actress who explain in flashback why they refuse to work with a cut-throat Hollywood producer. Directed by Vincente Minnelli; starring Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll, Vanessa Brown, Francis X. Bushman & Barbara Billingsley; won Oscars for Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (GG), Best B&W Cinematography {Br5uce Surtees}, Best Set Decoration, nomination for Best Actor (KD); nominated for BAFTA, DGA & WGA awards; listed on National Film Registry (2002) Turner b&w DVD [2/2002] for $17.99 M.G.M. b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used Rhino/W.E.A. soundtrack CD [6/96] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

"The  Big  Picture"
[Columbia Sept 1989]

A high-minded film student wins a national prize that includes access to bigwigs in Hollywood; after a series of compromises, his film project has lost the original vision, and the filmmaker has lost his soul. Co-written & directed by Christopher Guest; starring Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean, Kim Miyori, Teri Hatcher, Dan Schneider, Jason Gould, Fran Drescher, Suzy Cote, Eddie Albert & June Lockhart Sony widescreen color DVD [10/2002] out of prodn/used Sony color VHS [4/97] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb 27"x39" poster available at AllPosters.com

"Boy  Meets  Girl"  [Warner Bros. Aug 1938]

Two screenwriters devise a plot for the studio's cowboy star that involves a baby. The baby becomes a star, and the cowboy and his agent run off with the mother and the kid. Directed by Lloyd Bacon; script by Bella & Samuel Spewack from their Broadway play; starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran, Bruce Lester & Penny Singleton M.G.M. b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb "Studio One" telecast June 1949: video/kinescope not availaible • credits from IMDb playscript of "Boy Meets Girl" [1935] and "Spring Song" [1934] Dramatist's Play Service 7½x5¼ pb [10/46] for $7.50 credits of 1935 Broadway play

"Le Mιpris" { 'Contempt' }
[France Dec 1963, USA Oct 1964]

Godard's view of commercial Hollywood filmmaking and human relationships is mischievous, rebellious, subversive & contemptuous. A respected Italian screenwriter of an innovative production of "Homer's Odyssey" struggles to please the American producer, the German director (real-life director Fritz Lang - at age 72), and the writer's unhappy sexpot French wife. Adapted & directed by Jean-Luc Godard, from the 1954 novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia; cinematography in Franscope by Raoul Coutard; starring Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Brigitte Bardot, Giorgia Moll & Fritz Lang, with cameos by Godard & Coutard Criterion widescreen color DVD [12/2002] 2 disks for $29.99 The DVD set includes "The Dinosaur and The Baby" TV documentary [61 minutes 1967], a conversation between Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang; two on-set interviews with Godard: "Bardot et Godard" [8 minutes 1964], and "Paparazzi" [22 minutes b&w 1964]; plus other extras Embassy/Nelson Ent. color VHS [3/91] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • Rialto movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia

"Contempt" [1954] by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson New York Review of Books 7¾x4¾ pb [7/2004] for $10.17 New York Review of Books 8x5 pb [9/99] out of print/used

Truffaut's  "Day  For  Night"

"Going Hollywood" [Cosmopolitan/M.G.M. Dec 1933]
Directed by Raoul Walsh; script by Donald Ogden Stewart; starring Marion Davies,
Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay & Stuart Erwin; full credits from IMDb

"Hollywood"  [Paramount Aug 1923 silent]

A girl wanting to be a star in the movies goes to Hollywood, accompanied by her grandfather. Grandpa becomes a star, and when the rest of the family shows up to help, they all also become stars. Directed by James Cruze; starring Hope Drown, Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette, Harris Gordon, Bess Flowers, Eleanor Lawson, King Zany, with cameos by dozens of silent film stars as themselves video/DVD not available (prints/negatives presumed lost) • full credits from IMDb

"Hollywood  Ending"  [DreamWorks May 2002]
Written & directed by and starring Woody Allen; co-starring Tιa Leoni, George
Hamilton, Treat Williams, Debra Messing & Mark Rydell; full credits from IMDb

DreamWorks official moviesite {requires Flash}

"Inside Daisy Clover" []
based on the 1963 novel by Gavin Lambert

"It's A Great Feeling" [Warner Bros. Aug 1949]
A waitress at the Warner Bros. studio commissary gets her big break. Directed by David Butler; starring Dennis Morgan, Doris Day,
Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon & Claire Carleton, with cameos by dozens of stars of the time; full credits from IMDb

"The  Player" [Avenue/Spelling April 1992]

A screenwriter is blackmailing a movie studio executive... Directed by Robert Altman [1925-2006]; novel & script by Michael Tolkin; starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Dean Stockwell, Sydney Pollack & Lyle Lovett, plus many cameos; 3 Oscar noms, won 2 BAFTA, won 2 at Cannes, won WGA Best Script/Adaptation New Line Special Edition widescreen color DVD [7/97] for $14.49 New Line color VHS [6/2002] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99

"The Player" [1988 novel] by Michael Tolkin Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/97] for $9.60 Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover [6/88] out of print/used Random House ABR audio [5/93] out of stock/used "The Return of The Player" [2006 sequel] by Michael Tolkin Grove Press 8x5¼ pb [7/2007] for $10.40   Grove Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2006] for $4.80 [sic]

"The Purple Rose of Cairo"
Directed by Woody Allen; full credits from IMDb

"Silent  Movie" [1976]

Co-written & directed by and starring Mel Brooks, co-starring Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar, Harold Gould, Ron Carey & Bernadette Peters, with cameos by Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, Marcel Marceau & Paul Newman full credits from IMDb

"Singin' In The Rain"
full credits from IMDb

"Stand-In" [1937]
full credits from IMDb

"The Star" [1952]
full credits from IMDb

"The  Stunt  Man" [1980]
full credits from IMDb

"Sullivan's  Travels"  [Paramount Dec 1941]

A successful director of lightweight popular films decides that he wants to make a serious movie about people affected by the Great Depression. When his producers counter that he knows notrhing about such lives, the director goes on the road as a hobo. Co-produced, written & directed by Preston Sturges [1898-1959]; starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Byron Foulger, Margaret Hayes, Robert Greig, Roscoe Ates & Eric Blore; listed on National Film Registry (1990) Criterion b&w DVD [8/2001] for $35.99 Universal b&w VHS [3/92] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb

"Tales  From  The  Hollywood  Hills"
TV mini-series [P.B.S./Channel 4 1987-88]

"Natica Jackson" [Nov 1987]
Directed by Paul Bogart; teleplay by Andy Wolk, based on a story by John O'Hara; starring Michelle
Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, George Murdock & Brian Kerwin; won W.G.A. Award • full credits at IMDb

"Pat Hobby Teamed With Genius" [1987]
Written & directed by Rob Thompson, based on stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]; starring
Christopher Lloyd, Colin Firth, Joseph Campanella & Kevin Bash • full credits at IMDb

"A Table at Ciro's" [1987]
Directed by Leon Ichaso; co-written by Budd Schulberg & Stanley H. Silverman; starring Darren McGavin, Lois
Chiles, Kenneth McMillan, Stella Stevens, Steven Bauer, Sherilyn Fenn & Ann Magnuson • full credits at IMDb

"The Old Reliable" [1988]
Directed by Michael Blakemore; adapted by Mark Eden from a novel by P.G. Wodehouse;
starring Rosemary Harris, Lori Loughlin, Joseph Maher & Lynn Redgrave • full credits at IMDb

"The Closed Set" [Nov 1988]
Directed by Mollie Miller; teleplay by Ellen M. Violett, based on a 1959 Gavin Lambert short story;
starring Rita Moreno, D.W. Moffett, Harold Gould & Penelope Ann Miller • full credits at IMDb

"Golden Land" [1988]
teleplay by William Hanley, based on the 1935 short story by William Faulkner [1897-1962] • full credits at IMDb

"This  Film  Is  Not  Yet  Rated"
[Independent Film Channel Sept 2006]

A breakthrough exposι about the M.P.A.A. movie ratings board and its secret practices. Produced by Eddie Schmidt; co-written & directed by Kirby Dick I.F.C. color DVD [1/2007] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb official movie site

"Tropic  Thunder" [DreamWorks Aug 2008]

"A very subtle satire [of Hollywood] wrapped in a very broad comedy." – Devin O'Leary, Weekly Alibi film critic The hapless director of an over-budget jungle war epic decides to submit his actors to boot camp in Southeast Asia, which morphs into real combat with real rebels and real ammo. Co-produced, co-written, directed by & starring Ben Stiller; co-written by Justin Theroux & Etan Cohen; co-starring Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson, Jay Baruchel, Steve Coogan, Danny R. McBride, Nick Nolte & Tom Cruise DreamWorks Video widescreen color DVD [11/2008] for $14.49 DreamWorks widescreen color Unrated Director's Cut DVD [11/2008] 2 disks for $24.49 full credits from IMDb • official movie site {requires Flash}

"What  Just  Happened"
[2929 & Magnolia Pictures Oct 2008]

A middle-aged Hollywood producer is in over his head trying to balance two ex-wives, the iron-gloved studio chief, the drug-addled director of his new film, his teenage daughter, Bruce Willis (sporting a beard), and assorted agents & screen writers – under a two-week deadline to deliver a finished print of the movie to the Cannes Festival in France. Directed by Barry Levinson; co-produced & written by Art Linson, based on his 2002 book; co-produced by & starring Robert De Niro; also starring Catherine Keener, Robin Wright Penn, Sean Penn, Lily Rabe, Kristen Stewart, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Bruce Willis & Michael Wincott Magnolia widescreen color DVD [2/2009] for $17.49   full credits from IMDb • official movie site

"What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From The Front Line" [2002] by Art Linson "...you may have missed [this book] when it came out last year. Now it's in paperback. Don't make the same mistake twice." — Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review Grove Press 8x5½ movie tie-in pb [10/2008] for $11.20 Bloomsbury USA 8x5 pb [5/2003] out of print/used Bloomsbury USA 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2002] out of print/used

"What Price Hollywood?" [R.K.O. Pathι June 1932]
full credits from IMDb

"Without Reservations"  [R.K.O. 1946]
The female author of a novel in a similar tone as Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" meets a tough-guy actor on a train
bound for Hollywood where her novel is to be made into a movie; she actively pursues him for the lead role,
though he's read the novel and openly mocks it as ridiculous nonsense.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy; starring John Wayne & Claudette Colbert; full credits at IMDb

Studios  &  Locations

Movie  Studios  Pages
Disney & A.B.C. • M.G.M.-United Artists • News Corp.-Fox
Sony-Columbia-TriStar • Universal • Viacom-Paramount • Warner Bros.
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Mini-Major Studios • Historic Studios • Foreign Studios

Film  &  TV  Studio  Facilities
Gammons Gulch Old West Movie Set & Museum in SE Arizona
Old Tucson Studios [est. 1939] near Tucson, AZ
Old Tucson Studios Mescal Ranch facility near Benson, AZ
The Culver Studios [est. 1918] in Culver City, CA
Pioneertown movie ranch [est. 1946] in California
Santa Clarita [CA] Studios
Toronto [Canada] Film Studios
Plymouth Rock Studios [to open in 2010] near historic Plymouth, MA
Lionsgate Movie Studio in Rio Rancho, NM { deal expired 11/2008 }
Metropolis Studios [est. 1982] digital television facility in New York City
Alamo Village outdoor movie set near Brackettville, TX
Frontier Movie Town in Kanab, UT

Locations  Information

U.S.A. Movies website
Sedona [AZ] Film Office
Tucson [AZ] Film Office
Film Ventura County [CA] website
City of Savannah [GA] Film Office
New Mexico Film Industry Page
Oklahoma Territory Film Council

New South Wales Film & Television Office in Sydney, Australia
government film & media agency of London, U.K.

	"The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations: The Ultimate Travel Guide To Film Sites Around The World" [2001] by Tony Reeves Chicago Review Press pb [9/2001] for $13.57 official booksite
	"On Location: Cities of The World In Film" [2006] by Claudia Hellmann & Claudine Weber-Hof Bucher 10½x8¾ hardcover [11/2006] for $29.70 "On Location 2: Famous Landscapes In Film" [2007] by Claudia Hellmann & Claudine Weber-Hof Bucher 10½x8¾ hardcover [11/2007] for $34.20

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