Entertainment Business

In the book, you'll learn everything you need to know about AFM. What badge to buy, what projects to bring, what printed materials you need, and all important etiquette tips for maximizing your success at the American film market. Producers need to understand distribution to find success, and this guide is a primer for the most reliable way American filmmakers can find traditional, non-DIY distribution.

Paradoxe entre l’abondance pour le consommateur et ses choix de plus en plus restreints ; mépris  de la propriété intellectuelle, donc incapacité  d’assurer un revenu décent aux créateurs ; modèle  d’affaires ne servant que les monopoles (70 % à  85 % des revenus publicitaires engrangés par  Google, YouTube, Facebook, Netflix… ) ; "indifférence" politico­juridique, car les gouvernements  ne semblent pas vouloir remédier à cette situation.

"Hired Musician" is a co-authored work about how to make a living as a musician. Mat Maxwell and Seth Costner have distilled their years of experience into a comprehensive guide that's as informative as it is engaging. Raw, real, and written for aspiring and established musicians alike, "Hired Musician" is your roadmap to getting and keeping gigs.

Hollywood produces its on-screen heroes to take crucial steps to achieve their goals, and often against all odds. These same principles can be applied to anything you are seeking to accomplish or improve in your own story or life. Recognizing and following these proven and tested, cinematic stages of the hero's transformation will help you exponentially upgrade your process, mindset, awareness, and ultimately fine-tune your purpose.

Why isn't there a professional level of competition for martial arts point fighting? A league with the standardization of rules, and points on a national or world level? A league with teams, franchise teams with owners, as in other major league sports? A national or world organization at which point martial artists can aspire to participate? Why hasn't someone started this? Why hasn't this happened? Well, that's exactly what Taking on the NFL with Pro Teams KumiteSport is all about.

Before John Lennon retreated peacefully into private life in 1975, he fought a major legal battle that went under the public radar. Just as his rock 'n' roll oldies album hit the market, Morris Levy, the Mob-connected owner of Roulette Records, released Roots, an unauthorized version of the same record. The clash led to a lawsuit and countersuit between Levy and Lennon. Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer catches the high drama of the courtroom skirmishes in this previously untold story. It also paints a detailed personal picture of John and his world in 1975-76.

Il 27 marzo 1995 Maurizio Gucci, erede della favolosa dinastia dell'alta moda, mentre sta per raggiungere il suo ufficio di Milano viene assassinato a colpi di pistola da uno sconosciuto. Nel 1998, l'ex moglie Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli - soprannominata la "Vedova nera" dalla stampa - viene condannata a 29 anni di prigione come mandante dell'omicidio.

There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera - and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen and La Boheme, and spanning to Brokeback Mountain and The Death of Klinghoffer in recent years.

Aspiring to bring your cinematic vision to life but daunted by the intricacies of film finance? You're not just a filmmaker—you're an entrepreneur. This guide offers you the tools and insights to unlock your project's potential, secure funding, and ensure its success.

The first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy, and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump.

Josh Kaufman's 'The Personal MBA' is your practical guide to mastering the art of business without the formal business school experience. This comprehensive book offers a clear and concise overview of essential business concepts, from marketing to finance, strategy to leadership.

Piraterna De svenska fildelarna som plundrade Hollywood. 1.2 miljoner svenskar säger att de laddar ner film och musik regelbundet. Branschen beräknar att 13 miljoner filmer laddades ner i Sverige förra året. Musikindustrin säger att försäljningen minskat med 40 procent sedan år 2000.

Ella is tired of crying. She's more powerful than ever before, but her personal life has the wow factor of vanilla ice cream. When Bear asks her to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at the ultra-hip Cauldron Festival, Ella accepts a job as one of the comedy performers but doesn't tell anyone why she is really there, not even her excited sidekick, Vanessa.

Today's most acclaimed film directors reveal intimate behind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their unique approaches to their art. In the companion to the Silver Plaque-winning Starz/Encore documentary series, this book offers interviews with 13 top filmmakers. Contains each director's filmography, complete listings of major awards, and cast credits for all films discussed.

Since 2001, the US Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: Hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call building.

An invaluable reference for anyone who is a working actor, or wants to be. Learn how to make it in the day-to-day business of acting and stay sane and focused while attempting to merge art and commerce. This audiobook covers everything the author wishes someone had told him about how casting decisions are made, what rejection really means, how to behave on a set, the two factors the business is built on, and much more. Markus Flanagan offers encouraging, highly useful pointers on such vital matters as: How do you combat getting typed?

Transporting listeners back to a dramatic time in the late 1800s, Dobrow spotlights a trio of men who reshaped our image of the West and earned national fame: John M. Burke of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Tody Hamilton of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Moses P. Handy of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Drawing on scores of original source materials, Dobrow brings to light the surprisingly sophisticated techniques of these Gilded Age press agents.

But like any art industry, there’s competition, dos and don’ts, and tricks of the trade that no one likes to tell. Achieving that music dream seems out of reach, and the overwhelming reality of building your music career can sap the joy out of your beloved passion.

Benny Pough shares his story in On Impact, which is full of lessons on living a life of impact, rising through the leadership ranks, and having to overcome a near-death car crash that almost took it all.

This book teaches you how to become a successful professional musician, a tried-and-true career musician. What exactly does being a career musician mean? You will earn a living from playing your instrument, writing songs, composing, producing, teaching...you name it....You will learn how to capitalize on your creative talents! Through the author's 30 years of experience as a career musician himself, Nomad walks you through Ethos, a system of guiding life principles that every pro musician should adhere to.