{"id":1331,"date":"2005-12-20T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/12\/inside_films\/"},"modified":"2005-12-20T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T09:36:08","slug":"inside_films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/inside_films\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a guy by the name of Edward Jay Epstein, who writes a column for Slate called &#8220;The Hollywood Economist&#8221;. I can&#8217;t recommend it enough for getting the real lowdown on that blackest of arts, money and movie industry. You know, all the stuff about various blockbusters that haven&#8217;t made money according to arcane Hollywood accounting practices, despite having turned over squillions of dollars at the box office?<br \/>\nEpstein does his best to explain what Hollywood&#8217;s doing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2132710\/\">Here&#8217;s his latest column<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\">Slate<\/a> in which he examines the Paramount\/Dreamworks deal that was announced over the weekend.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a fascinating explanation about how it came to pass that Paramount simply didn&#8217;t have a slate of movies to release during 2006\/7 due to managerial decisions. Remarkably, Epstein states that even Mission Impossible 3, surely Paramount&#8217;s biggest film of the coming year, came close to cancellation.<br \/>\nI urge you to read more of Epstein&#8217;s columns which you can find linked at the foot of the Paramount one. In particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2117309\/\">check out<\/a> how a very so-so film like Tomb Raider, was guaranteed to turn a profit before the cameras had started rolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a guy by the name of Edward Jay Epstein, who writes a column for Slate called &#8220;The Hollywood Economist&#8221;. I can&#8217;t recommend it enough for getting the real lowdown on that blackest of arts, money and movie industry. You know, all the stuff about various blockbusters that haven&#8217;t made money according to arcane Hollywood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}