Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer
According to FilmStew:
British journalist Tom Shone got so tired of the general intellectual bias against people like Lucas and Spielberg that he decided to write a book about it.
Blockbuster argues that there have been several watershed moments in the modern American mainstream era. The first was around 1993, when on the heels of Jurassic Park, the homegrown qualities of the genre began to get diluted by folks such as Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall) and Roland Emmerich (Independence Day). Then, more recently, after the string of bankruptcies among U.S. theater chain owners, Shone argues that the studios decided to hand back the reins to directors like Sam Raimi (Spider-Man), Ang Lee (Hulk) and Bryan Singer (X2: X-Men United), helping re-invigorate their so-called ‘tent pole’ offerings.
Go read it.
Sunday 19 Dec 2004 | Paul | Books
