Editor Jason Squire

The Movie Business Book, Third Edition

with contributors
Harold Vogel, Dan Ochiva, and Paul Sweeting

Join Editor Jason Squire and contributors Harold Vogel, Dan Ochiva, and Paul Sweeting, as they discuss the latest edition of the definitive industry reference.

Drawing from a variety of experts in an industry that has seen major technological advances since the second edition, The Movie Business Book, Third Edition, offers the most comprehensive, authoritative overview of this fascinating, global business. A must-read for industry newcomers, film students and movie buffs, this new edition features key movers and shakers, such as Tom Rothman, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment; Michael Grillo, head of Feature Film Production at DreamWorks SKG; Sydney Pollack; Mel Brooks; and many others. A definitive sourcebook, it covers nuts- and-bolts details about financing, revenue streams, marketing, DVDs, globalization, the Internet and new technologies. All of this -- and more -- is detailed in this new edition of the classic Movie Business Book.

"A valuable book full smarts and straight talk. I use it in my class at USC."
--Entertainment Tonight film critic Leonard Maltin

"Most informative. Jason E. Squire is that rare person now a days who knows the movie business inside out."
--Noted film critic Jeffrey Lyons

Before joining the faculty at the USC School of Cinema-Television, Jason Squire was a studio executive with United Artists, 20th Century Fox and Avco Embassy Pictures.

Photo by John Livzey

Harold L. Vogel, of Vogel Capital Management, New York, who wrote "Analyzing Movie Companies" (p.138). Hal was Merrill Lynch's chief entertainment analyst for many years and is best known as the author of Entertainment Industry Economics (now in its 6th edition) which stands alone as the most important book in its field.

Dan Ocheva, senior editor of Millimeter magazine, based in New York, who wrote "Entertainment Technologies: Past, Present and Future," (p. 498), the authoritative overview of technology's influence on the industry, including film, TV, home video, DV and HDTV and highlighting the transition from analog to digital, in equipment and in home
entertainment.

Paul Sweeting, reporter and columnist for Video Business magazine and Variety, based in Washington, DC, who wrote "The Video Retailer," (p. 418), a detailed history of the video business and thorough study of current video retail, the most profitable of all revenue streams that flow from a movie.


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