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The Dream Team. The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks - Lessons from the New Hollywood.
Daniel M. Kimmel
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Description for The Dream Team. The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks - Lessons from the New Hollywood.
Paperback. Daniel Kimmel tells the behind-the-scenes story of DreamWorks' rise-and the end of the dream eleven years later, when most of the company was sold off or shut down. Mr. Kimmel explores DreamWorks' successes, but he also investigates why an enterprise with such promise failed to reach the heights. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 299.
On October 12, 1994, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen—three of Hollywood's biggest players—announced they would form a new studio to produce feature films, television series, and pop music recordings. It didn't have a name, though Katzenberg's reference to his partners as the "Dream Team" eventually led to the company being dubbed DreamWorks. What the three men were attempting hadn't been done in more than sixty years: create a movie studio that could compete with the already existing major players. In The Dream Team, Daniel Kimmel tells the behind-the-scenes story of DreamWorks' rise—and the end of the dream eleven ... Read more
On October 12, 1994, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen—three of Hollywood's biggest players—announced they would form a new studio to produce feature films, television series, and pop music recordings. It didn't have a name, though Katzenberg's reference to his partners as the "Dream Team" eventually led to the company being dubbed DreamWorks. What the three men were attempting hadn't been done in more than sixty years: create a movie studio that could compete with the already existing major players. In The Dream Team, Daniel Kimmel tells the behind-the-scenes story of DreamWorks' rise—and the end of the dream eleven ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566637527
SKU
V9781566637527
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About Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel has been a film critic for more than twenty years, including reporting for Variety. His book The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television (also published by Ivan R. Dee) won the Cable Center Book Award. Mr. Kimmel is a past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and teaches film at Suffolk ... Read more
Reviews for The Dream Team. The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks - Lessons from the New Hollywood.
Smart and concise...a definitive book on the late studio. But it's also an unexpected cracker of a read.
MaryAnn Johanson
Flickfilosopher.Com
Kimmel expertly chronicles the establishment and evolution of DreamWorks.... Did they succeed? The answer will surprise you.
Gary K. Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit A perceptive and richly textured narrative.... A worthwhile read!
James ... Read more
MaryAnn Johanson
Flickfilosopher.Com
Kimmel expertly chronicles the establishment and evolution of DreamWorks.... Did they succeed? The answer will surprise you.
Gary K. Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit A perceptive and richly textured narrative.... A worthwhile read!
James ... Read more