FILM TV 106A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Thurman Arnold, Major Stars
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1948: us supreme court decision: hollywood loses. 1948: paramount, rko consent decrees: hollywood agrees to reduce block-booking program. 1950: warners, fox: they spin their theatres off as separate entities. Decrease in productions: block-(cid:271)ooki(cid:374)g is go(cid:374)e, so there(cid:859)s (cid:374)o poi(cid:374)t i(cid:374) (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g shitt(cid:455) fil(cid:373)s as ea(cid:272)h fil(cid:373) needs to stand on its own. Decline of long term contracts: less films=less stars=less contracts. ,000 as a salary, they had that written off to their production company as a business profit. In doing so, they made more money by avoiding income tax. Producer/director/star has more control of projects & career. Jules stein founded mca: percentage of the money that a movie makes, started with jimmy stewart, now all the other stars want points of the gross. Packaging: agencies will get a script from a writer they represent, get a director they represent, get stars they represent, and present it to the studios, agencies charge packaging fees and start getting extremely powerful.
