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The Hollywood economist : the hidden financial reality behind the movies

In a Freakonomics-meets-Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood's "invisible money machine," probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and flops, while he answers a surprisingly difficult question: How do the studios make their money?

Print Book, English, ©2012
Release 2.0, rev. and updated ed
Melville House Pub., Brooklyn, NY, ©2012