The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DREAMWORKS by Nicole Laporte
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood's Circus Maximus-created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King - an entertainment empire called DreamWorks.
Now Nicole LaPorte, who covered the company for Variety, goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened. Readers will feel they are part of the creative calamities of moviemaking as LaPorte's fly-on-the-wall detail shows us Hollywood's bizarre rules of business.
We see the clashes between the often otherworldly Spielberg's troops and Katzenberg's warriors, the debacles and disasters, but also the Oscar-winning triumphs, including Saving Private Ryan. We watch as the studio burns through billions, its rich owners get richer, and everybody else suffers. We see Geffen seducing investors like Microsoft's Paul Allen, showing his steel against CAA's Michael Ovitz, and staging fireworks during negotiations with Paramount and Disney.
Here is Hollywood, up close, glamorous, and gritty.
About the Author
Nicole Laporte is a former film reporter for Variety, where she covered the Hollywood movie industry for several years. She also wrote the Rules of Hollywood column for the Los Angeles Times Magazine and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and W magazine. For The Men Who Would Be King she did more than 200 interviews with subjects at every level of the entertainment business.
Format: Hardback | 448 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 16 x 3.6 | 752g
Publication Date: 01 Jun 2011
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0547134703
ISBN13: 9780547134703
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. No obvious damage to the cover. The dust jacket is included and in good condition (minor scuff marks). The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.