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Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood
£27.80
Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two film packagers well known for spending other people’s money and ripping off credit for other people’s work went on a deliberate campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives. With the exception of Batman, Jon Peters and Peter Guber were barely involved with the most successful films they “produced.” Steven Spielberg wouldn’t allow them on the set of The Color Purple, and they werre on the set of Rain Man only once, briefly. With the help of one of Michael Milken’s top lieutenants, they succeeded. It was the most audacious sales job of their careers: This unlikely team got Sony to give them the richest deal in Hollywood history.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd, First Edition (1 Jun. 1996) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 479 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0684809311 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0684809311 |
| Dimensions | 16.51 x 3.81 x 25.4 cm |
by Ian Johnson
This book tells in detail the story of two men who have influenced and help make some of the best known films of the eighties and nineties. If you wanted to know the wheeling and dealing that can go on on Hollywood before a film even gets to the starting line this book is for you. as someone who loves finding out how films start from an idea in someone’s head to the local cinema I really enjoyed this book.
by steve
Informative and entertaining read
by Wingate
This is an extremely entertaining book about how Sony bought Columbia Pictures, brought in two producers,with no experience, to run the business and then caught a mighty big financial cold.All the executives wanted to do was feather their nests and take credit where no credit was due.No surprise that there were so few good films in thi