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To make films under the new system, Selznick recruited prize behind-the-camera personnel, such as director George Cukor and producer/director Merian C. Cooper, and gave producer Pandro S. Berman, aged twenty-six, increasingly important projects. [10]
To make films under the new system, Selznick recruited prize behind-the-camera personnel, such as director George Cukor and producer/director Merian C. Cooper, and gave producer Pandro S. Berman, aged twenty-six, increasingly important projects. [37]
- The Major Studios
- The Major-Minors and The Minor Studios
- Production Strategies For The Changing Marketplace
- The Emergence of Market Research
- Duals, B's, and The Industry Discourse About Its Audience
The principal Hollywood powers in 1940-1941 were, of course, the so-called Big Eight studios, with the five theater-owning integrated majors by far the dominant companies. As discussed earlier, a clear rift existed between the five integrated majors and the three major-minors in terms of assets, resources, and overall industry power. That rift is r...
Outside the privileged cartel of integrated majors, the three most important studios were United Artists, Universal, and Columbia. These were Hollywood's Little Three major-minors—"major" because they produced first-run features and had their own distribution setups; "minor" because they did not own theater chains. Like the Big Five, the Little Thr...
Among the challenges facing the Hollywood studios in 1940-1941, clearly the most significant were the war and the antitrust campaign. These challenges were especially intense for the Big Five integrated majors, which stood to realize enormous gains if they could both overcome their declining overseas income and respond to the trade restrictions man...
Owing to the growing uncertainties and instability of the prewar marketplace and the increased emphasis on high-stakes, high-end product in 1940-1941, the Hollywood studios substantially upgraded their market researchefforts. This involved not only improving the studios' own internal research operations but turning to outside research firms as well...
As the majors shifted their emphasis to A-class pictures and eased out of low-budget production in 1940-1941, and as the government railed against the foisting of substandard product on both exhibitors and audiences, the industry discourse was increasingly devoted to the "problem" of B movies and double features. As has been seen, duals and Bs did ...
In its short existence the independent studio produced two films that received the Academy Award for Best Picture—Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940)—and three that were nominated, A Star Is Born (1937), Since You Went Away (1944) and Spellbound (1945).
David O. Selznick (1902–1965), one of the industry's major independent producers and best remembered for his blockbuster adaptation of Gone with the Wind (1939), led several independent companies (Selznick International, Selznick Picture Corporation, Vanguard Films Production).
May 18, 2018 · Although burdened by success, Selznick planned to reclaim his past glory with Jones starring in his new film, Duel in the Sun. Selznick's films had a reputation for being exorbitant in costs. Duel in the Sun, a grandiose and violent Western, was no exception.
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David O. Selznick, American motion-picture producer who earned a reputation for commercially successful films of high artistic quality before and after World War II. Two of his movies, Gone with the Wind and Rebecca, won the Academy Award for best picture.
