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THE PICTURE AND THE PAYROLL Book 3

By Dorotea Villani · 4 parts · 14 h 56 min · English

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A motion picture is a company that is founded, staffed, financed and then dissolved on delivery. Everyone who made it scatters. For a century Hollywood tried to solve that, and four men solved it four ways. Louis B. Mayer put the talent on a seven-year payroll and owned the theaters that played what they made. When the courts took the theaters and then the contracts, Michael Ovitz built a firm that held the people in the gaps and charged for assembling them. David Geffen refused to be the man who took a commission and became the one who owned the copyright. Thomas Tull financed the pictures as a portfolio instead of one at a time. This is the history of who owned the interval between pictures, and what it cost. Covers Louis B. Mayer, Michael Ovitz, David Geffen, Thomas Tull, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Creative Artists Agency, Asylum Records, Geffen Records, Geffen Film Company, DreamWorks, and Legendary Entertainment.

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  1. Part 01

    3:33:21

  2. Part 02

    3:26:31

  3. Part 03

    4:27:01

  4. Part 04

    3:29:22

Books in this series

  1. THE PICTURE AND THE PAYROLL Book 1

    4 parts · 15 h 47 min

  2. THE PICTURE AND THE PAYROLL Book 2

    4 parts · 17 h 32 min

  3. THE PICTURE AND THE PAYROLL Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 56 min

  4. THE PICTURE AND THE PAYROLL Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 53 min

  5. THE PICTURE AND THE PAYROLL Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 39 min

  6. THE PICTURE AND THE PAYROLL Book 6

    4 parts · 16 h 24 min