A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in...
Motion picture producers and directors
- Author:Rogen, SethSummary:
- Author:Copperman, E. J.Summary:
Former New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss moved to a LA law firm to make a new start. But when abrasive Hollywood movie director Robert Reeves is accused of murder, Sandy can't say no when he demands her help.
- Author:Witherspoon, ReeseSummary:
Academy award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoon's...
- Author:Browning, MarkSummary:
A full-length consideration of this director's work, Wes Anderson: Why His Movies Matter is organized chronologically to encompass all of Anderson's films, from 1996's Bottle Rocket to Rushmore, The Royal Tenebaums, and the 2009 release...
- Author:Collins, JackieSummary:
Gorgeous Lara Ivory agrees to star in a film for her ex-husband's wife, Nikki. While on the set, Lara falls in love with new actor Joey Lorenzo. While her colleagues struggle to control Lara, a stalker is watching her every move....
- Author:Jewison, NormanSummary:
The memoirs of the celebrated Hollywood director trace his forty years in filmmaking, describing such events as his unlikely appointment as a Christian Canadian director of Fiddler on the Roof, his witness to the impact of various films...
- Author:Grubisic, Brett JosefSummary:
When English Professor Marta Spëk is offered a film consultant’s contract, she’s fighting a bad case of year-end doldrums. She signs on, imagining that exotic hands-on work at the sandy location shoot for a made-in-Canada biopic will...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up...
- Author:Weisman, EliotSummary:
A candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman. By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who held sway over popular...
- Author:Lauren, ChristinaSummary:
Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Romance Sparks fly when a romance writer and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the ultimate Hollywood love story-but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole...
- Author:Osborne, RobertSummary:
Based on the provocative film documentary of the same name, The Third Dive investigates the shocking death of a world-renowned conservation activist. When experienced diver and award-winning filmmaker Rob Stewart (Sharkwater and...
- Author:Martynowych, Orest T.Summary:
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of...
- Author:Brenner, JamieSummary:
When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband, and the past she tried to leave behind. Lauren Adelman...
- Author:Spoto, DonaldSummary:
This Edgar Award-winning biography explores Hitchcock's obsessions and his incomparable genius.
- Author:Howard, Ron.Summary:
AN AUDIOFILES BEST AUDIOBOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF AN AUDIOFILES EARPHONES AWARD: "This audiobook is simply a delight...a must-listen." "This extraordinary book is not only a chronicle of Ron's and Clint's early...
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler's List, returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An award-...
- Author:DeLillo, DonSummary:
Lauren Hardke, body artist, is having breakfast with her thrice-married husband, Rey. Rey says he's taking a drive and he does -- all the way to the Manhattan apartment of his first wife, where he shoots himself. An unsentimental novel...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking...
- Author:Wheeler, AnneSummary:
Laced with humour and revelation, Anne Wheeler's creative non-fiction stories tell of her serendipitous journey in the seventies, when she broke with tradition and found her own way to becoming a filmmaker and raconteur. Join this...
- Author:Baldwin, Howard, Milton, SteveSummary:
From his start as an owner in the World Hockey Association at the age of 28 (“slim and none” was a Boston sportswriter’s assessment of Howard’s chances when he was first awarded the New England Whalers franchise), to winning the Stanley...