The Blockbuster
Published in French as Le Blockbuster. English edition not yet announced.
“The true story of the invention of the blockbuster.”
1975. A 27-year-old director releases a shark movie. Universal invents the wide national release, and a new word to describe it: blockbuster. 1985. Heaven's Gate is buried, Cimino has become invisible, Back to the Future reigns supreme.
In ten years, the same filmmakers who seized power in volume I invented the system that replaced them: the franchise, merchandising, marketing as an art form. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T., Ghostbusters, Disney taken over by Eisner. The mutation happens here.
- Format
- Essay
- Pages
- 207
- Release
- Forthcoming
- Series
- Sortie d'Usine
- Languages
- French







