Hollywood By Lynda Obst Summary

Lynda Obst is a seasoned film producer and book author. In her book, sleepless in Hollywood tales from the new abnormal in the movie business, she describes the problems associated with the modern movie business. According to Lynda, Hollywood is abnormal. The abnormal was undergoing a transformation from what it previously was to becoming a place where studios concentrate on foreign markets to make money. They forget to produce films that are not as entertaining as before. The studios are also producing fewer movies due to the concentration on the foreign markets. Movie production has become a very expensive activity leaving production to few big producers who charge exorbitant prices for production thus allowing no chance for the coming up
Hollywood is now for big and expensive movies with highly paid actors and producers. The producers are no longer fixated on what entertains the American public. The nation no longer sees the American classic movies. Producers today consider the foreign market very important. Before a film is produced in Hollywood, they have to ask themselves if the movie will be understood and received well in China or other nations. This keeps away so many movies from being produced. The movies that meet the criteria are very few and have to use a lot of resources before getting produced. Lynda explains the problem with the movie industry, and analyzes whether the Hollywood will ever go back to the old Hollywood that produced classic movies.
I think Lynda’s claims are true. The movie industry has totally changed making it to produce lesser and more expensive movies. Unlike the earlier years, the new Hollywood produces movies with budgets of over $200 million. Movies without huge budgets, with rich sponsors are no longer produced in Hollywood. This makes them receive lesser audience and therefore do not also make much money from the sales of cinema times. To support Lynda’s claims, the paper will analyze the movie Locke, a non-major produced film released in