Movie Money, 3rd Edition (Updated and Expanded): Understanding Hollywood's (Creative) Accounting Practices (Updated and Expanded)

Movie Money"€"a must-read for all film producers, directors, writers, and actors"€"unravels, demystifies, and explains the film industry's unique, arcane, "creative" accounting practices. It examines a film's various revenue-generating and revenue-consuming components and presents numerous film industry definitions and calculations of "gross" and "net" profits. It also provides in-depth coverage of the various aspects of profit participation"€"its terminology and accounting and deal practic...