{"product_id":"9781419735257","title":"A Life in Movies : Stories from 50 years in Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003eA\n\u003cbr\u003erollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky,\n\u003cbr\u003eand Raging Bull, and an insider's account of making movies in\n\u003cbr\u003eHollywood over half a century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career\n\u003cbr\u003eis extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging\n\u003cbr\u003eBull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and\n\u003cbr\u003eThe Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy\n\u003cbr\u003eAwards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler\n\u003cbr\u003etells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then\n\u003cbr\u003eas a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past\n\u003cbr\u003edecades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his\n\u003cbr\u003efirst film—starring Elvis—in the last days of the old studio system. Beginning\n\u003cbr\u003ein the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, he produced a string of\n\u003cbr\u003eprovocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically\n\u003cbr\u003elauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it\n\u003cbr\u003emeans to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts,\n\u003cbr\u003ecasting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards.Filled\n\u003cbr\u003ewith tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and\n\u003cbr\u003eforgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes readers behind the\n\u003cbr\u003escenes and into the history of Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49042905628907,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":38.05,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781419735257-1.jpg?v=1783934284","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781419735257","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}