Motion pictures--Marketing
Hollywood Box Office: 'A National Obsession'
We look at the business of making movie blockbusters with Dade Hayes, special reports editor at Variety, and Jonathon Bing, Variety's deputy managing editor. The two co-authored the new book Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession.
"Batmania" is a Triumph of Shameless Hype.
Writer and critic Patricia McLaughlin looks at the wave of "Batmania" now at full force throughout the country.