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  Extremal Film Project
Sep 8, 2011
At last; it has been about 5 years on this project.
  Financing the Movies
Feb 4, 2011
Now that my book is finished, I am turning to my movie project to complete that. In doing that, I am returning to a topic I have written about often here and in my papers and books.
  Hollywood's Broke
Mar 25, 2010
Lawrence Meyers has an excellent, 8 part, series at Big Hollywood that bears reading.
  Orley Ashenfelter's Review of My Hollywood Economics
Feb 25, 2010

"This is a remarkable assembly of two decades of Arthur De Vany's efforts to study the movie industry using the tools of modern economics. Okay, movie lover, if that sounds dry, what about a hard-headed, dollars-and-cents answer to film critic Michael Medved's question: "Does Hollywood make too many R-rated movies?" De Vany's answer: a resounding "yes."