To Rome With Love, 258
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), 130–34, 163
Total Recall, 260
Touchstone, 50
Tower Heist, 79–80
Town, The, 127
Towne, Robert, xii
Toy Story, 118, 232
Toy Story 3, 50, 56, 57, 206, 232
Traffic, 6, 13, 27
Transformers, 58, 65
Tree of Life, The, 16, 99, 170
Trevorrow, Colin, 21–23
Trial of Billy Jack, The, 44
Trintignant, Jean-Louis: Amour, 94–97, 106–7, 217–18, 239
Tron: Legacy, 50, 52
Trouble with the Curve, 260
True Grit (2010), 180
True Romance, 191, 192
Truth or Dare, 88
Tsongas, Niki, 34
Tsujihara, Kevin, 65, 83, 221, 250
Tucci, Stanley, 61
Tucker, Chris, 104
Tuckman, Michael, 36, 38
Tugg, 83, 249–50
Turan, Kenneth, 86–87
Turen, Kevin, 27
turnaround: defined, 269
Twentieth Century Fox, xiv–xv, 44, 46, 56, 65–66, 71, 75–76
2016: Obama’s America, 258
2929 Entertainment, 31
21 Jump Street, 257
Twilight, 63–64, 112, 115, 256
Twist of Faith, 32
Twitch, 14
U
Ullmann, Liv, 241
Under the Dome (TV show), xii
Underworld Awakening, 258
United Artists Classics, 15
United Talent (UTA), 8
Universal, xiv–xv, 44, 58–59, 66, 78–80, 81, 147, 180–84, 189
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 12
University of Southern California (USC), 158, 248
Up, 88, 213
Up in the Air, 125
Utah/U.S. Film Festival, 5. See also Sundance Film Festival
Utley, Nancy, 13, 16–17, 240–41
V
Valley of Elah, 163
Vanity Fair, 87, 243
Van Sant, Gus, 127
Varda, Agnès, 161, 221
Variety, 14, 207, 209, 248
Varley, Lynn, 110, 115
Vaughn, Vince, 131
Venice International Film Festival, 86, 124–25
Vespa, Jeff, 190
VFX (visual effects), 58, 229; defined, 269
V/H/S, 12
Viacom, 56, 248
video-on-demand (VOD) release, xiv, 26–32, 214–15; defined, 269
Von Trier, Lars, 80, 88
Vow, The, 256
Vulture, 14, 113
W
Wachowski, Andy and Lana, xiii–xiv, 46
Wachsberger, Patrick, 13, 63, 114
Wagner, Todd, 31
Wahlberg, Mark, 79
Wall-E, 51, 232
Wallis, Quvenzhané: Beasts of the Southern Wild, 16, 18–20, 210–11, 230, 236, 240
Waltz, Christoph: Django Unchained, 104–6, 115, 194–200, 236; Inglourious Basterds, 191–92, 194–95
Wanderlust, 260
Warhol, Andy, 162
War Horse, 56
Warner Bros., xiv–xv, 64–65, 71, 74, 80, 83, 111, 113, 115–17, 127, 248, 250
Warner Independent Pictures, 16
Washington, Denzel, 78, 145, 160, 180, 226, 230
Washington, Kerry, 6; Django Unchained, 105, 115, 193, 194, 197, 199
Washington Post, 165, 253
Wasikowska, Mia, 99, 100
Watch, The, 260
Watchmen, 115–16
Water for Elephants, 64
Waters, Alice, 126
Watts, Naomi, 132, 230
Waxman, Sharon, 111, 241
We Always Lie to Strangers, 39
Weaver, Jacki, 104, 224–25, 226, 230
Webb, Marc, 66
Wedding Crashers, 131
Weekly Standard, 44
We Have a Pope, 91
Weinstein, Bob, 97
Weinstein, Harvey, 97–106, 180; The Artist, 98–99, 104, 125; at Cannes, 86, 87, 97–106; Django Unchained, 104–6, 114–15, 175, 176, 190, 200, 203, 222–23, 236, 237; Killing Them Softly, 99–103, 107; The King’s Speech, 179, 181; Lawless, 99–100, 102, 103, 107; The Master, 101–2, 104, 124–25, 237–38; Nine, 184; and Oscar race, 175–76, 203, 208, 222–23, 225, 226, 237–38, 243; Silver Linings Playbook, 104, 130, 175, 208, 225, 226, 237
Weinstein Company, 114–15, 126, 130, 200, 222–23, 226, 237–38; RADiUS VoD, 30–31
Weinstein Company (TWC), 97–106
Weir, Peter, 248
Welfling, Juliette, 63
Werner, Ryan, 93
Wertmüller, Lina, 158
Wesleyan University, 18
wet print: defined, 269
Wettest County in the World, The (Bondurant), 100
What to Expect When You’re Expecting, 260
Whedon, John, 118
Whedon, Joss, 117–18; Joss Whedon The Avengers, 50, 57, 78, 117–19
Whedon, Lee Stearns, 118
Whedon, Tom, 118
White Ribbon, The, 94, 95, 96
Wick, Doug, 100
wickets, 203; defined, 269
Wilder, Billy, 132
Wilde Salomé, 170
William Morris Endeavor (WME), 8
Williams, John, 116–17, 154, 227
Williams, Michelle, 188
Willis, Bruce, xiii, 68, 89
Wilson, Michael, 46
Wilson, Owen, 89, 108
Wings, 222
Winslet, Kate, 64
Winter’s Bone, 7, 17, 29, 47, 134, 211
Wired, 127
Wolf, Naomi, 174
Woman in Black, The, 257
Womark, David, 143
Women in Film, 160
women in Hollywood, 157–78
Wong Kar-wai, 102–3
Won’t Back Down, 261
Woodley, Shailene, 64
Words, The, 39, 259
Working Title, 180–81, 184, 189, 235–36
World War Z, 59
Wrap, The, 111, 207, 241
Wrath of the Titans, 259
Wreck-It Ralph, 78, 231–32, 238–39, 257
Wrestler, The, 17, 98, 124
Wright, Edgar, 115, 119
Wright, Joe, 124, 180, 181
Wright, Robin, 77
Writers Guild of America, 158
Writers Guild of America Awards, 233, 239
X
X-Men, 52, 58, 65–66, 117
Y
Yentl, 162
Yerxa, Ron, 125
Your Sister’s Sister, 21, 23–24
Y Tu Mamá También, 94
Z
Z, 94, 217
Zack and Miri Make a Porno, 114
Zadan, Craig, 229–30, 239–42
Zathura, 48
Zeitlin, Benh: Beasts of the Southern Wild, 18–20, 39, 41, 91, 106, 210–11, 223
Zemeckis, Robert, 53, 71–72, 246
Zenovich, Marina, 190
Zero Dark Thirty, 102, 129, 157, 164–78, 259; Oscar race, 130, 174, 175, 176–77, 218–21, 223, 236, 238; torture controversy, 172–75, 177, 218–21, 223
Zeta-Jones, Catherine, 27
Ziering, Amy: The Invisible War, 32, 33–34
Zimmer, Hans, 117
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ANNE THOMPSON, who launched Indiewire’s daily film blog Thompson On Hollywood for Variety in 2007, has covered the Hollywood beat for more than twenty-five years, writing for monthly, weekly, bi-weekly, and daily publications. For seven years she wrote the Risky Business column for the LA Weekly (and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate), followed by Filmmaker magazine and The Hollywood Reporter, where she also founded their first blog, Riskybiz, in 2005. Before that, she was West Coast Editor for Premiere, Empire, and Film Comment, and Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly. She has also reported on film for the magazines Vanity Fair, More, Wir
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