How To Succeed In Hollywood (Without Losing Your Soul)

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 14, 2011 -- (Hollywood) -- In 1985, MOVIEGUIDE®: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment began reviewing movies for The Christian Film & Television Commission®, a non-profit group started by Ted Baehr. At that time, only about 6% of Hollywood’s movies were aimed at families. And, the major Hollywood studios released very few movies with any positive Christian content – less than 1%!

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How To Succeed In Hollywood (Without Losing Your Soul)

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By the time, however, Ted Baehr started the Annual MOVIEGUIDE® Faith & Values Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment Industry in 1992 and 1993, there were 27 movies with positive Christian content, or about 10.38% of the market share.

And, 19 years later, in 2010, 161, or about 59.63%, of the movies released by the major film studios contained at least some positive Christian content! And, the movies with the strongest Christian content and values are making more money per movie than ever.

Meanwhile, those years have seen the percentage of movies marketed to families explode from that minute 6% in 1985 to an average of almost 40% of the major movies released by Hollywood. In fact, according to Box Office Mojo, six of the Top 10 movies at the box office worldwide released in 2010 are family movies, with the remaining four being PG-13 action movies heavily marketed to teenagers, not R-rated adult dramas or comedies. Not only that, but the six family movies are, arguably, more entertaining and more aesthetically pleasing than the others. And, some would say that the top movie of 2010, TOY STORY 3, which earned a whopping $1 billion, was, by far, the best movie of the year!

What happened? With the new book, How To Succeed In Hollywood (Without Losing Your Soul), it explains how this happened, why it happened and how people of faith and values started making blockbusters like The Blind Side, Spider-Man, Finding Nemo, And The Passion Of The Christ.

For everything you wanted to know about making or understanding faithful, blockbuster, mass media entertainment, a great place to start is to learn from those who made it, or are still making it, in Hollywood and are also making a difference.

How To Succeed In Hollywood (Without Losing Your Soul) shows the reader how to use your ordained gifts and talents to make significant creative contributions to the entertainment world.

The brightest and best people of faith in the entertainment industry share how they developed their screenwriting, acting, directing, producing, and behind-the-scenes interests to make Hollywood and the world a better place.

The book features insights from Richard Cook, chairman of Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Studios. Randall Wallace, the writer of Braveheart, Pearl Harbor and We Were Soldiers. Phil Roman, executive producer of Garfield, Tom and Jerry and The Simpsons and many other key Hollywood figures on how committed individuals can use their faith and God-given gifts and talents to change the culture of Hollywood and the mass media entertainment world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ted Baehr is Founder and Publisher of Movieguide® (www.movieguide.org)
and Chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission® (CFTVC), as well
as a noted critic, educator, lecturer, and media pundit. His life’s purpose is to be
used by God to redeem the values of the media while educating audiences on how
to use discernment in selecting their entertainment.

Baehr was President of the organization that produced The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for CBS-TV in 1980, boasting 37 million

viewers and winning an Emmy Award. He also has produced hundreds of
programs for PBS television.

Product Details
•Paperback: 592 pages
•Publisher: WND Books (April 5, 2011)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1936488272
•ISBN-13: 978-1936488278

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