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1) Film
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
A photographic essay explores the history and technology of filmmaking, including how a set is built, how stunts are performed, how special effects are achieved, and how films are edited.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1984, while grappling with her parents' divorce and her mother's remarriage, sixteen-year-old Laura wins a walk-on role in the nuclear holocaust movie being filmed in her Arkansas town, but when the scripted nuclear explosion occurs, nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not. Inspired by a real event.
3) Ghostlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A summer film project turns spooky when the setting turns out to actually be haunted.
Author
Series
My life volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime--to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star--but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When film producer Moe Block Busters offers to make their book into a movie, Iggy, Olive, and Seymour head to Hollywood where Olive, furious at being written out of the script, enlists the help of a famed femme fatale to scare the despicable director half to death.
6) Double down
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Greg plans to film a scary movie using an old video camera he found in the basement, but getting rich and famous from his new hobby isn't as easy as he thought.
10) Sailor song
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Story of the Alaskan village of Kuinak and the transformation that takes place when a movie company comes to the village.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) stars as the famous movie star Macarena Granada, who flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Isobel is unhappy about spending the summer of 1918 at her aunt's home in Hollywood with her mother and sister until her cousin, Ranger, involves the girls in creating the perfect film and, when her father returns from the war, his serious injury becomes their inspiration.
15) NYPD red
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When a famous Hollywood producer is found dead, it is up to NYPD Red task force detective Zach Jordan and his new partner, and ex-girlfriend, Kylie MacDonald to find the killer.
17) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A desperate movie producer (Martin) will do anything to get his dream movie made. In fact, he's so desperate that he enlists a fairly nerdy guy with no acting experience at all (Murphy) to be his star.
19) Run time
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
LIGHTS. Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for what happened the last time she was on a film set? Adele doesn't think twice before signing the dotted line. CAMERA. Adele quickly makes her way to set, deep into the isolated and wintry woods of...
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