Revolver is a premier independent distributor of motion pictures, home entertainment and video-on-demand content. Continued growth means we are now looking for ambitious young guns to join our brilliant team in the following roles at our West Hollywood office.

Intern

We are always looking for seasonal interns. Revolver is now accepting applications for Fall 2011 internships. We are seeking an enthusiastic intern to join our busy team. You will be working within a small but fast paced office in West Hollywood in all aspects of distribution. Primary intern tasks include supporting upcoming releases: researching press stories, assisting with marketing campaigns, managing social media (i.e Facebook, Twitter accounts), and previewing screeners for the acquisitions team.

This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to gain valuable, hands-on experience in feature film and home entertainment releasing in a young and busy environment. Excellent communication skills are essential, and you should feel as comfortable on the phone to journalists and inputting ideas as you are with research into the latest film acquisition trends.

Please note that this is a largely PR-based internship, with the opportunity to form your own contacts with press. Applicants must be comfortable making cold calls if needed, happy to do research, as well as maintain press relationships on behalf of Revolver. Mac proficiency is preferred, but not required. Please send your resume and cover letter in with Fall Internship as the subject to rachel@revolvergroup.com

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The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood Edward Jay Epstein Synopsis In The Big Picture, acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein gives an unprecedented, sweeping, and thoroughly entertaining account of the real magic behind moviemaking: how the studios make their money. Epstein shows how, in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of the deal: major films turn huge profits, not from the movies themselves but through myriad other enterprises, such as video-game spin-offs, fast-food tie-ins, soundtracks, and even theme-park rides. But money is only part of the Hollywood story; the social and political milieus–power, prestige, and status–tell the rest. Alongside remarkable financial revelations, The Big Picture is filled with eye-opening true Hollywood insider stories. We learn how the promise of free cowboy boots for a producer delayed a major movie’s shooting schedule; why stars never perform their own stunts, despite what the supermarket tabloids claim; how movies intentionally shape political sensibilities, both in America and abroad; and why fifteen-year-olds dictate the kind of low-grade fare that has flooded screens across the country. Click here to order from Amazon

One Hundred Films and a Funeral: The Life and Death of Polygram Films Michael Kuhn Synopsis Many Europeans have dreamed of a film studio able to challenge Hollywood on its own ground. Only one post-war company has come close - PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. This title is an account of the life and death of PolyGram Films seen through the eyes of its British President, Michael Kuhn. He describes the beginnings of the company, in London and LA, in the heyday of the 80s and its subsequent meteoric growth throughout the next decade. Combining critical acclaim and popular success with such films as "Wild at Heart", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Fargo" and "Notting Hill", PolyGram Films garnered ten Oscars from 1991 until 1998, when its potential was unexpectedly and unaccountably destroyed. This is not only a story of deals won and lost in a ruthless world peopled by titans, sharks, peacocks and all the usual suspects, but a real business adventure that changed the structure of the global film industry. Click here to order from Amazon

Down and Dirty Pictures Synopsis In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers began to flower outside the Hollywood studio system and in the following decade, the independent film movement bloomed. Dozens of lesser-known filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino began walking away with coveted prizes at Cannes and eventually the Academy Awards. Many of these directors were discovered at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival and then scooped up by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, whose company Miramax laid waste to the competition. In Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind tells the incredible story of these filmmakers, the growth of Sundance into the premier showcase of independent film, and the meteoric rise of the controversial Weinstein brothers who left a trail of carnage in their wake yet created an Oscar factory that is the envy of the studios. Click here to order from Amazon

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood Synopsis One of the most exhilarating periods in film history began with "Easy Rider" in 1969 and ended with "Raging Bull" in 1980, with Beverly Hills shrouded under a blanket of cocaine: at least, that's how it seemed. Based on interviews with all the Hollywood players of the time, this text tells the story of creativity and excess in Hollywood, when Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Lucas, Hopper, Altman and Spielberg were at the height of their powers. Recounted with refreshing candour, many celebrities talk frankly to the author about one another and the sex, drugs, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. Click here to order from Amazon

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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting Synopsis "Story" deciphers the guiding structural principles that animate every classical and award-winning film, ranging from "Citizen Kane" through to modern acclaimed works like "The English Patient". Click here to order from Amazon

Pitching Movies

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The Pitch Synopsis A lively, witty and confidence-inspiring guide through the pitch process, this unique book is aimed at every aspiring and practising storyteller/film-maker setting out to turn their Big Idea into a reality. Based on a series of 'how-to' lectures developed by the authors over the last decade and interwoven with interviews with many well-known filmmakers, the book's approach is twofold. Firstly it looks at the requirements and psychology of buyers, and how successful sales techniques can be adapted to the film industry, providing a detailed analysis of the actual Pitch Process from preparation to delivery. Secondly it incorporates the experience of big name industry practitioners who relate their 'best and worst' pitch stories and advice, punctuated by a series of entertaining illustrations from the Guardian cartoonists and animators Berger and Wyse. Film students, artists, agents, distributors, script executives, and producers will find the insights of "The Pitch" utterly invaluable and refer to it again and again each time go out to market their Big Ideas. Click here to order from Amazon