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The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood Weather and to the point styleDuring the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, virtually all the American motion picture industrys money, power, and prestige came from a single activity: selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media universe controlled by six corporationsSony, Time Warner, NBC Universal, Viacom, Disney, and NewsCorporation. These conglomerates view films as part of an