Karmic Winds Format: Hardback
Language: English
Published by Simon and Schuster, 2026
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- Title
- Karmic Winds Format: Hardback
- Author
- Hoffman, Peter M.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1644285622
- ISBN 13
- 9781644285626
As president of Carolco Pictures, Hoffman helped steer an era-defining slate that included Terminator 2, Basic Instinct, and Rambo, navigating a world of massive egos, creative brilliance, and financial brinkmanship. But ambition has its cost. After the industry turns, legal battles mount, and a federal conviction leads to imprisonment, Hoffman is forced into a confrontation far more exacting than any boardroom negotiation: a reckoning with his own choices, illusions, and moral blind spots.
Set partly within the quiet, disorienting confines of Terminal Island federal prison, Karmic Winds traces a journey through humiliation and loss toward clarity and acceptance. Drawing on philosophy, Buddhism, and a lifelong search for meaning, Hoffman examines the nature of justice, the seductions of power, and the invisible forcespersonal and systemicthat shape our lives.
Neither a tell-all nor a plea for absolution, Karmic Winds is a deeply reflective account of success and failure, told with intellectual rigor and emotional restraint. It is a story of what remains when the titles disappear, the noise falls away, and one is left alone with the self...and the winds that carried them there.
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About the Author
A lawyer turned producer and studio executive, Hoffman built a career that bridged the creative and the corporate, the visionary and the pragmatic. As the founder and CEO of Carolco and Seven Arts Entertainment, he brought to life acclaimed and enduring films including The Believer, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, alongside Stander, Asylum, Johnny Mnemonic, Rules of Engagement, and Rate Race. Earlier, as President and CEO of Carolco Pictures, he helped guide an era of independent filmmaking that produced cultural touchstones such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Basic Instinct, and Total Recall.
In the decades since, Hoffman has continued to mentor and advise filmmakers and financiers through Picture Pro LLC and Luminosity Pictures, ventures that reflecft his enduring belief that cinema is both an art form and an enterprise—a delicate balance that must be protected and reimagined with every generation.
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