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The Business

Basking in Twilight Success; Ava-Toad

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.5699 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks about being a brand in Hollywood, and we look at how those with even tenuous links to the series earn fame and fortune. Also, Australian Mark Lewis, known for his humorous indie films on going 3-D with Cane Toads: The Conquest otherwise known as Ava-Toad.

 

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:06.9

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

0:12.5

Everybody thinks his own business, business, really, really, all right life.

0:18.4

He doesn't clean, clean.

0:20.1

What's in him?

0:23.6

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. This week. What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. This week on the business, the screenwriter on the Twilight series talks about how vampires have rocked her world.

0:30.6

Plus, a look at how people with even tenuous links to Twilight make a nice living from the frenzied fandom.

0:43.7

Then an independent filmmaker feels the urge to make a documentary about Toads in 3D.

0:46.1

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

0:48.6

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

0:57.1

You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

0:58.0

What's with him?

1:01.1

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

1:06.1

I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

1:20.3

And John, Hollywood has been watching Celadour versus Disney, a lengthy and complicated trial over the former hit show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which Disney dined out on on ABC for some time starting in 1999.

1:26.3

Cellador is the British company that created the show, and they're suing Disney for as much as $395 million.

1:32.2

They're basically claiming that Disney created a bunch of deals that hid the profits of the show.

1:38.0

We've all know that there's famous Hollywood accounting tricks where hit movies never yield a dime in profits.

1:45.2

Right. And the lawyer for Sellador called this a shell game. That was his closing argument, that Disney engaged in a shell game to hide the money.

1:49.2

And there have been a lot of lawsuits like this. The producers of Smallville have sued Warner, the producers of home improvement of sued Disney, the producer of X-Viles, sued Fox.

1:54.1

It's all after the abolition of the financial interest in syndigation rules in 1993,

2:00.1

which previously had prevented networks from

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