4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A potentially epic confrontation is on the horizon, pitting the Writers Guild against the talent agencies. And, after Todd Douglas Miller made a short film about Apollo 17, he figured he was done with outer space. Then he got an email from an employee at the National Archives who had found some old reels labeled: Apollo 11. Miller talks about the never-before-seen footage that led to his new movie, ‘Apollo 11.’
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.3 | After documentarian Todd Douglas Miller made a short film about Apollo 17, |
0:09.9 | he figured he was done with outer space. |
0:12.3 | Then he got an email from an employee at the National Archives |
0:15.0 | who had found some forgotten film reels labeled Apollo 11. |
0:19.2 | In the middle of it, it was actually buried, but the thing that |
0:22.2 | was interesting about it was that all these bold words in the paragraph and explanation points. |
0:26.9 | And like, if you talk to archivists, they never use either one of those. Some of the found |
0:31.6 | footage was shot in glorious 70 millimeter. Nearly 50 years after man first walked on the moon, |
0:38.7 | Miller has transformed those reels into his new movie. Apollo 11 offers a window into every aspect of the mission, from ground |
0:44.6 | control to the lunar landing. Miller tells KCRW's Matt Hulsman about the enormously difficult |
0:49.9 | task of syncing old audio with the old footage and describes what it was like to show Neil Armstrong's |
0:55.7 | sons images of their father that they'd never seen before. Plus, we talked to entertainment attorney |
1:01.4 | Jonathan Handel about a brewing confrontation between the Writers Guild and the talent agencies. But first on |
1:07.6 | the news banter, we need to talk about Kevin. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:17.9 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. |
1:22.0 | Hello, Matt. |
1:22.6 | Hi there. |
1:23.1 | So I will say we, I think, published a story that truly rocked Hollywood this past week. And the Hollywood reporter, Tatiana Segal and I reported on Kevin Sujahara, the head of the Warner Brothers film and TV studio. This is a story that Tatiana and I had been chasing for, as you know, more than a year. You know, one of those open secrets in town that there was something up with Kevin Suchahara and this young, |
1:49.2 | very ambitious, aspiring actress, Charlotte Kirk. There were rumors that didn't lead anywhere, |
1:54.5 | but ultimately what happened is that we obtained quite a huge cache of texts between James Packer, this Australian billionaire who was partners with Brett Ratner, the filmmaker. |
2:00.0 | They had a company together. James |
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