Betting on the Box Office; Movie Music
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's a gamble every time you buy a movie ticket. But a new financial market will make it possible to actually bet on the box office. Plus, making movie music with Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:07.0 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:12.6 | Everybody takes his own business, business, really, really, all the white life. |
| 0:18.5 | What's with him? |
| 0:21.1 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood, Hollywood. This week. What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:24.3 | This week on the business, you could say it's a gamble every time you buy a movie ticket, |
| 0:28.6 | but a new financial market will actually make it possible to lay a much bigger bet on the box office. |
| 0:34.6 | Plus, making movie music with Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino. But first, it's the |
| 0:39.8 | Hollywood news banter. Stay close. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:45.3 | I can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. What's with him? |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
| 0:57.6 | I am joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, John. |
| 1:03.6 | Hello, Kim. |
| 1:04.7 | So what do we have? |
| 1:05.5 | Today we have a fight, a good old-fashioned brawl. |
| 1:10.0 | In 3D. In 3D, over the fate of the clash of the |
| 1:14.6 | 3D films, right? It's, we knew it would come to this. I just didn't think it would come this |
| 1:20.2 | soon. There are not enough 3D screens in the United States, about 3,500, about 10% of the total. |
| 1:26.5 | And right now, there are four movies competing for |
| 1:29.6 | those screens, and somebody's going to get hurt, and it looks like it could be how to train |
| 1:33.3 | your dragon. And oh, the irony, how to train your dragon is Jeffrey Katzenberg's movie. And |
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