Bob Iger’s resignation, ‘Sonic’ saved

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“Sonic the Hedgehog” is director Jeff Fowler’s first feature film, and it looked like it was going to be his first bomb when the trailer dropped last spring. Fans of the video game emphatically rejected the too-realistic look of the lead character. “Sonic” director Jeff Fowler tells us how he brought the speedy blue hedgehog from the brink of disaster to big box office success.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:04.7	Glow up is the word that I kept seeing, which I had never heard before, but that just because I'm out of touch.
0:10.9	I have not heard that worry. I've just...
0:12.9	It's a glow up.
0:13.7	Okay, it's a glow up.
0:14.7	It's a glow up. I think I need one of those.
0:15.9	It's a glow up of the year. When the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog landed last spring,
0:24.3	fans of the video game were horrified by the title character's look.
0:27.9	So Paramount pushed the film's release back three months,
0:30.6	and Sonic was sent back to the drawing board.
0:35.1	The film seemed doomed to be yet another movie based on a video game that turned into a box office bust.
0:37.6	Instead, Sonic delivered a boom.
0:39.7	In two weeks, it raked in more than $100 million at U.S. theaters.
0:44.0	Sonic the Hedgehog director Jeff Fowler tells us how he brought the blue guy back from
0:48.2	the brink of disaster.
0:49.9	But first on the news banter, M-I-C-E-Y, did Bob Eiger suddenly resign as the CEO of Disney.
0:58.2	Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.
1:06.3	I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.
1:10.7	Hello, Matt.
1:11.3	Hi there. Well, this past week, Monday brought the Harvey Weinstein conviction, which was huge news, obviously, around the world.
1:20.5	And then Tuesday brings Bob Eiger's very abrupt resignation of CEO of the Walt Disney Company. And this caught Hollywood so off guard.
1:31.0	I'm flattered by how many people in the Hollywood community thought I would understand what had
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