Comedy is back: ‘The Lost City’ hits $100 million in theaters

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Brothers Aaron and Adam Nee are the directing-duo behind the hit movie “The Lost City,” starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, and Brad Pitt. They’ve been collaborators since childhood. Adam says, “In prepping, we really get inside of each other's heads – and we just know each other so well, and have the same kind of ideas and taste, so that allows us to be on the same page on set.” And in another Disney shakeup, CEO Bob Chapek fired head of television content Peter Rice. Dana Walden is now the Chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content, where she will oversee original programming for Disney’s broadcast, cable, and streaming networks.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:05.6	The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, has pulled off the unlikely feat of grossing $100 million at the domestic box office.
0:14.6	This at a time when romantic comedies aren't even supposed to work in theaters anymore.
0:19.3	Adam and Aaron Ney are the directing duo behind the film
0:22.2	as two of nine kids in their family, the brothers joke about deciding which sibling to team up with.
0:28.6	Which one's it going to be? We auditioned to all of us. Yeah, we had lots of rounds of auditions and
0:33.8	interviews and callbacks. I had a monologue. I did a song.
0:38.6	I had to do a whole deck,
0:40.5	like just show him that I could direct with him.
0:42.6	The Nieb brothers talk about finding their way from micro-budget indies to the Lost City
0:44.9	and the upcoming Masters of the Universe.
0:47.5	But first, we banter.
0:49.0	Stick around.
0:49.6	It's the business from KCRW.
0:56.7	I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany.
0:59.7	Hello, Matt.
1:00.4	Hi there.
1:01.1	So, Matt, the town is very much shaken again by a move from Disney CEO, Bob Chappick.
1:08.0	He fired Peter Rice, who is the head of basically all television content at Disney.
1:14.4	Peter Rice, one of the truly long-term respected executives in this town. He was at Fox for years.
1:21.6	He started in film. He moved to television. He's been groomed. One potential problem is, of course,
1:27.0	that he was groomed and people
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