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The Business

Davis Guggenheim's Career Evolution & 'He Named Me Malala'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Early in his career, Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim declared he would never make documentaries. He tells us about the bad experience in Hollywood that made him have a change of heart, and talks about his newest film, He Named Me Malala, which profiles activist Malala Yousafzai and her family.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having. You can find Left, Right and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:17.8

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

0:24.6

So I didn't decide to go back in the documentaries. I was just unemployed, desperate, and in a pit of

0:30.3

despair, and I said, I'm going to make a movie about people I like.

0:34.7

For filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, making documentaries was never the plan. He was a TV guy

0:40.4

working on shows like NYPD Blue and Deadwood with hopes of making feature films. It looked like he was

0:46.7

going to get his chance with Training Day until he was abruptly fired. Guggenheim tells us how

0:52.4

getting unceremoniously canned from the Denzel Washington thriller

0:56.0

set him on a course to directing movies with a message, from the Oscar-winning doc, an inconvenient

1:01.2

truth, to his latest film, he named me Malala. But first on the news banter is Warner's

1:06.9

looking at Tarzan trouble, and Homeland gets magnificently pranked.

1:12.0

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

1:19.0

I am joined by my banter buddy, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

1:22.6

Hello, Matt.

1:23.3

Hello.

1:23.9

So Warner Brothers has been in the news.

1:25.5

It seems like what we have been waiting for and looking for is how Kevin Sujahara,

1:29.3

who was named head of the studio a couple of years ago, a guy who had no film or TV production,

1:34.3

had been in their sort of digital space trying to make something of that.

1:39.1

Not a ton of success, but an MBA, very much a suit, very presentable on Wall Street. He was named head of

1:45.7

the whole Warner Brothers studio. Jeff Robinoff, who ran the film studio, very capably left.

1:51.9

And he, Kevin Sujahara, appointed like a triumvirate of executives to run that film studio.

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