From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

When a movie doesn't work, everybody points fingers at everybody else.

When a movie works, everybody points fingers to themselves.

I'm neither of those guys.

So, like, I'm here, and I'm saying, when a movie doesn't work, put it on me.

Like, I'm the writer-director of the movie.

The movie didn't connect with audiences.

That's on me. A big flop is painful even to the most successful filmmakers.

That didn't stop writer-producer Simon Kinberg from sharing exclusively with the business,

his perspective on what went wrong with Dark Phoenix.

Kinberg has worked as a writer and producer on the X-Men movie franchise since 2006.

He wrote Dark Phoenix, and it was his directorial debut. The film got

panned by critics and opened to only $33 million in the U.S., the lowest of any of the X-Men

movies. He tells us about the reshoots, release date changes, and working at Fox as it was

being swallowed by Disney. But first on the news banter is Game of Thrones a category killer?

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

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

Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So, Matt, Emmy voting is underway. The drama category, I think some of the

otherwise competitive shows, which are now starting to come onto your screens, might have been

there sooner, except that they are looking at Game of Thrones, which is considered potentially

something that will dominate

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