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

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But first, the Hollywood News banter. Universal changes the focus at Focus Features.

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I am joined in the studio by my co-banterer John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So John, in the independent film world, big news, the exit of James Seamus, a long-time indie filmmaking

sort of hero from Focus Features, which is the Art House branch of Universal. And this is definitely

a sign that times are a changing. Yeah, times are definitely a change. If you take a look at where

the studios are in this game compared to just a couple of years ago, they're really abandoning the art house or specialized film business. Disney used to have Miramax, they no longer do.

Paramount used to have Paramount Advantage, they no longer do. Warnher Brothers used to have

Warned Independent Pictures, they no longer do. So the studios that are still in the game, Fox

with Fox Searchlight and Sony with Sony Pictures classics. Focus Features is a company that made a lot of really good movies.

They weren't highly profitable in 2012 was, according to some people, their worst year in recent memory, but they did have Moonrise Kingdom.

They had Anakrinna, they had Brokeback Mountain.

They made good movies.

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