Ed Zwick recounts his ‘Glory Days’; Disney dishes Q1 surprises

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Kim Masters and Matt Belloni take a look at the big surprises revealed during Disney’s Q1 earnings call. They also dive into the announcement of ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox’s joint sports streaming service set to debut this year.

Plus, Masters speaks to writer-director Ed Zwick about his new memoir, Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood. The filmmaker shares lessons learned from his decades-spanning career in the industry, and he reads excerpts from the book, including stories from the making of the 1989 film Glory and how he nearly directed an early iteration of Shakespeare in Love, which he would later end up producing and winning an Oscar for Best Picture.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:05.8	In his new memoir, hits, flops, and other illusions,
0:09.3	writer-director Edswick recounts the many twists and turns of his long career.
0:14.0	That includes the positively harrowing time he had with a young Matthew Broderick
0:18.6	during the making of the Civil War film Glory.
0:21.5	I have forgiven him long ago,
0:23.4	but I felt that if I was going to write an authentic book,
0:25.9	that I was obliged to tell the whole truth
0:28.3	about myself as well at times in less favorable light.
0:31.6	And this was one of those moments.
0:33.2	The irony, of course, was he then went on
0:34.8	and did wonderful work in the movie,
0:36.5	and the movie has endured.
0:38.6	Zwick shares stories and lessons from his years in the industry, but first we banter.
0:43.2	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
0:47.2	I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.
0:51.0	Hi there.
0:51.9	So, Disney, Disney has come out with a lot of announcements,
0:58.3	forward-looking things that are going well at our company in their latest earnings call.
1:03.9	I'm going to just try and list some of them, maybe I'm going to forget. And this is in no particular
1:08.1	order. They announced a surprise Moana movie coming in November.
1:13.0	It's a sequel. Somehow they kept that below the radar, even though, in my experience,
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