'Hobbit' Movie Strife; 'Tiny Furniture' Filmmaker Lena Dunham
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2010
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Hobbit movies have suffered a cursed road to the screen marked by studio financing problems, the loss of director Guillermo del Toro and a fire at a New Zealand studio. But nothing generated so much public anger and government attention as when the actors tried to unionize and Warner Bros threatened to move the $500 million production out of New Zealand. Jonathan Handel, contributing editor to the Hollywood Reporter, breaks down the high drama and big dollars involved. Plus, young filmmaker Lena Dunham, who wowed people with her little personal movie, Tiny Furniture, is the hottest new thing in Hollywood...
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.5 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:12.1 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:17.9 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.3 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.6 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:22.9 | Hollywood. |
| 0:24.5 | This week on the business, fans of The Hobbit rejoice. |
| 0:27.9 | Warner Brothers rewrites the law in New Zealand to get that project underway at last. |
| 0:33.0 | Plus, young filmmaker Lena Dunham makes a tiny movie and gets some not so tiny deals. |
| 0:38.7 | But first, the Hollywood News banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:44.2 | You can imagine Hollywood. Everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:49.5 | What's with him? |
| 0:50.3 | I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. Hollywood. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm joined in the studio by my banter buddy John Horn of Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello, John. Hello, Kim. |
| 1:01.3 | So John, your colleague, Patrick Goldstein, had a column in the LA Times very recently about the really, I have to say, shocking R rating for the King's Speech, which is a movie, as you know, starring Colin Firth with a very strong, I think, best actor chances. |
| 1:17.8 | And it's about King George of England and his inability to speak without stammering. |
| 1:23.5 | And his coach, his tutor or what do you call, his therapist. |
| 1:26.4 | His speech therapist, Lionel Logue, played by Jeffrey Rush. |
| 1:29.2 | Right. And this movie, it's all about language and no imagery. And as Patrick Goldstein said in his column, he just really took the MPA ratings board to the woodshed for this one. |
| 1:41.8 | Well, I think what's amazing about this film is that it was given |
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