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The Business

Hollywood Bollywood and Vice Versa

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

India's Reliance Big just made a major investment in Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks. Has another sucker landed on our shores, or has Hollywood finally met its match? And while India is coming to Hollywood, one Hollywood production went to India –  tales from Bombay with the producers of Bollywood Hero.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Matt Holesman sitting in for Kim Masters,

0:06.4

and this is the business.

0:08.3

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.

0:14.0

Everybody takes your business and business, really, really, all right life.

0:19.8

He doesn't clean, clean.

0:20.7

What's with him?

0:22.4

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

0:24.8

This week on the business, an Indian conglomerate just made a major investment in Hollywood.

0:29.9

Has show business landed another sucker, or has it finally met its match?

0:34.5

And while India is coming to Hollywood, one Hollywood production went to India,

0:39.1

tales from the Bombay backlots with the producers of Bollywood Hero.

0:43.5

Stay tuned, you're listening to The Business from KCRW.

0:48.4

I can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

0:53.8

What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood. Everything is really driven by making money. What's with him?

0:54.7

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. Hollywood.

0:59.7

Even before Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars, India's Reliance Big Entertainment had swept

1:06.5

into Hollywood. They made deals with some of the best-known celebrity shingles like

1:10.5

George Clooney's Smokehouse Productions and Brad Pitt's Plan B. They made deals with some of the best-known celebrity shingles like George Clooney's

1:11.3

smokehouse productions and Brad Pitt's Plan B. They bought movie theaters and post-production

1:16.3

houses. And last week, Reliance finally closed a $325 million deal to help fund the latest

1:23.0

incarnation of Steven Spielberg's DreamWork Studio. But just who is Reliance Big? Well, they're big. They make

1:31.6

movies and TV and own theaters and TV and radio stations. Even bigger, they're owned by Reliance

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