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The Business

How We Watch TV and Movies Today and in the Future

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

From binge viewing to streaming, Joshua Topolsky on how tech innovation is changing the way we watch TV and movies.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

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

0:10.2

This week on. This week on... What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

0:24.0

This week on business, are you frustrated and confused by the myriad options for watching TV shows and movies?

0:30.8

We try to sort it out with Joshua Topolsky.

0:33.7

He's the co-founder of the website The Verge and a frequent guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

0:39.1

But first, the Hollywood News banter.

0:41.1

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

0:44.4

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

0:51.5

What's with him?

0:52.4

I'm joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

0:56.8

Hello, John.

0:57.6

Hello, Kim.

0:58.4

So John, CinemaCon in Vegas is just wrapped up.

1:01.7

It's an event that takes place every year where theater owners get together.

1:05.2

Each studio lines up and trots out.

1:07.8

It's upcoming, usually hitting the summer movies hardest, but in some cases

1:11.5

beyond that, you know, they show reels from the Lone Ranger. Disney does from Hangover 3. If

1:18.9

Warner Brothers, Fox showed something from Walter Middy, which is upcoming with Ben Stiller. So this is

1:25.0

an event where the industry gets together and they sort of made some news, right?

1:29.5

Yeah, generally it's a backslap fest where everybody's congratulating each other on how great they're doing.

1:34.8

But there was a little bit of news from the Motion Picture Association, which does the movie ratings.

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