4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Illeana Douglas on going from actress to webseries entrepreneur. Plus, Oscar-winning make-up artist Lois Burwell.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:05.7 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want |
0:09.5 | next time. |
0:11.3 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all the white life, he doesn't clean. |
0:18.9 | What's with him? |
0:19.8 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
0:21.6 | This week on the business, actress Eliana Douglas was frustrated by failed |
0:28.6 | TV pilots, so she pitched a web series in which she plays herself working at IKEA. |
0:33.6 | Now, easy to assemble, is in its fourth season. Plus, turning Daniel DeLewis into Abraham Lincoln. |
0:41.1 | But first, it's the Hollywood News banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
0:46.5 | I can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
0:53.7 | What's with him? When? I am joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John. |
0:59.8 | Hello, Kim. So, John, as you know, huge piece of business for Netflix and Disney this week. A huge deal that in the view of Netflix, certainly, transforms it into the equivalent of maybe an HBO or Showtime. |
1:13.3 | Yeah, absolutely. And you don't have to subscribe to DirecTV or have Time Warner cable to get it. |
1:18.1 | I mean, this to me is, you use the word transformative. I think that's absolutely right. |
1:23.1 | A lot of money for a three-year deal that doesn't start until 2016, a billion dollars, a ton of money, but I think it really does change the landscape. |
1:31.6 | We've talked a lot about Netflix and its evolution, a lot of bumps in the road. |
1:35.7 | And now with this deal, Netflix previously only had kind of secondary and tertiary content from companies like Relativity Media and Film District. |
1:43.4 | Now it has Pixar, it has Marvel, |
1:46.0 | it has Disney, it has some catalog stuff. It is now a major movie supplier. And it's taken this |
1:51.4 | deal from Stars, which, as you know, is a cable company. And I think it really says a lot about the |
1:56.1 | changing nature of how people watch and where they watch movies. Netflix had established itself as a place where you maybe watched Mad Men. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KCRW, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of KCRW and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.