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The Business

In Bombay with Slumdog Millionaire; American Film Market

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2008

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We talk to director Danny Boyle about making his new film in India, a country that's on the move, but still sometimes on the make.  Plus, the bizarre bazaar that is the American Film Market.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodeccer Ackner, and this is The Business.

0:04.7

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes.

0:09.5

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at.

0:12.0

But prepare yourself for the brakes, check it out.

0:14.3

This week on the business, we'll talk to director Danny Boyle about making his new film in India,

0:19.6

the country that's always on the move, but sometimes on the make.

0:23.4

Plus, the bizarre, bizarre that is the American film market.

0:27.6

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

0:30.2

Go nowhere, it's the business from KCRW.

0:42.4

It's the Hollywood News Caravan. special Threat to Traditional Marriage and Family Values Edition.

0:48.2

The passage of California's anti-gay Proposition 8 seems to have had little effect on showtime.

0:55.2

In fact, the pay cable network, sometimes called the gay cable network, was already known for shows like Queer's Folk and The L Word. But now, their same-sex partnering with the decidedly un-gay

1:01.2

comic book legend, Stan Lee. Lee will produce a new hour-long show about a gay teenage superhero

1:07.1

who struggles to keep two secret identities hidden. He's a spandex wearing crime fighter,

1:13.0

and he's a guy who just really likes spandex. The show is based on the novel Hero by Perry Moore,

1:19.4

who's adapting it for the screen. Confounding those on the religious right who are sure to be

1:24.0

offended by the new show, Moore is also the producer of the not-so-suddly Christian-themed

1:29.2

Chronicles of Narnia films. Meanwhile, as the website Defamer recently noted, the last remaining

1:35.3

Disney Channel actress not to have nude photos of herself leak online has leaked. Adrian Bailon, a member of

1:42.8

Disney's Cheetah Girls musical trio, announced that her

1:45.5

laptop had been stolen, that nude photos of herself were now at large, and that she was going to sue

1:51.1

whomever was behind the dastardly deed. But then, the Cheetah Girl changed her spots. Last week,

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