Indie Film, Indeed

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Did you love Juno or Slumdog Millionaire? Then you should be worried about independent film as money dries up and the studios are giving up on art house movies. We talk with a man at the center of it all – John Cooper, the newly appointed head of the Sundance Film Festival. Plus, indie film may be facing tough times, but film festivals haven't got the memo.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:12.5	This week on The Business, did you love Juno or Slumdog Millionaire? Then you should be worried
0:18.1	about independent film, as money dries up and the studios are giving up on art house movies.
0:23.8	We talk with a man at the center of it all, John Cooper, the newly appointed head of the Sundance Film Festival.
0:30.0	Plus, indie film may be facing tough times, but film festivals haven't got the memo.
0:35.3	We'll go around the world and back on the film festival circuit.
0:38.8	But first, we've got Hollywood news banter. Stay close. It's the business from KCRW.
0:49.3	I'm joined in the studio by the business producer, Matt Holfman.
0:53.3	And as we speak, partners at William Morris and Endeavour are talking merger.
0:58.6	Yes, we believe they are.
1:00.4	Well, they're not talking to us or to any reporters on the record.
1:06.0	However, there is a view that this old, stayed, William Morris and young endeavor may, in fact, try to pull off a merger, which would be quite a feat.
1:16.2	And you may ask, why now?
1:17.6	Why now?
1:18.9	Well, I don't know, but I will tell you that Endeavor, I am told.
1:23.9	Endeavor is very film and television dependent.
1:26.5	During the writer's strike, I am told they were stretched very thin. The head of Endeavor, Ari Emanuel, who will forever be known as the model for Ari Gold in the entourage, is a very aggressive guy, wants to get big, big, big, and wants to have different departments, such as music, which William Morris has. That's one of William Morris's strongest
1:44.8	departments. So they do have business departments that are complementary to each other. However,
1:50.1	from the standpoint, personality is not so much. Not so complimentary. And that's the part that people
1:54.6	are just absolutely flummox by. Yes. This is a little bit, what did you say to me earlier?
2:00.2	It's kind of like a high school kid is dating Dame Judy Dench. Yes, this is a little bit, what did you say to me earlier? It's kind of like a high school kid is dating Dame Judy Dench.
2:03.9	Yes, I'm sure that Endeavour would be flattered by that analogy.
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