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

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Everybody thinks his own business, business, really, really, all the right life.

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This week on the business, Jason Schwartzman was a musician before he was an actor.

Now he's teamed up with old friend Woody Jackson to compose a movie score.

Plus, Keanu Reeves makes a documentary about a revolution in the movie business.

But first, it's the Hollywood news ban business. But first, it's the Hollywood

news banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. You can imagine Hollywood, everything

is really driven by making money. What's with him? Here. I'm joined by my fellow banterer,

John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John. Hello, Kim. So, John, we've talked about the studios facing big challenges in today's world before, and now the numbers are in for the summer, and they, in terms of ticket sales, I mean, and they are not good. No, this is a period of time where 40% of all tickets are sold. So the fact that

revenues were down 3% is one thing. The fact that actual tickets sold was off 4%. The lowest

level in 19 years, which incidentally is when record keeping started, is I think much more

worrisome. The idea of movie going as a habit seems to be fading. Yeah, we have seen a couple of really big hits, The Avengers and Dark Night Rises, and Spider-Man, that rebooted Spider-Man from Sony did well.

But otherwise, things were pretty grim, and there are a couple of mitigating factors that studio executives talk about, one of which is the tragedy in Colorado and the fact that people may have been

dissuaded from going to the theaters for a while. And the other is the Olympics, which were,

you know, a huge rating success as we've talked about for NBC this summer. But beyond that,

I think the fact is we've been in a sort of a summer of have and have-nots in the studios and they have knots have gotten hit pretty hard. Definitely. There are a ton of movies like

Dark Shadows and Battleship, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, that failed to do really any business

at all. And I think if you talk to enough studio executives, they say it's not just that people go to the

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