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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. I didn't want a job on another television comedy, even though I had had such a great time on Third Rock from the Sun.

I wanted to do other things,

and convincing people that you can do something

that they haven't seen you do before is very difficult.

Actor Joseph Gordon Levitt returns to television

with a new kind of variety show,

created by his company,

hit record. Thousands of artists contribute online and they even get paid. Then an indie producer

gives an unknown writer a Sundance education. But first on the Hollywood news banter, a bit

of what went on at Sundance this year. Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by a guest fellow banterer, Ben Fritz of the Wall Street Journal.

Hello, Ben.

Hi, Kim.

So, Ben, you and I were both just in Sundance, enjoying the clear, cool air of Park City, Utah, and seeing some movies. You have been doing some

reporting on the state of Sundance this year. In the past, we've seen some wild and crazy

bidding, some huge numbers a few years ago in 2006, over $10 million for Little Miss Sunshine,

which, of course, went on to be a huge hit. Just last year, the way, way back, sold for how much?

It was a 9.75 million.

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