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

If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

Everybody takes your business, really, really, all right life.

He doesn't clean, clean.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

James Cameron's Avatar isn't just a hugely expensive sci-fi adventure.

It's a Titanic bid to transform movies.

This week on the business will get inside the mind of one of Hollywood's most original and controversial players with Rebecca Kagan,

author of the new book, The Futurist, The Life and Films of James Cameron.

But next, it's the Hollywood News banter. Stay close, it's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

I'm joined in the studio by John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hi, John.

Hi, Kim.

Okay, so as we record, the news of the day is NBC Universal. The deal with Comcast is done. I think what's fascinating is that, you know,

the whole business has changed so dramatically that a couple of years ago, I was talking to

somebody who used to work at Universal and he said NBC used to make a billion dollars every year

as a network and now it loses money. So the whole dynamics of what Comcast is buying are totally different from

how we saw them just five years ago. And we know that the jewels and the crown are the cable

channels, USA and Bravo, and that they happen to be buying this broadcast network and a film studio.

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