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

I don't think that the producing and finding financing for your movies means that you are a shrewd business. I don't think that the producing and finding financing for your movies

means that you are a shrewd businessman.

It means that you want to have control over the process of what you do,

which I think is the most important way of owning

and really making sure that you are expressing yourself.

Call Me By Your Name Director Luca Guadagnino knows that some people might be reluctant

to watch his latest film, The Cannibal Romance, Bones and All. He explains what drew him to

the project and the self-proclaimed workaholic talks about his other recent film, the high-fashioned

documentary Salvatore Shoemaker of Dreams. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the

business from KCRW. I am joined by my colleague in banter Matt Bellney. Hello, Matt. Hi there.

So, Matt, as you well know, Netflix paid an eye-watering $465 million, almost half a billion dollars,

for two sequels, two knives out, which was initially a regular theatrical movie that

played until it exhausted its window, made a lot of money, but Netflix jumped in there and

they bought it. And I guess to make the deal, they agreed that

with Ryan Johnson, the director and his producer, that they would do something they'd never done

before, which is to run it for a week in 600 theaters. The first time they've done a deal with

the big theater chains, AMC and Regal. And then they would pull it. A month will pass and on

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