Making 'Veronica Mars;' Breaking the Law to Make a Movie

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The creator of "Veronica Mars," and the indie filmmaker who broke the law to make a movie.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kim Masters, host of the business at KCRW. We're going to start the podcast in just a few seconds, but first, I want to ask you for your support.
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0:25.6	Thanks so much, and here's the show.
0:27.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:34.6	We need to stick the landing. We need, you know, the movie needs to make money.
0:39.3	It needs to be well received by the fans.
0:41.9	And if that happens, I'm hopeful that more movies follow down this path.
0:47.8	Rob Thomas, creator of the Veronica Mars TV show,
0:50.8	on realizing his dream of making a movie based on the series with the help of more than 91,000 fans.
0:58.7	Then a filmmaker tells how he bilked Massachusetts out of millions and ended up doing hard time.
1:05.3	But first on the Hollywood news banter, blowback on the casting of Tiger Lily in Peter Pan.
1:13.4	Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.
1:22.9	I'm joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John. Hello, Kim.
1:35.3	So, John, whenever people are listening to this before, during, or after the weekend, we can be confident that Divergent will have opened big another Y.A. success story for Lionsgate.
1:39.0	Yeah, people are estimating it could do as much as $60 million in its first weekend.
1:42.0	Anywhere in that range is going to be hugely successful.
1:45.0	In fact, Lionsgate is so optimistic about its prospects.
1:49.3	They are starting to make the sequel even before the first Divergent hits theaters.
1:54.3	Yeah, and for Lionsgate, this is a company that acquired Summit a few years back, which gave it the Twilight series that was then underway. They followed. They have the Hunger Games movies,
1:59.7	and now this. They are really batting strongly
2:02.8	with this kind of property. And I think it's probably the envy of a lot of other studios because
2:07.5	they are franchises and those, as you know, are the most valuable thing in the world to studios.
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