4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kim Masters and Matt Belloni examine FuboTV’s $1 billion lawsuit seeking to halt the development of the recently announced Fox, Disney, and Warner Brothers Discovery sports streaming service. They also take a look at Sony’s struggles with live action Marvel films.
Plus, Masters speaks to filmmaker and war correspondent Mstyslav Chernov about his documentary, 20 Days in Mariupol. The BAFTA-winning director shares how an Associated Press assignment in war-torn Ukraine turned into a devastating Oscar contender for best documentary. He also talks about the importance of keeping the world’s eyes on the war in Ukraine.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.6 | Filmmaker and war correspondent Mistoslav Chernoff faced grave danger shooting his Oscar-nominated documentary, 20 Days in Mariupol. |
0:13.4 | But he couldn't stand idly by while Vladimir Putin's army laid waste to his homeland. |
0:19.4 | You can't really stop bleeding with a photo or a video. |
0:23.6 | You cannot resurrect the dead by making a film. |
0:26.9 | But you still stay in there because when the crime is happening and you're just standing |
0:32.7 | aside and not doing anything, you feel like you are participating in the crime. |
0:37.2 | The BAFTA winning director |
0:38.7 | shares how an associated press assignment in war-torn Ukraine led to his devastating Oscar contender |
0:44.6 | for Best Documentary. He also talks about the importance of keeping the world's eyes on the war in |
0:50.2 | Ukraine. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my |
0:58.2 | associate in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So neither one of us is surprised that a lawsuit |
1:04.5 | has been filed over this sports entity that Fox Disney and Warner Brothers Discovery have announced where they are going to |
1:12.1 | keep these various sports properties where you would originally watch them now if you want to |
1:17.5 | continue to watch them that way on Turner or wherever. But they are also going to create the streamer, |
1:22.9 | which is going to be like year-round sports. People are calling this spulu. That's the made-up nickname in Hollywood. |
1:29.4 | So this is a big deal or could be, but Fubo has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit. |
1:34.8 | I mean, a billion dollars. |
1:35.7 | People name numbers and lawsuits all the time, but, you know, trying to make an impression here, a billion dollars. |
1:40.4 | And they are claiming that this is putting them at a huge disadvantage and that |
1:45.4 | these companies have twisted their arm to carry expensive stuff they don't want. And now they're |
1:50.5 | saying this is an antitrust problem and that this needs to stop. Yeah, it's an interesting one here |
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