'Paranormal Activity 2;' Pixar's Top Woman
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We hear from Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum on the challenge of making a sequel to the 2009 break-out hit. This time with studio backing from Paramount, the producers had to find a way to make the follow-up true to the ethos of its micro-budget original. Plus, producer of Toy Story 3, Darla K. Anderson -- the lone woman in Pixar's famed brain trust. She weighs in on gender dynamics at this successful studio and in the movie business as a whole while addressing the controversy over Pixar firing its first female director.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.5 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want |
| 0:10.3 | this time. |
| 0:22.7 | This week on the business, this week on the What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:31.7 | This week on the business, the producer of paranormal activity on making a sequel to a big hit that still looks like a small indie movie. |
| 0:35.1 | Plus, the only female member of Pixar's Brain Trust. |
| 0:37.1 | But first, the Hollywood news banter. |
| 0:39.7 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:47.6 | You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. What's with him? |
| 0:54.4 | I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. Hollywood. I'm joined by my banter buddy, John Horn. |
| 0:59.2 | On the phone, there's been some house cleaning over there at the Tribune Company, |
| 1:03.2 | but apparently they still haven't fixed the connection to your studio at the L.A. Times. |
| 1:08.2 | It says a lot about Sam Zell's Tribune Corporation that we now have worse facilities than public radio. |
| 1:09.6 | It's a sad day. |
| 1:14.1 | I'll tell you who's going to have some very nice facilities and already does is Jim Cameron. |
| 1:16.7 | Fox has pulled off quite a coup. |
| 1:21.3 | They've brought him back into the fold for not one but two sequels to Avatar. |
| 1:25.3 | This is something that will tie Cameron up for the next five years. |
| 1:25.7 | Right. |
| 1:28.0 | He'll film both movies back to back. He'll probably start production in late 2011, so the first movie of the sequels won't be in theaters till late |
| 1:33.7 | 2014 with a second movie in 2015. And obviously for a movie that grossed as much money as the |
| 1:39.5 | first Avatar did, almost $3 billion around the globe and a ton of money on DVD. |
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