'Paranormal Activity' Gets Life; Thalberg Changed Hollywood

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A producer who was haunted by passing on the Blair Witch Project produces a low-budget horror film with big hopes of redemption. Plus Irving Thalberg changed the studio system. Now his life is on display.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:06.3	You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.
0:12.0	Everybody takes your business, really, really, all white life.
0:17.8	He doesn't clean, clean.
0:19.5	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.
0:22.6	This week on the business, a producer is haunted because he passed on the Blair Witch Project.
0:28.6	Can he get a do-over with another ultra-low-budget horror film?
0:32.6	Plus a look back at the executive known as the Boy Wonder.
0:36.6	But first, the Hollywood news banter.
0:38.7	Stay close.
0:39.4	It's the business from KCRW.
0:44.2	You can imagine Hollywood.
0:46.1	Everything is really driven by making money.
0:49.3	What's with him?
0:50.2	Where?
0:50.8	No, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.
0:53.3	Hollywood.
0:59.3	I'm joined in the studio by the business guest banterer John Horn from the Los Angeles Times.
1:05.0	John will be sitting in for Matt during the month of October when Matt is off on an Arctic adventure, and I mean that.
1:06.6	John, welcome aboard.
1:07.6	Happy to be here.
1:21.5	We have a lot of breaking news this time, and we're going to have to do the best we can, taping a few days before we air. The big breaking story right now is that NBC Universal appears very much to be in play. Coming off, their incredibly good summer, too.
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