Peter Jackson: ‘I can talk about The Beatles till the cows come home’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Filmmaker Peter Jackson was 3 years old when The Beatles first appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on February 9,1964. His family didn’t own a television and he didn’t see the original airing because he believes New Zealand didn’t broadcast the TV show. “Even though I was born in 1961, I kind of don't really have a story or any memory of The Beatles in the ‘60s, which is crazy because I lived all the way through that period,” Jackson remarks. His parents were not “rock and rollers,” he says, but he recalls hearing the band “endlessly through ‘65, ‘66, ‘67 because the radio was playing nothing else.” Sixty years later, he produced and directed the Disney+ docuseries “The Beatles: Get Back,” about the making of the 1970 documentary “Let It Be.” Jackson’s series has been nominated for several Emmys, and the award-winning director discusses what led him to tackle this documentary project, and how his labor of love morphed from being a feature film to a series. But first, Kim Masters and Matt Belloni, founding partner of Puck News, discuss the Disney+ positive quarterly results, and what the decision to raise subscription prices mean for consumers, and the future of its streaming services.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:05.3	It was only supposed to be a movie, but with reels and reels of footage to work with,
0:09.9	Oscar winner Peter Jackson ultimately put together a three-part, nearly eight-hour
0:14.7	docu-series on the making of the 1970 Beatles album, Let It Be.
0:19.1	I mean, I probably ended up spending two years longer on it than I thought I was.
0:22.8	Who cares?
0:23.8	I mean, it was just the great spirit was great.
0:25.8	It was just like, you know, money and the dollars was not the primary thought.
0:28.9	Labor of love.
0:29.7	Absolutely.
0:30.6	Director Peter Jackson talks about the joy of working with Paul and Ringo on the making of the Disney Plus series Get Back.
0:39.0	But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my associate and banter Matt Bellany.
0:45.3	Hello, Matt. Hi there. So Disney, Disney's results better than expected all over the place, strong
0:51.9	theme park, strong this, strong that, beat expectations
0:54.9	adding more subscribers than they had anticipated. They've got a nice big number now. Of course,
1:00.7	the aggregate number of subscribers, as we're seeing, is no longer the simple measure of success
1:05.7	anymore. That's not we are looking at a world where how much money you get out of each
1:10.0	person who's consuming your product is more important than just this many subscribers.
1:15.5	So Disney did do very well, and they took the opportunity to sock their customers in the wallet.
1:22.2	Chapic is known as a cost cutter and a price raiser, Bob Chapic, the CEO.
1:26.5	But in this case, you know, as we have discussed,
1:29.8	streaming is a very difficult, expensive game, and it just could not go on in the sort of
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