Pixar: There's a (Pete) Docter in the House
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Pixar scored big with Up! this year, and now they're seven for seven. We chat with a member of the company's original brain trust and the director of Up! about Oscars, 3-D and making movies that almost everyone loves. Plus, James Cameron's Avatar cost hundreds of millions to make. How much green does it need to earn to put Fox in the black?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.6 | If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:12.2 | Everybody thinks he'll business, really, really, all right life. |
| 0:18.0 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.6 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.6 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:22.9 | This week on the business, Pixar scored big with Up this year. |
| 0:26.9 | That makes those guys seven for seven. |
| 0:29.2 | We'll chat with a member of the company's original brain trust |
| 0:32.1 | and the director of its latest hit about Oscars, 3D, |
| 0:36.2 | and making movies that almost everybody loves. |
| 0:39.5 | Plus, James Cameron's avatar cost hundreds of millions to make. |
| 0:44.1 | So how much green does it need to earn to get into the black? |
| 0:47.8 | But next, it's the Hollywood News banter. |
| 0:50.1 | Stay close. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:54.1 | You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by Stay close. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:59.3 | You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. |
| 1:00.2 | What's with him? |
| 1:03.3 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:10.1 | John, how are things? |
| 1:14.8 | I have left the L.A. Times holiday party to be with you. So... So speaking of cheerfulness, let's talk about the Golden Globe nominations. We are not... |
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