Hi, I'm Kim Masters. Thanks for listening to the business podcast. You know, KCRW produces another podcast

that you might want to check out. My frequent banter buddy, Michael Schneider, hosts it. It's called the

spin-off. It's about television, industry insights and trends and shows that we watch or shows that we

don't. Find the spinoff on KCRW's iTunes page.

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

I want this internship if you all want to offer to me, but I need you to know I can't work on the Sabbath because I didn't want to go through this door of opportunity, leaving my faith outside.

Devon Franklin comes from a devout family that never wanted him to work in Hollywood,

but the producer and former Sony Pictures executive has kept the faith.

But first on the news banter, Hollywood reels at the Sony hack attack.

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my colleague in banter,

Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael. Hello, Kim. So Michael, as you know,

this is a fast-moving story we're about to talk about. So by the time this is even being heard,

podcast, broadcast, whatever, things

could have changed. But as we speak now, the town is absolutely transfixed, and I would say

quite horrified by this massive hack attack on Sony pictures. And it seems that any file ever

generated at Sony has now been put online. Yeah, this is sort of Hollywood's version of WikiLeaks to

some degree. Everything, you know, of Hollywood's version of WikiLeaks to some degree.

Everything, you know, confidential information about more than 3,800 employees from Sony.

We've got salary numbers.

We've got, you know, emails, passwords, and even five different movies have been uploaded now and are available for streaming.

So even Brad Pitt's Movie Fury and the upcoming movie Annie.

Yeah, Annie is a movie that we're actually going to talk about today on the show.

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