Replay: Bradley Cooper on future of movie business: ‘There is trepidation’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Business revisits its most popular episode of 2022: part two of a conversation with multi-hyphenate Bradley Cooper. To get a shot at directing his remake of “A Star is Born,” Cooper passed on an upfront payday in exchange for a piece of the profit. And that gamble paid off. But as Cooper is painfully aware, the movie business has changed. “Those days are completely gone,” Cooper says. “So, there is trepidation I have with that, no question. And I have thought: I really have to actively start thinking about other ways of making revenue that have maybe nothing to do with movie making.” In part two of this interview with Cooper, he shares his worries about the streaming future. He also remembers picking up filmmaking tips on the set of “Alias.” And he shares how he created the memorable voice of Marvel’s Rocket Raccoon.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:04.9	This week, we revisit our conversation with multi-hyphenate Bradley Cooper.
0:09.3	To get a shot at directing his remake of a star is born, Cooper passed on an upfront payday
0:14.4	in exchange for a piece of the profit, and that gamble paid off.
0:18.4	But as he is painfully aware, the movie business has changed.
0:22.5	Those days are completely gone. So there is trepidation I have with that. No question. No question.
0:29.5	And I have thought like I really have to actively start thinking about other ways of making revenue that have maybe nothing to do with movie making.
0:39.3	In part two of our interview, which originally aired this past January, Bradley Cooper worries about the streaming future.
0:45.3	He also remembers picking up filmmaking tips on the set of Ailius and shares how he landed the memorable voice of Marvel's Rocket Raccoon. But first, fresh banter,
0:56.2	looking ahead at 2023. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by not one but two
1:05.7	colleagues in banter, Matt Bellany, founding partner of Puck News and Lucas Shaw, head of the
1:09.9	entertainment team at Bloomberg.
1:11.9	Hello, gentlemen. Hello. Great to be here. It is great to have you here. We are in person.
1:16.6	We are looking at the year ahead, and there are a couple of big looming issues, and I am going to ask my
1:22.8	banter buddies here for their opinion. Lucas, strike or no strike in 2023? I've been leaning no, but I might be
1:31.2	about to change my mind. The no for me is just, I don't know that the writers want to go through
1:36.0	another painful labor dispute, especially if there's a major recession. However, the last time
1:42.7	there was one of these disputes, one of the reasons I don't think
1:45.3	there was a big work stoppage is because the studios really needed fresh product. And I think now
1:51.3	that a lot of the studios would actually be fine if a strike happened because they're all looking
1:55.6	to save money. And if they didn't have to spend a bunch of money on new things, they would find
2:00.0	other ways to fill the gaps and they could sell that to Wall Street. I think I'm coming around to the idea that there
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