From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Director Rod Lurie's new movie The Outpost is a video-on-demand success story that almost never was.

Based on Jake Tapper's book, The Outpost, An Untold Story of American Valor,

the film follows a group of soldiers who battled a deadly Taliban attack

in a remote part of Afghanistan. This project met with obstacles every step of the way,

budget constraints, an actor's broken ankle, but the real tragedy came when Lurie was called

away from the production in Bulgaria due to the unexpected death of his son, Hunter. Lurie tells us why this terrible loss turned the movie into a mission.

There was real talk that the movie had to shut down.

But Kim, it was like, no way.

There's just no way this movie is going to shut down.

But first on the news banter, Ted Sarando's rules Hollywood.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, our friends at Netflix, they had their second quarter earnings call very, very recently.

And while the reaction on Wall Street was not so good because of some disappointment in terms

of what they announced in numbers, which I will mention shortly, they did also say that they

are promoting Ted Sarandos, who has been the head of content.

I was really, I have to admit, you know, time is very weird during the pandemic, but also generally,

when I saw Ted Sarando's a 20-year veteran of Netflix, I felt like, wait, what, 20 years?

But that's the reality.

And he is now co-CEO of the company with Reed Hastings, the founder.

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