Skyline's Back Story; IM Global at the AFM

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The special-effects gurus known as the Brothers Strause made Skyline for a thrifty $10 million. They wanted to prove themselves as directors to the studios but found out they'd rather make their own films. Plus, we go behind closed doors to where deals are made at the American Film Market. We spend a day shadowing the head of the international sales and distribution company IM Global and track their landmark deal on Walking with Dinosaurs.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:06.5	You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.
0:12.2	Everybody takes your business, business, really, really, all right life.
0:18.0	He doesn't clean, clean.
0:18.9	What's with him?
0:20.6	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.
0:24.8	This week on the business, the special effects gurus, the brother Strauss, on making Skyline for a $50, 10 million.
0:32.6	They wanted to prove themselves to the studios, but they found out they'd rather make their own films.
0:37.3	Plus, we go behind closed doors at the American film market.
0:40.7	But first, a Hollywood news banter.
0:42.8	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
0:46.8	You can imagine Hollywood.
0:48.8	Everything is really driven by making money.
0:52.0	What's with him?
0:52.8	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.
0:56.2	I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.
1:00.4	Hello, John.
1:01.1	Hello, Kim.
1:01.9	So, John, I'm already sick of talking about NBC Universal.
1:05.5	I don't know, as we're recording this, whether there will be a formal announcement.
1:08.7	It may have happened by today. But it does
1:12.5	look like Bob Greenblatt, formerly of Showtime, will be taking over NBC, both the broadcast
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