'State of Play' Gets No Play; Marketing 'Fast and Furious'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A recent spate of films have scored underwhelming results at the box office. But is the death of big-budget studio movies for grown-ups greatly exaggerated? Plus, how do you rake in the biggest April opening in box office history?

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:06.3	You listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.
0:11.3	Everybody thinks his business, really, really, all right like he doesn't clean, clean.
0:18.8	What's with him?
0:19.7	Oh, I'm afraid we've gone Hollywood.
0:22.2	This week on the business, two recent films, duplicity and State of Play, scored
0:27.1	underwhelming results at the box office, and they instantly became emblematic of a perceived trend in Hollywood.
0:34.1	But the producer of State of Play claims big- studio movies for grownups aren't dead yet.
0:39.0	Plus, how do you rake in the biggest April opening in box office history?
0:43.6	Just drop the the thus.
0:45.3	At least that's what Universal did with Fast and Furious.
0:48.3	The sequel to The Fast and The Furious.
0:51.3	But first, what's next for Tom Cruise?
0:53.7	That and More in the Hollywood news banter.
0:56.0	It's the business from KCRW.
0:59.8	You can imagine Hollywood.
1:01.7	Everything is really driven by making money.
1:04.9	What's with him?
1:05.8	Him.
1:06.4	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.
1:08.9	Hollywood.
1:10.1	I'm joined in the studio by the business producer Matt Hulsman.
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