The Hollywood Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Felix Salmon, political risk consultant Anna Szymanski, and guest co-host, The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Fritz, discuss Fritz’s book, The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies, today’s movie stars, and inclusion riders. Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello and welcome to the Hollywood edition of Slate Money,
0:15.0	your guide to the business and finance news of Hollywood, I guess this week.
0:20.0	Guess what?
0:23.4	Ben Fritz is here. Ben Fritz is here.
0:24.7	Where?
0:25.7	Anna?
0:26.7	We are in the studio with the one and only Ben Fritz.
0:30.0	Ben, introduce yourself.
0:31.0	I am Ben Fritz.
0:31.9	I am a Wall Street Journal reporter where I cover the entertainment industry
0:35.0	and I am the author of the new book, The Big Picture,
0:37.0	The Fight for the Future of Movies.
0:39.0	And so this is our excuse to spend an entire episode geeking out on the economics of
0:45.9	Hollywood which are absolutely fascinating and it we've we've talked about
0:50.4	Hollywood economics like en passant.
0:53.0	Yes.
0:54.0	Occasionally and we haven't really delved in.
0:55.8	We've done super deep dives into the music industry, but not the movie industry.
1:00.4	And so now we get to do this with the help of Ben who has literally written the book on this subject.
1:06.0	And I'm going to dive right in because the one thing I know about Hollywood, the one thing that everyone knows about
1:14.4	Hollywood is that nobody knows everything anything this is like the one
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