4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Producer Jason Blum carved a niche in the movie business making low budget, high concept horror hits.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:05.8 | If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
0:11.5 | Everybody takes your business, really, really, all white life. |
0:17.3 | He doesn't clean. |
0:18.8 | What's with him? |
0:19.9 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
0:21.6 | Hollywood. |
0:22.6 | This week on the business, from paranormal activity to insidious Chapter 2, producer Jason Blum knows how to make hit horror movies for a price. |
0:31.6 | Efficiency is his obsession, and that extends to having a mobile office in a souped-up van. |
0:41.8 | Driving, particularly in Los Angeles, makes your workday incredibly inefficient. |
0:44.2 | So now I have my office in my van. |
0:50.5 | But first on the Hollywood news banter, China's ambitious plans to become the center of the film universe. |
0:53.5 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:01.1 | I can imagine Hollywood. Everything is really driven by making money. |
1:01.9 | What's with him? |
1:07.3 | I'm joined by my partner in banter, John Horn of Los Angeles Times. Hello, John. |
1:07.9 | Hello, Kim. |
1:29.1 | So, John, big news out of China, maybe. It seems like big news. The wealthiest man in China, Wang Jan Lin, who is chairman of the Dallion Wanda Group, and this is a company that's been expanding its interest in the entertainment world rapidly, had a splashy press conference on the 22nd of September, attended by some Hollywood royalty and some Hollywood not so much royalty. He's announcing a gigantic development up to $8.2 billion worth, |
1:36.3 | encompassing film studios, resort hotels, a huge amusement park. And to unveil this hugely ambitious |
1:43.1 | project in the city of Jingdao, he had an array of |
1:48.0 | stars, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta, Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as some Chinese stars, |
1:54.1 | and Harvey Weinstein, representatives of the top agencies. What are we to make of this news? |
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