From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodessa Ackner, and this is The Business.

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes.

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at.

But prepare yourself for the brakes, check it out.

This week on The Business is Spider-Man 3 the most expensive movie ever made?

And why should we care?

Plus, life's a pitch, and then you're right.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

With jokes so tortured, it violates the Geneva Convention.

It's the business from NPR.

Yeah. PR. Sony Pictures is salivating at the promise of billions in box office for Spider-Man 3.

So why is Sony Chairman Howard Stringer looking so pale?

Well, he's Welsh, so he always looks pale.

But Stringer's looking extra pallet of late because of last week's resignation of Ken Kuduragi,

the father of the wildly successful PlayStation video game console.

By resigned, we mean, was probably given the heave-ho.

The latest PlayStation, the PS3, went way over budget, was late to launch, is light on game titles, and has a whopping $600 price tag. The result is that Sony's video game-related losses for the year

ended in March are expected to amount to $2 billion, double original expectations. The Strident

Kuduragi didn't help his case with his bad public behavior. At a recent media

conference, he aired a load of dirty kimonos with the press, saying, quote,

if we were asked whether Sony's quality of manufacturing has declined, I would have to say yes.

While Japan reveres the idea of falling on your own sword, but not going Benny Hana on your colleagues.

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