'The Social Network' Producer Dana Brunetti

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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He may not be the biggest Hollywood name behind The Social Network, but without his relationship with author Ben Mezrich Hollywood may not have made this movie. Producer Dana Brunetti, recounts how he and now-partner Kevin Spacey wooed Facebook co-founder Eduardo Severin into telling them the story. He also explains his his own fascination with Facebook.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:06.9	You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.
0:12.6	Everybody takes your business, business, really, really, all right life.
0:18.4	He doesn't clean.
0:19.9	What's with him?
0:21.0	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.
0:24.0	This week on the business, how the founding of Facebook, a story of geeky guys writing computer code, came to be an Oscar-nominated hit movie.
0:32.4	We talked with producer Dana Brunetti, who saw the potential in the behind-the-screen drama.
0:38.1	But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.
0:40.5	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
0:44.7	You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.
0:49.9	What's with him?
0:50.7	Where?
0:51.4	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.
0:54.6	Joining me is my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times, back from Sundance.
1:00.0	Hi, John. How are you?
1:01.3	I am barely functioning, but I am back in town.
1:04.5	Sound little raspy there, John.
1:06.4	A lot of long days, but certainly a lot of good movies up there.
1:09.4	And I think probably more deals than I can remember in any recent Sundance.
1:13.2	I mean, more than two dozen deals for movies that were in the festival looking for distribution.
1:18.9	So I gather one of the biggest deals was My Idiot Brother, which we talked about last week, which sounded really good.
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