From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want,

this town.

Everybody thinks his own business, business, really, really, all right life.

He doesn't clean.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's going Hollywood.

This week on The Business, the filmmaker behind the powerful documentary The Tillman story talks about his failed attempt to challenge the movies R-rating.

And the MPAA responds.

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm joined by my co-banterer, John Horn, of the Los Angeles Times. Hi, John.

Hello, Kim. Welcome back. Thank you. I enjoyed my break, but it always happens that it comes and summer's just about gone.

And how was Hollywood treated during this very peculiarly cool summer in L.A.?

I would say not particularly well. I mean, the thing the studios will cite is revenues were up 3%,

but the thing they won't say is admissions were down 2.5%. And a lot of those higher revenues

were generated by higher ticket prices, particularly 3D movies. I think if you start looking at what

happened this summer, obviously there were any number of underachievers or outright flops.

But when you look at the numbers

more closely, I think what you see is it was incredibly top-heavy. There were the big hits,

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