The Worst Movie of the Decade, Redux
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Battlefield Earth recently won the Razzie for being the "worst picture of the decade." The two credited screenwriters on that film -- J.D. Shapiro and Corey Mandell — say, "Don't blame us!" We find out how their careers survived writing one of the most notorious movies ever. (This program was originally broadcast on April 19, 2010. Today's show features an all new Hollywood banter.)
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.3 | If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:10.4 | Everybody takes your business, business, really, really, all white lights, he doesn't clean, clean. |
| 0:19.4 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.3 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:22.6 | Hollywood. |
| 0:24.3 | This week on the business, Battlefield Earth recently won The Razzie for being the worst picture of the decade. |
| 0:32.0 | Today, the two credited screenwriters on that film say, don't blame us. |
| 0:36.7 | We find out how they survived writing one of the |
| 0:38.8 | most notorious movies ever. But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. Stay close. It's the |
| 0:44.1 | business from KCRW. You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:51.7 | What's with him? Where? I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm joined in the studio by our executive producer Matt Holzman. |
| 1:01.3 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:01.7 | Hello, there, Kim. |
| 1:02.9 | So, Matt, you know you can download a podcast of the business for free on iTunes. |
| 1:07.9 | I know, what a deal. |
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| 1:09.3 | But for only 99 cents, you will soon be able to |
| 1:12.3 | download TV shows, not from all the studios that make TV shows, but from two big ones, Disney |
| 1:18.4 | and, or ABC, and Fox. Right. You'll be able to download shows for 99 cents an episode, which is |
| 1:25.2 | a very significant discount, considering that even I dream |
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