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The Business

Tim Miller, Simon Kinberg on 'Deadpool' & that Mysterious Leak

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Director Tim Miller and producer Simon Kinberg tell us how Deadpool went from being almost dead at Fox to an R-rated box office sensation. And as for the leaked test footage that made fans go wild and got the movie made? Miller swears it wasn't him.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political side shows on the campaign trail.

0:06.4

Donald Trump is probably the most significant thing to happen to the religious right in a few decades.

0:12.1

OMG, this guy is actually a bigot.

0:14.5

If she becomes president, no one since Richard Nixon would have been on the national stage that long and won the White House.

0:21.4

I'm Warren Alney.

0:22.2

To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign.

0:25.3

Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:30.7

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

0:37.4

I swear to you, on all I hold holy, which is nothing really. But you know what I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. I swear to you, all I hold holy, which is nothing really, but you know what I mean,

0:41.9

that I did not leak this, because honestly, the last thing they want to do is make a film

0:46.2

with a filmmaker that is untrustworthy.

0:48.5

Director Tim Miller says he wasn't the one who leaked game-changing test footage of Ryan Reynolds

0:53.8

as the trash-talking superhero

0:55.9

Deadpool, and he doesn't know who did. But that leak created a sensation on the internet,

1:02.1

and the movie finally got made after being stalled at Fox for years. Miller and producer Simon

1:07.6

Kinberg tell us how Deadpool went from Dead in the Water to box office record breaker.

1:12.9

But first on the news banter, Hollywood in flux, upheaval at Fox and Viacom.

1:17.8

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

1:24.5

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

1:30.7

Hello, Matt.

1:31.5

Hi there.

1:32.4

Whoa.

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